BrownArmy
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On Health, Republicans Find They Cannot Beat Something With Nothing...
“This is what you get when you have a president with no fixed principles, indifferent to policy and ignorant of the legislative process,” said Charlie Sykes, a veteran Republican operative and former radio host...
“The Republicans were never really forced in their years of opposition to come up with a coherent alternative,” said Peter Wehner, a director of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives under President George W. Bush. “There was no human cost in those artificial votes, and that did not force them to come up with a real governing alternative.” He added, “As the years went by the Affordable Care Act’s roots grew and it became entwined in the health care system. It was an extremely complicated legislative task to undo it.”
...But most Republicans believe that their path to repealing the law would have likely succeeded had it not been for Mr. Trump, whose comments about other topics and inconsistent support for their work — he celebrated a House-passed bill in a Rose Garden ceremony only to denounce it as “mean” weeks later — undermined their efforts.
“I think this is in good measure Trump’s fault,” Mr. Wehner said, echoing what many Republicans said privately and increasingly in public. “He has no knowledge of public policy and is indifferent to it. To try and get massive reform through Congress, even if you have control of Congress, you need the president to be an asset. He isn’t only not an asset, he is an active adversary. He is dead weight for Republicans...”
“This is what you get when you have a president with no fixed principles, indifferent to policy and ignorant of the legislative process,” said Charlie Sykes, a veteran Republican operative and former radio host...
“The Republicans were never really forced in their years of opposition to come up with a coherent alternative,” said Peter Wehner, a director of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives under President George W. Bush. “There was no human cost in those artificial votes, and that did not force them to come up with a real governing alternative.” He added, “As the years went by the Affordable Care Act’s roots grew and it became entwined in the health care system. It was an extremely complicated legislative task to undo it.”
...But most Republicans believe that their path to repealing the law would have likely succeeded had it not been for Mr. Trump, whose comments about other topics and inconsistent support for their work — he celebrated a House-passed bill in a Rose Garden ceremony only to denounce it as “mean” weeks later — undermined their efforts.
“I think this is in good measure Trump’s fault,” Mr. Wehner said, echoing what many Republicans said privately and increasingly in public. “He has no knowledge of public policy and is indifferent to it. To try and get massive reform through Congress, even if you have control of Congress, you need the president to be an asset. He isn’t only not an asset, he is an active adversary. He is dead weight for Republicans...”
up your ass, because that would be a violation of your personal bodily integrity. It works both ways.
