The fallout from the failure of Trumpcare continues this weekend. The GOP appears to be descending into a bitter intra-party squabble.
The Long Knives are out. Who will fall?
President Trump teased Fox News viewers with this tweet he sent out Saturday morning:
And what did Trump fangirl Jeanine Pirro have to say? Lots. In a 6 minute rant she called for Paul Ryan’s head. Because he wasn’t subservient enough to Donald Trump or something.
The Freedom Caucus has come under fire from Trump and Co. as well. Here’s a Trump tweet from Sunday morning.
So Trump lowers the boom on the caucus, despite the friendliness he extended to FC chair Mark Meadows on March 7:
Mark Meadows is a great guy and a friend of mine. I don’t think he’d ever disappoint me, or the party. I think he’s great. No, I would never call him out on Twitter.
That was then, of course.
But the knives are not out just for Ryan and the Freedom Caucus.
The New York Times reported on Saturday that Chief of Staff Reince Priebus was on the chopping block. But on Sunday Priebus waved all that away, saying, “I’m not in any trouble. I’ve got a great relationship with the president, we talk all the time. Just before coming on the set he gave me a call…. This is gossip, and it’s always going to happen.”
Oh, and then Priebus suggested that, hey, let’s work with Democrats on health care!
“Everything’s on the table. We’ll give these guys another chance,” Priebus said on Fox News Sunday this morning. “If we can come up with a bill that accomplishes the goals of the president and Republicans alone, then we’ll take it and we’ll move forward with it.”
Well, that’s just swell.
If you are like any other person who tried to read the GOP House bill to replace Obamacare yesterday (here, if you care to try), and went…
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