Balderdash. Fake news.
If the President was "all in" on this, then why did he issue an ultimatum for the House, demanding a vote today or he'd "move on"?
If he was truly "all in", he would have convinced them to keep negotiating and drag things on, desperate to put a different shade of lipstick on this pig of a bill.
Instead the President saw the writing on the wall, cut his losses, and what is the immediate fallout? They're already calling for a change in leadership in the House at the top.
The President rightly recognized that sometimes it's better to walk away from a bad deal, and, for his trouble, there's also a good chance that he can remove the obstructionist saboteur Paul Ryan from the board. If he was "all in" he wouldn't have been willing to walk away, and he wouldn't have forced Ryan's hand.
The bashers never miss an opportunity to second-guess this President, who continues to think several moves ahead of such knee-jerk "analysis"...
Well-reasoned and -stated. Thanks.
>>If he was “all in” he wouldn’t have been willing to walk away, and he wouldn’t have forced Ryan’s hand.
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Interesting point of view. I very much hope you are right.
I was wondering if Trump was setting up Ryan to make him Ryan look bad and get him out of the Speakership.
Instead the President saw the writing on the wall, cut his losses, and what is the immediate fallout? They’re already calling for a change in leadership in the House at the top.
You can day dream all you want about Ryan but the immediate fall out here is that POTUS knows he can’t count on conservatives to support him. Good luck on Ryancare 2.0, spending, etc. POTUS will be looking for votes elsewhere in the future, guaranteed.
“The President rightly recognized that sometimes it’s better to walk away from a bad deal, and, for his trouble, there’s also a good chance that he can remove the obstructionist saboteur Paul Ryan from the board. If he was “all in” he wouldn’t have been willing to walk away, and he wouldn’t have forced Ryan’s hand.”
Hope your right! Ryan is a huge impediment, that’s for sure.
The President rightly recognized that sometimes it’s better to walk away from a bad deal, and, for his trouble, there’s also a good chance that he can remove the obstructionist saboteur Paul Ryan from the board. If he was “all in” he wouldn’t have been willing to walk away, and he wouldn’t have forced Ryan’s hand.
Slam dunk. What the Bruins just couldn’t manage.
Personally, I think Trump set Ryan up to show the world how big of a putz and elitist/establishment Ryan is. Now, there's rumors of Ryan being replaced. It might have all worked out best for us, and the country!
Bring Obamicare back up, in the near future, and REPEAL it first! (Like they did seven or eight times before) Which makes one wonder: If they sent seven or eight repeals to Obama to be signed, only to be vetoed, why didn't they send the same damn thing to President Trump to be signed?!!!!!