I'm thinking Trump and Bannon are perfectly happy if the bill crashes and burns in the House.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

They aren't too keen on the whole separation of powers thing. So for Congress to flounder and flop all over itself and ultimately fail in passing their own healthcare bill they'd see that as a good thing.

There's room for one King in Washington and it's not Paul Ryan in their mind. They'd gladly throw him under the bus.

They'll try to dismantle as much of the ACA by EO that they can attempt to get away with.

[titaniumsalute]

1. Ehh I don't know

Trump backed it. HARD. Said it was a GREAT BILL. FAIR BILL. He worked to get people to vote for it. HE said he would easily repeal Obamacare. First thing he would do.

He lied. Again. He couldn't get it done. The man who's the world's greatest negotiator (in his mind and many of his voters) and he couldn't get it done within his own party.

He failed. Biggly.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. I think he'd coast on it and call it his own if he had the votes.

Once he realized it was failing he dropped it like a hot potato.

It's all about the credit. No one else can get the credit but him.

[titaniumsalute]

7. Absolutely agree with that statement

I think they really did want to pass it. "See voters...I told you we would do this." Repeal, replace, blah blah. "I'm the best negotiator...blah blah."

Not now. They want it to go away by Monday.

[titaniumsalute]

2. They also want a tax bill, infrastructure bill, budget, etc.

If COngress can't make any of those things happens...neither does Trumps ideas.

[Girard442]

3. Don't like Trump, but this strategy isn't totally stupid.

Cut your losses. Blame somebody else and throw them under the bus. Move on to something more promising.

[GoCubsGo]

5. They'll just gaslight the whole thing, too.

Like they have been doing with pretty much everything.

[dalton99a]

6. If it fails, he'll blame Ryan. If it passes, he'll claim credit

Typical Trump M.O.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Blaming Democrats in 5,4,3....

Hey we got nothing to do with this Trumpcare mess.
Republicans did this all on their own.
Unbelievable really. They control EVERYTHING and,
after 8 years,all they can come up with is this big stinky turd??!!!
It's so pathetic. So hilariously pathetic.

[Adrahil]

9. If Trump were a policy wonk, I might agree.

But he doesn't give a SHIT about policy.

He only care about appearing to be successful and make no mistake, this is a HUGE loss.

[LAS14]

12. He'll declare it NOT to be a loss. You know...

... like declaring that 6 million immigrants voted for Hillary, and Obama tapped Trump Tower. And his idiot supporters will go along!

Hopefully the rest of the country are getting better and better educated about critical thinking.

[Adrahil]

16. He will do exactly that. And further smear himself with feces.

His core support won't waver, but plenty of people who held their nose to vote for him will rethink this. At the least, they will be dispirited.

[wordpix]

10. Dump has a lot of "other" on his plate, like JAIL for treason

so his pea brain really isn't focused on health care right now

[LAS14]

11. Yes, if there's one thing that's clear it's that Trump doesn't...

...care about ANYTHING except drawing attention to himself. I never thought for a minute that he cared one way or another about health care policy in the U.S. Nor does he care about anything else. Just himself, and he'll redefine reality over and over so it reflects well on him (in his view.... and, unfortunately, in the blind view of his core supporters.)

[hatrack]

13. It's good news for Bannonzebub. ..

President Shitstain gets a Hate List of those who voted against The Precious, and he'll drool over that night and day, and plot revenge, and tweet and crow as he racks up insult after insult.

He'll never let it go, he'll never do anything else except plot his Sacred Vengeance, which leaves Bannonzebub free to run the show.

[Idoru]

14. Nope

This was his biggest campaign promise and was supposed to be his first big slam-dunk.

They will act as if they don't care but don't let them get away with that bullshit or blame Ryan.

MAKE TRUMP AND BANNON TAKE THEIR L.

[mzteaze]

15. I agree

He was never fully vested in this other than it being an item on his check list of campaign promises.

He would have happily claimed victory if it passed but he also had distanced himself enough in beginning if it flopped.

His crazypants news partners Brietbart and goons have already framed it as a loss for Paul Ryan.

Meanwhile, his son in law can tell his brother with the $2.7B app based on ACA to breathe easy now. Wonder what he gets out of that deal?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. So maybe I was wrong.

It looked like a freakout on behalf of the White House moreso than Congress, so I guess they were invested in the thing after all.

Heh.