Awaiting the Justification & Blaming Tweets

Or maybe he'll pretend like it didn't happen.

But he didn't get his vote.

After weeks of contentious negotiations over the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Republicans were forced to admit defeat as they could not gain sufficient support from their own side for the plan to overhaul US health insurance.

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The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, had insisted the vote would go ahead at 3.30pm ET. “Has the team put everything out there, have we left everything on the field? Absolutely,” he told reporters at his daily briefing. “But at the end of the day this isn’t a dictatorship and we’ve got to expect members to ultimately vote how they will according to what they think.”

  Guardian

It isn't a dictatorship yet.

However, Spicer’s imagined 3.30pm deadline slid by, ignored by Republicans on Capitol Hill, and the first reports emerged that Trump had asked for the vote to be pulled.

Didn't want it to be voted on and lost.  Ryan managed to get that optic across to the fool, I see.

[Speaker Paul Ryan] said “doing big things is hard” and conceded that after almost a decade of saying no to everything in opposition, the Republicans had failed to come together and agree on something they have opposed for seven years. “We are going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future,” he said.

They got so used to saying no to everything that they said no to themselves.

But he praised Trump’s role in the negotiations, adding: “The president gave his all in this effort; he’s really been fantastic. Still, we’ve got to do better and we will. This is a setback, no two ways about it. We are motivated to step up our game and deliver on our promises.”

Ahem. T-Rump's promise was that he was "going to take care of everybody" with a new health care plan.

Separately, a Washington Post reporter described a call with Trump in which he said the president did not blame Ryan for the ignominy and said the bill would not return any time soon.

Ryan also conceded that Republicans would now move on to other priorities – securing the border, rebuilding the military and tax reform.

And "Obamacare" will still be there to needle the joker in the White House. The dealmaker failed. And failed with something that bears the name of his arch nemesis. Gotta sting. But, he's used to failure in business. It doesn't seem to get in his way.

Speaking afterward in the Oval Office, Trump blamed Democrats for the failure of a bill to repeal the signature achievement of Barack Obama. “If [Democrats] got together with us, and got us a real healthcare bill, I’d be totally okay with that. The losers are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, because they own Obamacare. They 100% own it,” said the president.

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Instead, he said he was ready to move on to tax reform, saying: “We’re probably going to start going very strongly on big tax cuts. Tax reform that will be next.”

There you go. Blame somebody and walk away. Maybe he won't even need to tweet about it. Until some "fake news" channel tries to say he's the loser. Or...

The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, said in a statement: “Ultimately, the Trumpcare bill failed because of two traits that have plagued the Trump presidency since he took office: incompetence and broken promises. In my life, I have never seen an administration as incompetent as the one occupying the White House today."

“They can’t write policy that actually makes sense, they can’t implement the policies they do manage to write, they can’t get their stories straight, and today we’ve learned that they can’t close a deal, and they can’t count votes.

“So much for The Art of the Deal.”

Poke.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.