Posted on 03/10/2017 3:35:13 PM PST by EveningStar
President Trump has told Republican leaders that he's prepared to play hardball with congressional conservatives to pass the GOP healthcare bill, including by supporting the 2018 primary challengers of any Republican who votes against the bill.
Sources told the Washington Examiner that Trump made that threat in a White House meeting on Tuesday with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and other members of the House GOP whip team that helps line up votes.
Trump's threat is one that could resonate. Most of the Republicans who oppose the GOP's American Health Care Act represent ruby red districts that strongly support Trump and his agenda.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I did. That’s how I know this story is fake! Because the tweets show he’s listening and not threatening.
Jeez, you’re gullible to believe this garbage.
Yes, I agree. I expect Pres T to prevail. There is and can be only one leader.
The democrats are leftists
End of story
and that sums it up.
Trump is a patriot. That's the best we will get.
“Ryan knows this so he stuck us with this POS. If he’s really willing to go after conservative reps in primaries then we’ve been betrayed.”
+1
Did he tweet it? Did he say this on the WH website? Did anyone with a name claim he said this?
Howlin is alive and well and I love her.
If you think Trump, or any other politician is wrong, you should call him/her on it. Doing so makes you a patriot, not a traitor.
Repeal, not replace. Trump is wrong on this one.
You get a wall. Plus healthcare slavery.
Now you are trapped inside.
Trump plays no chess. He will vote a turd to put his name on it. And Ryan is setting Trump up for Ryan’s bribe to own a mansion.
Trump has no ‘heart’ to deny medical for welfare bums,
but Trump is heartless & willing to deny workers their own rightly earned care. His elitism & ignorance is showing.
But you get a wall, ... and slavery.
6 repeals went before but none now. There is no valid reason to vote on a Trump Care turd over repeal. Zero.
“How on earth does that even make sense?”
It doesn’t.
I don’t care, I’m with Trump.
Time for everyone to hold the line.
Trump is making a mistake betting his entire Presidency on Ryancare.
I will back Dave Brat no matter what, he is doing exactly what I want done in Washington.
What about the people who have coverage under Obamacare? Should they have the rug pulled out from under them? Do you think Trump and most of Congress want that?
Ah the swaggering forth of redmeat pretend conservatives who stomp their girly feet and say REPEAL, NO REPLACE.
Ask any of them if they have even 50 votes for that. Go ahead, ask ‘em.
Answer, I don’t care. My principles are like friggin’ God’s.
Which is all euphemism for “I like Obamacare and I want it to remain.” Which is, of course, what will happen when they can’t get even 50 votes for repeal with no replace.
Pretty much what they had in mind all along.
Yeah, pretty much.
Still don’t believe them.
National Review is usually not enemy press, until the 2016 election, in which they became enemy press.
And ‘sources say’ may as well be code for ‘out of my ass’ as far as newsprint is concerned.
It’s all smoke and mirrors. Or maybe it isn’t. For sure it won’t be close to ideal. I just don’t want the football pulled away again because I might just end up kicking Lucy in the head.
(>_<)
It's as if somebody, after the Titanic hit the iceberg, but before it finally sank, offered to buy the ship. Why on earth would the current owners fight the sale?
How on earth does that even make sense?
Allegedly, it needs 60 votes in the Senate because it's not fiscal.
Are you kidding? This treachery ultimately ends with single payer communism. I'm holding my water till then and we'll all have a field day in the healthcare hell Great America has heaped up for ourselves.
No "salivating" until we're chewing our tounges off in death-panel agony. Primary the tiny handful of conservatives left. They don't deserve to labor in thankless futility.
My probably incorrect theory is that the President wants this to pass so he can get to tax reform. Knowing Mr. Trump, he has other plans for this health care bill that will be beneficial. I hope.
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