The announcement:
BREAKING: House Republicans, short of votes, withdraw health care bill.
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) March 24, 2017
My reaction:
Can we please move on to trade and immigration now?
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) March 24, 2017
Not that I expect the #TruCons in Congress to do anything on those issues either
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) March 24, 2017
#TruCons, ladies and gentlemen. It ended the only way it could have ended. In a clusterfuck https://t.co/vnnTbg0u2N
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) March 24, 2017
Trump’s agenda is pretty much dead unless he can push it through executive order. Even then, courts will block him
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) March 24, 2017
This is only the first embarrassment that Ryan and the incompetant #TruCons will visit on @POTUS. I told you so
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) March 24, 2017
My prediction:
I was already worried that Trump was going to interpret his victory as a mandate for Paul Ryan’s agenda: taxes, healthcare, GOP stuff
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) November 22, 2016
7/ What happened to BUILD THE WALL? Maybe we will get to that in 2020 after plunging into a healthcare fight like Obama did in 2008
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 2, 2017
I’m not against repealing Obamacare. I don’t want healthcare to CONSUME Trump like it did w/ Obama
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 3, 2017
Obama wanted to pass amnesty, but he blew all his political capital on the stimulus & healthcare and lost Congress to the Tea Party in 2010
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 3, 2017
Pretty much. Don’t forget healthcare was THE black hole that consumed Obama’s entire agenda https://t.co/pCyNbnmwEl
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 3, 2017
As @RichardBSpencer has pointed out, Trump has maybe a year to deliver on immigration. Instead, we’re plunging into the healthcare tar baby
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 3, 2017
Here we go again: plunging into the vortex of healthcare and tax cuts. It will be like Obama in ’08 and ’09 + W. in ’01
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 3, 2017
The good news is that we are done with healthcare. Trump got out before he could sink further into the quicksand. The bad news is the Republican Congress is likely useless on other issues.
Trump at this point has virtually abandoned his base.
Ryancare wasn’t shitty, my cousin Shmuley is CFO at Blue Cross/Blue Shield and said RyanCare would have allowed him to make a killing on Obamacare! Plus, Ryancare would have provided the White Working class with the Oxycontin prescriptions they need!
I keep seeing this analysis in the alt-right that somehow trying to repeal/replace Obamacare gets in the way of immigration. Healthcare & immigration are not mutually exclusive, in fact they have nothing to do with each other, especially considering that we don’t really want “legislation” per se on immigration. Immigration legislation always implies some type of legalization/amnesty anyway. Better to just keep enforcing the law and stacking the Supreme Court so that these federal courts cannot block Trump anymore. I also don’t buy these conspiracy theories that “this is what Trump always wanted so that he can now get rid of Ryan.” Actually Trump and Ryan are on the same page on this. Meanwhile Obamacare continues due to ridiculous purity spiraling by the “Freedom” Caucus. Obamacare is basically a wealth transfer from Whites to minorities, but somehow no one on the alt-right seems to notice the practical effect of defeating “Ryancare,” which by the way was a good kind of compromise legislation.
The polling on the legislation was very bad, and worse, very bad with Trump’s base (non-college whites).
Passing it would not have been a win. It might very well have cost Trump the House in 2018, and with that, the Dems would vote for impeachment.
Trump either believed in the legislation, saw it as a way to play nice with Ryan, saw it as a way to cost Ryan political clout if it failed, or a combination of these. But regardless, the bill failing is far preferable to the bill succeeding.
Granted, but on substance it was actually a big improvement, and a missed opportunity. People’s perception of the bill was based on retarded slogans like “Obamacare lite” or “Ryancare” with zero knowledge of what was actually in it.
Obamacare needs to be trashed. We need state-provided “free” healthcare for the poor that is rationed, and we need a free market for everone else.
“free” healthcare for the poor —Why?
if private charities want to give to the “poor” it’s one thing, but the government should be under no obligation to provide anything free for the lazy or those that were too stupid to set up at least a catastrophic illness policy. Why should the tax paying American worker be paying for those that want to sit on their asses and collect welfare?
Everyone talks tough on healthcare. Then they get old
I wish that was possible, but I don’t think it is so long as there is democracy.
Impeach for what? – It has to be for a “high crime or misdemeanor”. Things like prudery – Ant that didn’t work out too well the last time even that was tried. – Trump has committed no crimes so no impeachment is even possible if it was a 100% new world order Marxist congress.
It doesn’t matter for what. If the Democrats have the votes, they’ll make up whatever bullshit they want and vote to do it.There’s a reason why they’re always making up shit to smear Trump as a Russian traitor.
It doesn’t “have” to be for anything. Impeachment is ultimately a political process that a party can hijack with no crimes having been committed at all, if they want to.
Ryancare was a dog, and Paul Ryan is a cuck that needs to be politically destroyed.
Agreed, Obomacare will go away by itself if we ignore it. – And it will not be the fault of the GOP. There is no way anybody can blame anyone but Blow-see and the royal exalted boma etal for it’s demise. Now we don’t have to read it at all,in fact. Laze-Fare and. it will go away by it self
Pretty smart politics on Trump’s part. ObamaCare is a slow motion train wreck. The Democrats will be crying for Trump to do something, and he will be able to say I already tried.
The healthcare debate reminds me of the Superfund debate. Everyone can see the deficiencies of the present system, but coming up with anything different is politically impossible. i hope Trump drops this issu and moves onto some things on which he can make a difference: immigration (crush the judiciary!!!) and foreign policy (stop provoking Russia and China!!).
Cut out this shit Trump. You’ve got some judges to hang for treason. Fucking pussy.