President Donald Trump pauses in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Friday, March 24, 2017, during an announcement on the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project.
Posted on 03/25/2017 7:14:14 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
President Donald Trump pauses in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Friday, March 24, 2017, during an announcement on the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project.
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Evan Vucci AP
WASHINGTON
Donald Trump ran for president as a businessman who could make a deal. But on Friday, he failed to close the biggest deal of his young presidency.
And then, like a businessman, he moved on.
“That’s what you have to do in business if you fail,” said Rep. Roger Williams, a Texas Republican and, perhaps more relevantly in this instance, a car dealer. “You move on. You don’t worry about it. He’s going to move on.”
For Trump, House leaders’ decision not to vote on a Republican replacement for President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act when they realized they did not have the votes to pass it was his first legislative setback – on one of the biggest promises he’d made on the campaign trail.
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From all the information I am receiving it appears that Ryan is the one who failed at his job. He did not handle this piece of legislation well at all.
Better to let Obozo’s “signature achievement” collapse into smelly rubble than to put more taxpayer money down that rathole. Health insurance run by the federal government will always fail, and you don’t want to own it when it does.
A,B,C legislation works.
Everyone always screams about this and that....grab the majority vote measures and go with it. You can go back and do a little more.....
What you can't do is dump the entire mess in one fell scoop.
PRyno went bankrupt.
I was hoping someone would run an article like this one.
It is a correct assessment on Trump.
Unlike a politician, or the corrupt media, Trump feels no shame on this issue of rinoCARE. He will just move on. It was an attempt to do something. He gave Ryan the ball. Ryan didn’t perform. Oh well. Learn. Move on. Try again later.
I agree with the assessment in this article - no shame on the try.
Learn.
Try again later as the opportunity arises.
No shame!
He’ll likely readdress later when there is agreement amongst the Republicans.
We don’t have the votes to repeal! Well, we didn’t have the votes either during the half-dozen times a repeal vote was sent to Obola. So what changed?
Now it is a real vote....before it was just a show vote!
So is it amnesty for dreamers or the Trillion dollar union bailout stimulus? Just didn’t get enough of those two things in the last 10 years.
Should one “move on” from one’s biggest political promises?
And, like a business man, he learned from it. He learned not to ever trust Ryan again
The Pubbies have been promising repeal. Voters won’t forget being lied to.
The enemedia articles about this are all delusional, and the best part is that they actually believe their owndelusions.
President Trump said a few weeks ago that his administration wouldn’t be addressing obamacare repeal and replace until late 2017 to early 2018 (basically when obamacare would be facing complete collapse), so I can’t wait to watch these fools freak the F out when his administration introduces a REAL repeal and replace bill 9 months from now.
As far as President Trump was concerned, RyanCare was nothing but a red herring intended to take Paul Ryan out of all future equations about everything.
RyanCare was a real abortion of a bill, obviously written by the insurance companies who were the only ones who were going to benefit from its passage. The insurance companies clearly had this bill already in hand, and I feel certain had cut a deal with Paul Ryan BEFORE the election, FULLY expecting Hillary Clinton to be President, but believing that some Pub House votes would be needed to get the bill through the House.
RyanCare was actually SUPPOSED to have been HillaryCare, which was why it preserved 99.9% of obamacare, and it was her gift to the insurance companies and her shafting of Trump’s voters, who are the people who would have suffered the worse under HillaryCare/RyanCare.
are we sure he trusted him in the first place?
Then why did Trump and Pence get behind it as much as they did?
True, but only in an atmosphere of trust.
Paul Ryan has historically been disloyal to Donald Trump, and shown signs that he wants his Presidency to fail> Therefore, he cannot be trusted.
For that reason, if "phase 1" was passed, Speaker Ryan would have total power over the President with respect to any future phases that must go through Congress (in this case, that would have been "phase 3").
I think it would have been insanity for President Trump to give a GOPe globalist such as Ryan that kind of control over the President's success on healthcare.
It can be reasonably argued that Speaker Ryan wants President Trump to fail, and what better way than to pass "Obamacare lite", a bill that woiuld not have reduced the premiums of a single American insurance holder, and then hang the failed legislation around the President's neck as "Trumpcare", thus sabotaging him and ensuring a one term Presidency.
I think this could be a primary reason why the President went ahead and issued his ultimatum, signalling his willingness to walk away from this deal.
It has already been widely discussed that this bill was written behind closed doors by the insurance industry, without any attempt to gain consensus from the voting blocs which were supposed to support it, and then it was rolled out with a "take it or leave it, this is the only chance" attitude.
Under such circumstances, I think that President Trump dodged a bullet. Hopefully, some true statesmen will eventually bring up a real Obamacare "repeal and replace" bill—one which will help Americans get back towards a healthcare system that puts the patient first—and then offer a bona fide solution which addresses the many awful conditions which Obamacare has created, as well as the ones which existed prior to Obamacare, and for which purposes it was supposedly passed in the first place.
So in theory, your "A,B,C legislation works" adage is correct, but I strongly believe that in practice this is not the case, given the reality which currently applies in the Establishment-dominated Uniparty federal legislature...
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