Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

Got so tired of writing about Trump that I had to take a week off.  I was trying to find something else that was more interesting to write but given all the craziness of the Trump presidency, I have to come back to it.  If anyone has some suggestion for future blog subjects, please do not hesitate to let me know.

As David Gergen of CNN who worked in the White House of two Republican and one Democrat administration wrote, it is the worst first 100 days of any recent presidency.  With a majority in the House and Senate, the GOP has failed to do what they promised, repeal and replace Obamacare.  After seven years of criticizing and trying to get rid of Obamacare, the GOP has failed to come up with a plan to replace it.  Sure the so called Freedom Caucus blocked it but the plan was worse than Obamacare in the first place.  The CBO said it will cause 24 million people to lose their insurance in the next 10 years.  Various group like physicians, nurses and patient advocacy groups are against the GOP plan.  So this is what they come up with after 7 years?  It would have made sense to try to improve Obamacare but not to replace it with something worse.

Trump ran on his ability to make the deal.  Well, he couldn't make a deal even with his own party members.  You see, it is a lot easier to tell people what to do when you are their only boss and they have to do what you tell them.  In government that is not the case.  It will not be case when he tries to deal with foreign governments for sure.  So Trump's bulling will not work as shown by his ultimatum to vote on Friday or else.  After the Freedom Caucus said else, he blame the Democrats.  He says he will let Obamacare implode and then it will be Obama's fault.  That is like FDR saying that the Depression is Hoover's problem and now that I am president, let the country go down the drain.  What happened to "the buck stops here"?  By the way Trump was also fuming about his daughter Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner taking a ski vacation while the health plan was in  jeopardy.  Well, that is what happens when there is nepotism.

While this is a defeat for Trump, I think it would have been worse for the GOP if the plan had passed.  All studies show that the plan will have the most negative impact on blue collar, middle aged whites who overwhelmingly supported Trump.  When they realized that Trump had made things worse for them, it would not be good for Trump in four years.  Right now, I wonder how many of these people realize the GOP does not share their economic interests? 

Somewhere Jim Boehner is working on his tan, lighting up a cigar, wiping away a tear and enjoy watching Paul Ryan getting pushed around by the Freedom Caucus.  While I am glad the GOP plan did not pass, it is frightening that a small minority on either side can derail what the majority wants.  I am sure the extreme liberals in the Sanders camp failed to support Clinton and thus leading to her loss.  In order to move the country forward, I think we need to get centrists from both parties to come together and defeat the fringes of both sides.  But the way it is today, both parties catering to either the left or right rather than to reach to the other side.  So we will continue to have a dysfunctional government.