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Video: Samantha Bee Calls GOP Healthcare Repeal Failure One Of The Greatest Disasters Ever
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Published Mar 30, 2017
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Donald Trump promised to get Obamacare repealed-and-replaced when he got into office, and he dove head-first into that task upon becoming president... and has so far failed to close the deal with Congress. "Closing deals is the one thing President 'Big Boy Truck’ was supposed to know how to do," Samantha Bee said on Full Frontal last night. "In the end, the charmer-in-chief struck out harder than the douche-y guy at the bar who goes up to every girl in the room asking them, 'Are you a model? Because you should totally model.'"
As for Trump's complaints that Republicans failed because of a lack of support from Democrats, Bee added, "Yes, and the Atlanta Falcons would have won the Super Bowl, but they had no support from the New England Patriots."
In another segment, Bee explained how publicly disgraced judge Johnnie Caldwell became a representative from Georgia, despite a sexual harassment scandal—and all because no one ran against him. "Godammit Georgia!" Bee exclaimed. "You can't find one lady in Thomaston with a pussy hat and law degree who wants to take the attorney-licker down?"
And the show also aired an animated sequel to its piece last year about rape kit backlogs that goes full-School House Rock.
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