WASHINGTON ― If this is The Art of the Deal, then Donald Trump needs to write a new book. In Washington, legislating, and leading the country as president, require more than simply bullying people, or buying them off with borrowed cash. Trump may yet get the House to approve the GOP-Paul Ryan (and by extension Donald Trump) heath care bill on Friday, or later. But the first pratfall ― cancelling the vote on the bill after insisting it would go forward ― is not a good sign. “Presidential power is the power to persuade,” the late Harvard professor Richard Neustadt wrote in what is still considered the classic study.

Source: Huffington Post March 23, 2017 21:50 UTC