Trump calls House health care bill he celebrated in the rose garden "Mean"

Mean-ing?

Neat

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He is a bad hombre.

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Mean to whom?

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To the millions of people the current framework will harm.

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President Donald Trump directed Senate Republicans to pass a generous health care bill at a meeting with more than a dozen GOP senators on Tuesday, arguing that the austere House health care bill is difficult to defend, according to people familiar with the meeting.

The president also said Republicans risk getting savaged in the 2018 midterms if they fail to repeal Obamacare after a seven-year campaign against the law.

But he made clear that the Senate needs to pass a bill that Republicans are able to more easily defend and is not viewed as an attack on Americans from low-income households, as the House bill has been portrayed by critics, the sources said. He also advocated more robust tax credits for people who buy insurance on the individual market, a move that would increase the bill’s cost.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who is pushing the Senate to slow the repeal of Medicaid expansion, indicated Trump is concerned about the people who are enrolled in the program for low-income Americans.

“He talked about the need to take care of people,” Portman said of the president.

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Problem is Trump has no intellectual curiosity:

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Trump has told associates that news coverage of the House health care bill was “terrible,” in the words of one associate who has spoken with him.

Trump threw a party in the Rose Garden celebrating the passage of the House bill and has publicly called it “terrific.”

But aides and associates said he has not liked the news coverage and has shown little interest in what is in the bill — but wants it to be received well.

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So he is likely to just continue having this problem where he champions something that he later comes to somewhat realize is not a very good bill. Though not exactly fully knowing why. But because he has no interest in the weeds of policy, he finds himself in these situations.

Trump is transitioning from ObamaCare to single payor; yes the Republican plan is MEAN.

This is probably why the Senate is letting the moderates get their way. I guess the plan really is to set up a second round of chicken with the House Freedom Caucus. Amash better not cuck out this time.