{"id":34254,"date":"2017-03-25T14:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T21:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34254"},"modified":"2017-03-25T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T21:45:37","slug":"trump-hates-america-and-his-pathetic-leadership-on-healthcare-is-proof-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34254","title":{"rendered":"Trump Hates America, and His Pathetic ‘Leadership’ on Healthcare Is Proof Of It"},"content":{"rendered":"

The failure of TrumpCare is more than a political pratfall by Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It is an object lesson in the pettiness of a vengeful, self-absorbed man who couldn’t care less about the welfare of the American people.<\/p>\n

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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump marketed himself as a master negotiator and dealmaker. But when push came to shove Trump couldn’t close the deal on what was the highest priority on his agenda. Instead, the man responsible for six bankruptcies failed yet again. He couldn’t move the ball across the goal line with a majority in both chambers of Congress. But what’s worse is that his reaction betrays a spiteful disregard for the citizens he purports to serve.<\/p>\n

In a video posted on the White House website, the President made some brief comments about the TrumpCare debacle. True to form, he blamed Democrats for his own failings and those of his party. Never mind that Democrats could not have blocked passage if Republicans were united – or competent. The truth is that the GOP didn’t want to pass the bill because it was so transparently awful. They knew that their constituents were opposed to it. What legislator in their right mind would vote for a bill that had only seventeen percent approval<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

However, the most disturbing part of Trump’s video statement is his virtual giddiness at the prospect of people suffering and Democrats getting blamed. He repeatedly made false assertions that “ObamaCare is exploding”<\/em> (it’s not<\/a><\/strong>). His takeaway on that was a perverse pride in predicting that Americans will suffer:<\/p>\n

“I think what will happen is ObamaCare, unfortunately, will explode. It’s gonna have a very bad year.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump took solace in his estimation that TrumpCare’s demise was “the best thing that could happen.”<\/em> So he believe’s that ObamaCare will inflict great pain on people, but that that’s a good thing. It’s a position that only a sadist could support. And his reasoning centered on a political analysis wherein Democrats would be held accountable for ObamaCare.<\/p>\n

“I think the losers are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, because now they own ObamaCare. They own it. One hundred percent own it. And this is not a Republican healthcare. This is not anything but a Democrat healthcare. And they have ObamaCare for a little while longer until it ceases to exist. Which it will at some point in the near future. And just remember, this is not our bill, this is their bill.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, what reality is Trump living in? Democrats have always “owned”<\/em> ObamaCare. It didn’t get a single Republican vote. It was drafted and passed by Democrats. It’s nicknamed after a Democratic president fer chrissakes. What’s more, Democrats are proud of the bill. They are anxious to be associated with its historic drop in the uninsured rate. They happily note that it has resulted in the slowest growth of healthcare costs in decades. And the fact that its approval rating in recent polls is at its highest level ever<\/a><\/strong> doesn’t hurt.<\/p>\n

Republicans had eight years to come up with a viable alternative to ObamaCare. They never even bothered. Rather, they held meaningless votes (more than sixty of them<\/a><\/strong>) to either repeal or cripple ObamaCare. But they only did that because they knew that Obama would veto anything that reached his desk. Now, with a Republican in the White House, they are cowering in fear of voting for something the country opposes. Even press secretary Sean Spicer called them out<\/a><\/strong> before the vote. “You’ve taken a bunch of these free votes when it didn’t matter because you didn’t have a Republican president,”<\/em> he chided. “Well, this is a live ball now. This is for real.”<\/em> That obviously didn’t work.<\/p>\n

Also in Trump’s video, he tried to make excuses for his failure by rewriting his history on the subject. “I never said repeal [ObamaCare] and replace it within sixty-four days,”<\/em> he whined. That’s true, he never said “sixty-four days.”<\/em> But he did say “immediately”<\/em> and “on my first day in office”<\/em> and that “it’s gonna be so easy.”<\/em> That obviously didn’t work either.<\/p>\n

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We will immediately repeal and replace ObamaCare – and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n