Team Trump Prepares the Shiv for Mitch McConnell: 'He Needs To Go.'

[DonViejo]

The rush to assign responsibility for Trumpcare’s failure is taking place before it even occurs.

LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
GIDEON RESNICK
SAM STEIN

09.25.17 7:45 PM ET

The Trump White House is gearing up to lay blame for a series of likely failures this week squarely at the feet of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), according to sources in and outside of the administration.
On Tuesday, Republican primary voters in Alabama are poised to reject Trump and McConnell’s preferred pick for the seat, Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL). The next day, a Republican-authored last-ditch attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare is almost certain to go down to defeat after , if it comes to a vote at all. On Monday night, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) became the third Republican senator to announce her opposition.

The dual setbacks could have profound ramifications throughout the party, forcing it to reckon with a Republican electorate deeply upset with its inability to move an agenda and its own inability to get that agenda moved. The rush to assign responsibility for that failure is taking place before it even occurs.

One senior Trump administration official told The Daily Beast that the president is “well prepared to” shovel blame onto McConnell if and when the latest Obamacare repeal effort goes down in flames later this week. Another Trump confidant noted that the president regularly vents about “Mitch’s” seeming inability to get “anything over the finish line.”

A White House official joked that it has proven a winning “formula” for Trump to go after the unpopularity of top GOP brass, including McConnell, ever since the campaign. Trump even spent the last few days hammering home the point that Strange (who is locked in an election fight against former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore) isn’t even all that close to McConnell politically or personally, and that Strange would be “fighting Mitch” in the Senate as an authentic conservative.

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[underpants]

1. The tortoise and the hair

[exboyfil]

2. So who is going to take the job after him?

Grab some popcorn and sit back. We are about to see how crazy the country really is.

[hlthe2b]

3. As hard as it is to imagine anyone worse than McConnell, his replacement will assuredly be so...

Not hoping the turtle man stays, but certainly not welcoming his replacement...

[kentuck]

4. Yes, I think so...

There will be a loud call for him to step down, I would predict. Especially if their healthcare bill doesn't pass, which it does not look like it will.

They will blame McConnell for their over-all failure.

[Mike Nelson]

5. Alas, poor Mitch...

...but he went along with Trump/Pence thinking he would run the country. A new speaker will be worse, though...