Mr. "I am all tight with Congress" ... FAILS.

[PsychoBabble]

Yipee.

Apparently Central Casting hair is not enough ...


Pence's Obamacare diplomacy fails to yield a deal

Conservatives and moderates say they heard two different things from the White House.

The White House’s latest last-ditch effort to save the GOP’s Obamacare replacement bill hit a brick wall Tuesday night, as conservative and moderate Republicans met and realized they had two very different understandings of the changes sought by top Trump officials.

Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus say Vice President Mike Pence, chief of staff Reince Priebus and budget director Mick Mulvaney sought to win their votes by offering a repeal of major Obamacare regulations during a Monday night meeting. But moderates who met with the same Trump officials hours before were told the changes wouldn’t be as far-reaching.

The discrepancy in what was or was not promised became increasingly apparent throughout the day Tuesday, according to multiple sources across the spectrum of the House Republican Conference.

A late-night huddle with Pence and the leaders of all the GOP caucuses in the basement of the Capitol failed to clarify the issue, leaving Hill insiders speculating whether the White House offered two different potential deals — or lawmakers selectively heard what they wanted.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/pence-obamacare-repeal-replace-236894

WHAT??! You mean, the WH was talking out of both sides of its mouth? Nahhhhhhhh ....

[underpants]

1. They are dying to be able to go on their recess and say they have SOMETHING

but they don't.

[annabanana]

2. I find this hugely amusing.

These guys seem to think that the WH is NOT a giant fishbowl. Did they really think the two groups wouldn't compare notes?

[PsychoBabble]

3. Apparently NOT. Sad.

[gratuitous]

4. Just so odd

The return of denials of coverage for pre-existing conditions that the ultra-right nitwits insist on turned out to be a deal-breaker for the far-right nitwits. Who could have guessed? Seems that all those angry voters at the town hall meetings might have had an effect after all.

[PsychoBabble]

6. Because, of course NONE of that tension showed up in the LAST incarnation of their repeal, eh?

I mean, who could have known?

[ProudLib72]

5. Perhaps even more amusing

Is that there are two groups in the GOP who are so intransigent that, even with the majority in congress, they are unable to make good on one of their biggest campaign promises. It's fun to watch the GOP flounder away.

[hatrack]

7. Huh. You mean they told one group one thing, and another group another thing . . .

And assumed that nobody would compare notes?

FUCK these people are are a bunch of incompetent ass-kazoos.