Thanks Paul Ryan! This is on YOUR HEAD!!! You knew damed well conservatives couldn’t vote for this crap, and you thought you could shove it down their throats (or better yet), get a fail for Trump. I hope to hell you get booted from the Speaker’s perch IMMEDIATELY!
I blame the HOR fake conservatives who voted him Speaker a second time. What possible motivation could they have had except that they don't want to be held accountable for their campaign promises? He's their firewall.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if that were Trump’s strategy all along. Campaign for it so he looks like a team player & pick up the pieces when it crashes.
I beleive the fail is intentional. They (Ryan and other GOPe types) floated over a week ago that if this fails, everything else on Trump's agenda is on hold, doomed at the gate. That mean no tax cuts, for example. There is no link between this bill and those other things so there was no reason to tie them together except to lay the groundwork for blocking Trump later. And the first step was making a bill so bad it couldn't pass. Next step, when the bill fails, will be to say Trump's presidency is in crisis and freeze everything until they can undermine him enough that he stops trying or gets thrown out.
This is very cynical of me. But I believe it 100%. Paul Ryan is either getting paid by someone or is just naturally a snake but he will never help Trump, he's just waiting to slip the knife in.
Given that Trump has now met with Ezekiel E. three times in person on this since the election—and he has his liberal/Democrat team of Ivanka, Jared, and Gary Cohn advising him on it, I don’t think Ryan is the only one to blame for this, unfortunately.