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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 03:08 PM Mar 2017

Trump to GOP critics of health care bill: Im gonna come after you

By David Weigel, Kelsey Snell and Robert Costa March 21 at 3:04 PM
President Trump stormed Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell the House Republican leadership’s plan to overhaul the health-care system, warning his party that not passing the legislation would yield a political crisis and sweeping electoral defeats.

The president addressed a closed-door meeting of House Republicans days before the measure is expected to come to a vote on the House floor.

Trump used both charm and admonishment as he made his case, reassuring skittish members that they would gain seats in Congress if the bill passed — and singling out Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the chairman of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, in front of colleagues.

“I’m gonna come after you, but I know I won’t have to, because I know you’ll vote ‘yes,’ ” Trump said, according to several Republican lawmakers who attended the meeting. “Honestly, a loss is not acceptable, folks.”

For Trump, who talked up the House bill the previous evening at a raucous rally in Kentucky, the presentation was the latest example of his mounting urgency to secure a major legislative victory in the early months of his presidency and repeal the signature law of President Barack Obama.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-arrives-on-capitol-hill-to-sell-house-gop-health-care-package/2017/03/21/e8ede3d2-0e2b-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html?utm_term=.4225fd090c64

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Trump to GOP critics of health care bill: Im gonna come after you (Original Post) SummerSnow Mar 2017 OP
Bet not one person room told him to STFU since he malaise Mar 2017 #1
I would have told him,'you have to bring ass to get ass' SummerSnow Mar 2017 #4
LOL malaise Mar 2017 #5
what an absolute pig! F him and the gang he intimidates. If they cave, they should be shamed out KewlKat Mar 2017 #2
This is good for us (the working class and patriotic Americans) sharedvalues Mar 2017 #3
Please keep digging that hole, Donnie! Initech Mar 2017 #6
Intimidation would make me do the opposite. He is pushing some of them away dewsgirl Mar 2017 #7
Abuse. It's what he does best. Hekate Mar 2017 #8
With his approval ratings Soxfan58 Mar 2017 #9

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
3. This is good for us (the working class and patriotic Americans)
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 03:20 PM
Mar 2017

Trump is further tying himself to TrumpCare and he's going to be sucked down with the sinking ship along with Ryan.

Plan is to pass in the house, do whatever is necessary to get it past the Senate, then bring back to the house and challenge all GOP reps to say no.

That strategy stinks. Any Obamacare repeal screws the working and middle class. The GOP probably thinks their media control can be used to blame bad TrumpCare effects on Obama.

It's our job to make sure the GOP can't do that.

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