Posted on 03/24/2017 2:40:02 PM PDT by drewh
Amid a growing frenzy in Congress over the postponed vote for the American Health Care Act is the looming threat against Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s very livelihood. As the health care bill continues to sink, many are beginning to wonder if it is a sign that Ryan should not be at the helm in the House as well.
President Trump was asked today during a brief press gaggle if he felt Speaker Ryan should remain in his position if the AHCA failed to pass. Willing to remain publicly loyal to Ryan for now, at least, Trump said “yes.”
Privately, Trump is reportedly regretful that he ever publicly supported Ryan’s brainchild healthcare bill at all.
According to the Times,
“Mr. Trump has told four people close to him that he regrets going along with Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s plan to push a health care overhaul before unveiling a tax cut proposal more politically palatable to Republicans.
He said ruefully this week that he should have done tax reform first when it became clear that the quick-hit health care victory he had hoped for was not going to materialize on Thursday.”
Still, there is no telling who Trump will throw under the bus to protect himself. Already, he has begun blaming Congress as a whole, but if the bill does fail, he may need a bigger target for the GOP to focus on.
In fact, according to sources who spoke with Bloomberg, Trump’s White House is already setting the stage to place the entire blame on Ryan.
“I think Paul Ryan did a major disservice to President Trump, I think the president was extremely courageous in taking on health care and trusted others to come through with a program he could sign off on,” Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax and a long-time friend of Trump’s, said in an interview last week. “The President had confidence Paul Ryan would come up with a good plan and to me, it is disappointing.”
Blaming Ryan does seem to be the smartest option for the take-no-responsibility POTUS. After all, Ryan was the architect of the badly-formed, universally opposed healthcare bill.
Clearly, the rising star of the GOP who was once a Vice Presidential candidate and has proudly served as the Speaker of the House may have simply bitten off more than he can chew, and in this Administration, there is no reward for failure.
Ryan=fail.
Ryan needs to resign.
Speaker Gohmert would git ‘er done right.
Not only is this a B.S. article, probably written by some lib idiot, and there are a lot of them around with nothing else to do...
But, President Trump knew EXACTLY what he was doing...he just took RINORYAN down...now lets get him out of his speakership and put someone in there that will rally the troops and get some bills on the President desk...what two months, with all that President Trump has been doing, who is working circles around any other POTUS in history and any House or Senate person and we don’t have ONE BILL on the President’s desk...what a shame!!!
Yer singing mah song!
Ryan is a snake who did everything he could to get Trump defeated during the elections. But this article is just garbage
With his socialist big government RyanCare bill , Paul Ryan intended to end freedom itself.
This is not hyperbole nor sarcasm
This weasel Paul Ryan is an enemy of the American people.
OTJ training. He’ll learn.
Yeah, I actually think this went exactly the way Trump wanted it to go.
He looks like a team player.
He looks flexible.
Ryan looks totally incompetent.
Ryan should be out.
Trump shout do the tax reform, then come back to healthcare and say, “How about we do it on my terms now? I tried your way, I was a team player. I was flexible. Now it’s my turn.”
Aversion to dogs?
Yep. Universirty of “Keep your enemies closer”
I don’t think Trump’s vision is in sharp relief yet for the restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic. I pray it will be soon.
You callin’ Ryan a dog??
That is an insult to dogs, everywhere ;-)
"This is effectively a vote of no confidence" senior political analyst (check out that title) datricker was quoted as saying.
"Sources close to the whitehouse are telling me that he is going to step down as speaker and follow speaker Boners example and leave the House all together. Speaker Ryan is rumored to already accepted a position as the new commissioner of the NFL - and I quote
'At this point we need a bigger pussy with less leadership than Roger Goodell to make new headway at destroying another great American institution.'"
Man, generating fake news is like channeling Bob Dole while lying like CNN.
Sources sources.
Crock of crap as usual.
Fine. Let by gones be by gones.
What’s to prevent starting over Monday morning? Why does this have to be the end?
The Congress has We the People’s permission to do the right thing this time around.
And then there’s this one:
Still, there is no telling who Trump will throw under the bus to protect himself.
Fake news from the NYT. Trump's first remark was "I learned a lot about loyalty". That wasn't directed at Ryan.
We freakin warned him at the top of LUNGS!!!!!
How do you know the remark wasn’t directed at Ryan???
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