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Thatch thatcher. the idea of republicans now is just come in and sit on it and tinker at the edges and manage it better. what s the they are finding it very difficult the reality is that obamacare is very popular right now. they re finding it very difficult to repeal legislation that is twice as popular as the president and three times more popular than members of congress. once you give somebody entitlement, it s very difficult to take away. ted cruz is right about that. the 2012 election i think was actually the last shot republicans had to actually repeal and replace. once it was enacted, people now have this assumption that it s the government s responsibility to provide them with health care. pre-existing conditions should trump can do this in a second. the entire primary he reinvented republican protect medicare and that was trumpism. if he tomorrow said, my plan is ....
Scheduled to take a week long recess that evening. so all week, going into this week, republican leadership thought this was their best opportunity, this four-day stretch this week to hold tight on some small momentum that they had picked up. i have to say going into wednesday, looking at the math, this number, all the grumbling up here on capitol hill, they are facing a much narrower window of time to get this done. lhow many weeks did they tak off? it seems like they always have a recess coming up. that s another story. back now with the panel. it s interesting that they voted how many times to repeal and replace obamacare. unanimous votes from republicans most times. now they can t pass it. i think that s part of the big incompetence problem that s facing the republican congress. people did see them huffing and puffing while obama was in power for them trying to repeal it knowing it wouldn t go anywhere. ....
Support the white house s argument that this is a win? the president did promise there was going to be a lot of winning, he hasn t had a lot of winning, so he has no choice except to go out and present it that way. it doesn t cut funding for planned parenthood, it doesn t cut funding for sanctuary cities, it doesn t cut funding for obama care cities. i think it s hard to cast that as a win, focusing on the border security stuff, the only way you can say that it s a win is if you said that democrats don t support border security. they do support border security. they just don t support the wall. i ve got to be candid, i ve been talking to conservative talk radio all day, people calling in. they re most unhappy, not with him, but with republican members of congress, they really feel these people did not have their act together and what is the point of electing them. ....
So they would pass it. more than 60 times. this is a process that took president obama over a year to do. for them to now come in with no plan after seven years and wanting to do something in a matter of weeks makes them look even more incompetent, makes them look petty. but more importantly, makes them look disinterested in the real life and death implications of such a monumental legislation. i keep thinking people on the panel have said it for months. if the white house just focused on infrastructure to start off with and formed a commission to figure out how to repeal and replace obamacare and then a year from now done it, wouldn t they have saved themselves a lot of trouble? i think in fairness to them that they felt there was so much on the table they promised they had to do it? the pressure was there. if they had done that, what you are suggesting and they had been successful, the steam would run out for obamacare. they really felt committed to it. that said, they sh ....
Seems very unlikely that it could go back to the house and pass. what s the lesson trump takes from this? is the lesson he takes from this that the freedom caucus is a dead end, that he can t let them write this legislation because it can t get through the system? or does he double down? if he actually thinks the freedom caucus is a dead end, you could come up with a bipartisan plan on the model of the spending bill we were talking about where you get democrats on board and you realize that a lot of republicans to fix, not repeal. have come to terms with major pieces of obamacare and ted cruz was right when he said what s that? there will be a problem right there. i think if they try to make that happen, i think there will be hell to pay. as we have for the white house? for republicans? for moderate republicans and republicans in general. this is what we talked about what i call the margaret ....