House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), after meeting with President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans, sounded confident that leadership had gained enough support for legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare to pass when it comes up for a vote in the chamber on Thursday.
“President Trump was here to do what he does best, and that is to close the deal,” Ryan said.
He also echoed what he said was President Donald Trump’s message to Republicans in a meeting on Capitol Hill earlier that morning: that if House GOPers do not vote for the current legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, they risk losing their seats in 2018. Asked if he agreed with Trump’s comment, Ryan said, “absolutely.”
He said that Trump told members: “We all made a promise to the American people, and we need to keep our promises.”
Ryan said that if House members do keep their promise to repeal Obamacare, “the people will reward us.”
The speaker also insisted that House Republicans have enough votes to pass the bill, despite opposition to the legislation from leaders of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. He said he disagreed with Freedom Caucus leaders who warn that they have enough votes to block the bill’s passage. Ryan indicated that more conservatives had come on board with changes to the legislation unveiled late Monday night.
Ryan said Trump’s in-person push for members to back the bill on Tuesday morning helped secure its future.
The President “knocked the ball out of the park,” he said.
Bad news: Freedom Caucus put out a list of firm “No” 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 “Ryancare” in markets of some of the squishy Reps.
Ridiculous: Trump claimed GOP will pick up “10 seats” in Senate if ACHA passes.
Closing deals is not “what he does best.”
What he does best is to wildly and falsely blame anyone but himself when it fails … which it will, and which he will too.
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.
What’s that? No roses or daisies? Rotten tomatoes instead? Moldy hunks of Cheese?
Paul - haven’t you been paying attention? He’s going to abandon you when this flails either in the House or in the Senate. See that image of a dangling silhouette? That’s 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 ‘protecting’.
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 negotiator…
It’s like we get a teensy glimpse of his warped and gloriously self-promoting reality inside of his head.