Trump has twice pushed to pass disgraceful health care bills without even trying to grasp what’s in them — or more important, what’s not in them. Paul Ryan slobbered over Trump’s leadership even as the Senate made plans to shred the House bill and start over. In a moment of clueless cynicism, hours after the ego festival in the Rose Garden, Trump sat in a tuxedo with the Australian prime minister on the Intrepid and said Australians have better health care than Americans — harking back to his old statements in support of universal health care. You want to make a good deal.”But with health care, Trump wanted to make a deal so badly he was heartless. And Ryan wanted to save the bacon — or bratwurst — of his fellow Wisconsin buddy Reince Priebus, blamed by Trump for the first health care defeat.

Source: New York Times May 06, 2017 18:22 UTC