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Trump: Ryan should remain Speaker even if healthcare vote fails
The Hill ^ | March 24, 2017 | Jordan Fabian

Posted on 03/24/2017 1:48:31 PM PDT by EveningStar

President Trump said Friday that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) should remain Speaker even if the afternoon vote on the GOP healthcare plan fails.

“Yes,” he said when asked whether Ryan should keep his job.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: healthcare; ryan; trump
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To: EveningStar

IF this was a private business, Ryan would have been fired yesterday.

POS.


61 posted on 03/24/2017 3:14:50 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Ohioan

I have one comment on your well done post. Yes, you speak of a time when a doctor treated a sick person regardless of his ability to pay.

That was a time in which individual Americans despised the thought of charity. It was seen as shameful. If a person could not pay with money, he or she would barter items such as food, or one would work for the doctor to pay off the debt.

Too many people today feel entitled. Doctors have bills, just like we all do.


62 posted on 03/24/2017 3:17:34 PM PDT by Darnright (If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France)
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To: EveningStar

If Ryan stays, Trump must be on good terms with him. Of course he’ll say positive things about Ryan at this point.


63 posted on 03/24/2017 3:17:34 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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To: EveningStar

The President has learned a valuable lesson.
Stop burning bridges.
The House will deal with Ryan and he knows it. He loses nothing by voicing public support.


64 posted on 03/24/2017 3:20:40 PM PDT by LouisianaJoanof Arc (Proud horrible deplorable)
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To: EveningStar

Would Trump not fire a person at his own company who failed?
Of course he would so what is it that Trump and Ryan are up to?


65 posted on 03/24/2017 3:37:12 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: EveningStar

President Trump will correctly use Ryan as his whipping boy for every Trump initiative that fails. That will diminish Ryan and frame him as an incompetent wuss who can’t get anything done.

Maybe that will motivate House members to dump Ryan as speaker as pressure mounts to push Trump’s agenda through.

BTW, Trump didn’t elect Ryan as speaker, our worthless congressional RINOs are guilty of that. Trump praising Ryan removes Trump’s fingerprints from assassinating that worthless RINO Ryan.


66 posted on 03/24/2017 3:39:15 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Cats are like potato chips - you can't have just one.)
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To: EveningStar

Watch what happens behind the scenes not in front of the cameras.


67 posted on 03/24/2017 3:39:20 PM PDT by McGruff (#PlugTheLeaks)
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To: Nifster

Ha!! TRUE!!


68 posted on 03/24/2017 3:55:19 PM PDT by WENDLE (WE DEFEATED RINOCARE! NOW WE WANT FREE MARKET WITH SAFETY NET!!)
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To: EasySt

If you recall Arnold originally went after the Democrat power base with initiatives to cripple the public employee unions. The Pub establishment did nothing to help get them passed, and they went down to defeat. After that Arnold did a 180 and started working with the Dems to pass parts of their agenda. There’s a lesson in that for the Freedom Caucus.


69 posted on 03/24/2017 3:56:49 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: VTenigma

Was he getting Soros money too?

Yikes. Hard to keep track of them all.


70 posted on 03/24/2017 4:46:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: fortheDeclaration

I pray you are right.


71 posted on 03/24/2017 5:05:50 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: HarleyLady27

Ms. Harley,

I wholeheartedly agree. Unlike most people here, I don’t think I am qualified to be in Congress, nor do I want to be. But the dynamics in Congress are far more complicated than Ryan. Getting rid of Ryan won’t solve the problem, just like getting rid of Boehner did not solve the problem.


72 posted on 03/24/2017 7:52:27 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: fortheDeclaration

Yeah, I agree.


73 posted on 03/25/2017 8:46:39 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: EveningStar
Theory: During the transition, Trump realized Ryan was a long term impediment to his agenda. Ryan disclosed his strategy and policy. Trump signaled he would go along.

Meanwhile he told Bannon to send a signal to the HF caucus to hold fast on opposition. I'm guessing Priebus was out of the loop on this instruction due to his friendship with Ryan.

Trumps sells the bill enough to not have his fingerprints on Ryan's downfall. Now we get a new Speaker and a new Bill.

74 posted on 03/25/2017 9:00:39 AM PDT by IFly4Him
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To: IFly4Him

That’s a pretty fanciful theory.


75 posted on 03/25/2017 9:14:15 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Cobra64

Trump is a fool on this.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Precisely so. And if he doesn’t begin to immediately clean house and get rid of the freaking losers in his own party, he will be committing political suicide. His worst enemies are people in his own party.


76 posted on 03/25/2017 7:56:41 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (God, Guns, and Trump will save the USA)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Yup, I totally agree.


77 posted on 03/25/2017 11:09:33 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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