Thanks - supposedly Ryan is going to have dinner with Trump. Given the majority and no filibuster, there is absolutely NO REASON that any conservative legislation should struggle in the House, given the huge Republican majority (47 seats).
I still remember in the late 1990s, the Republicans had a 12 seat majority, yet passed conservative bill after bill.
What’s going on now is by design, design to undercut Trump. Hopefully Trump just put an end to it.
I remember when Reagan had a GOP senate and a large majority
RAT house.
Reagan steamrolled Tip O’Neil and the RATs over and over again.
>>Given the majority and no filibuster, there is absolutely NO REASON that any conservative legislation should struggle in the House...<<
You’re wrong, for one very big reason. Any bill the House passes also has to pass the Senate to become law. And as long as McConnell stays with the filibuster, Schumer runs the Senate.
So Ryan has been forced, so far, to tailor bills so that they can be passed under the reconciliation procedure, i.e., with 51 votes. But that procedure prevents him from drafting many conservative positions because they don’t qualify under reconciliation. And doing that costs some conservative votes. That’s exactly why a clean repeal Obamacare bill hasn’t happened. It doesn’t qualify under reconciliation, nor do many other conservative health insurance proposals.
Which is exactly why I think Trump’s latest gambit is aimed directly at McConnell and his “shoot yourself in the foot” filibuster nonsense.