[taildragger]

"When you embarrass the boss publicly and contribute to his defeat in his first major initiative, there is a price to pay. This could have been avoided if the FC had gone behind closed doors and worked out a deal privately. No one should have been allowed to leave the room until a consensus was reached."

Worse Kabar, have you been over to the CTU and read Sundance's take on it? How were the Koch Bros envolved? Club for Growth, Heritage? I don't trust them anymore. Are these guys real tea partiers or are they sell outs too. And which one of these rocket scientist nixed planned parenthood in this bill? That was a poison pill to loose Collins and what's her name from Alaska, do that in the next budget not here.

It wasn't perfect, but as Lou Dobbs and Betsy McCaughley said it was a Jobs Bill, it did get rid of the Ocare Job mandates which restaurants are begging for ( BTW I have a background in taxes, I read the Ryan Bill, there were some gems in their ). Yes the 3 step plan was problematic, but it destroyed Obamacare slowly and painfully as an inside job and I couldn't wait to watch the Dems skiyat as it did.

It is time for them to come to the table and make it work. Someone here or @ CTH said send them all off ( our leadership and key players etc ) to a Mil-Base / private location and take their phones, house them and feed them until it is done.

Works for me...

[RummyChick]

Koch brothers were going to spend A LOT of money to defeat this bill according to a report.

This time...I was on the side of the Dems and the Koch brothers

Terrible bill

[DesertRhino]

“Yes the 3 step plan was problematic, “

Yeah, cause if they don’t have the balls to do it now, they REALLY stick it to Obamacare in the midterms. No more. The GOP is a bad wife saying “we can have sex one day next week”. Next week never comes.

[Alberta's Child]

The only thing that mattered in the AHCA was the $1.2 trillion savings in Federal expenditure over ten years, according to the CBO forecasts. The forecast was probably fake but it would have been sufficient to justify large tax cuts.

This to me is the only rational explanation why Trump would push so hard for such a half-assed piece of legislation.

[Lumper20]

I believe that a slower three step process or so is the right way as we must face facts that this nation has 1/3 of it’s population who are uninsurable based on obesity alone.

[kabar]

Agree completely. The Dems would never have done something similar. They eventually come in line with few or no defections. This is called using your governing majority. Instead, the Reps form a circular firing squad. It extends to so many other areas beyond healthcare. We have Graham and McCain going after Nunes and Trump. They provide the Dems and the MSM to ammunition to call the opposition to Trump bipartisan.