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The defeat of the health care tax on Friday demonstrates clearly that many Republicans in Congress and certainly the entire Democrat party, still don’t understand how and why the new POTUS won the election. 

And that’s why he came out on top on the issue, while those like Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, the Freedom Caucus and the left side of the House lost significantly.

The way President Trump ran his campaign was to travel throughout Middle-America, making hundreds of whistle-stops and at each he simply asked voters what they wanted. And that’s why the health care tax became the first issue he addressed. Because so many were displeased with the increasing costs alongside loss of services and providers, while others got a free ride on the backs of hard-working citizens as a result of Obamacare.

So, what’s happened now is Trump has tried to fulfill his promise of making health care better as best he can under the system, but recalcitrants in his own party along with the unthinking left won’t let him. However, whereas the huge masses that put him in office realize clearly that 
 he wasn’t at fault, its those who opposed him who’ll suffer in future elections.        

An insightful synopsis came from Joel B.Pollak @breitbart.com yesterday in an article titled: “Health Care Bill’s Failure: Just Part of the ‘Art of the Deal”

Mr. Pollak wrote: “Exactly two weeks ago, this author predicted the defeat of the American Health Care Act — and explained that it was a step towards the final, actual deal that will repeal and replace Obamacare.

“President Donald Trump faces three irreconcilable factions: the GOP establishment, conservatives, and Democrats. He must bring them together — to “deliver the goods,” a key rule in The Art of the Deal. But first he must show them “the downside” — and convince them they will fail on their own.

From there Pollak explains how Trump let the system run on its own, knowing full well that self-serving, short-sighted and politically-motivated types in Congress would more than likely never come together on behalf of those that put them in office. Something Trump will do himself somewhere in the future, when the time is right. 

The short article’s well-worth reading. Here’s a link: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/24/health-care-bill-failure-art-of-the-deal/#disqus_thread

Beyond the actual facts of the matter discussed above, it’s quite amusing to see how the MSM immediately employed the event as a major defeat for Trump, and perhaps a signal that he and his administration are doomed forever.

John Wagner, Damian Paletta and Sean Sullivan began their article @washingtonpost.com: “The stunning collapse of the Republican health-care bill now imperils the rest of President Trump’s ambitious congressional agenda, with few prospects for quick victory on tax reform, construction projects or a host of other issues in the months ahead despite complete GOP control of government.”

Farther along they wrote: “Trump and Republican leaders continued Saturday in their attempts to put a brave face on the health-care debacle. “ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE,” Trump wrote in a morning tweet. “Do not worry!”

All of which brings up the thought that if a logical individual were to closely consider which of the two factions here had the highest probability of winding up as correct on the matter, would that turn out to be three writers from a leftist propaganda organ or the one who currently occupies the Oval Office? 

Along the same lines, the always disparaging Maureen Dowd wrote an open letter to the POTUS @nytimes.com yesterday, summarized as follows under the heading : “Donald, This I Will Tell You”

“Dear Donald, 

“We’ve known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt. 

“You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician? 

“Don’t worry. No one will ever mistake you for a politician. 

“After this past week, they won’t even mistake you for a top-notch negotiator. 

“I was born here. The first image in my memory bank is the Capitol, all lit up at night. And my primary observation about Washington is this: Unless you’re careful, you end up turning into what you started out scorning. 

“And you, Donald, are getting a reputation as a sucker. And worse, a sucker who is a tool of the D.C. establishment."

From there Dowd begins referencing occurrences that illustrate how Trump sold himself as the “businessman who could shake things up and make Washington work again. Instead, you got worked over by the Republican leadership and the business community, who set you up to do their bidding. 

“That’s why they’re putting up with all your craziness about Russia and wiretapping and unending lies and rattling our allies. 

“They’re counting on you being a delusional dupe who didn’t even know what was in the bill because you’re sitting around in a bathrobe getting your information from wackadoodles on Fox News and then, as The Post reported, peppering aides with the query, “Is this really a good bill?” 

“You got played. 

“It took W. years to smash everything. You’re way ahead of schedule.” 

Then, after Dowd was through making her point that Trump is, in her opinion, an abject failure as a politician and POTUS with no hope for recovery, she closed with one of the most open-doored invitations for retribution in journalistic history. 

Dowd wrote: “And I can say you’re doing badly, because I’m a columnist, and you’re not. Say hello to everybody, O.K.? 

“Sincerely, Maureen”

To that, on Trump’s behalf, an appropriate response might be something like: Yes Maureen you’re right. You’re a columnist who’s been writing the same, repetitive drivel since 1974 and the Times op-ed since 1995.

I on the other hand, became a billionaire businessman and President of the U.S.

So, I don’t know about you, but I really don’t want to trade careers or resumes.

DT

That's it for today folks.

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