President Trump appears unable to make a substantive case for the AHCA

[DonViejo]

When he tries to sell it, he either talks politics or says Obamacare is bad.

Updated by Andrew [e-mail] Mar 22, 2017, 10:40am EDT

The fate of the Republican health bill in the House could rest on President Donald Trump’s salesmanship. He pitched himself as the ultimate dealmaker during the campaign, and Speaker Paul Ryan’s office has lately been hyping him up as “tLink to tweet
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Yet there’s one glaring oddity in the pitch Trump’s been making: It doesn’t include anything even remotely resembling an affirmative case for the actual bill House Republicans have to vote on.

When Trump talks health care in public statements and in accounts of his private meetings, he keeps making the following four pretty simple points:

1. Obamacare is a disaster that’s falling apart.

2. If Republicans don’t pass the bill, they’ll do badly in the next election.

3. Republicans have to pass the bill so they can move on to tax cuts.

4. He — President Trump — and the Republican Party need this “win.”

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http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/22/15013814/trump-ahca-congress-vote

[ginnyinWI]

1. ha-ha-ha.

The only things that are true are #3 and #4. And we'll be better if those things happen.

[C_U_L8R]

2. A dishonest salesman

is a bad salesman

[Nitram]

3. Of course he can't. He didn't even know the national healthcare system was complicated.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Trump does not want his Image

tarnished any more than it is. He reads his daily polls and it is so evident what the conversation is going to be the next morning.

Appears his billionaire friends are pushing back due to his destruction of their GOP brand. The Pitchfork and Torches theory is scaring the mega rich.

[Brother Buzz]

5. The orange anus done spent all his political capital and has shit to show for it