Eating their own: tRump and Pence Blame Republican Congress For Humiliating Defeat

[stopbush]

Pence gets up at the mike and says that it's time for Congress to do its job.

tRump tries to blame the Ds, but he steps on his own lead by ragging on Congress that "all I've heard for the past seven years is repeal and replace."

How do you think that sits with Yertle and Frat Boy, both of whom have been down in the closed-door trenches trying to muster the votes to pass their Wealthcare bullshit? I'm thinking they're not too happy about it.

And the bottom line is that no one in Congress fears tRump. They see a lunatic who is his own worst enemy. They know what is coming as Mueller expands his investigation. It's not a matter of whether they turn on tRump, it's a matter of when.

[MrsCoffee]

1. What? They didn't blame Obama?

[SummerSnow]

2. I thought they were blaming the Dems?

[stopbush]

6. They tried, but the step in their own lines when they then blame the Rs as well.

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. How far would $130,000 a month go toward ACA, considering that is what we are paying

for the secret service at trump tower.....up is down and down is up these days.....they humiliate themselves...

I understand $130,000 is a drop in the US Treasury bucket -

[exboyfil]

4. Trump and Pence do have a point

They passed a Draconian repeal bill last year. Why not now? Every one of the GOP Congress and Senator should be aggressively primaried.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Last year's passage of a repeal bill was for show

It wasn't really going for real and Republicans had nothing to lose but everything to gain vote-wise for staging yet another repeal vote. They knew that President Obama was going to veto it and they didn't have the votes for an override, so it was basically a symbolic vote. This year, with Congress and the WH in their hands, they finally ran out of excuses for not actually repealing it (no more President Obama or Democrats to block them) and came up with an awful bill that they tried to push through by an equally appalling and undemocratic process that didn't work out in the end.

[Renew Deal]

5. Trump and Pence would have supported any horror show the republicans passed

The reason it failed was it wasn't mean enough

[spanone]

8. as trump said yesterday....they don't own it. real leaders take responsibility for their failures..

phony ones blame others

[Hieronymus]

9. Trump is clumsy ..

with words. It's why there's such concern about his meeting with Putin.