It is true, we will never have the great opportunity to defund PP as we had on this bill. That one is out the window. Nobody is ever going to get everything they want. Ryan was an idiot for the way he handled things and the Freedom Caucus was selfish and unreasonable for the way they handled it too. You go into negotiation with your offer, when it’s accepted you keep your word. That didn’t happen, every time they won a point they came up with another.
The thing is, all of them have to understand how the world works. You live with people with different ideas so you go for as much as you can get, but you have to be smart enough to know when you are not going to get any more.
The bill was terrible and did not accomplish any repeal of Obamacare. It left if full entact with temporary tweeks that would be reversed in 4 to 8 years. It should never have been presented, and it was a lie that this is the ‘only option’. That’s not on the FC. That’s on Ryan and the swamp. Trump picked poorly from the beginning. The law should have been written with represenatation from the FC from day one and should not have been announced until it had FC approval. Instead a bunch of Ryan lackeys and insurance lobbyists were giving the green light. The whole thing was a joke and needed to be killed. Start fresh and present something new. Not a bastardized version of Obamacare. It’s been 7 years since the last health care reform and decades before that. We have one chance to get it right.