Article snippet: Some of Senate Majority Leader Affordable Care Act. Senate Republicans are not exactly circling the wagons around McConnell, but they’re also far from condemning his leadership. Instead, some are acknowledging that all Obamacare share some blame. “The bottom line is our bill did not test well,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said when asked about the spat during a radio interview. “I like Mitch,” Graham continued, “but for eight years we've been saying we're going to repeal and replace Obamacare. It's not like we made this up overnight.” While all Senate Republicans had input in the drafting of the health care plan, it was written by a smaller group of Senate leaders, McConnell chief among them. The dustup began when McConnell said during an event in Kentucky Monday that Trump had set unrealistic deadlines for notching big legislative victories which marred the health care effort. “Our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before. And I think he had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process,” McConnell said. Trump fired back with a litany of tweets turning the blame back on the Kentucky Republican. and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, suggested he thought the president’s expectations weren’t off-base. "I think the President's expectations was that we would work together to get these things done and frankly we haven't had a lot of buy-in from the Democrats on this stuff, and that's too... Link to the full article to read more