It can’t move to the Senate until the House votes on it. Supposedly, members of the Republican “Tuesday Group” (I.e., RINOs) aren’t on board. And I question whether the duplicitous snake-in-the-grass Paul Ryan & his RINO House leadership members can get past their sabotage stage.
Nah, the Tuesday Group RINOs will come along (enough of them).
They’re counting on the Senate to turn it back into Obamacare+, and/or scared of Leadership.
It’s great to see them get their turn in the barrel for once- for the first time.
Presidential elections have consequences even for the Tuesday Group.
And I gotta say aometime, so why not now, I don’t think Ryan’s all that bad.
A Speaker’s #1 job is to get his Members re-elected.
That’s why they elected him. If he fails at that, he fails- period.
He’s a RINO leader because RINOs are the majority in the caucus.
And I question whether the duplicitous snake-in-the-grass Paul Ryan & his RINO House leadership members can get past their sabotage stage.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Agreed.
For that reason, ( I have been yelling it for months)Ryan has to go.
The former non-repeal (3 stages) bill was rumored to actually hand over the general selling and marketing of health care to the Insurance Companies who are Ryans primary financial contributors.On the ground the insurance companies have successfully convinced the public that they need to suffer $6000.00 deductibles, and the public has desperately swallowed it.The Insurance Companies want this to continue , giving them massive profits while screwing the People.
Ryan wants his corporate supporters to have a huge payday. Its that simple.And Ryan tried to hoodwink the People to get there, as well as President Trump. Thats why Ryan has to go. The old days are over when someone like Ryan can milk everyone so his corporate supporters and lobbyists can make massive profits.Thats why Ryan could not get the votes, when he had formerly told Trump that he had the votes.President Trumps base would not accept such a huge gouge of the People.
Ryan has proven that he places the interests of his personal fundraising and corporate lobbyists before the health of the
People. He has to go.He does not understand that the old RINO gouge/earmark days are now over.Finito. Kaput.
Good Bye Ryan.
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Paul Ryan married into money. His wifes family are Democrats, In all truth, so is Ryan , although he has attempted to disguise the fact.He actually supported Obamas sell out on the Iran Deal.We need a genuinely Republican Speaker.
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The Big Money Behind Paul Ryans Political Career
n his rise from the Houses second-youngest member to the 2012 presidential ticket, Paul Ryan has relied on the finance and insurance industries, as well as his Wisconsin background, to become a rainmaker who should provide the Romney campaign with a valuable fundraising asset.
Since his first re-election campaign in 2000, the biggest funders of Ryans political career have been financial firms, insurance companies, and wealthy Wisconsin companies and individuals, which have helped him amass a $4.5 million war chest, the largest in the House.
The money behind Ryans political career is best encapsulated by his biggest source of cash: Northwestern Mutual. As a Milwaukee-based insurance company that also offers financial services, it is all of Ryans biggest political backers rolled into one. The company and its employees have given him nearly $90,000 over the years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
But before he became the countrys leading advocate for privatizing Social Security and shrinking Medicare (and therefore a favorite of insurance companies), Ryan relied on homegrown support. Because of his familys construction business, Ryan Inc., construction groups were Ryans primary financial backers in the beginning, the largest being the National Association of Home Builders and the Carpenters and Joiners Union, each of whom have given more than $50,000 over his career, according to CRP.
Midwestern groups such as the National Beer Wholesalers Association, based in Milwaukee, and companies based out of nearby Chicago, such as Abbot Laboratories and Bank One, also backed him early on.
As he ascended the ranks, his construction backers gave way to large financial groups such as Credit Suisse Group, National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisers, and the American Bankers Association. After becoming the top Republican on the powerful Budget Committee in 2007, when Ryans budget plans became more widely known, insurance and healthcare groups became a substantial new source of political cash. Thus far in the 2012 cycle, all but eight of Ryans 20 biggest backers are in the financial, insurance, or health sectors, CRP data shows. Most are financial groups like Elliott Management, the hedge fund thats also a big giver to Romneys campaign. Other familiar companies like Goldman Sachs and UBS are also big contributors to Ryan, who frequently criticizes the Dodd-Frank Act that regulates Wall Street and voted for the TARP bill that bailed out Wall Street banks.
Ryan brings in cash from across the country, and thus far in the 2012 cycle, nearly 70 percent of his contributions have come from outside Wisconsin. Chicago and Milwaukee are his most lucrative areas, but hes also raked it in from surprising areas like Florida, which is actually his third-most generous state. This widespread appeal could help the Romney ticket, which raised $3.5 million after announcing Ryan would be its veep, see a permanent bump in fundraising despite both men attracting money from many of the same places.
The vice presidential nominees campaign finance record is not without some minor controversy. To begin with, he has long been a favorite of the libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch. Before entering Congress, Ryan worked with a conservative group that would eventually merge with a Koch brothers group to become FreedomWorks, a leading sponsor of the Tea Party movement. Their mutual interests in libertarianism could explain why the private energy corporation Koch Industries has given Ryan more than $65,000 over his career. The Koch brothers have promised to funnel $400 million through outside groups to defeat President Obama this year.
Ryans wife, Janna Little Ryan, has also entangled Ryan in some potential conflicts of interest. Her family owns stakes in land and energy companies in Texas and Oklahoma, and according to her husbands personal financial forms, the couple has at least $800,000 worth of holdings in those companies. An investigation by the Daily Beast last year found that those companies would receive $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies under Ryans proposed budget.
Mrs. Ryan also spent a decade in Washington as a corporate lobbyist, where she worked primarily at Price waterhouse Coopers. Not only is Pricewaterhouse Coopers one of her husbands largest sources of contributions, but so are two of her clients while working there: United Parcel Service and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Altogether the three companies and their employees have given Ryan more than $150,000 over the years.
Then theres Ryans connections to a Wisconsin businessman, Dennis Troha, who with his family gave Ryan nearly $60,000 in contributions from 1999 to 2005, according to the Washington Post. Troha was simultaneously trying to open a large Indian casino in Ryans district and lobbying for legislation giving his trucking company special hauling privileges. To do so, Troha enlisted Ryan, who made phone calls to federal agencies and pushed for the truck legislation on Trohas behalf.
In 2007, Troha was indicted on charges of funneling illegal campaign contributions to Wisconsin politicians to advance his gaming and trucking interests, and Ryan was the only politician named in the court documents when Trohas associate pleaded guilty to the scheme. Ryan would later donate the equivalent of Trohas contributions to a local Boys and Girls Club.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/08/14/the-big-money-behind-paul-ryans-political-career