Popular vote loser Donald Trump, the lowest-polling president ever in the history of polling, must have a win. He's apparently decided that it is going to be yet another iteration of Zombie Trumpcare, though that's apparently subject to change.
The president himself has not laid down a hard deadline on the health care bill. "We have a good chance of getting it soon," Mr. Trump said in a news conference Thursday. "I'd like to say next week, but it will be — I believe we will get it. And whether it's next week or shortly thereafter."
Whether he wants it next week or the week after or whenever, though, he and his minion Speaker Paul Ryan are not dealing with reality very well.
"The plan gets better and better and better, and it's gotten really, really good, and a lot of people are liking it a lot," Mr. Trump said. […]
"We're in the midst of negotiating sort of finishing touches," Speaker Paul D. Ryan said this week in London while leading a congressional delegation.
He added: "It's difficult to do. We're very close."
That reality? They are not very close.
Senior Republicans appear unconvinced that a revised health care bill would ensure passage in the House. [Rep. Dan] Donovan [R-NY], an opponent of the original Republican health care bill, said the proposed amendment "really doesn't address the concerns that I had."
Representative Charlie Dent, Republican of Pennsylvania and a leader of the moderate House Tuesday Group, said it "does nothing to change my views." He lamented any focus "on an arbitrary 100-day deadline."
In other words, they're in exactly the same place they were one month ago when they had the most epic fail ever, having to pull the bill from the floor at the last minute. Not even Trump's ego can overcome that level of dysfunction. But at least it's ruining Paul Ryan's European vacation.