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In Aftermath of ObamaCare 2.0 Collapse, Is Trump Turning to the Left?
No wonder Hugh Hewitt responded to Trump publicly insulting him by affectionally nuzzling his buttocks. For a statist apparatchik hoping to pull the GOP to the left, the current administration could be a dream come true. Watch in horror as Hewitt comes on Meet the Press to shove conservatives off a cliff for stopping ObamaCare 2.0:
“It was a big loss, but … that loss isn’t on the president; it isn’t on Paul Ryan; it is on the Area 51 subcaucus of the Freedom Caucus… They own the loss, nobody else.”
The atrocious AHCA would not have repealed or replaced ObamaCare, but would have renamed it and made it permanent with a few of the deck chairs rearranged. The bill typified Big Government gone berserk. Hewitt detests the true conservatives who had enough integrity to derail it.
Host Chuck Todd presented an extract from a New York Times piece:
“Trump seemed much less animated by the subject of budget cuts than the subject of spending increases. ‘We’re also going to prime the pump,’ he said… ‘In other words: Spend money to make a lot more money in the future. And that’ll happen.’ A clearer elucidation of Keynesian liberalism could not have been delivered by Obama.”
For once the Times has it right. If Obama had said the same thing, we would be muttering about the Cloward-Piven strategy.
Hewitt’s alarming response to this:
“[Trump] is done with the right wing.”
Regrettably, Hewitt may have it right too. As WaPo reports,
Trump cast blame Sunday for the collapse of his effort to overhaul the health-care system on conservative interest groups and far-right Republican lawmakers, shifting culpability to his own party after initially faulting Democratic intransigence.
His attack — starting with a tweet that singled out the House Freedom Caucus as well as the influential Club for Growth and Heritage Action for America — marked a new turn in the increasingly troubled relationship between the White House and a divided GOP still adjusting to its unorthodox standard-bearer.
Less than an hour after his tweet blasting conservatives, his Renfield, Reince Priebus, followed up with this on Fox News Sunday:
As if to rub salt in the GOP’s wound, Priebus hinted that Trump may simply start looking past the Republican majority and try forging more consensus with moderate Democrats in future legislative battles.
This has been coordinated. One of Trump’s most loyal lieutenants in the media is on the same page:
Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro is demanding that Trump forget the Republicans and reach out to Democrats to “make America great,” because he’s such a great negotiator, he’s the only one who can do it.
No really she said this.
Judge Jeanine advises Trump,
“You already know that you can’t rely on members of your own party, because within that party are factions and caucuses and groups who would rather fight with each other than win for us.”
“Us” means The People.
See for yourself:
I seem to recall a conservative blogger who spent 2016 warning anyone who would listen that Trump would end up governing ineptly from the left, continuing Obama’s reckless spending and explosive expansion of the federal government, and that a fractured GOP would get blamed for the resulting problems, perfectly setting up a radicalized Democrat Party to take power and advance a Marxist agenda. Let’s hope he wasn’t right.
Hat tip: Pat Dollard. Tip from Torcer.
Source: http://moonbattery.com/?p=82499
