Posted on 03/24/2017 6:56:42 AM PDT by HarleyLady27
Gabriel Sherman writes that White House chief strategist and former Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon (or, for those concerned with SEO, Steve Bannon) has privately expressed concern that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) betrays the populist voters who put Donald Trump in the White House.
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C’mon. If Ryan stabbed you in the back, Trump did also. He twisted arms, had WH invites to convince reluctant legislators and even visited Capital Hill (rare for a President unless they really want something.) If you’re really honest, this is a Trump/Ryan bill.
Yes, it should go down in flames. Surprised so many here are for Ryancare.
Kill this bill.
President Trump supported Ryan on this bill...yes he did, and so did the V. President...both knowing what Ryan was doing...
Ryan stabbed us in the back, not President Trump...he is letting us know what a back stabber Ryan is...
Remember the ‘Snake’ well your seeing Ryan as the ‘Snake’...
Pass it or another version, who cares? Obama will take it as a personal insult that his signature legacy was repealed. Thereafter, it is lunch with some judge and whatever the GOP passes will be overturned.
NYTimes is coming out with story that Pence and Kushner are against the bill
They are both running for cover, too.
Trump is on his own on this one.
Hope he gets a big eye opening on this...that will guide him for the next 4 years.
Let’s see. We bitched because industry experts weren’t involved in writing O’Care so they bring in the industry and we bitched because the insurance industry wrote this. Aren’t they the experts?
I have always thought Pence, Prebus and Ryan was a little to close for comfort, yes President Trump is standing there by himself, so now is the time the Trump Supporters step up and support him...
Effin duh!
Why didn’t the last bill, ObamaCare, result in massive challenges with lawsuits everywhere by the industry?
They wrote it and then lobbied for it.
Guaranteed profits were too good to pass up.
Because Ryan is the designated flak-catcher for Trump to hide behind while doing the bidding of his handlers. Same old game. Same old swamp.
I didn’t see anyone other than one meeting in the White HOuse with the insurance industry and that isn’t enough...
Did Ryan bring them to the floor of the House to speak to the people that MAKE the laws??? I didn’t see them there, I have been watching CSpan for weeks now, I haven’t seen anything but Ryan and his HFA pac support him...
Okay. Help me here. How does pushing, arm twisting, visiting Capital Hill and having congress members over to the WH show Ryan backstabbed? Looks like full court press from the President to pass a backstabbing bill. I really think some people can’t or won’t see reality.
Guaranteed profits were too good to pass up.
AMEN!
They don’t trot them on the floor. The work behind the scenes with staffers.
Do you play 3 D chess???
“How does anyone know this?”
Because lots of people in politics like to talk to the press.
We elected them, they work for US, why can’t they hash this out so we can see and hear who does what?
Why is everything done ‘behind closed doors’...we are the ones that have to live with it, so we should be able to see and hear about it...they are living off of your and my tax dollars, that should be enough right there!!!
Indeed.
Someone alerted me to this guy’s postings.
Look at the keywords.
His posts do make me wonder
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3537601/posts?q=1&;page=1
A full repeal bill is all of one to two pages; seriously.
A reconciliation bill that repeals certain paragraphs and subitems, can be hundreds of pages.
The House need only introduce and vote on full repeal AND THEY’RE DONE!
And then the onus of the politics goes to the Senate.
In the Senate, McConnell needs only to schedule debate on the House full repeal and then call for cloture, AND HE’S DONE!
Once the democrats fail to vote for cloture, THEY OWN THE FAILURE TO REPEAL!
This could have taken LESS THAN A DAY with maybe a week’s worth of press coverage.
Then in the months following, Obamacare would fail to fund itself because it’s not affordable and it would collapse on its own. People would lose health coverage and Obama and his democrats would own it.
President Trump doesn’t want to see people suffer but he could always say he tried to repeal but the democrats insisted on keeping their unaffordable, unworkable, Obamacare.
Let the democrats burn and fry for 2018.
So simple.
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