get things done? absolutely. david is right, every president stumbles sometimes. but bad habits from donald trump over the last couple of weeks that included a lack of intellectual curiosity about the bill he was selling, selling politics and not substance. obviously didn t work. not able to pull a coalition together. didn t use outside game to get capital that helped him get elected. have to change. and tax reform is extremely difficult. reason it hasn t happened in 30 years. involves tough choices and donald trump made a lot of promises lowering corporate tax rate to 15%, not raising middle-class taxes, hard to do and not paid for by border adjustment tax that s dead in the senate. very difficult. also the people around him will
of, you know, flailing and vote-taking? well, if you look at it from john boehner s perspective, he has a conference that is a bit stubborn. they stick to their principles and they really don t budge. and he has to show them that, give them a chance to let out the steam, to pass these bills and then let them fail in the senate and then he can go back to the conference and say, look, we have tried. we have to try something else. obviously didn t work. jon: there is a huge desire on the part of many republic cans to deflate the president obama care proposal and that s what they re getting at here, isn t it? well, if they don t pass and the government shuts down and you are not deflating obama care at all. it continues. mandatory spending. just shutting down the government doesn t hurt it when we wake up tomorrow. the healthcare exchanges will continue. people will be able to sign up on the web site that the white house has set up that doesn t stop it but it does show that they are