Posted on 03/24/2017 5:31:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
And yet Paul Ryan walked straight into the Barzini trap that president Trump set for him. By insisting that the voters desired "Repeal and Replace" when in fact all anybody wanted was "Repeal, full stop," Ryan's inner wonk superseded his duties as the speaker of the House to ensure the votes were there for the "Replace" part of the equation. That they weren't should be the end of his speakership.
Apparently, Ryan had been listening to the die-hard never-Trumpers too much, and actually thought he could skate on his opposition to the insurgent outsider, whose entire campaign was based on his contempt for the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party and apparatchiks like Ryan. Once the bright shiny penny of young GOP congressmen, Ryan blotted his copybook badly in his disappointing vice-presidential debate performance against a gibbering Joe Biden. He then played coy after House conservatives finally managed to sack former speaker John Boehner, but eventually accepted the proffered crown. During the election, he fought Trump every step of the way and lied about it.
So heading into round one of the health-care debate, there was no love lost between Trump and Ryan. Despite the fact that the House had already voted some 60 times to repeal Obamacare -- which is all GOP voters had been asking for -- Ryan got it into his head that what was really needed was a Republican version of Obamacare: "a better way." And so he set about crafting the latest version of GOP me-tooism, the American Health Care Act, which was ignominiously yanked this afternoon when it was clear there were not enough votes to pass it.
Ryan's team repeatedly fumbled the ball, diluted the free-market message they should have been selling, and lost sight of the point of repealing ObamaCare....
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Yeah RINORYAN was given ONE thing to do, and he couldn’t even do that...he’s so used to carrying bami’s water he forgot what his job was...
Get rid of the JERK!!!
OK, who is Fredo?
This idiot is a hobo that no one with a brai8n wants as speaker. He is a rino...and worse. What an arrogant, useless putz. All he does is remind us of how much we despise the “business-as-usual” malignancies, the “one-world” degenerates and the “reach-across-the-aisle” a** holes. He deplores the “Deplorables”. Jis arrogance is only surpassed by his loser-ness.
Fredo ... McStain?
Thats what happens when they sent boy Eddie in the big chair to do a Munster of a job. Should have primaried the weasel when the opportunity was there just like McLame shoulda been too. Did we expect anything different? Sack the sorry butt.
What will it take to get rid of Lyin Ryan? We know the president is on board.
Fredo could easily be McCain
Trump ran on ‘repeal and replace.’
I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone lately. I’m no Ryan fan, but this is what Trump said he was going to do.
“What will it take to get rid of Lyin Ryan? We know the president is on board.”
How do you know that? It sure didn’t sound like it at Trump’s presser, not from Trump.
The Uniparty eunuchs wanted to preserve Obamacare, not repeal it.
They thought if they rearranged it a little, we would be mollified.
Then they could hang it around Trump’s neck and make sure he was not re-elected when it failed and get back to business as usual, importing cheap labor and selling out America.
BINGO
Never forget this is the prick who pulled Trumps invitation to some hayseed festival in Wisconsin at a critical time in the primaries.
Paul Ryan needs to go, or everything from this point forward is on Trump.
I love this headline. As a public service to anyone not sure what this means, here it is:
From “The Godfather” -At Don Corleone’s funeral, Barzini approaches Corleone caporegime Salvatore Tessio to organize another peace summit where Corleone’s successor, Michael, would be ambushed.
Barzini doesn’t know, however, that he has walked into a trap. Before he died, the elder Corleone had explicitly warned Michael that his enemies would attempt to kill him in exactly this manner, at a supposed peace meeting, with whoever in his own Family who approached him with the proposal revealed as a traitor.
Michael has been planning for some time to eliminate Barzini and the other dons, and deliberately allowed Barzini to move in on the Corleone interests in order to lull him into complacency.
Shortly thereafter, Barzini is assassinated along with the other conspirators.
This wasn’t repeal and replace. It was a tweak that still left the Feds in the role of massive overregulation and high costs. Repeal is repeal and replace is with a different free market solution.
Sounds like a great plan...of course with the names changed.
And yet Paul Ryan walked straight into the Barzini trap that president Trump set for him. By insisting that the voters desired “Repeal and Replace” when in fact all anybody wanted was “Repeal, full stop,”
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I’m pretty sure Trump campaigned on “Repeal and Replace.”
Of course there was also Sal (Abe Vigoda). Could the be more of a Sally than Graham?
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