Looks and Sounds Redux GOP B.S.
(Witch Hunt Round II)
Keeping
His Anti-Obama Base in Tow
(They do
know what ACA is, right)
MAJOR
UPDATE ON THIS POST:
Last week Trump backtracked on pushing to totally repeal
and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – commonly known as Obamacare –
despite the GOP's previous inability to put forward alternatives that wouldn’t
leave more people uninsured or increase insurance premiums. He further says
we'll do it after the 2020 election when GOP keeps the Senate, takes back the
House, and he keeps his seat, too.
Note:
Tons of laughter is approved.
Trump has turned his focus
to his re-election in the days since he [apparently] has emerged
unscathed from Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
He again mounts an [old]
“fresh attack” to totally repeal Obamacare on his new victory lap.
With the
weight of the 22-month investigation lifted, Trump held his first political
rally since Mueller submitted his final report and AG Barre’s 4-page summary.
Before a crowd of supporters in politically critical Grand Rapids, MI he again assailed
Democrats and the media for the investigation what he still repeatedly
demonizes as a “Witch Hunt.”
Now as Trump, and DEMS seeking to unseat him, carve out positions on key policy issues, and more so as the 2018
midterm landslide shows, the voters still choose health care and the future of Obamacare as their #1 issue of concern.
Trump’s
first policy move since the release of Mueller’s findings was to wade back into
that health care morass. Plus, now his DOJ has shifted its position on a Texas lawsuit
seeking to invalidate parts of the ACA agreeing with a Federal judge down there who ruled that the law is unconstitutional and should be scrapped entirely.
Trump’s 2020
campaign slogan is “Promises Made,
Promises Kept,” and he appears aware that his failure to repeal Obamacare
remains one of the most prominent pledges he hasn’t fulfilled.
Trump has stated openly: “We
are going to be the Republicans, the party of great health care. The Democrats,
they let you down. They came up with Obamacare and it is terrible.”
However, DEMS
have so far welcomed a fight over health care. It paid off for them in 2018 and
may again.
My 2 cents: Also related to Trump and the behind-the-scene-work on
this effort, is my earlier post on this same subject seen here (maybe the proposed Trump-GOP bill's name).
We
shall see. More later, for sure. Thanks for stopping by.
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