Monday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnnell (R-KY) threw in the towel on the Senate’s version of the Obamacare repeal and replacement bill after two more Republicans (Utah’s Mike Lee and Kansas’ Jerry Moran) announced that they would oppose a motion to proceed. In response, McConnnell announced that he would ask the Senate to vote to “take up the House bill with the first amendment in order being what a majority of the Senate has already supported in 2015 and that was vetoed by then-President Obama: a repeal of Obamacare with a two-year delay to provide for a stable transition period to a patient-centered health care system that gives Americans access to quality, affordable care.”
Tuesday morning, President Trump responded to all the political discord in a manner in which only he can. In a series of tweets, Trump efficiently smacked the obstructionist Democrats, shamed those Republicans who are now signaling that they won’t vote for a clean repeal, celebrated the Republicans who backed the legislation, underscored that Obamacare is self-imploding, and all the while exhibiting his campaign-standard “winning” optimism.
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