Peggy Noonan: Trump should ally with Dems on healthcare

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Peggy Noonan: Trump should ally with Dems on healthcare

 By Mark Hensch - 03/17/17 10:48 AM EDT   

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan says President Trump should team with Democrats on a bipartisan plan for reforming ObamaCare.

Newman's column comes as the House GOP leadership ObamaCare repeal and replace bill backed by Trump faces opposition with his own party, both from conservatives and moderates.

“The president should confound expectations, pivot, and turn to Democrats for a bipartisan deal,” Noonan wrote Friday. "No doubt Democrats would clean up the program along more liberal lines than Republicans, which would please their progressive base. But it would also please many in Mr. Trump’s base.”

“It might help on future bipartisan efforts, such as infrastructure spending. And he can make it up to Republicans with conservative regulatory and tax reforms.”
Democrats have so far shown no interest in helping Trump repeal one of the signature policy accomplishments of former President Barack Obama.

Still, Noonan added that Trump is not bound by the rigid ideological constraints facing many politicians, including GOP lawmakers in Congress.

“It would be no scandal if the president threw in with Democrats and moderate Republicans at the expense of Republican leadership,” she said. "He’s always been philosophically unreliable, his commitments ever-changeable.”

“His supporters would forgive a failed attempt to replace ObamaCare along Republican lines. But they wouldn’t forgive a bad bill that succeeds.”

Noonan, who was the primary speech writer for former President Ronald Reagan, added that “a bipartisan deal on healthcare would also be a boost to national morale.”

Trump said Wednesday lawmakers “welcome the healthcare debate and its negotiation” while discussing a controversial bill from GOP House leaders for repealing and replacing ObamaCare.

“We’re going to arbitrate, we’re going to all get together,” he said during a rally in Nashville. "We’re going to get something done.”

Trump has endorsed the bill, but the legislation’s future remains uncertain amid inter-party debate over its contents.

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/health-reform-implementation/324456-noonan-trump-should-ally-with-dems-on

[Hondo69]

Excellent idea Peggy.

The group that has branded you as Nazi terrorists that deserve to be shot on sight seem like ideal partners.  This is the same group that has reneged on every promise in memory and stabbed you in the back at every turn, so surely they must have our children's best interest at heart.  They're good people, right?  We can work with them.

Get a mirror Peggy and take a good look - you are the problem.