One of the false narratives peddled by establishment RINO squishes like Reince Priebus in order to get principled conservatives to act like liberal Democrats is to spew the phony premise, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
Priebus said as much to FOX News’ Chris Wallace Sunday when he said, “We can’t be chasing the perfect all the time.”
It was intended to be a slam against the House Freedom Caucus, which insisted that Republicans keep their promise of fully repealing Obamacare, something the failed American Health Care Act (AHCA) did not do and kept in place the entire Obamacare apparatus and many of the regulations that caused health insurance premiums and deductibles to unnecessarily skyrocket.
But as House Freedom Caucus founding member Jim Jordan told MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, House GOP leadership didn’t come anywhere close to perfection when they crafted Paul Ryan’s health care bill behind closed doors, the bill dubbed Obamacare 2.0, Obamacare Lite, RINOCARE, or Swampcare. Far from seeking perfection, the bill “wasn’t even good.”
“Mr. Priebus was talking about don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Well, this wasn’t even good.”
“When no one likes the legislation, you have to do it different,” Jordan said. “It wasn’t going to bring down premiums — it had a host of problems. And frankly, the key promise we made to the American people in the 2010, 2014, and 2016 election[s] was we would repeal Obamacare, this legislation didn’t do that. And that was the fundamental flaw in this entire process. So let’s get back to work and let’s do what we said we would do.”
Jordan went on to say that the House Freedom Caucus was completely united on the 2015 clean Obamacare repeal bill that was passed in both the House and Senate and was sent to Obama’s desk.
But instead of starting with the “perfect,” Paul Ryan and his team of RINOs stupidly crafted a turd sandwich behind closed doors first and somehow thought it would pass muster with principled conservatives who were excluded from the writing of the legislation.
President Trump, as the author of “Art of the Deal” should know, this is exactly the opposite way a negotiation should have been constructed.
Want a clean repeal bill and health bill and tax bill and everything-else bill?
Easy. Mitch McConnell: suspend the filibuster rule and ram through all of the legislation in a Republican majority Senate. There. Done. No negotiation with Democrats at all. No ability to stop anything.
If the Republicans are right, their programs, fully enacted, will unleash great prosperity, and they'll never lose another election because they'll control the whole budget, everything.
Truth is, the bulk of Republicans are NOT on the side of the people. They are crony capitalists who want tax breaks for the rich and stockjobbing contracts that privatize the government on a for-profit basis for the well- connected.
There are more Republican legislators like that than there are Republican populists are true-blue conservatives. Unfortunately, sand is running through the hour glass. The GOP was elected on Trump's coattails. HE was elected to do things the bulk of the traditional GOP does not want. But they have to swallow their desires and follow him. Or they can resist, divide, fail, and be replaced by Democrats.
You can be sure that if the DEMOCRATS take back power, THEY will maintain party discipline, kill the filibuster and ram through their whole agenda.
Well, the Dems want single payer - that's better. Of course they want to use it to fund unlimited abortion too.
And the Dems want generous family leave. That's much better.
And the Dems don't keep trying to privatize Social Security, so they're better on that too.
On foreign policy they're equally incompetent as Republicans, and they both treat Israel better than they are willing to treat states of their own country, which is discouraging.
The Republicans could be better, but they just love money and power so very much they can't seem to accept that redistribution of SOME excess wealth is necessary to keep suffering down.
The Republicans could be better, but they just love money and power so very much they can't seem to accept that redistribution of SOME excess wealth is necessary to keep suffering down.
Don't kid yourself. NOBODY is greedier than the Dims. Nobody. They make the RINO's look like shoplifters by comparison.
