and blames Democrats despite GOP house majority.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN16V149
Drumpf will never again think that his ghost-written ‘Art Of The Deal’ is a blueprint for Washington. Ametahiri.
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campaign rhetoric ain’t the same as passing govt policy
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The odd part is that Obamacare was not his first priority, but Ryan & Co. forced it.
The score is now 4 - 0 if we count the immigration losses to courts, Michael Flynn and healthcare. What a meathead!!
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The internet is abuzz with memes making fun of Trump. Wueh, the guys who voted him in must be feeling the pain from that level of trolling.
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I am impatient.
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maybe if the Russian Bombshell gets corroborated
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Trump also failed to persuade the American public that the bill was an improvement over the one it would have repealed and replaced: the Affordable Care Act - the signature domestic achievement of former Democratic President Barack Obama. Polls showed the replacement bill to be deeply unpopular, and conservative Republicans complained that their offices were being deluged by calls from constituents opposing it.
“This demonstrates that campaigning and legislating are two different things,” said Jim Manley, once a top aide to former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Voters are not stupid and they can see through regressive legislation that is inspired by malice. Just because Obama made it does not make the ACA bad.
Perhaps Drumpf should call JaKuon and get some counselling on how to deal with boomerang blows to the back of the head.
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that’s the thing, trumpcare wasn’t driven by the idea of lowering the federal budget twaz driven by malice.
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Presidency Si biashara in terms of management
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when the numbers came in, of the people who would lose their cover because of the Act even a diehard Obamacare critic lazima angesalimu amri ya his/her electorate or risk being told akae pale ----------->>>> come the Mid Terms
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Drumpf suggested that Pelosi and Schumer are uncivilized for not supporting his bill. If he thinks that he has a monopoly on matusi, bado…
The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, said in a statement: “Ultimately, the Trumpcare bill failed because of two traits that have plagued the Trump presidency since he took office: incompetence and broken promises. In my life, I have never seen an administration as incompetent as the one occupying the White House today.
“They can’t write policy that actually makes sense, they can’t implement the policies they do manage to write, they can’t get their stories straight, and today we’ve learned that they can’t close a deal, and they can’t count votes.
“So much for The Art of the Deal.”
From The Guardian.
Yaani since aingie hakuna key legislation imepita despite having the numbers in both houses! Hii ndio inaitwa issue based discussions, si ng’ombe zingine zinapewa a few coins wanavaa suruali kwa kichwa wakipitisha upuss
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Hey @Nattydread please tell me about any Jubilee & Uhuru Kenyatta’s legislative wins.
Extra points if you show me how they were inspired by benevolence.
an epic fail indeed. Trump should just resign to save himself from all this embarrassment.
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Hapana. I want him to get over the 100 day honeymoon without a single success to his name, then get mired in the grueling mud-fight that is GOP-driven politics. You saw how clearly they split between hard-core right wingers (Freedom Caucus) and those that know that there was absolutely nothing wrong with ObamaCare?
What happened yesterday will mark the way Drumpf’s reign will be. The uneasy ‘acceptance’ he enjoyed as he bullied his way through the primaries and campaigns is going to erode. In the White House, his hired apologists (Sean Spicer and Steve Miller) and the devil controlling the whole mess, Steve Banning, will begin to cannibalize one another.
Just as the Germans will never again accept another Hitler, the USA will never again succumb to the seductive sweetness of a narcissistic populist.
As Republican leaders threw in the towel on the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, President Donald Trump didn’t turn to Twitter, his favorite soapbox, to share what was going on.
Instead, he picked up the Oval Office phone to call a reporter at the Washington Post — one of the publications he’s previously slammed as spreading “fake news.”
Robert Costa — who began tweeting the conversation with Trump even as it was going on — wrote in the Washington Post that the president’s tone was “muted,” as he spoke to the reporter on Friday afternoon.
Trump told him GOP leaders had withdrawn the American Health Care Act from the House of Representatives floor, for lack of adequate support. He called Costa and The New York Times — another publication he’s described as “fake news” — before speaking to the American people in an address.
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Priceless!!
It appears Trump will be a one-term president.
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Hata wewe jifunze kuruka nyuzi za Drumpf.
I am not here to ‘debate’ you or @jaymoh about Drumpf. No, my task is to laugh, gloat and rub in jalapeño peppers into the wounds that the Bellicose One has suffered as he mistakenly tries to run the USA as though it is an episode of The Apprentice:
(CNN)A President who admires strongmen tried to strong-arm the Republicans who control the United States House of Representatives. Pass the repeal of Obamacare and replace it with Trumpcare, Donald Trump told the 247 Republicans, or else you’ll be ousted in a primary.
When that failed to move them sufficiently he added another threat: Vote with me or you’ll never get another chance at health care reform.
The Republicans gathered for an emotional pre-vote caucus in the basement of the Capitol. As they departed, many said it was one of the most impressive conferences they had ever attended. But when House Speaker Paul Ryan offered little more than a brief statement and dashed off without answering reporters’ questions, the signs of defeat were apparent.
Having practiced his usual method of deal-making, Trump then walked away from the hard work of political negotiating. White House spokesman Sean Spicer, insisting there was no “plan B,” predicted victory. While Ryan tried to get his House in order, the President climbed into a big-rig tractor parked outside the White House, sounded the horn like an excited boy and pretended he was driving. (He hadn’t looked so happy in weeks.)
Despite all these expressions of confidence, the Republicans who run Washington never could come together behind Trumpcare. Hours before the vote, The Daily Beast reported that, according to officials in the administration who spoke on condition of anonymity, Trump’s top adviser, Steve Bannon, wanted him to make a list of his House GOP enemies so they might be punished.
When this last tough-guy tactic failed, Trump and Ryan slammed on the brakes and canceled the showdown vote. CNN and other networks reported the debacle in real time and both men were left humiliated and diminished.
No one should be surprised that Trump’s first big legislative initiative collapsed in a cloud of chaos. Aside from the development of his enormous ego, nothing in Donald Trump’s life experience prepared him to actually function as president of the United States.
This became evident during the presidential transition, when he proved incapable of bringing the country together and then, upon his inauguration, when he immediately began offering lies and distortions about everything from the size of the crowd at the inauguration to the claim that the recent election was marred by massive voter fraud.
The most remarkable thing about the Trump presidency may be our expectation that he would be any different.
Trump first demonstrated his penchant for distortion and deception as a young man when he bragged about his accomplishments before he had any. Despite four massive corporate bankruptcies, each involving complex enterprises that required real executive skills, Trump insisted he was a great business leader.
What he was, in fact, was a successful entrepreneur who led family-held companies that he could direct like a monarch. He was THE BOSS and anyone who disagreed with him knew where to find the door.
The trouble for President Trump, who made repeal-and-replace of Obamacare one of his big campaign promises, is that he cannot fire anyone in Congress.
Indeed, only the voters can fire a member of the House of Representatives and if thelatest polls are to be believed, very few of those voters liked Trumpcare.
Perhaps it was the part of the bill that would push 24 million of them off the health insurance rolls that they didn’t like. Or maybe it was the part of the law that eliminated all those coverage requirements for policies including pregnancy care, drug benefits and mental health coverage.
House members, who must seek re-election every two years, understood this and were far more afraid of facing angry constituents than dealing with a President whose approval rating is now 37%.
As bad as Trump’s retreat on his bill seemed as it was occurring, it seems worse as the minutes and hours have passed and we can reflect on how the defeat contrasts with the Trump image. This is a man who celebrates himself as a dynamic winner of incomparable abilities. “Only I can fix” them, he said of America’s problems during the campaign.
In his estimation, all those governors and legislators who ran against him in the primaries, were, like President Obama, losers and failures. Of course most of the others who sought the Republican nomination in 2016 were successful in government before they ran. And don’t forget how that loser Obama managed to get his health care bill passed.
What does it say about Trump that when he put himself on the line and tried to get his first piece of major legislation passed, he came up looking like an incompetent?
First, it says that Trump lacks an understanding of how the legislative system works and probably ignored those around him who do. Second, he lacks a leadership style suited to dealing with hundreds of members of Congress who are each powerful political figures in their own districts. Finally, and most importantly, we can see that he does not possess the temperament of presidents like Johnson, Reagan and Clinton who respected the process and loved it.
The flimsy bill that Trump and Ryan put forward and the clumsy way they went about seeking votes suggest they lacked real conviction.
What happens next? If past is prologue, Trump will blame everyone but himself. Ryan should come in for a heap of recrimination, mostly from administration figures speaking to reporters under cover of anonymity.
Eventually, perhaps sooner than later – and despite his protestations to the contrary – Trump will try again. The trouble is that Congress has demonstrated that Trump’s usual way of leading through intimidation won’t work. And he hasn’t shown that he knows another way.
The bully was stumped!!