Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/845358347801055233

"I don't blame Paul," Trump tells me

But come 3 am...

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I love, love, love that everyone still blabs to Costa. What a good hire for the Post.

Absolutely.

he must be soooooo sympathetic on the phone "Aw geez Don, that sounds rough! You must be so upset."

big market rally!

this is, like, shades of the 2005 Social Security reform debacle.

only accelerated and more public and more embarrassing

Shep Smith throwing the Freedom Caucus under the 18 Wheeler being maniacally driven by Trump on Fox right now. Paul Ryan new conf. at top of the hour.

https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/845359482993545220
There's an actual massive junkyard fire underway right now just up 95 from Washington. Feel free to use as metaphor.

man these fucks are seriously talking about "tax reform" now passing "more successfully."

do we think they'll really give up on another attempt after this? keep the promise of 'leaving Obamacare' and not risk another public embarrassment?

gonna be some insane ass tweets tomorrow morning holy shit

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/845359746722947072
Holy smokes. This also entirely destroys the president's bluff for the next round of negotiations. He just straight up folded.

hm seems like these dudes aren't actually that good at their jobs

who would have guessed

Poor Hugh.

https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/845361164817084417

I regret that @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and @SpeakerRyan agreed to pull the bill. Accountability for both sides of argument useful.

wow i am really enjoying this

do we think they'll really give up on another attempt after this? keep the promise of 'leaving Obamacare' and not risk another public embarrassment?

they just squandered all of their political capital on this. Public opposition to full-bore/extreme repeal is only going to grow from now on. And if they go for a more moderate "fix" bill they'll need Dem votes, and Ryan (and Trump) won't do that. This was their shot and the blew it.

And like I said:

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/845361256311742466

Politically, this is the best outcome for the GOP

And again, true. Nobody's on record for anything, theoretically 'something' can happen. But their great big plan for the month blew up, the end.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7tT8g_VYAA1Job.jpg

some dude on FOX News: "The honeymoon is over."

Baier on FOX News about GOP caucus: "They're freaking out. Really freaking out."

i don't think I agree w/ Cohn now. that looked like it'd be the case at the beginning of the day but the repeated insistences that "we'll get there", "there will definitely be a vote" and the fingerpointing and public-leaked backstabbing is all a matter of public record now. the vote might have been worse had it happened but best case for the GOP was NOT RUSHING THE BILL IN THE FIRST PLACE.

As I just said on FB, sometimes having a pants-shitting imbecile for a President is hilarious and awesome. Most of the time, though, it's not. This is a moment to be savored, but we shouldn't let our guard down.

if markets are up in relief at the death of this stupid bill then surely this is just the master persuader at work???

can we please see the words HUMILIATING DEFEAT on the cover of every newspaper in the country? thanks.

Politically, this is the best outcome for the GOP

And again, true

idk it's more like "least bad" and even then it's still bad - Trump can't keep his party together, can't fulfill a basic campaign promise, can't manage legislation etc. And Ryan is back where Boehner was.

so far the Trump presidency is going basically exactly how I imagined it would

i see why they didn't hold the vote (plausible deniabilty for individual GOP reps), but they just also lost the ability to blame any problems with obamacare during trump's term on the democrats.

man what a gift-wrap for the Dems, didn't even really have to do anything to earn it

well it's their only victory strategy of late

this isn't going to work

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/845362688557486081

TRUMP tells me in interview this is now the Democrats' fault, and that he anticipates that when Obama "explodes" they will be ready to deal

Baier: "The real winner this week? Barack Obama has the win, and it has changed the entire way we look at health care."

idk it's more like "least bad" and even then it's still bad

Completely agreed. But crunch time came, and it really was the only thing they could do.

Two tweets I just saw in a row:

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/845362688557486081
TRUMP tells me in interview this is now the Democrats' fault, and that he anticipates that when Obama "explodes" they will be ready to deal

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/845347249299361794
Trump reverses position, now actually will be involved in Trump Organization

And the countdown to resignation begins...

Phrased otherwise:

https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/845361857774931968

Costa on MSNBC: Trump says bill won’t be coming back in near future & he’ll see if the Dems want to work with him on healthcare.

Gonna be a looong weekend:

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/845362810997624833

Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla), asked what this failure meant:

"Obamacare is the law of the land."

As for that CNBC report, Chaffetz will be fielding some fun questions soon.

so, how badly can tom price kneecap the ACA while at HHS?

Trump says bill won’t be coming back in near future & he’ll see if the Dems want to work with him on healthcare.

this is hilarious

CNBC tweet already deleted

Already all sorts of fun as to who pulled the bill:

https://twitter.com/MichaelRWarren/status/845363524658479104

WH source tells me the decision to pull the bill was Ryan’s. Any chance of passing something on health care soon? “We’re moving on."

yeah but now they can pass tax reform!

so, how badly can tom price kneecap the ACA while at HHS?

he can do some damage, but politically it'll be like the administration stabbing itself in the face. Trump owns healthcare now, he's the President. Anything that goes wrong on his watch is his problem

For the first time ever, watching Hannity tonight would be...amusing.

Ah, memories.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/697182075045179392

Remember when...

GOP TRIED TO REPEAL OBAMACARE 52 TIMES
'Hard to get much done when you’re dealing with a 'dictator wannabe' like Obama'
Published: 10/21/2016 at 3:38 PM
(TWITCHY) For those who keep saying the GOP has done nothing about Obamacare with their majority, check out the numbers.

They tried to repeal Obama’s crap law 52 times … which is likely 52 times more than most naysayers realize. It’s easy to sit back and complain that the GOP doesn’t do enough, especially when you aren’t able to see the numbers. Forget the fact that Obama would veto anything they put in front of him …

https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/845360055964848128

Elizabeth Bruenig‏
@ebruenig

object lesson: welfare programs that help bunches and bunches of people are politically resilient

Elizabeth Bruenig‏
imagine how tough single payer would be........

of course, isn't it the political resilience of social welfare programs that conservatives are so afraid of? like, once you've given everyone health care there's no way they're gonna let go of it

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/24/trump-actually-will-be-involved-in-trump-organization.html

so basically the original articl emade it sound like it he was running it still