Posted on 03/23/2017 6:17:31 PM PDT by davikkm
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney emerged from a meeting with House Republicans with an ultimatum. If the House-led effort to replace Obamacare fails, the United States is stuck with Obamacare, according to several Congressional reporters on Twitter. Mulvaney was joined by a group of administration officials including senior advisors Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, and Kellyanne Conway for an evening meeting with House Republicans in an effort to break the logjam on the bill. Most House Freedom Caucus members refuse to vote for the bill without major changes. Moderate House Republicans have also protested the bill.
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Naturally - add a middleman, pay the middleman.
The community leash Americans wear just got a notch tighter thanks to Paul Ryan.
If I were Trump I would publicly ask for his resignation as house speaker in the morning.
"You're Fired"
Trump is negotiating with jello now. He gives one side (conservatives) something and then the other side (RINOS) withdraws support. And vice versa. This can’t go on forever. Time to fish or cut bait.
Your position is not logical. Its all or none. Trump is perfect or he is a loser. Healthcare reform is everything we want or its a complete cop out.
I don’t like this bill but I do trust Trump. If this is the best we can get now I trust him to do the rest with Price, executive orders & more bills later on. Once this part is done we can go forward because we can’t go back, that gives Trump leverage.
It’s a brilliant move ONLY if his end-game is a free-market health-care system. If his end-game is to get a bill, any bill, then it’s not a brilliant move, it’s just cunning.
No, the Freedom Caucus saved us from Ryancare.
The Democrats still own Obamacare.
The GOP and Trump would have owned the disaster if they had passed Ryancare. It would still have been Obamacare, but everybody would be calling it Trumpcare.
Well said!
Actually they often are.
You often don’t get a deal until you show you are ready to walk away.
Trump is too eager to get something, anything, passed and signed.
Trump badly wanting a deal has something to do with tax cuts and the budget. Everything is interconnected. Lower baseline or something. I’m not sure exactly.
Why the end of Trump? Just let the “new” No care die and start over. BTW, Ryan is a loser, sure wish he did not have his greedy hands all over this.
If they ( Ryan) fail, an emergency session should be called in the House, to replace him as Speaker! He’s had over two years and what has he accomplished? Nothing! Absolutely NOTHING!!!
Obamacare was passed with 60 votes:
“On December 23, the Senate voted 60–39 to end debate on the bill: a cloture vote to end the filibuster. The bill then passed, also 60–39, on December 24, 2009, with all Democrats and two independents voting for it, and all Republicans against”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act
Only an amendment was passed through reconciliation.
MUST get rid of Ryan.
Well, if the president was the legislature, he could do that.
And if the GOP in Congress thought that repeal and replace as out of bounds, they could speak up and say so. Trump was echoing what the GOP in Congress has been saying for the past four years. They promised to repeal and replace, Trump did some cheerleading for the players. It is up to the players, the legislators, the Congress, to follow through.
Maybe that’s Trump’s goal...to smoke these lyin Rynos out.
If they pass it in its current form, Obamacare remains and the GOP owns it.
This is a stupid ultimatum anyway. Congress is capable of setting its own agenda. Trump can say he's moving on, and he can move on, but Congres can pass this next week, next month, or whenevr it feels the urge, and there is nothing Trump can do to stop them from putting a bill on his desk.
Yes, he stupidly is.
Trump really misplayed this thing. Basically joined the swamp by letting Ryan dictate the bill. He should have started with the conservatives first and not the insiders who dislike him. Hopefully he learns the right lesson.
art of the deal huh? if this is true.
more like poker to me. if i were playing i’d call his bluff.
two can walk away from a bad deal. easy bluff to call since the President is on record as having promised to sign a repeal. this will never go away until it’s handled.
let’s see the vote.
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