That's some fine negotiating there Lou.
Posted on 03/30/2017 6:57:15 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist
"The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast. We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!" - Donald Trump
If Republicans cared about keeping their word...
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It would be the first time in a long time. What they say is not what they do.
>>News Flash: Trump is a populist, not a conservative.
He is a nationalist. There is no small government solution to health care at this point in time.
A 20 year old man who isn’t college material can’t find a good paying job with benefits. Most “free market” solutions I’ve see here require people to live without health care for a couple years while some laws get passed to require that all patients pay the same prices and laws to insure that all prices are posted, etc. Then they count on anti-trust laws being brought into play to prevent price-fixing and other collusion. Meanwhile real people are dying or going into bankruptcy to pay for insulin and such.
He has discovered that a president can’t just turn off the switch on something like health care and count on everyone doing the right thing and doing it right now.
I am a big Trump supporter but I am totally angered that he disavows conservative Republicans for refusing to support his crap bill. Does that mean he has more crap bills coming and is greasing the wheels? He is going more RINO by the day; bringing on Ivanka to RINO things up more with universal daycare. Rinse said to Chris Wallace they would need to look to the Demorats to support their bills. So much for doing what the people want. I guess the good thing is he is honest about it. Unlike Ryan who said RINOCare was the bill conservatives asked for.
Where’s the political pain in inter-state competition?
Where’s the political pain in giving insurance options to cut out numerous leftist healthcare goodies?
Where is the political pain in curbing how much lawyers profit off of malpractice suits?
No, Trump is trying to cram a lemon up us where the sun don’t shine. He’s BLOWING it!
J Wellington Wimpy Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpneTJwHmbM
Reference: Popeye’s Hamburger moocher
Some call it moving the goal post . . . I also follow LS on Twitter . . .
But some information came out late, I’m thinking it was 36-48 hours before the scheduled Thursday vote that was then moved to Friday and then cancelled.
Seems the HFC found out from the Senate Parliamentarian that YES they could do more with the House Bill than Ryan had led them to believe via Reconciliation. I don’t consider that “moving the goal posts”. It was smart to try to do more with Phase 1, as much as possible, than wait for Phase 2 and Phase 3. While not the whole nine yards it was more . . . which was good to go for. I don’t know why they expected Paul Ryan to be an expert on Senate rules of what could and couldn’t be done.
Then they started losing the Moderates, the Tuesday Group.
DJT is wrong to lay this at the feet of the HFC.
Sure plenty of blame to go around but they deserve the LEAST of any blame.
JMO
The great thing about shouting from the peanut gallery is there is never a price to pay. The kamikaze caucus is free to torpedo POTUS’s agenda but is not required to pass their own. The difference between governing and beltway kabuki theater could not be more clear after last week.
Ryan drafted an AHCA that didn't address a single one of those points. Trump pushed Ryan's plan anyway.
Trump's seven-point plan has been removed from his website.
You tell me who is negotiating in bad faith here.
That's some fine negotiating there Lou.
BUMP to that article. Good placement in this thread, thanks.
Well since I’m wrong supposedly, I’ll just apologize to my NeverTrump HFC member Rep. Justin Amash, because apparently he’s must have been putting on a really good act.
Ditto.
Considering there are only 435 votes that would have been an interesting trick to garner 450 against it. Dead former Representatives voting?
Yeah, I don't think so, and apparently Donald thinks the HFC is going to be blocking his future agenda too so he's being proactive.
I'm not liking this at all. I've been behind Trump from the git-go but if he takes this path he has lost me, and from the sound of it, a lot (maybe most) people here on FR as well.
This bothers me more than anything else during his short Presidency. I hope someone can get to him and I'm thinking Ivanka and company should be exiting this Administration ASAP. They are giving him bad advice; if that's where this came from.
It looks like Trump is tossing Conservatives under the bus so that Trump can form an alliance with liberal Rino’s and leftist Democrats to enact Multi-Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Legislation that is paid by the Federal Reserve creating a lot of ‘funny money’.
Liberal Rino’s and leftist Democrats had no problem letting Obama increase our debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion.
Under Trump these same liberal Rino’s and leftist Democrats will have no problem increasing our debt from $20 trillion to $40 trillion.
Happy days are here again!!!!!
I’m not an expert on this, but to me, freedom is for individuals first and corporations second.
By the sound of this, it is one of the few 0vomit regulations I could agree with. Perhaps 0vomit didn’t like competition for “his” FBI, CIA, NSA from private corporations. Because I can’t think of any benevolent motive he has ever had toward Americans on anything.
Not ready to surrender to anything. Ever. Not if it means compromising my principles.
I’ll fight to my death for conservative values.
If Trump’s not on my team, then I’m not on his. And he can push his “agenda” without my help. Just that simple.
“They want 150%. Its not possible”
Can we at least get a bill that removes the mandate, actually lowers premiums and denies illegals benefits, things that Rynocare failed to address.
This to me is the only rational explanation why Trump would push so hard for such a half-assed piece of legislation.
This is the Republicans problem. They air their dirty laundry out in public unlike the Democrats who do it behind closed doors. The fact is the GOP is not a unified party and there aren’t enough conservatives among the ranks in Congress. That doesn’t excuse the president from his reckless Tweet on the Freedom Caucus. They saved him from Rynocare. At the same time don’t put these guys on a pedestal either. All factions of the GOP have had plenty of time to come up with a healthcare plan so they’re all at fault.
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