Trump: All Dems do is 'delay and complain. They own Obamacare!'
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 06/26/2017 09:08 AM EDT Updated 06/26/2017 09:18 AM EDT
Democrats who have loudly opposed Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act have no policies or ideas, President Donald Trump wrote online Monday morning, and are themselves responsible for the controversial healthcare legislation that GOP lawmakers have campaigned against for years.
The Democrats have become nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS, they have no policies or ideas. All they do is delay and complain. They own ObamaCare! Trump wrote on Twitter Monday morning. He followed up shortly with a second health care-related post: "Republican Senators are working very hard to get there, with no help from the Democrats. Not easy! Perhaps just let OCare crash & burn!"
The presidents promise to repeal and replace his predecessors signature healthcare legislation is nearing a key hurdle this week, when the Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill that would undo Obamacare. If passed, it would need to be reconciled with the House version, passed weeks ago, before making its way to Trumps desk.
Trumps labeling of Democrats as obstructionists has been a regular refrain, but with majorities in both the House and Senate, it is Republicans, not Democrats, who have thus far been the biggest obstacle to the presidents repeal-and-replace promise.
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ck4829
(35,077 posts)is a good idea.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)About anything any more
SHRED
(28,136 posts)They sabatoge the ACA and then blame it for failing.
Sounds about right.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Trump has changed it so the failure is Trump's.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)A petulant teenager as pResident.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)What i see as the only change since he took office is that he has shifted from I'm going to do this and that to staying in blame mode because he can't get anything done.
He is resentful of Obama's competence and popularity. It has got to suck miserably for this pathological narcissist.
He is completely unhinged. Let me rephrase that. He is STILL completely unhinged.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)don the con is consistent with his spew of BS everyday, just like his daily BM.
Astraea
(468 posts)when this legislation was crafted without our participation? Idiot.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Delaying when they've got it on a rocket careening toward a cliff? Interfering when the bill is barely even available?
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Surely this must violate some kind of law. Isn't the big Pee supposed to uphold the law of the land?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)Particularly Rubio's legislation which is now law.
Then they will claim ACA was fatally flawed after they finish strangling it.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)The gall of calling Democrats "obstructionists" after those eight years of gleefully obstructing anything they could.
And how the hell do they get away with criticizing Democrats for not having "ideas" on how to dismantle the very program that they crafted?
Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)Wasn't that the motto of the GOP while Obama was president?
0rganism
(23,957 posts)no mr. president, that's actually NOT how it works
YOU and your GOP buddies own the ACA now, on behalf of millions of Americans who both supported and opposed your candidacies. you guys "won" the electskis, remember? now you own it, the whole damn kit and kaboodle. you can trash it if you want. you can preserve it if you want. you can replace it if you want. you can cripple it if you want. you cannot disown it.