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DonViejo

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:14 PM Mar 2017

'It's Going to Fall Apart': Bill Kristol Says GOP Obamacare Replacement Plan is Doomed

by Jon Levine | 8:18 am, March 9th, 2017

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and their guests spent the first hour of Morning Joe lacing into the American Health Care Act. The long-awaited Republican replacement for Obamacare has faced increasingly brutal criticism from the right and the left since it was unveiled earlier this week.

Show stalwart, Bill Kristol led the way.

“They are so intoxicated with the notion that Trump’s going to bless it,” he said with disbelief. “(As if) Trump has this magic potion that he just slaps on something and it goes sailing through.”

Scarborough noted that despite official confidence from the White House, President Donald Trump would likely have a hard time selling such an unpopular bill to individual members of Congress.

“These guys have their own careers,” said Scarborough. “They’re going to get it from all sides.”

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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/its-going-to-fall-apart-bill-kristol-says-gop-obamacare-replacement-is-doomed/

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'It's Going to Fall Apart': Bill Kristol Says GOP Obamacare Replacement Plan is Doomed (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP
Crap, if Krystol thinks it will fail, it's surely doomed to pass cos dem Mar 2017 #1
Now THIS scares me. world wide wally Mar 2017 #2
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