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kpete

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Tue Jul 18, 2017, 10:31 PM Jul 2017

TOO BAD-Billionaire Trump patrons Rebecca & Bob Mercer are apoplectic over the health care debacle [View all]

Trump Is Showing The World What A Weak American Presidency Looks Like
More than just the health care collapse, Donald Trump has so far failed to bring the “Art of the Deal” to the White House.


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BuzzFeed: “Trump spent much of this past weekend watching the U.S. Women’s Golf Open at his family-owned golf club, a kind of metaphor for a presidency disconnected from actual power. But the health care failure — in which Trump allowed himself to lose control of his own agenda, and then lose the fight for that agenda — was the most humiliating in a sweep of presidential defeats.”

“The White House has lost control of its foreign policy to the military and to allies who can’t work with a globally loathed American leader even if they wanted to. He has lost control of his domestic policy to Congress, which has been unable to give him a signature win despite Republicans controlling both chambers. He has lost control of his own aides to leaks and investigations, of his old television cronies to spiteful personal feuds, and most of all of the narrative of an ‘America First’ presidency with a coherent vision or promise.”

*****Also interesting: “Even the president’s top backers are losing patience. Billionaire Trump patrons Rebecca and Bob Mercer are ‘apoplectic’ over the health care debacle, with renewed fears that Trump’s lofty goals of changing Washington have become all but impossible”*****




https://www.buzzfeed.com/tariniparti/trump-is-showing-the-world-what-a-weak-american-presidency?utm_term=.inZdABzOd#.yuqj2daLj

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The Mercers believed Trump and gave him money. no_hypocrisy Jul 2017 #1
I wish I could ellie Jul 2017 #14
I would like a list of these people. I don't think I'd feel guilty about taking advantage of them. kerry-is-my-prez Jul 2017 #24
"the Mercers were conned" FiveGoodMen Jul 2017 #25
+1000 "smilies." Hortensis Jul 2017 #35
Just "an idiot with a pen" Gabi Hayes Jul 2017 #2
Why would a billionaire care about some silly old health policy? pangaia Jul 2017 #3
They wanted the repeal and replace nonsense WhiteTara Jul 2017 #6
But a BILLIONAIRE! pangaia Jul 2017 #7
no shit barbtries Jul 2017 #9
Building a mega-bunker three stories underground and supplying it costs $$$$$. WinkyDink Jul 2017 #29
Only if they can run it over those of us who've outlived Hortensis Jul 2017 #37
How greedy can you get? What would they get in a cut, a few hundred K? brush Jul 2017 #12
You might be looking at the wrong result. Perhaps they want millions of "takers" DEAD. WinkyDink Jul 2017 #30
Nah, they're about money and the power it brings, unless dead people gets... brush Jul 2017 #36
Fuck them Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2017 #17
They want 0 regulations, too DeminPennswoods Jul 2017 #19
Bingo. Total deregulation is one of their big things. nt Lucky Luciano Jul 2017 #22
To get the intended concomitant TAX CUT; to cull the "useless"; to establish an oligarchy. WinkyDink Jul 2017 #28
It increases their feeling of power and prestige DBoon Jul 2017 #39
Guess they'll go back to the first choice (Cruz) again. Solly Mack Jul 2017 #4
Trump can take his pen and shove it. oasis Jul 2017 #5
I am glad these disgusting pieces of shit are getting what they deserve. smirkymonkey Jul 2017 #8
Trump Is Showing The 1% What A Weak American Presidency Looks Like ToxMarz Jul 2017 #10
Say, mercers are bannon benefactors, right? Was it just idle gossip a few months back that Leghorn21 Jul 2017 #11
Bannon and Conway are Mercer's people all the way. nt Lucky Luciano Jul 2017 #23
It's their zentrum Jul 2017 #13
The "Art of the Deal"..... SergeStorms Jul 2017 #15
Its really The FART of the Deal Joe Bacon Jul 2017 #20
Their loss! Initech Jul 2017 #16
I hope they choke on their own bile Hekate Jul 2017 #18
People like the Mercers are surprisingly naive DeminPennswoods Jul 2017 #21
Bugs me when nuts like these hate Trump for the wrong reasons. Beartracks Jul 2017 #26
Correction: Trump GAVE control of our foreign policy to the military. WinkyDink Jul 2017 #27
Mercers fell victim to the eye-spy intelligence management. JBoy Jul 2017 #31
The only change the Mercers want is for the rpannier Jul 2017 #32
As expected, the spectacle of a small man eaten by a large job quaker bill Jul 2017 #33
Oh, sorry Billionaire Trump patrons Rebecca and Bob Mercer, Dark n Stormy Knight Jul 2017 #34
More good money thrown after bad Vogon_Glory Jul 2017 #38
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