Mulvaney: Washington, a ‘Lot More Rotten’ than We Though It Was

RUSH EXCERPT: 
TODD: "Why couldn’t you get them to yes? Your former colleagues and you were a vocal member of this caucus.
MULVANEY: "Yeah.
TODD: "Why couldn’t you get them to yes?"
MULVANEY: "I have no yet. I really don’t. Let’s step back and realize that probably half of the folks in the group were yes and half were no, but what I told the president what would happen is we’d go up to the last couple of days and the last couple of hours and they would make it better and for some reason that hasn’t happened and I didn’t realize this difficulty ran as deep as it was."
TODD: "You would have been a yes on this?"
MULVANEY: "Without reservation and told the men and women in the freedom caucus that many, many times. Again, many of them would have supported the bill if it had come to the floor. It was a bizarre combination of who was against this bill and some folks on the freedom caucus."
TODD: "Doesn’t that tell you if the bill was flawed? If you can’t win over conservatives and moderates who can you win?"
MULVANEY: "Folks are paying attention to the wrong things. They’re still paying attention to the special interests and being re-elected. What happened here is we got stuck with ObamaCare and the people have been telling people how bad this program is and how harming it is to folks back home are the ones who prevented it from being replaced. That’s what’s so frustrating."