Bottom line is the Republicans were never really prepared for a Repeal or a Replace.....their bill should have been already prepared and ready for approval on day one just as Trump made clear throughout his campaign needed to be. Just as clearly the Republicans didn’t have their ducks in a row...neither the repeal nor the replacement.
...So now their ‘again’ stuck in a quagmire of healthcare issues...Trump has every reason to be ore than irritated with Ryan and the Republicans....not just the Freedom Caucus.
On the mark. Now the question becomes, why is this the case?
Republicans gained control under the premise of returning to rationality. Looking more and more like this Republican party truly doesn't care about such an ideology, seemingly they're actually good with the crap forced on us the past 8 years.
Well, they're out of excuses now. There's no one left to blame. They continue to run with this Russia crap as a diversion, but that isn't going to fly, not with people like myself. If change isn't implemented now, on the major issues, does it truly matter which party is in charge?
The President wanted a bill. I don’t know why. I don’t think he was well-advised because he let Ryan take the lead on it.
I saw Donald Trump on the campaign trail occasionally come out with really bad, stinking comments, but after a few minutes with Manafort, he would come back the same day or the next day and set it straight.
I suspect that Ryan was telling him all along that the AHCA was “coming along just fine” and the President was misled to believe all was going to be good and wonderful. And then Ryan failed and cast blame on the Freedom Caucus.
The President needs better advisors.
Just like Lincoln allowed some loser generals to advise how to proceed with prosecuting the rebellion, he eventually tossed those generals aside and found the foul-mouthed drunkard in U.S. Grant.
President Trump needs to so the same. Find a non-politically correct bastard to play hardball with Democrat Senators and get a full repeal. Once a full repeal is passed, the President has a clear slate to start fresh.
The Zero Hedge link above follows on what I wrote here on FR a few weeks back from links I found from 2012 from the NY Times and others.
The idea is to prosecute the hell out of Geithner and other democrats that stole from the US Treasury, embezzled and illegally misappropriated massive funds in order to prop up a failing Obamacare to buy votes and keep insurers onboard until after the 2012 election.
At the same time, President Trump can instruct the IRS to allow persons to check a box vouching that they have an adequate healthplan that they affirm meets their needs.
So with one hand, he slices and dices democrats over a massive scandal in Obamacare, and on the other hand he frees the population and businesses from Obamacare mandates through clever policy tricks.
Keep this up for about 8 to 10 months and democrats will be lining up to vote full repeal of Obamacare.
But what we have now is a master cluster f*ck by Ryan.