Posted on 04/28/2017 3:25:57 AM PDT by Candor7
Republican legislators in the House of Representatives have pushed back a vote to repeal Obamacare until next week, it was reported on Thursday. That means President Donald Trump's hopes for a major legislative 'win' before the expiration of his first 100 days in office appear to be on life support.
Trump was eager to resuscitate an earlier Republican bid to pass a health care bill that would have replaced the Affordable Care Act, the signature piece of legislation passed by his predecessor, Barack Obama.<
But House Speaker Paul Ryan and his senior GOP colleagues failed to muster the necessary number of votes to ensure the bill's passage.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Getting it done in 103 days is a problem WHY, exactly?
The FIRST 100 DAYS should be applied to CONGRESS, not the PRESIDENT.
Getting it done in 103 days is a problem WHY, exactly?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Ryan has his own agenda based on paying back his contributors and lobbyists.
There will be no getting it done in even 1000 days unless Ryan resigns and we have a speaker who truly wants a good system for the people.
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The former non-repeal (3 stages) bill was rumored to actually hand over the general selling and marketing of health care to the Insurance Companies who are Ryan’s primary financial contributors.On the ground the insurance companies have successfully convinced the public that they need to suffer $6000.00 deductibles, and the public has desperately swallowed it.The Insurance Companies want this to continue , giving them massive profits while screwing the People.
Ryan wants his corporate supporters to have a huge payday. Its that simple.And Ryan tried to hoodwink the People to get there, as well as President Trump. That’s why Ryan has to go. The old days are over when someone like Ryan can milk everyone so his corporate supporters and lobbyists can make massive profits.That’s why Ryan could not get the votes, when he had formerly told Trump that he had the votes.President Trumps base would not accept such a huge gouge of the People.
Ryan has proven that he places the interests of his personal fundraising and corporate lobbyists before the health of the
People. He has to go.He does not understand that the old RINO gouge/earmark days are now over.Finito. Kaput.
Good Bye Ryan.
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Paul Ryan married into money. His wife’s family are Democrats, In all truth, so is Ryan , although he has attempted to disguise the fact.He actually supported Obama’s sell out on the Iran Deal.We need a genuinely Republican Speaker.
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The Big Money Behind Paul Ryan’s Political Career
n his rise from the House’s second-youngest member to the 2012 presidential ticket, Paul Ryan has relied on the finance and insurance industries, as well as his Wisconsin background, to become a rainmaker who should provide the Romney campaign with a valuable fundraising asset.
Since his first re-election campaign in 2000, the biggest funders of Ryan’s political career have been financial firms, insurance companies, and wealthy Wisconsin companies and individuals, which have helped him amass a $4.5 million war chest, the largest in the House.
The money behind Ryan’s political career is best encapsulated by his biggest source of cash: Northwestern Mutual. As a Milwaukee-based insurance company that also offers financial services, it is all of Ryan’s biggest political backers rolled into one. The company and its employees have given him nearly $90,000 over the years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
But before he became the country’s leading advocate for privatizing Social Security and shrinking Medicare (and therefore a favorite of insurance companies), Ryan relied on homegrown support. Because of his family’s construction business, Ryan Inc., construction groups were Ryan’s primary financial backers in the beginning, the largest being the National Association of Home Builders and the Carpenters and Joiners Union, each of whom have given more than $50,000 over his career, according to CRP.
Midwestern groups such as the National Beer Wholesalers Association, based in Milwaukee, and companies based out of nearby Chicago, such as Abbot Laboratories and Bank One, also backed him early on.
As he ascended the ranks, his construction backers gave way to large financial groups such as Credit Suisse Group, National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisers, and the American Bankers Association. After becoming the top Republican on the powerful Budget Committee in 2007, when Ryan’s budget plans became more widely known, insurance and healthcare groups became a substantial new source of political cash. Thus far in the 2012 cycle, all but eight of Ryan’s 20 biggest backers are in the financial, insurance, or health sectors, CRP data shows. Most are financial groups like Elliott Management, the hedge fund that’s also a big giver to Romney’s campaign. Other familiar companies like Goldman Sachs and UBS are also big contributors to Ryan, who frequently criticizes the Dodd-Frank Act that regulates Wall Street and voted for the TARP bill that bailed out Wall Street banks.
Ryan brings in cash from across the country, and thus far in the 2012 cycle, nearly 70 percent of his contributions have come from outside Wisconsin. Chicago and Milwaukee are his most lucrative areas, but he’s also raked it in from surprising areas like Florida, which is actually his third-most generous state. This widespread appeal could help the Romney ticket, which raised $3.5 million after announcing Ryan would be its veep, see a permanent bump in fundraising despite both men attracting money from many of the same places.
The vice presidential nominee’s campaign finance record is not without some minor controversy. To begin with, he has long been a favorite of the libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch. Before entering Congress, Ryan worked with a conservative group that would eventually merge with a Koch brothers’ group to become FreedomWorks, a leading sponsor of the Tea Party movement. Their mutual interests in libertarianism could explain why the private energy corporation Koch Industries has given Ryan more than $65,000 over his career. The Koch brothers have promised to funnel $400 million through outside groups to defeat President Obama this year.
Ryan’s wife, Janna Little Ryan, has also entangled Ryan in some potential conflicts of interest. Her family owns stakes in land and energy companies in Texas and Oklahoma, and according to her husband’s personal financial forms, the couple has at least $800,000 worth of holdings in those companies. An investigation by the Daily Beast last year found that those companies would receive $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies under Ryan’s proposed budget.
Mrs. Ryan also spent a decade in Washington as a corporate lobbyist, where she worked primarily at Price waterhouse Coopers. Not only is Pricewaterhouse Coopers one of her husband’s largest sources of contributions, but so are two of her clients while working there: United Parcel Service and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Altogether the three companies and their employees have given Ryan more than $150,000 over the years.
Then there’s Ryan’s connections to a Wisconsin businessman, Dennis Troha, who with his family gave Ryan nearly $60,000 in contributions from 1999 to 2005, according to the Washington Post. Troha was simultaneously trying to open a large Indian casino in Ryan’s district and lobbying for legislation giving his trucking company special hauling privileges. To do so, Troha enlisted Ryan, who made phone calls to federal agencies and pushed for the truck legislation on Troha’s behalf.
In 2007, Troha was indicted on charges of funneling illegal campaign contributions to Wisconsin politicians to advance his gaming and trucking interests, and Ryan was the only politician named in the court documents when Troha’s associate pleaded guilty to the scheme. Ryan would later donate the equivalent of Troha’s contributions to a local Boys and Girls Club.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/08/14/the-big-money-behind-paul-ryans-political-career
I’ll be glad when next week comes and we can forget this phony 100 days nonsense. I don’t want any kind of legislation crammed through to meet a ridiculous deadline. Let’s just do it right.
This obsession with 100 days is a total liberal concoction to make EVERY Republican pale next to the dictator FDR.
Let’s just do it right.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Agreed, Ryan wants to exclude pre-existing condition coverage for his insurance lobby.
That’s the problem. Its so easy to see.
Wind Fall Profit Ryan.
RYAN GET OUT!
Ryan is in a safe seat. His actions as speaker are ankle biting at best.
He isn’t beholden to anyone. Eddie Munster is the annoying kid who thinks he should be shortstop and bat 4th, even though he stinks.
Eddie Munster has been called that his whole life. When he became a congressman he thought the Eddie Munster shit would stop. It didn’t. He wants revenge on his childhood enemies. The American people are his childhood enemies who picked him last for baseball and called him Eddie Munster.
Geez. Butch Patrick calls that twerp Eddie Munster.
Ryan can't make it happen. He's fired.
Next person, Trey Gowdy as Speaker.
If the GOP in Congress doesn't change, and I see little hope of it, Primary them All come 2018.
They are too busy with fake investigations about Trumps business dealings, his tax returns, his family's involvement, and on and on and on.
See, they don't work for US, they play games trying to outdo each other because they can't play well with together. Worse than elementary children.
“Ryan flubs another one. Not up to the job.”
He’s doing exactly the job he feels the right people are paying him to do.
House Speaker, Paul Ryan must go immediately. He is a failure over and over again. A weak leader with a giant ego, that has failed the American people, POTUS, Donald J. Trump and the entire American nation!!!
Speaker Ryan should have been prepared, ready to go with a passable bill to repeal & replace “Obamacare” on January 3rd, 2017. He had nothing to go forward with...Why? He believed, wished and hoped that Hillary Clinton would handily defeat Donald J. Trump and become POTUS!!! With Trump’s defeat, he believed he would become the beloved “Pajama Boy” of the Republican Party!!! This dude, Paul Ryan is a total “ZERO”!!
Congressmen, Jeb Hensarling or Jim Jordan, etc., would be outstanding House Speakers!!! GOP congressmen...force Paul Ryan to resign today or vote him out of his position as Speaker of the House!!! Do it!!!
It’s a herd mentality. Plus those who don’t like him certainly exist.
I’m still very positive about things.
Some things he has done or not done that I dont agree with.
I don’t think it is POSSIBLE to agree with a President on EVERY thing he does out of probably thousands already.
So if I have a few, I put it in perspective that they are offset by the 100s that i like, and many of those i love.
I agree, but it wasn’t the Freedom Caucus the first time. First time around, more Republican members at large than members of the Freedom Caucus opposed the measure.
“He can govern by executive fiat...”
I know these are your words and not Trump’s, but count me out on that one. I didn’t want our ex-wannabe dictator and I didn’t vote for a dictator with an “R” (or any other meaningless letter) after his name.
Agree 100% - too many here using such crap as "evidence" that he's going squishy. They'd be bitching if Reagan was President today.
NAMES!
We should DEMAND TO KNOW THE NAMES of those corrupt Rinos opposing the bill.
Do not let Ryan keep them secret!
The congressional castrati continue to be traitors to theirm electorate. I hope to see them be thrown - out in my lifetime. These sanctimonious liars and quislings deserve to be arrested for their perfidy.
I don’t recall Obama forced to adhere to any deadlines.
You are correct that it was not the FC the first time either.
I even tweeted a reply to President Trump that it was the FC that saved him from a bad bill the first time he criticized the FC.
Between this current loser O’Care bill, the one week spending measure, and that a tax reform bill has not even been voted on, shows that Ryan is incompetent, or a saboteur.
Knowing his status as bought and paid for by lobbyists, I lean toward the latter.
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