Schumer: Trump Blaming Dems For GOP Health Bill Failure Is ‘Petty’

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y. speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and "a few Republicans" over... Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y. speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and "a few Republicans" over the collapse of the GOP effort to rewrite the Obama health care law. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says President Donald Trump’s declaration that he and the Republican Party won’t take the blame for the health care system’s problems is “small and petty.”

The New York Democrat made the remarks to The Associated Press after Senate GOP leaders abandoned their effort to rewrite President Barack Obama’s health care law due to Republican opposition. Trump said Republicans won’t own the issue and said he’ll let the statute fail to force Democrats to ask him to fix it.

Schumer says Trump is in charge, but “To hurt millions of people because he’s angry and he didn’t get his way is not being a leader.”

Schumer says Democrats will work with Republicans to fix problems with the law once the GOP abandons its repeal effort.

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  1. Petty? How about irrational, clueless, laughable, delusional, etc…

  2. Avatar for kenga kenga says:

    “petty”

    Damn.
    That Senate collegiality thing really fucks with proper spelling.
    It’s “pretty fucking stupid”.

  3. “Small and petty.” Come on, man. Use simple, straightforward, meaningful words like @maximus and @kenga suggest. If you stuck a stick up Shumer’s ass, he couldn’t just say, “Ow, godammit that hurts.” It would be something more like, “Oh, I do believe you have caused unnecessary discomfort in my rectal region.”

  4. I don’t know – for someone like Trump for whom everything he does must be “yuge”, being described as “small” and “petty” is a pretty good insult.

  5. I agree. Trump may not know what “petty” means, but “small” is guaranteed to get under his skin.

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