Has There Ever Been a Crazier Week in Congress? No.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

To discuss a crazy week in Congress, which culminated in the House of Representatives declining to vote on a replacement for Obamacare, I spoke by phone with Norm Ornstein. A resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Ornstein is also the co-author, with Thomas E. Mann, of It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism. During the course of our conversation, which has been edited and condensed for clarity, we discussed why Republicans were always doomed to fail on health care, the problems facing the rest of Trump’s agenda, and how Congress is failing in its duties as an independent branch of government.

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Isaac Chotiner: Is there any precedent for a week in Congress like this?

Norm Ornstein: No. I have been around for 50 years, and I have seen all kinds of craziness, and I have seen failures in the policy process before, whether bills that come up without the votes, or an attempt to reform Medicare in the late 1980s that actually got passed but they were forced to repeal it the next year.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2017/03/does_the_failure_of_the_health_care_bill_doom_the_rest_of_trump_s_agenda.html

[beachbum bob]

1. zealots do what they do...

believe their own bullshit...not all conservatives are batshit crazy and once trump/ryan tried to appease the 20 mad dog crazies...they pissed off 50 moderate not so crazy reps....and then to threaten....wtf

this people could be debating articles of impeachment in 6 months