read post 52. Trump knows exactly what he is doing
Where have I ever said in any of my posts that President Trump NEVER knew what he is doing???
You don’t know the support I have for him, apparently, or that statement would never have come out of your keyboard!!!
Ryan’s bill could not win the support of the 12% of GOP seats held by this Freedom Caucus no one had heard of 5 yrs ago (before they got NeverTrump Koch money). His bill probably also could not get about 30 votes from GOP moderates because he moved too far rightward.
So in effect he had support from about 170 votes of the GOP conference and lost 55. A conservative bill would have likely . . . oh, not reversed that ratio. It probably would have been 50/50 because some would not want to oppose their Speaker no matter what. So 50/50.
It would get to the Senate. Heller, Collins, Flake (Flake and Heller are both up 2018 and won their seats with < 50% of the vote, with Heller now from solidly blue Nevada). So the bill not only would not get 60, it almost certainly would not get 50.
And before some wacko here says WE PASSED FULL REPEAL BILLS LAST YEAR blah blah. Obama wasn’t going to sign them. The Dems didn’t bother to Filibuster because of that. Now they would filibuster so you gotta have 60, and most of you know this but still want to offer up exclamation points.