Its good that you want to see millions deprived of health cover.

to be fair, that's not at all what he said.

his first two sentences are fact. the third... well, time will tell on that one.

i don't agree with spaneli too often however i do think he's on to something when he says that trump isn't willing to roll up his sleeves and get dirt under his fingernails to get something done. his healthcare reform failed, so instead of working at it to make it better and/or more palatable to democrats (and republicans!) he is simply leaving it and moving on to the next thing.

i always try to stay in the middle but as time wears on i'm finding it's becoming increasingly difficult.

Honestly don't think Trump and Republicans will be revisiting health care for a bit. I think it will mostly stay in place, and if anything is added or taken away, then it will be by a progressive Democratic president.

Both Trump and Republicans got burned and exposed. Republicans, because as much as they complained about healthcare, they didn't have a better plan other than repealing, which would have gotten a decent majority of them voted out of office. There was a reason Obama kept saying that if the Republicans had a better deal then he would sign it. They never had anything better through 7 years. Without anything better, it'll be difficult for them revisit, especially since they spent a ton of political capital, and were all made to look like fools.

Trump will never revisit healthcare. He's finished with it. He lost the most capital and face in this fight. He confirmed what many thought, that he isn't actually interested in the nitty gritty portions of being president. He's aloof. The idea that he was trying to sell Republicans on a bill that he knew nothing about is laughable. It also killed his luster as a deal maker. He couldn't push through his first major initiative with a congress that his party controls. Utterly embarrassing and amateurish. It took Obama 13 months to pass healthcare, and Trump tried to do it in less than two. It also confirmed what many thought, that Trump is not capable of being president,and certainly not capable of getting out of his own way. A business man doesn't equate a good president, and so far, Trump has lacked the temperament and savvy. It also continues Trump's slide. He's getting really close to being so low in the polls that he becomes another Carter, too unliked to pass any legislation or command any power, especially considering that he got played by the freedom caucus.

The only good thing that happened to Trump and Republicans is that the bill wasn't passed. It died, and they can try to recover. Nevertheless, it's difficult to see how they recover when it's clear that Democrats have no intention to help them out of their mess (Democrats returning the favor), that, and Republicans aren't united. In fact, there are too many divisions to count. Will the freedom Caucus relent? Will they vote for moderate bills? So far, the answer is no. And as long as the answer is no, there's very little chance that Republicans will get much done.

Obama's greatest achievement was passing healthcare. This episode only deepened that achievement. The fact that Obama united, negotiated, and pushed so many Democrats and a couple a Republicans to get healthcare passed, while costing himself 15 points in his approval rating, 13 months, a lot of political capital, the house, and almost his second term showed the kind of resolve that Trump lacks. Healthcare cost Obama a lot, and it'll cost Republicans a lot more to take it away.

You'd have to go into the early days of the Presidency.

Presidential power didn't start rapidly expanding until Theordore Roosevelt. In terms of power, at one point, the Executive branch might have been the weakest of the three.

There are some "recent" examples, but they carry existential circumstances, Gerald Ford and Herbert Hoover come to mind. Jimmy Carter could definitely be counted among them.

After that, there could be a couple ones who died early in office?

Well, he still has time. He's only a little over two months into his term. Presidencies can turn on a dime because four years is a long time. Two years into Reagan's first term he was dead in the water and a laughing stock, and then the economy grew, which saved him.

Now, really, most of the time a President only has the first 9 months to do something major. After that, everyone is worrying about reelection in the midterms. It is possible to get major legislative achievements done after that, but it's significantly harder. Obama ran into that roadblock with healthcare.

Nevertheless, Trump isn't as popular as Obama was, or Reagan for that matter, and has a much shorter leash. Trump is moving on to tax reform, but if he bungles it as bad as he did healthcare then he'll be in big trouble. Because tax reform will take another two or three months, and another failure will cause his party to leave him.

Another worry I'd have if I were Trump, right now he's around a 40% approval rating. That's with a decent economy. If the economy slips at all, he'll be going off a cliff that will be difficult to recover from.

All in all, there's still time. What makes the time remaining seem inconsequential is the type of person Trump seems to be, someone who isn't fitted for the rigors of the presidency.

Hmm, I wonder where most of the population is? You sure do like your misleading data don't you...

So that the people have a president the majority didn't vote for? So that a vote doesn't equal a vote everywhere?