Posted on 02/26/2017 5:05:15 AM PST by Helicondelta
A former economic advisor to President Trump’s campaign says someone else should replace Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) if he can’t get an ObamaCare replacement through Congress.
“Paul Ryan isn’t doing his job,” Betsy McCaughey, a former Republican lieutenant governor of New York, told radio host John Catsimatidis in an interview broadcast Sunday on AM 970 in New York.
“If he can’t do his job as Speaker, to hold these Republicans together and get a repeal and replace bill through, somebody else should be Speaker.”
McCaughey said “ObamaCare is in a death spiral,” but accused Ryan of wanting "ObamaCare light" and saying he needs to push Trump’s agenda through Congress.
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Betsy is right. Price would do well to make her an undersecretary, working on this.
Betsy is right. Price would do well to make her an undersecretary, working on this.
Agreed
If the Republican Party can’t perform when they have majorities in the House and Senate and hold the White House, they are just lazy SOBs, who should be replaced by those who will push for the President’s agenda. That’s what parties are supposed to do.
Trump should have put Betsy in charge of healthcare.
Ryan is a jerk and backstabber.
How do the two plans differ?
McCaughey said Ryan has proposed limiting the tax deducibility of coverage people receive on the job, arguing that doing so increases taxes for half the country.
I understand that Ryan wants this to pay for Ryancare but it's an unfair tax on those companies that offer decent coverage and their employees. It would encourage those companies to dump their people onto Ryancare.
Trump is fighting at least a three front war, Dems, Pubbies and the press.
Replace him anyway, based on past performance. He sees himself as a rival to Trump and will do whatever he can to make Trump look bad without harming his own chance at 2020.
PRynos funders don’t want him to get rid of Zer0Care.
What good are Republican majorities when the Republicans act as a slightly covert extension of the Democrat Party? Republicans, even if they are not simply the junior division of the Democrat Party, are locked into a mindset where they believe in their bones that the Democrats are the legitimate Rulers of the nation and the Republicans only exist to even out some of the perceived “excesses” of the Democrats. Republicans are always totally disoriented by accession to power and turn to the likes of Pelosi and Schumer for direction. Republicans simply are incapable of being the “boss.” They are employees and servants.
The Republicans want to expand not eliminate Obamacare for a couple of reasons the first of which their buddies in the Chamber of Commerce want to off load all health care costs from their books to the Federal government.Even though this will expand the Federal government and raise taxes the financial burden will be placed on the middle class and small business and multi national corporations will be exempted from bearing any tax burden.The next factor will be increased donations to the Republicans in Congress and lobbying jobs after Congressional service for both Congressmen and Congressional staff as a whole new growth industry is generated in Washington writing and exempting people from health-care regulations.The finally reason is they can send out their RNC fund raising letters begging for money claiming that they need to increase their majority so they can finally fix it to make work properly since you can’t get rid of Obamacare because too many people depend on it now and you can’t repel it since that wouldn’t be compassionate. Bohner let the cat out of the bag, the GOP elite isn’t going to repeal Obamacare unless Trump and the voters force it on them and they’ll throw up every obstruction they can to keep the donation machine rolling.
It is not Paul Ryan. The entire Republican Party in Congress installed him. He reflects what all the Republicans want. I do not except even the few whom we praise from time to time. They make a good showing for effect but what they want overall is reflected in their determination that Ryan must be their boss.
Funny how they repealed Obamacare frequently when there was no chance Obama would sign it into law.
>It is not Paul Ryan. The entire Republican Party in Congress installed him. He reflects what all the Republicans want. I do not except even the few whom we praise from time to time. They make a good showing for effect but what they want overall is reflected in their determination that Ryan must be their boss.
If he can’t effectively lead congress then he should be replaced by someone who will implement what the voters want.
Didn’t odumbass sign an EO exempting all Fed workers from Ocare? Pres. Trump
needs to cancel that and force these Congressional weasels into the failing ACA
system....then let’s see how fast Ryan moves on overturning.
He shoulda been canned once it was realized he’s on the Soros payroll.
Wall to wall GOP in public office in this country and the son of a bitches in Congress still have lead in their asses.
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