LF: Trump and the Republicans, Business as Usual

So far, Trump and the republicans are following perfect form:

House Republicans abandoned their efforts to repeal and partially replace Obamacare after President Donald Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan couldn’t wrangle enough votes….

It strikes me that Obama is more capable than Trump and Pelosi is more capable than Ryan; at least when Obama and Pelosi had a majority in both houses of congress, they could ramrod an unpopular bill through.

Why did it fail? I will answer the question with a question: who in the electorate voted for “replace”? The voters for Trump wanted “repeal.” Republicans, when not in power, proposed a repeal bill at least half-a-dozen times. Why not now?

Many republicans in congress wanted either repeal or a different version of replace.

If Trump and Ryan truly wanted a win, they should have called for a straight-up “repeal” vote. The base would have been thrilled; republicans who voted against this would have been kicked out of office in two years; Trump would have delivered what his voters expected.

Instead we get one of the only two allowable outcomes in US politics: business as usual or business worse than usual.

“We’ll end up with a truly great health-care bill after the Obamacare mess explodes,” [Trump] said.

It will implode, but you won’t get “a truly great health-care bill” out of it.

Why do you think you will be in office when it implodes? Why do you think republicans will hold a majority in congress when it implodes? Why do you think republicans in congress will allow it to implode? Why do you think other republicans in congress will want to replace it?

Why do you think those who voted for you want “a truly great health-care bill” at all?

Just In: After He Killed The Healthcare Bill, Paul Ryan Had A Secret Meeting An Hour Later - USA NEWS

Just one hour after announcing that the GOP health care Bill was dead in the water, speaker of the House Paul Ryan was photographed yesterday, rushing to a secret meeting in a residential neighborhood of Washington DC. A reporter for the Washington Examiner heard on a secured channel that Ryan had broken away from his security detail and managed to follow him and take the above photograph of him exiting the vehicle.

The men he is with aren’t his Secret Service detail. They are the driver and lead agent for former President Barack Obama. Examiner reporter Walter Lyons stayed on scene long enough to see Ryan leave approximately an hour later. He told a colleague at the Federalist Papers:

It would appear that Ryan has been working with Obama’s Deep State shadow government all along. Whether he was promised the White House after a plan to overthrow President Trump or a percentage of the millions per month Obama makes from Obamacare royalties, Paul Ryan is a traitor to America.

Spread this far and wide and see that the truth gets out. It’s our duty as Americans. You know the mainstream media will pretend this either didn’t happen or spin it into something “good” for Republicans.

We hardly even heard the word 'replace' from Trump or the congressional GOP until after the election. Suddenly, you couldn't hear them say 'repeal' without 'replace', like it was a party talking point.

Just In: After He Killed The Healthcare Bill, Paul Ryan Had A Secret Meeting An Hour Later - USA NEWS

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