Because now its for real and the specter of 20 million people losing their healthcare is a political death wish.
Rather than negotiate w/ Trump the FC decided to play hardball and humiliate him. Now the press and the progressives are licking their chops.
There's blood in the water.
The entire movement hangs by a thread. I've been coming to FR for 20 years or so and we have never had the complete toolbox.
Now that we do it appears we are bound and determined to self-incinerate.
Please put down the matches.
Because a good 33% of Republican politicians are still progressive in their politics.
The damage of handing the Treasury out for decades has set into political culture. No one wants to be the majority to say stop.
Rather than negotiate w/ Trump the FC decided to play hardball and humiliate him. Now the press and the progressives are licking their chops.
There’s blood in the water.
The entire movement hangs by a thread. I’ve been coming to FR for 20 years or so and we have never had the complete toolbox.
That’s pretty much where I am at. I don’t like Ryancare. Process sucked. Much of the bill is troubling. But at the end of the day POTUS wanted it and needed it to help propel the rest of his agenda.
Next year there are mid terms. Nothing major will get done.
It’s now or never and now POTUS will be stuck in neutral for quite some time.
The Dems, progressive GOPers and never Trump corportists are ecstatically doing victory laps today. If that doesn’t buy doctrine conservatives a clue nothing will.
It bears repeating: we hang together behind POTUS or we hang separately. It’s that simple. Hopefully, we can rally and keep the rent seeking beltway careerists in check while POTUS takes care of business.
“Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn”
But joking aside, I do not think it is a political death wish to turn the clock back to before ACA. I mean I thought deporting illegal aliens with US citizen children would look bad, but it’s happening now and i don’t see that much of a blow back.