Why do you read so much into it???
Isn’t there room for anyone, who is a conservative, who campaigned in their own districts on repeal, who believed it would happen, who believes in free market principles, to simply say: “NO, The Ryan Bill is bad and doesn’t meet that my standard.”
What you and everyone else is giving me is hype about “game theory,” or Koch Brothers, or Club for Growth secret money, or future political ambitions, or #NeverTrumpers, blah, blah, blah
Why do you read so much into it???
Isn’t there room for anyone, who is a conservative, who campaigned in their own districts on repeal, who believed it would happen, who believes in free market principles, to simply say: “NO, The Ryan Bill is bad and doesn’t meet that my standard.”
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I really enjoy game theory and some of Trump’s most common descriptors have been ‘tough but fair.’ To me, it was obvious from the beginning that this was how it was playing out, and the recent HFC conflict just made it more clear... to me at least. But that’s partially because it falls into my passion.
I don’t think that you quite grasped the point I was trying to make.
I never said that the HFC was wrong in opposing Ryancare. I was simply talking about their tactics and the results from them. They got a large victory, but they did so in a way that, according to game theory, would be defined as Nasty. Not ‘bad’ or ‘evil,’ but uncooperative.
A ‘no’ vote that nevertheless bargained in a manner that would be considered Nice according to game theory wouldn’t have set Ryancare up for as large a defeat, but it also wouldn’t have provoked this response.
And according to game theory and Tough but Fair, this is the natural reaction to a faction that acts in that manner.
You may not like it, but it IS consistent.
There IS room for no votes, but I’m not talking ideology; I’m talking tactics. I’m talking about how they played the game.