Who knew presidenting could be so complicated?
I think one system that would bring the “Freedom Caucus” onside, is a healthcare plan that involves nailing a brown paper bag on the entrance to health clinics and emergency rooms; If you are a lighter shade than the bag, you get healthcare. If you are a darker shade, fuck off.
Yea, but the bill seems to be getting less popular as time goes on. By next week they’ll have a new CBO score saying how terrible it is, and Congresscritters will have spent another weekend getting angry phonecalls from their constituents. Plus, having already stuck their necks out to vote against the bill once, the cost of doing so again for GOP congressfolk is considerably less.
Plus passing the House was supposed to be the easy part. The Senate is where it faces really tough problems. So eating another week on a probably doomed bill which won’t get through the Senate anyways can’t be a very appealing prospect for the GOP.
So it seems certain its dead, at least in this incarnation.
…sounds about right…
Yeah, things are tough when the Great Dealmaker can’t even muscle through a deal with his own side.
Best day of his presidency so far, and by far.
Sad!
Actually, not sad at all for the country as a whole, and more specifically for the 24 million Americans who would have lost their health insurance under this very, very bad bill. For them, and for all of us, it’s more Glad!
But for Trump, and Paul Ryan, and the entire Republican Party: Sad! Very, very sad! Bigly sad!
For Trump himself, they should consider replacing “Hail to the Chief” with this.
And somewhere, Barack Obama is looking like this.
When was the last time a party had the Presidency, the house and senate and couldn’t get anything done?
That’s pretty much what they did; the core parts of the AHCA are similar to that of prior bills. Similar CBO projections back then as well: tens of millions losing coverage, reduced assistance for the poor, higher premiums, and large tax cuts. The difference then was that Obama could be counted on to veto, so Congress could vote with impunity knowing there would be no consequences. This time around, there would have been consequences to a yes-vote.
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You got to vote for repeal and go back and tell your constituents like 50 times. This is a live ball now. This is for real.
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Health care is like, hard man
This was a bad bill that only worked best for the rich. I’m glad it failed. I am worried Trump will just let the ACA die out of spite
Home.
Drinking.
Happy. 
Well, Clinton couldn’t get a health bill through on his first term either. He did pass the FMLA pretty quickly though, so I’d argue he had a better start than Trump has. And his first two years, before his party lost Congress, was pretty productive as a whole.
Of course, Trump is just 60 days in. I imagine he and the GOP will at least get a taxcut of somesort through, if they have to burn the Republic down to do it. But it is hard to see where you go after abandoning what was arguably your primary legislative goal.
I’m sure he’ll try to sabotage it administratively.
But we can at least give ourselves the weekend before worrying about that.
This is a Big Fucking Deal, as a former Vice-President once said, talking about this exact same thing. Let’s celebrate.
I can’t help but appreciate the rich irony that the so-called “Freedom Caucus” is the block of representatives that denied Ryan his big healthcare plan, being as how the Freedom Caucus arose from the Tea Party movement and Ryan was swept into power by the Tea Party.
Whenever some pundit refers to Paul Ryan as the establishment intellectual of the Republican party, it leaves me puzzled. He is neither.
Well, to be fair, it is now really easy for them to prove how incompetent and fucked up the government is, now that they’re running the whole show.
Really, that’s there whole platform now: “The government is incompetent. See? We can’t get anything done!”
Somewhere Boehner is recalling how he got Obama to agree to a deal to cut SS benefits until Ryan blew it up, and smiling.
LOL, you’re right. I couldn’t stand Boehner, but he’s starting to look like a prince compared to this bucketful of slimy critters.
Oh, I will.
Just not tonight.
Tonight I’m eating ice cream and drinking whiskey or tequila. Or both. Oh yes.
The whole things is frighteningly similar to the Hillary care debacle in the 80’s. A politically clueless jackass makes a bunch of idiotic promises about how great and easy healthcare fixing will be, while everybody else says they have no clue. But they kept pushing it on some delusion that the universe will reward their blind ambition and just make it happen and ballads of their greatness will be written. Interesting to see if he follows her suit, as he has promised, to take his ball and go crying home until everybody realizes their error and comes on their knees pleading to be saved.
Ah, so it’s all Hillary’s fault. I *knew *it!
The Time Warp is a helluva dance.