Bad news: Freedom Caucus put out a list of firm âNoâ votes. There are only 17 names on the list, short of the 22 needed to block.
Good news: Club for Growth made a major ad buy opposing âRyancareâ in markets of some of the squishy Reps.
Ridiculous: Trump claimed GOP will pick up â10 seatsâ in Senate if ACHA passes.
Closing deals is not âwhat he does best.â
What he does best is to wildly and falsely blame anyone but himself when it fails ⌠which it will, and which he will too.
Ryan said Trumpâs in-person push for members to back the bill on Tuesday morning helped secure its future.
The President âknocked the ball out of the park,â he said.
Aw, they finally decided to make it official, cementing their partnership and tying their political fates together. Let us behold the happy couple and throw daisies and white roses as they walk down the aisles jointly holding the bill as Trump hits it out of the park.
Whatâs that? No roses or daisies? Rotten tomatoes instead? Moldy hunks of Cheese?
Paul - havenât you been paying attention? Heâs going to abandon you when this flails either in the House or in the Senate. See that image of a dangling silhouette? Thatâs you as the scarecrow being left alone in an empty field as hungry crows swirl around and feed on the corn that you are supposed to be âprotectingâ.
But having now completed this dance/partnership on the Hill on DonTCare - you are in a lose, lose situation. Trump will heaps the blame (and vitriol) on you when it fails, AND you will forever be seen as part of the team trump for this effort and as his credibility continues to delve deeper and deeper into the abyss - you and your party will be swept away with the wake.
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL and because he SUCH a masterful negotiatorâŚ
Itâs like we get a teensy glimpse of his warped and gloriously self-promoting reality inside of his head.
âŚsweet nothings in Donnieâs earâŚ
In other words, if this goes down in flames, it is Trumpâs fault
Ryan sees his Ayn Randian Fantasy of the âStrong Dominating the Weakâ is within reach and he will do ANYTHING to get it passed in the House, where, in all likelihood it WILL PASS.
Over in the Senate however, it faces a long, tough road. I am sure McConnell will try every parliamentary procedure trick in the book to skate it through in some 3 AM vote, but I have my doubts.
Unlike in the House, you canât âgerrymanderâ a Senate race and 2018 is looming in the distance.
those are TOILET SEATSâŚgold plated no ,less⌠not seats in the senate when this bill is brought before the American people and so far this is nothing but a bigly clusterphuck
Is there a bigger phony and scumbag than Ryan? I hope he keeps praising Don the Con, so perhaps he can lose his seat in 2018.
We learned exactly who Ryan is in 2012 when he kept batting his eyelashes for Romney and carrying the bilge water till his back near broke.
Heâll do and say anything if he thinks it will keep him close to where he believes the power is. I cannot conceive of anyone more slimey and slippery than this immoral and talentless excuse for a man.
I wonder, besides the âFreedom Caucusâ (now thereâs a â1984â inspired appellation if I ever heard one!), how many of the GOP House members in blue states or in states where they won against Dems by razor-thin margins are going to be stupid enough to vote for this rancid piece of chupacabra shit, especially with their constituents screaming âYOUR LAST TERM!â at them every chance they get.
Trump met with Charlie Dentâs âTuesday Groupâ after the caucus-wide pressure session; no word on how that went. Also read that reporters could hear cheers and pounding on desks from the Freedom Caucus meeting this afternoon.