You can't keep up - Part 2

Over the past 24 hours, Republican officials have watched in horror as the Trump administration once again fully embraced the repeal of Obamacare, just over a year after the issue proved toxic for the party at the ballot box.

The embrace came in two steps: with the Department of Justice siding with a lower court ruling that declared the health care law invalid in toto and with the president tweeting that the Republican Party would become the party of health care reform.

  Daily Beast

Actually, he said "the party of health care." Or "healthcare" to be precise.

[I]t quickly complicated what was widely viewed as one of the best weeks of Trump’s presidency. Ebullient over a four-page summarization of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s meddling—a summarization that said the president was not guilty of collusion—Trump suddenly found himself back in a debate that has vexed his administration.

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GOP officials couldn’t help but marvel at Trump’s inability to enjoy a rare grace period. “They are completely tone deaf,” texted one of the party’s top strategists. “How bout a few more victory laps on Mueller while you can get away with it? WTF is wrong with them?”

Mental.

“And there’s something unusual about him stepping on a good message?” one former administration official said, laughing when asked about the timing of the announcement.

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On Monday evening, DoJ announced that its support for U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling that because Obamacare’s individual mandate had been zeroed out, the entirety of the law was now constitutionally illegitimate. O’Connor’s judgement had been widely panned in legal circles.

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[T]he department’s new position set off alarm bells among Republicans who had spent much of the 2018 election cycle trying to alleviate voter concerns that their attempts at health care overhaul would—contrary to the likely outcomes—leave those with preexisting conditions vulnerable to the whims of private insurers.

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One of the party’s top pollsters told The Daily Beast that private data showed that the issue of health care had likely cost Republicans more than a dozen seats in the House in 2018.

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Trump did little to alleviate the anxiety later on Tuesday, when he addressed Senate Republicans and reiterated his desire to tackle health care reform again but, according to several senators, didn’t offer any specifics.

Trump without details? THAT's shocking.

“I don’t think you can really rethink health care until you know for sure whether Obamacare continues to be part of it or not,” [Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO)] said, “and I think we’re ahead of ourselves to assume that the court would say that Obamacare is somehow no longer there.”

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Should Republicans actually try again to pass Obamacare repeal legislation, they will do so in a decidedly more difficult political landscape than the one they enjoyed just two years ago. Any bill would have to make its way through a Democratic-run House, where many new lawmakers were elected not only on a pledge to protect Obamacare’s protections for those with pre-existing conditions and its expansion of Medicaid coverage, but on a promise to pursue even more aggressive reforms, such as additional government run insurance options or the widening of Medicare eligibility.

We all know the Republicans can't win if they don't cheat, so I'm expecting some serious cheating in 2020.

Those close to the president say that part of what motivates him on continuing his pursuit in scrapping the Affordable Care Act, even after past failures, is his inability to move beyond setbacks.

That, and it's called "Obamacare".

Plus, he thinks he gained a lot of political capital with the Mueller report. With Bill Barr's interpretation of the Mueller report. So he's ready to take on the impossible.

“It doesn’t surprise me because this president is a hyperbole in action every day, so if there’s an opportunity to end the whole Obamacare, ACA, regardless of the consequences of doing that, he’s fine,” said the former administration official. “Though, it speaks to the lack of anybody within the administration pushing back, and it gets fewer and fewer and fewer individuals who will speak with responsibility.”

Probably because he either fires them or refuses to listen.  He's unfit. 

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