Posted on 03/25/2017 3:58:32 AM PDT by cotton1706
Paul Ryan failed miserably in his first important task for the Trump agenda.
Since 2009, the Republicans have campaigned in the elections of 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016 that they would repeal and replace Obamacare. One would think that given this history, the Republican leaders, such as Ryan, would have a well thought out plan to repeal Obamacare.
Ryan probably did not believe that Trump would win and was unprepared to lead the fight to repeal Obamacare. Ryan did not support Trump during the primaries and did his best to damage Trump. Moreover, since Trump's election in November, Ryan and the Republican leaders should have been working on a bill to repeal Obamacare to consider immediately after inauguration. But it seemed that Ryan had a plan with little if any input from conservatives. Trump had to step in to force compromises and adjustments to appeal to conservatives.
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“...as Gohmert ranted on & on about it ( eyes darting about wildly )...”
Sounds like you were doing an ‘Adam Schiff’.
I vote “aye”.
Principles are fine things, it's true, as long as they are the correct principles. But compromise at the appropriate time and for good reasons is also a fine thing, something too many on the political Right have either never learned or forgotten.
The appropriate time for the so-called Freedom Caucus to stand up for their principles was during the vote for Speaker and Republican leadership at the beginning of this year. Once they voted for Ryan and McCarthy to be their leaders, they had an obligation to follow and compromise where necessary to move the agenda. To pull this stunt now serves no one well and definitely plays into the Left's hands, making us all much less free.
Mr. niteowl77
I think it means someone who knows procedures and the fact is this bill would have needed 60 senate votes anyway - which isn’t there. So all this is BS anyway and a huge waste of time.
I trust Louie and I thank God for Rep Meadows who revealed the veteran targeting management amendment. This bill was designed to force veterans into the VA gulag, even as trump was standing with a Medal of Honor recipient.. he was behind this veteran betrayal.
Dear Mr. Trump,
The swamp is the swamp. You can’t get to D.C. and pretend it is the swimming pool.
Love,
Your supporters.
They did grow a pair, but at the wrong time. The time for that was at the beginning of this legislative year when they were voting for House leadership and the speaker. They failed then. So now to cut the legs out from under their own leadership, whom they voted for, is actually the monumentally stupid thing at the wrong time.
Well, you are touching on something here...the Republicans are all hat and no cattle. Unfortunately, after this, Trump will get that brand as well - all talk and bluster, no deliver.
Ryan must go - as a grand show of blame, if for no other reason. Trump is in a precarious situation here because for whatever reason, he went with Ryan and failed because of it. Preibus may need to go as well, for the same reason - showing that failure is not an option. Because in the end the responsibility for failure will always, always reside with Trump alone in the eyes of the people. The buck stops here. And beyond the fact the bill sucked supremely, this was a Trump defeat, and the man of big, huge, Grand statements and bombastic pronouncements cannot afford defeats.
It is Trump’s blood in the water today. Ryan is just an “underling” in the eyes of the people - not the leader, just a guy with a job that he failed at. But in the end, the buck stops at Trump.
Today there are two openly happy groups...the very far left...Democrats, the further left the happier. They know there is only one place this can now go - single payer government run healthcare, through Obama’s “success” and Trump’s failure, they see the Holy Grail right there to grab. And the ideologically conservative right is happy because a piece of legislation that violated their ideology was beaten down. They agree with nothing else with that first group, the Far Left, but this bill’s defeat pleases them as well. And that these two particular opposite ends happen to both be happy at this event should stop and make everyone think...and maybe be a bit afraid. Who has the power and societal support to win this long game of the grand battle between the opposite ends of the spectrum?
In the end, this is about the broad brush strokes. Trump staked his claim to the presidency on the fact that as a country we don’t win anymore. He said we’d win so much we’d get sick of it. However now, on two of his biggest signature issues now, the Establishment has handed him ringing defeats. The possibly temporary defeat on his effort to exert his authority on immigration, stopped in his tracks by lowly, individual district court judges, at least until he gets a Supreme Court justice through - something that now is in question, will Republicans in the Senate go to the wall to kill the filibuster for a President that fumbled on the one-yard line? And now a second, more permanent defeat when he put himself out there fully to pass this health care monstrosity, tied his cart to Ryan, and failed.
Failure is not an option for Trump, he made that clear himself. He has the entire governing establishment stacked against him, working to kill his presidency in the cradle. He has to smack them down hard and repeatedly, beat them at their own game. Today, he doesn’t look up to that terribly daunting, Augean Stables task.
Yesterday, Trump saved Barack Obama’s “legacy” by trying to destroy it and failing. If he doesn’t start winning very big, very fast - winning on major policiy initiatives that require Congressional action - then he’s heading fast toward saving Jimmy Carter’s.
The buck stops with him. Failure is no longer an option.
You're in agreement with Geraldo Rivera then. Rivera this morning said that "Louie Golmert and the Freedom Caucus are full of baloney" and that he, Rivera, is "fed up" with them.
Birds of a feather and all that.......
LITTLE RYAN AT THE BAT
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the GOPE that day.
The vote stood more than 20 shy; the looming clouds were gray.
But when Moderates shook their fists and conservatives said "No bill!"
A pall-like deathly silence fell upon the Rulers Of The HillA sneer appeared on Ryan’s lip, as he gazed up at the clock
He pounds with cruel authority, his gavel on the block
And now the clerk calls for the vote, and now he adds it up
And now the air is shattered by the force of Ryan's "NO !!!"Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in Swampville—Little Ryan has struck out.
I generally agree with what you’ve posted but I must defend the Freedom Caucus on one key point. They didn’t oppose RyanCare on principle. They opposed it because it would have been politically disastrous — for both them and President Trump — to pass it. My congressman said he wasn’t going to vote for it, and he isn’t even a conservative. It was easy to see why that was the case ... only 16% of the voters in my district supported it.
Dear Mr. Trump,
Dance with the ones that brung you!
Love,
Your Supporters.
Paul Ryan’s single goal is to be the man with the plan. It doesn’t matter what the plan is, as long as he’s the architect.
It can be argued that the ones that didn’t get to dance, a few ugly ones, were the exception to the rule. Most of those that brung Trump were dancing
“Ryan and the Republican leaders should have been working on a bill to repeal Obamacare to consider immediately after inauguration”......
The bastards were too busy trying to undermine Trump to spend precious time on a replacement for “odumocare”. IMO, any health care plan should NOT be developed by politicians since history tells us it is those who contribute the most to their political careers that will benefit from any such plan. Turn over the health care plan to people who have NO AXE to grind, people who are NOT politically connected and actually know something about health care and insurances plans, its rather obvious those political losers have no clue.
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