Donald Trump is now referring to himself in his copious Twitter messages as ‘T’. Unlike the real Mr. T, who starred in the popular 1980s American television series The A-Team, however, President Trump is unable to muscle his way to victory. Quite the contrary. Thanks to majority leader Mitch McConnell’s sudden decision yesterday to abandon a vote on the Republican health care bill that would strip some 22 million Americans of coverage, Trump is maintaining a perfect batting average of zero on passing any major legislation. After seven years of huffing and puffing about the perfidies of ObamaCare and of promising to repeal Obama’s signature initiative immediately, it’s starting to look like Groundhog Day for the Republican party. The only thing that the bill seemed to unify was Republican and Democratic Governors in denouncing it.
The danger for the GOP is that in pushing the vote past July 4th, America’s celebration of independence from George III, a true revolt may once more emerge among voters against the prospect of losing social benefits, further cowing Republican senators from supporting a repudiation of ObamaCare.
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