{"id":23325,"date":"2017-07-24T02:43:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T02:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23325"},"modified":"2017-07-24T02:43:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T02:43:18","slug":"this-is-how-trump-refuses-to-own-his-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23325","title":{"rendered":"This is how Trump refuses to ‘own’ his failures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well now. Donald Trump is tweeting something about “repercussions” if Senate Republicans fail to enact a health care insurance overhaul that would “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

This must be what the president means when he says he won’t “own” any failure to approve this legislation.<\/p>\n

I believe the president must<\/em> own it. He must<\/em> take responsibility. He is the nation’s top Republican — even if he is a Republican In Name Only, aka a RINO, in the hearts of many true believers.<\/p>\n

That’s not how sees it. He’s now suggesting via Twitter that he’ll somehow punish Republicans on Capitol Hill if they fail to do his bidding.<\/p>\n

Explain yourself, Mr. President.<\/a><\/p>\n

First things first. He needs to offer some detail on what his bidding entails. What does he want, specifically, in a health care overhaul? Oh, I almost forgot. The president is just too damn busy “making America great again” to worry about the details of legislation that aims to affect one-sixth of the American economy.<\/p>\n

The Congressional Budget Office doesn’t like the GOP plan. It will cost millions of Americans their insurance plan and it cuts too much money from Medicaid, which enables Americans to afford health insurance.<\/p>\n

Just as President Truman famously posted the sign on his desk proclaiming “The Buck Stops Here,” Donald Trump is now infamously<\/em> declaring that others will pay the price for his own failures as head of a once-great American political party.<\/p>\n

In my humble view, presidents don’t earn their tickets into the pantheon of greatness by refusing to “own” their mistakes. The GOP health care plan is a doozy of a mistake, Mr. President. It’s on you.<\/p>\n\n

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Well now. Donald Trump is tweeting something about “repercussions” if Senate Republicans fail to enact a health care insurance overhaul that would “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act. This must be what the president means when he says he won’t “own” any failure to approve this legislation. I believe the president must own it. … Continue reading This is how Trump refuses to ‘own’ his failures<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,14],"tags":[131,885,1941,2068,3376,7001],"class_list":["post-23325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-aca","tag-cbo","tag-gop","tag-harry-truman","tag-obamacare","tag-trumpcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23328,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23325\/revisions\/23328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}