Republicans respond to their Trumpcare disaster the only way they know how: Pointing fingers

Paul Ryan and Donald Trump

It’s not just the White House. Republicans across Washington, D.C., have responded to their Trumpcare disaster by pointing fingers and in some cases outright attacking one another. Saturday, Donald Trump urged his Twitter followers to watch Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro … who then opened her show by calling for Paul Ryan to step down as House speaker. Now Trump aides are insisting that this was a coincidence and that Trump was just touting a show he likes without knowing it was about to attack Ryan. Trump, being Trump, is lashing out in so many directions it would be newsworthy if he wasn’t angry at Ryan:

Trump began Sunday with a tweet ripping the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus and their outside backers, the group of three-dozen Republicans and like-minded groups that banded together to help block the health care bill.

“Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare!” he tweeted.

But Trump’s ire, apparently, wasn’t limited to the conservative rebels. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) — leader of the moderate Tuesday Group — confirmed that Trump upbraided him during a recent meeting at the White House and accused him of “destroying” the Republican Party.

Meanwhile, in Congress:

Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) said Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) “betrayed Trump and America and supported [House Democratic leader Nancy] Pelosi and Dems to protect Obamacare.”

His unusual attack drew a personal rebuke from Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), a Freedom Caucus member and opponent of the AHCA.

Winning was easy. Governing’s harder.