Joel Pollack has an interesting take on the President. He has been a calm and unfevered supporter for a while and is worth reading. His latest on the health insurance fubar in the House is here:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/24/health-care-bill-failure-art-of-the-deal/
I do know Trump had been signaling the message to the voters that if this failed, they would get stuck with what they had. A lot of folks made the perfect the enemy of the good on this one, but given the lack of will it was too cumbersome too succeed.
I recommend they keep OCare for those that want it and let the rest of us have real insurance. “If you like your overpriced coverage and limited doctors and high deductables, you can keep it until no one offers it.”
If you open a real private market alongside it, it gives people a place to go.
Health care is a hydra monster. I think it is better to get it done right then to get it done fast. Trump also has to grow in the job.
Time for Ryan to step down.
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You’d think he’d have to: he’s lost all credibility by not only refusing to pursue a clean repeal like they campaigned on and held show votes on for 7 years, but they also didn’t have a plan ready to go as they had claimed the last few years.
I heard Rand Paul quote the Art of the Deal in an interview tonight: don’t ever look desperate to make a deal, you lose any leverage & will make a bad deal. (Like Kerry with Iran) So Trump dusts his hands & says, ok let’s work on tax cuts for a while.
When the Dems, or Congress, or Paul Ryan get desperate enough, Trump will revisit OCare.
(How do we help them get desperate?)
The media will be relentless in labelling them a failure. This is one the congress cannot pass off on someone else. Trump supporters will get more supportive and the pressure will grow to do something. I expect a lot of inner sniping between the leadership and the conservatives.
Do you think that it is the old one-two? Trump manipulates others to get to his position.
It is interesting to see a guy who is not fazed by setbacks in a room full of scared to fail neurotics.
Trump tries, listens, watches, learns and adjusts. He has the patience of age, where he knows he has until this time next year to fix this.
He will let it cool off, let Obamacare get some negative headlines and try again.
Ryan has been taken down a peg and he cannot say Trump did not support him.
Tl;dr- TKC is right.
Ryan is the tame little lapdog of the DC uniparty who will dance on command.
The gop donors don’t want Ocare gone any more than they want a secure border or tariffs.
Dance, Ryan, dance. My guess is that next up on the gop agenda is to fail to write a tax reform bill that can pass Congress, followed by sudden inability to get enough money for a border fence.
The voters are supposed to blame the demon Trump, not the people running Congress. If the gop continues failing, the uniparty wins. If the demonrats do well in 2018, then the uniparty wins. Win- win, for them.
As a Trump supporter, I doubt this will work. I already despise the gop. I already loath Ryan. The demonrats belong in Hell.
I’ll take Trump over the gop, and I expect most conservative voters will also. This first failure has already weakened the Speaker, who is much easier to replace than the President. After the second or third, he’ll be out.
Then we’ll see how well the gop represents its constituents with new leadership- much better than now, I bet.
Love the article. I hope he is right. I wasn’t crazy about this bill, either and didn’t buy the “phase 2 and 3” BS they were pushing. Tom Cotton had that right. Believe it or not, NR has an editorial almost agreeing here (of course they have to throw Trump under the bus). They just can’t help themselves.
I like Ryan – personally. But note that he has never had a real job. He ran for congress as a “yuf” and has been there since the 90’s. He is a policy wonk but no Gingrich, who also made mistakes but not nearly as catastrophic as Ryan’s current.
Problem here is that there is no real Speaker out there. Perhaps Gowdy would do a good job, but I’m not sure he is interested in herding cats and he may have other aspirations – like the senate, where he’d be a terror.