The positions of the Freedom Caucus and moderate Rs cannot be reconciled. It does not matter how many additional years, on top of the seven you’ve already had, you are granted. After the midterms, when many of the moderates will be culled, striking a compromise will be even more difficult.
There you go again, Paul, contradicting the Will of Pennywise the President. He wants a vote before you break for Easter. Expect some form of nastygram tweet as a reminder to stay quiet. Who do you think you are? One of the heads of a coequal branch of government, or something?
See? Even Paulie knows that Trump’s time is limited. It may very well take “weeks” before the FBI investigation reveals enough to make Trump too toxic, even for the Republicans. Until then, they’ll do their best to rush their agenda to his desk.
“Hell,” said Ryan, “we’ve been saying we were working on this for the last seven years. If we can’t continue to say that for at least the foreseeable future, how can we call ourselves Republicans?”
Only thing ryan can pass is gas.
I keep hearing from several self-identified Repuglican Rep. “leaders” that the late night meetings with vice slug Pence are yielding “bipartisan discussions” that are leading to “bipartisan solutions.” In this case, they are using “bipartisan” to mean Repugs talking(?) to each other. That is not bipartisan, that is a circular firing squad in an echo chamber.
Until Repugs realize that: 1) The ACA cannot be repealed without doing catastrophic harm to millions of Americans; 2) There is no rational replacement strategy that does not involve reinventing the wheel, that is to say, essentially recreating the ACA; and 3) While the ACA certainly has flaws, it can be improved, but only by working with the Democrats in a truly bipartisan manner that strives to improve healthcare for ALL Americans.
The GOP has had the opportunity since Clinton was FLOTUS to come up with a national health care plan. They don’t want the poors kept alive.
Policy wonk.
Paul, here is a simpler question.
If X is the set of all sets which do not contain themselves as elements, is X an element of X?
A few weeks should be enough.
I’m going to solve the 4-dimensional smooth Poincare conjecture. I’m giving myself 7 weeks: 6 weeks to find some bipartisan support, and one week to write the proof.
GOP Supporters: Take another 8 years. We can wait. We can live with Obama’s Tyranny.
Ryan has a real boner for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to a pathological degree.
It is astounding.
How can someone be such a committed social darwinist?
I don’t even think the man is corrupt, in the sense of looking for some big reward.
That’s the reason he is so dangerous. I think he actually believes that the rich should be richer.
I have stopped doubting his sincerity on this.
It’ just so damned strange.
Policy Wanker
Well when it’s already been around 364 weeks, what’s the harm in a few more eh Paul?
#Testify!
This horrid creature is well aware that the political games that he’s playing will cause most (probably all) remaining insurers to flee the individual market, thereby bringing about the “collapse” of the insurance market that the GOP has been caus…er…predicting all along.
What a crock of S**t when your elected officials are more worried about making political statements/protecting their ideological purity than in protecting the health and well-being of their own citizens. Worse than worthless. Criminal.
Yes, Ryan has weeks to work on health care. Months, actually. Even years. In fact, if he makes no changes whatsoever he’ll be a minor hero to working Republicans. If he quietly takes a suggestion or two from Democrats who understand some improvements that would be useful, he might even be a real hero.
This whole second round was obviously (IMO) the result of pressure from the White House because Trump is desperate to have a win so he can look like a winner, so he ordered his people to get this health care thing done stat. That would account for the fantasy of having something done before the Easter recess on a bill that hasn’t even been written. Trump’s people dutifully tried, but it was never going to happen. Ryan knew that already, so he could be relaxed about the question of timing.