I wager that they'll trim around the edges, making no substantive changes, and tell us all how they either did their best, or did just what they said that they would do.
But I'm only basing my skepticism on history.
> Will Republicans Renege on ObamaCare Repeal?
Yes.
After all, Nancy wouldn't let us see it until after ObamaCare was passed (and passed without Republican support). Repeal the sucker, don't compromise!
I think Obamacare will be repealed and replaced shortly. Trump was elected to implement his agenda. If Ryan wants to implement his agenda, he can run in 2020.
Do they honor the promises they made?
I too think failure is not an option they can afford to rely on any more. No more failures Republicans, or you will soon find yourself in the same pickle as the Democrats, and you will not have the press backing you for possibly pulling off a Phoenix like rise from the ashes.
Hannity interviewed Ryan who kept insisting that it would be repealed and replaced. But, he also interviewed 3 other top Republicans in the House who had no clue what Ryan was going to do.
Actually, with President Trump at the helm, things happen that he promises, despite their improbability and novelty, way too often for us to be cynical yet.
I think he did something critical to the repeal process just in the last few days: meeting with the governors to get their input. The biggest suggestion they had was that they liked the Medicaid expansion. And while that was made as part of Obamacare, it really isn’t Obamacare, it is Medicaid.
Next, just as important as President Trump in this is what Republican congressmen and senators are doing. As well as what they are *not* doing.
That is, they are all working and motivated to do *something*. Typically there is a large group content with the status quo, the ‘inertia bloc’. But not this time. The argument is solely about degrees of change and methods. And once that is agreed on by the caucus, it turns to tactics, how to actually make it happen.
Even “the usual suspects” are not stamping their feet and refusing to play ball. The political momentum is there to do *something*.
And the clock is running, and they know it.
Oddly enough, one of the most important messages President Trump needs to get out has to be directed at all those doctors and health professionals who were driven out of the business by Obamacare.
“Restart your practices, reopen your offices, let your old patients know that you are back in business. Because the government is no longer going to pile back breaking demands on you.”
Trump will get to run on Trumpcare; that will probably work as well as Obamacare.
We don’t call them “The Stupiid Party” for nothing.
I think Trump will drag them across the glass, kicking and screaming, but they’ll do it.
Trump should give republicans a deadline to put a bill on his desk. And if he doesn’t get one then he should start working to support a congress that will. Trump should distance himself from the congress. Its congresses job to produce the bills. He has to sign it. Ryan and McConnell said they just need a president that will sign their bills. Here is one. If the bills don’t come soon, Trump should start blaming the republican leadership. Its possible that there are more than a few bought and paid for republicans that don’t really want Trumps agenda. They need to be removed.
Obamacare can't survive another year!