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It's (Still) Never Trump's Fault
With the latest collapse of the Obamacare repeal, the president has wasted political capital, squandered a reputation for dealmaking, and shown himself to be a poor strategist and tactician.
DAVID A. GRAHAM JUL 18, 2017
Its a typically hot and sticky July in Washington, but in some ways it feels just like late March all over again. A health-care bill backed by President Trump has collapsed in dramatic fashion, and Trump knows just who to blame: anyone but himself.
Meanwhile, Trump wants credit for almost not failing. Essentially, the vote would have been pretty close toif you look at it48-4. That's a pretty impressive vote by any standard, the president said at the White House on Tuesday, referring to the basic standard of reaching a bare majority of votes required for all legislation as impressive, a bravura act of bar-lowering.
Six months into his presidency, the president has squandered his reputation as a dealmaker and spent away whatever political capital he had at the start of his presidency. Even worse, he has no major legislation to show for it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/its-still-never-trumps-fault/534066/
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Republican leadership on display!
Art of the deal indeed!
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)for them to ever do so and why its classified as a disorder. Just saying trying to compare trump to normal rationale people never works if its meant to influence trump himself