Taking pettiness to extremes. The ACA bill that will be voted on today.

When Richard Nixon became President, he did not do away with most of President Johnson's Great Society programs.

When Jimmy Carter became President, he continued President Nixon's policies of Detente with the Chinese and the Soviet Union.

When Bill Clinton became President, he built on President Bush's deficit reduction policies, continued negotiations with regards of N.A.F.T.A., and incorporated Bush's Points of Light Foundation into his National Service Act.


When George W. Bush became President, he did not set out to dismantle Clinton's Family Leave Act or Children's Health Insurance Program.

When Barrack Obama became President, he built on President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit while honoring Bush's agreement to pull out of Iraq in 2011.

These are examples of new Presidents that continued some of the policies of their predecessors who came from different political parties. Why President Trump and his allies in the Republican Party are so petty to an extreme with regards to the successes of the Obama Administration that they should continue is beyond comprehension. They are willing to throw over 20,000,000 people off insurance by making health insurance so expensive just because Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, a piece of legislation that his historical and political origins in Republican think tanks and government circles. This takes pettiness to new extremes.