toomuchwinning wrote:
Three questions:
1. Why is Trump blaming the democrats for his failure to even get a vote on the health care bill when repubs own the house, senate and the presidency?
2. He pulled the bill presumably because they were nowhere close to getting the necessary votes and he wanted to save face by being able to lie afterwards and say they were just a few votes short. How many repubs were actually going to vote against the bill? 10%? 15%? 25%?
3. If he can't deliver on a major pledge of his campaign right out of the gate with repubs in control all around, can he realistically get anything of consequence done during his tenure?
I'll assume the 'blame' question is rhetorical.
it looked like 30+ repubs would vote no. But it was deteriorating - the moderate chair of some committee turned no...suggesting a tidal wave of nos was coming, from moderates.
can he get anything done? Sure. Clinton's presidency started in a mess and straightened up.
but clinton was the most gifted politician of his time - trump is...not.