McCarthy Unsuccessfully Urged Trump Not To Take Up Renewed Obamacare Attack

US President Donald Trump (R) speaks beside House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (L) at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on January 14, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should r... US President Donald Trump (R) speaks beside House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (L) at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on January 14, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) urged President Donald Trump not to take up his new attack on Obamacare — through the courts this time — though he was ultimately ignored, according to reports Wednesday in Axios and Washington Post.

McCarthy has reportedly hung the GOP’s 2018 loss in the House on their failed attempt to repeal Obamacare in Congress.

Some Republicans have been openly ambivalent about the President’s abrupt policy pivot, and others have been more candidly frustrated anonymously.

“It’s the dumbest thing I have ever heard,” a senior Republican aide told the Post. “It is the equivalent of punching yourself in the face repeatedly.”

A common theme in the complaints has been that Republicans failed to get rid of Obamacare even when they had both houses of Congress, and that pivoting to health care gives Democrats an issue they like and a way out of talking about the seemingly positive Mueller news for Trump.

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  1. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) . . . was ultimately ignored

    Makes for a good tombstone engraving, Kev.

  2. I’d say members of society could pitch in and contribute money and help to those most adversely affected by the loss of health insurance. But that would be socialism, so, nah.

    “Should have earned that million before you were five, Tiny Tim. Look what your slacker ways have wrought you.”

  3. Well drump just has to try, because its something Obama did, and he just can’t stand not to try to take it away because of that, no matter how much damage it causes his own party or people if he wins.

  4. I would really like to see Trump punch himself in the face repeatedly!

  5. Now that Donnie’s Nobel Prize has gone down the crapper, this was inevitable…

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