in his first state of the union speech, trump said that obamacare wouldn’t be addressed until late 2017 or early 2018, so i assumed that his intent was for the death spiral to do its work.
it was that piece of shit Paul Ryan that decided to push Hillary’s insurance company fix-it bill. Ryan was trying to undermine trump by doing that. Ryan figured it was no-win for trump, because the bill did NOT repeal obamacare and made it MORE expensive for trump’s core supporters should the bill have passed, and if the bill failed, Ryan figured trump would be blamed, not Congress.
Ryan was wrong: this whole thing blew up in the faces of the GOPe. No one is blaming trump, and everyone is blaming Congress, and Ryan’s “leadership” has been shown to be worse than useless.
I’m glad to see the situation reverting to the situation that trump originally stated in his SOTU speech. (My guess is that trump knew this was going to happen and he deliberately gave Ryan and McConnell enough rope to hang themselves with.)
Right, Trump played 9-D chess again.
Ryan had to go with Obamacare first, because the savings from reforming, replacing, whatevering ACA are needed to balance the tax reforms that are Ryan’s reason for waking in the morning.
By the way, if you think things are crazy now, wait until Trump wakes up one morning and decides to tweet Bannon’s idea for a tax increase on the rich.