Headline o’ the Day
by digby
Apparently their lies weren’t quite effective enough:
That makes it political suicide to vote for that monstrosity. And there are other polls that are almost as bad. None show more than 35 percent support. And they’re all heading downward:
There’s little public confidence in Trump or congressional Republicans on the issue, however, which threatens any effort to build support among the undecided. Forty-three percent of Americans, the poll shows, trust congressional Democrats most to protect them and their families’ interest in the health care debate. Only 19 percent trust Trump most, and 10 percent trust congressional Republicans.
It’s not just the public, media polls that could push Republicans away from uniting around a bill. The American Medical Association, which opposes the measure, this week released surveys conducted in a number of states that are home to fence-sitting senators — Alaska, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio and West Virginia — that showed little support for the bill and its provisions.
To hammer home the point, the AMA hired two separate polling firms to conduct the surveys, Public Opinion Strategies and Voter/Consumer Research, that work for Republican campaigns. (Public Opinion Strategies conducted four of the five surveys — excepting West Virginia, where it lists Sen. Shelley Moore Capito as a client.)
If they could give up their permanent tax cut white whale, they could simply leave Medicaid alone, shore up the exchanges and say “we repealed it and we replaced it and now it’s called Trumpcare!” Hooray!
But they can’t. Their donors demand the tax cuts and the wingnuts will never go for anything that doesn’t stick it hard to the poor. That’s where we are. They’ll all go down with the ship if that’swhat it takes.
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