Posted on 03/16/2017 9:58:41 PM PDT by TBP
The Ryan-Trump tag team, though, has little margin for error. Without the help of Democrats, they stand to lose about 20 Republican votes in the House and two votes in the Senate on this first go-around.
That means buy-in from most of Mr. Trump’s rivals from the Republican presidential race — Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, whom Mr. Trump branded as “lightweights”; Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, dubbed “little Marco”; and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, whom he named “Lyin’ Ted.”
While Mr. Rubio has said he is open to the bill that Mr. Ryan and Mr. Trump have crafted, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Graham and Mr. Paul have all been skeptical.
Speaking Wednesday at a FreedomWorks-sponsored rally against Obamacare outside the U.S. Capitol, Mr. Paul warned that Mr. Ryan and “weak-kneed” Republicans have offered up “Obamacare lite.”
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I don’t know, Donald Trump can put on a pretty powerful charm offensive when he sets his mind to it. One that cuts across ideological and class distinctions and includes some pretty complimentary offerings.
People start out with the assumption that President Trump does not know what he is talking about, only to discover that he has thought through the question at hand, and run WAY ahead of their objections. He is both a very quick thinker and a very deep thinker. Talent AND genius level thinking combined with a dogged persistence that confounds and overwhelms virtually all of his rivals. Some would call him abrasive, but that overlooks the virtues of something as commonplace as sandpaper, which in varying degrees of fineness, brings great polish to the surfaces to which it is applied.
Likeliest outcome. Some tweaks will occur and attract conservative votes there and get it to the Senate.
In the Senate, exactly as was done in 2010, projects will be sent to various reluctant senator states (remember the Nebraska deal in 2010 to get Ben Nelson’s vote?) to secure their votes. A few amendments will be part of that process, and unlike in 2010 they will vette the amendments past the Parliamentarian first, rather than risk a rejection at the last moment.
And when it’s passed and they have a GOP Rose Garden “this is a fucking big deal” gathering, both McConnell and Ryan will both be able to announce that they have a Do Something Congress.
When it comes to odumbocare, why do they keep massaging a dead horse when all four legs are broken? Shoot the damn thing and start over.
Nice analogy.
THen why is he forcing Obamacare 2.0 down our throats?
Oh, and the so-called conservatives aren’t a whole lot better, objecting to the best element of the bill—that it has the beginnings of taxing employer-provided health insurance like regular compensation.
How many times must we declare that we don’t want a replacement. We just want Obamacare gone.
We need to return to a free market system.
A new healthcare law could be ONE line long, stating that healthcare insurance can be purchased across state lines.
Because we don’t have 60 votes. They did.
And it won’t implode, collapse, die or any of those other delusional hopes.
It’s just like supplemental funding for the Iraqi war. The Dems were screamed at by their base to obstruct funding. They could not do it.
The GOP cannot stop funding for Obamacare, either. Same reason. If you do, people die.
Ryan is not popular here, but he’s right. This is the closest we’ll ever get. Tweak it to make it acceptable. Do it.
Apparently, more times than we have.
Call Congress. (202) 224-3121.
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