If the GOP chokes on TrumpCarre, it will lose its dominance

[JakeStarkey]

Trump and the GOP won on parallel tracks in 2016, uneasy and poorly seamed allies. Republicans did it traditionally keeping Trump at bay, while he managed to unlocked the economic unrest of the Upper Midwest.

Dominating the executive and legislative brances, having an opportunity to forge a new American system for a very long time, the GOP is what Daniel Henniger describes as "reinventing the circular firing squad."

"Even a politician of such limitless cynicism as Chuck Schumer is agog: “We are on offense and united. They are on defense and divided, the opposite of what people would have predicted a month or two ago.”

"Maybe in politics, genes really are destiny. Under pressure from a CBO “score,” the genetic disposition of Republican politicians is to go wobbly. The disposition of movement conservatives is to get out the long knives and start carving up other conservatives.

"The result will be guaranteed political defeat for years if congressional Republicans choke at the chance to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

The Republican ObamaCare Choke

 

[blastoff]

Trump and the GOP won on parallel tracks in 2016, uneasy and poorly seamed allies. Republicans did it traditionally keeping Trump at bay, while he managed to unlocked the economic unrest of the Upper Midwest.

Dominating the executive and legislative brances, having an opportunity to forge a new American system for a very long time, the GOP is what Daniel Henniger describes as "reinventing the circular firing squad."

"Even a politician of such limitless cynicism as Chuck Schumer is agog: “We are on offense and united. They are on defense and divided, the opposite of what people would have predicted a month or two ago.”

"Maybe in politics, genes really are destiny. Under pressure from a CBO “score,” the genetic disposition of Republican politicians is to go wobbly. The disposition of movement conservatives is to get out the long knives and start carving up other conservatives.

"The result will be guaranteed political defeat for years if congressional Republicans choke at the chance to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

The Republican ObamaCare Choke

You won't mind if we prematurely just dump this on your growing heap of prior failed Trump prognostications, will you?

 

[usmbguest5318]

The GOP is very good at bitching and moaning, but lousy at governing. We are seeing that existentiallly borne out daily.

 

[JakeStarkey]

blastoff, who failed in judging 2008 and 2012, once again fails to note the facts of the post: Trump and Congress are poorly jointed allies.

The GOP have been running on repealing ACA for seven years, and the party is split between Congress and the President, and left and center and right in Congress.

So until they get it right, blastoff and their defenders look silly. You guys said they could do it. They have not so far.

 

[Sunni Man]

Trump is da Man!! .... ..

 

[JakeStarkey]

How the GOP Crackup Happens by RICH LOWRY March 15, 2017 How the GOP Crackup Happens

Lowry writes that "Less than two weeks after the unveiling of the GOP Obamacare replacement, the party is already staring into the abyss.

The bill has had the worst rollout of any major piece of legislation in memory, and failure is very much an option. If the proposal falters, it will be a political debacle that could poison President Trump’s relationship with Congress for the duration.

That relationship is awkward and tenuous. It is an uneasy accommodation between a GOP Congress that would find a more natural partner in a President Rubio, Cruz or Bush, and a President Trump who would, presumably, be happier to work with Speaker Dave Brat — the populist congressman from Virginia — than with Speaker Paul Ryan.

. . . . there is no significant Trumpist wing in Congress. The faction most favorable to him, the House Freedom Caucus, is made up of ideological conservatives whose philosophy is at odds with Trump’s economic populism, even if they are drawn to his anti-establishmentarianism."

 

[Sunni Man]

Trump is kicking butt and taking names!! .. ..

 

[cnelsen]

A GOP debacle would just mean the GOP will shed its establishment dead wood before the Dems shed theirs--a process both parties need to undergo. An Obamacare failure would just give the GOP a head start.