Posted on 03/25/2017 11:04:46 AM PDT by HarleyLady27
With the Obamacare bill being pulled by President Trump yesterday due to lack of votes, Speaker Ryan’s House has little or nothing to show for itself since the President’s Inauguration on January 20th. Compared to President Trump, Paul Ryan’s House of Representatives looks stagnant! The President has signed 38 game changing executive actions to six rather insignificant pieces of legislation signed into law since the President’s inauguration.
Today, Ryan’s Republicans tried to scrape up the votes to pass a highly unpopular healthcare bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. Eventually President Trump stepped in to pull the bill due to lack of votes.
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And, the majority of the Bills signed into law have been regulation cancellations under the Congressional Review Act, which is a privileged measure in the Senate.
Very sad, not one bill has hit the President’s desk...and what is Ryan doing with all this time? And in April they only work 8 days? Wonder if President Trump will take any time off??? ROFL...not that guy, he’s there at the White House this weekend meeting with people and WORKING...
Isn’t it something we have a great POTUS and the House and Senate sits there and does nothing...
Fire the smarmy SOB!
We’re being taken for a ride, and not just by Ryan. The Status Quo Caucus is no better.
Heller, GOP senator from Nevada, is up in 2018, and that’s now a blue state he won by only 49% in 2012.
Flake, GOP senator from Arizona, is up in 2018. This is a red state, less so than in the past, and with it more red he won that seat with only 46% in 2012.
Collins in Maine . . . we know her inclinations.
McCain . . . ditto.
This makes 50 difficult to get for a healthcare bill, with Trump now president and thus the Filibuster now in play (vs previous votes the Dems didn’t bother to oppose/filibuster).
So. With the Freedom Caucus having rejected Ryan’s bill, what text will they propose that can get through this Senate under Reconciliation (for 50) or can get 60 votes outright to invoke cloture. What is their proposal designed carefully to pass the Senate?
EOs are easier to rescind that bills. Its why whatshisface did so many for those eight years. If Trump ever gets an easy 60 votes in the senate, I think EOs will diminish and he can pass tougher to repeal laws.
Ryan - worst speaker ever
My best guess is that if Trump ends up doing healthcare it will be done with the Democrats on board which means their policies are going to be in there as well. This last attempt was between the most conservative people you’ll find (even moderates are probably more conservative that the most Conservative Democrat. The bill will necessarily be more liberal so if the goal is the most Conservative bill that can pass this was that chance. I guess the benefit of the more liberal bill is Republicans don’t have to “own” it which is what they seemed most fearful of
Interesting, but I’d say no way.
You have to understand the depths of the visceral hatred the Dems have for this situation. They will not cooperate on anything. ZERO. Any sign of cooperation will get them primaried out of their seat.
There will be no Democrats on board with anything Trump wants. Trump would ask for a non binding resolution praising apple pie and it would get 0 Dem votes.
The problem is that Ryan is a progressive. A progressive of a different stripe than Hillary, but a progressive nonetheless.
The Dem members of congress are used to being dictated to, where the leadership sits down in a secret room with the Center for American Progress or some other special interest, writes legislation and then tells the Dems to fall in line because supporting it is the progressive, party line thing to do.
That approach doesn’t work well with Republicans. Ryan sat in a room with his special interests, the Chamber of Commerce and Insurance lobbyists, wrote the healthcare bill and then planned to order everyone to vote for it, like the Dems do, using President Trump to lobby for it.
Of course the bill did nothing to bring down health care costs which have been skyrocketing. It did get rid of some taxes Ryan’s backers wanted rid of and changed the method of doling out welfare to “refundable tax credits” instead of premium support subsidies, because the GOPe likes the optics of distributing welfare through the IRS instead of through other government bureaucrats.
Ryan needed to sound out the members first on ideas for a legislative approach. And hold real committee meetings and hearings and debate the merits of amendments. And it’s almost always better to start out with a conservative position and negotiate from there rather than vice versa.
Ryan needs to go. He is not capable of leading Republicans.
1. Bill that eliminates all Obamacare exemptions and waivers. Every damned one.
2. Bill that requires Congress, staff, and federal employees to join Obamacare within 60 days. Every damned one.
3. Move on to taxes, regulations, and border security.
4. Obamacare repeal Bill in 2018 with democrat support.
“Heller, GOP senator from Nevada, is up in 2018, and that’s now a blue state he won by only 49% in 2012.
Flake, GOP senator from Arizona, is up in 2018. This is a red state, less so than in the past, and with it more red he won that seat with only 46% in 2012.”
Both are Mormons, so they are for amnesty because it abets their churche’s wishes to import Mexican “saints.”
The only hope of getting Ryan out is for everyone who has a GOP Rep, to inundate him or her with piles of letters and e-mails telling them that they are next if Ryan isn’t gone right away.
BTTT....!!!
Worse than crying Boehner?
At least Boehner can claim to be a wet-brained bum.
Ryan is a stone-cold sober coward, failure and punk.
How is that relevant to getting a healthcare bill passed?
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