[Don Corleone]

'President Donald Trump Is a Man of His Word'

Sadly, not too many congress critters are though.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Paul Ryan is not a man of his word.
This is his bill.
Therein lies the problem.

[Billthedrill]

President Donald Trump is a man of his word

So, I'm sure, is Mr. Ryan. In his case the question is, his word to whom?

[Logical me]

This piece of real crap has had almost half of King Obama years that it has been built on month after month until it is a huge complicated piece. I do not believe we can just, with a wave of a wand, eliminate it. It will take months to dissemble piece by piece all the while working with the communists Democrats that are trying to destroy President Trump and his Administration.

[Ray76]

Ryan is not. He's lying about his bill.

Today on Hannity's radio show Ryan said his bill is "Tim Price's bill plus replace", it is "repeal plus replace"

That is lie.

Here is the relevant part Price's bill:

Sec 2. REPEAL OF PPACA AND HEALTH CARE-RELATED HCERA PROVISIONS.
(a) PPACA.-Effective as of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148), such Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted.

(b) HEALTH CARE-RELATED PROVISIONS IN THE HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 2010.—Effective as of the enactment of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–152), title I and subtitle B of title II of such Act are repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such title or subtitle, respectively, are restored or revived as if such title and subtitle had not been enacted.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161227192319/http://tomprice.house.gov/sites/tomprice.house.gov/files/HR%202300%20Empowering%20Patients%20First%20Act%202015.pdf

There is nothing similar in Ryan's bill.

Here is Ryan’s bill: http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/AmericanHealthCareAct.pdf

[TheNext]

REPEAL NOT REPLACE

REPEAL WITHOUT REPLACE

REPEAL THEN REPLACE RYAN

REPLACE RYAN WITH RAND

REPEAL BUT NOT REPLACE

REPLACE THIS

NEVER REPEAL AND REPLACE

NEVER REPLACE

DO NOT REPLACE

ALWAYS REPEAL AND NEVER REPLACE

PURSUE REPEAL AVOID REPLACE

REPLACE REPLACE WITH REPEAL

REPEAL AND REPEAL AGAIN REPEAT

REPLACE MY ARSE

REPEAL REPLACE

REPEAL THIS SLAVERY

REPUBLICANS REPEAL DEMOCRATS REPLACE

REPEAL ALL DONORS

REPLACE THE SPEAKER

[SteveH]

ideally this should be fixable in reconciliation.

a devil’s advocate hypothesis is that all these guys in the house face re-election. they have no choice but to maximize their popularity at all times. maybe a handful of them are in need of a popularity boost at home, being able to inoculate themselves against the great white devil trump to their constituents. what better way to indicate their independence than to vote for an “obamacare lite” bill in defiance of trump, only to have it shot down in the senate during reconciliation? trump can always sign the resultant bill if reconciliation fixes the flaws, and everyone can have their cake and eat it too.

that is the only explanation i can come up with when watching everyone talk about this on fox. all defenders of the current bill seem to be mealymouthed during cross-questioning, such as the guy on hannity this evening.

so, bottom line, might not be time to worry about trump yet.

and also i suspect that the last thing trump needs right now is a civil war within the republican party.

who is the party leader, if not trump? certainly not the nobodies ryan or mcconnell. hopefully even they will admit this.

and again trump and his family need to be very very careful. i think it is not unreasonable to believe that the deep state put out a lament about him. you can take lament to mean whatever.