Posted on 04/29/2017 11:09:55 AM PDT by Monorprise
"We're going to go when we have the votes," Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday when asked when the House will pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. Lawmakers will not be constrained by any "artificial deadline," Ryan declared.
On March 24, when the Speaker pulled the GOP Obamacare bill before what would have been a sure defeat, he said, "We're going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future."
But why? Republicans have 238 seats in the House. Repealing Obamacare will require 217 votes. Even with unanimous Democratic opposition, Republicans could lose 21 votes and still prevail on repeal. Why haven't they done it?
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"It's not full repeal. I will be honest, it's not," Rep. Jim Jordan told Fox News on Wednesday. "But it's as good as we think we can get right now."
"We've given up on trying to get this bill repealed, basically," Rep. Louie Gohmert told Fox Business on Tuesday. "But we've been demanding at least let's repeal some of the provisions that we know will bring down rates."
Some Republicans remain optimistic, but in a much longer-term sense. "The process of removing a 2,300-page law with 20,000 pages of rules can't be done in one vote," says the member who estimated that 25 to 30 Republicans don't want to vote for repeal. "The process will take two years."
The Republican-controlled House and Senate both voted to repeal Obamacare in January 2016. In the House, 239 Republicans voted for repeal, while three voted against it and four did not vote. President Obama, of course, vetoed the bill. ...
There is no repeal on the table to vote against.
They don’t even want to vote for the rearrange and repair bill.
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It was rammed up our butt with one vote, so why not, pray tell?
The problem is not one “caucus.” It is the whole Party. How many dissenters were there in the election of Paul Ryan as Speaker? One, I think.
So if I take you correctly, retroactively making it a capital crime to have voted for Ebolacare and turning their houses into public toilets is a bridge too far on the first vote?
It took 7 years to install it. Shouldn’t take that long to repeal.
Excellent.
...........I agree but I would bet money that Steve Bannon could name them all in about 5 minutes. Indeed, he probably already has a List !
“...........I agree but I would bet money that Steve Bannon could name them all in about 5 minutes. Indeed, he probably already has a List !”
maybe he could, and if it is Ryan and Trump that refuse to play the card then Steve’s next move is to leak it out to the press so we can go after theses RINO’s as the real problem.
“The problem is not one “caucus.” It is the whole Party. How many dissenters were there in the election of Paul Ryan as Speaker? One, I think.”
I think your over simplifying one particular vote for one particular man. Do you support everything the man you elected does? No or you wouldn’t be here complaining about them.
In the same respect Paul Ryan almost certainly represents the compromise canadit among the republicans in the house.
If he fails to expose the Tuesday Group’s RINO traitors and instead allows them to take down the party with their own backstabbing tretury then i suspect a great many of his supporters will drop out. Indeed i suspect he has already lost a great many supporters for allowing it to go this far.
That may be the case, but I strongly suspect Trump would sign almost anything he thought better than nothing, including a straight repeal.
Trump is a deal maker he doesn’t seem to care about unimportant details. He understands the power of his position in the process and intends to play it only to the point it is beneficial.
I am saying there was no dissent. They all knew what he is. They all approved enough to make him their honcho. It is not just one aberration in a long list of deeds. It is the basis for all those deeds and they are almost all oriented to not offending the Democrats whom Republicans consider to be the natural Rulers of the nation and to not jeopardizing their outside income and future employment.
Paul Ryan is NOT a compromise. He is purely the globalist Democrat and Chamber o Commerce candidate. There is no compromise in him. What compromise there is is of the same character as the compromises Trump can get working with other Democrats.
agree
Judge Jeanine had Jerry Falwell on last night. Great interview. Sounds like Evangelicals might become activists in thwarting these RINO turds in reelection efforts for 2018. Sounds like a good plan.
Those signing up for Obamacare get subsidies to pay premiums, 84% of them! So it must be repealed.
I don’t think that is fair, Ryan had a good budget several years ago, and he did repeal Obamacare back in 2015. We just got 25 to 50 RINO’s trying to bring down the whole party.
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