I'm upstairs receiving texts from Amanda, who is pedaling her bike in the basement. Last one said:
Make the Trump presidency one hour shorter. Spring forward tonight.
Now that the outlines of Trumpcare are coming into view, the proprietor of Talking Points Memo is soliciting from readers their favorite Trumpean healthcare promises from the campaign. Here are some early entries:
"Obamacare has to go. We can't afford it. It's no good. You're going to end up with great healthcare for a fraction of the price. And that's going to take place immediately after we go in. Okay? Immediately. Fast. Quick." (CSPAN, Timestamp 34:23)
"The new plan is good. It's going to be inexpensive. It's going to be much better for the people at the bottom, people that don't have any money. We're going to take care of them through maybe concepts of Medicare. Now, some people would say, 'that's not a very Republican thing to say.' That's not single payer, by the way. That's called heart. We gotta take care of people that can't take care of themselves." CNN GOP Townhall, 2/17-18/16. (God, he's articulate.)
"We're gonna come up with a new plan that's going to be better health care for more people at a lesser cost." ABC News, 1/25/17.
"Everybody's got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, 'No, no, the lower 25 percent that can't afford private.' But-- ... I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now." - 60 Minutes, September 27, 2015.
Saying one thing, doing the opposite, is, however, a pretty tame lie in Trumpland. What makes him the champ is stuff like the tweetstorm of Saturday last, when he asserted he "just found out" that Obama bugged Trump Tower. He won't tell us how he knows, that's for Congress to investigate, and, anyway, he has some cutting things to say about his successor on "The Celebrity Apprentice." Moving on!
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