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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaul Ryan's 'friends' have a sad face over Ryancare betrayal
Daily KosYou can almost hear the maniacs in Congress crying, "But he was supposed to be our House Speaker!" They deposed John Boehner so they could get this? None of Ryan's tenure as speaker has been easy, because the Freedom Caucus maniacs and their big backers in interest groups won't ever let leadership off easy. But now they feel completely betrayed by Ryan, because they all believed him when he said "Obamacare repeal,and now they feel he is reneging.
But on one of the biggest days of his political career, when House Republicans released their much-anticipated Obamacare replacement, many of Ryan's closest friends in the conservative intelligentsia expressed disappointmentif not outright dismaywith the legislation bearing the speaker's imprimatur.
Indeed, virtually every prominent conservative health care expertprecisely the sort of ideological allies who have backed Ryan in the pastpanned this legislation.
The Cato Institute's Michael Cannon called it "a train wreck waiting to happen." The American Enterprise Institute's Jim Capretta told POLITICO the GOP's decision to do away with a cap on tax credits for employer-based health insurance reflected a reluctance to "deal with reality." Forbes' Avik Roy, widely considered one of the pre-eminent health care policy experts on the right, predicted the legislation would make insurance unaffordable for millions of the nation's poor and offered an analysis with subsections titled, "The Good," "The Bad" and "The Terrible." The Wall Street Journal editorial board was the lone dissenter, calling the bill "the most consequential GOP social-policy reform since the welfare overhaul of 1996."
Ryan should beware the Ides of March.
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Paul Ryan's 'friends' have a sad face over Ryancare betrayal (Original Post)
Jimbo101
Mar 2017
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dchill
(38,559 posts)1. I'll bet Ryan is starting to realize...
it would have been better to just leave Obamacare alone, and just start calling it ACA.
GP6971
(31,226 posts)2. I hope that if this passes
the pushback will be so severe that they are voted out.
Warpy
(111,380 posts)3. Betrayal? Have they not been paying attention to this little weasel for the
past 7 or so years? He's always been about that tired old crap that would work OK for the super rich but would leave everybody else either going bankrupt or dying of neglect. He's always put that crap right out in front.
Wake up, people, it's time to pay attention to these Republican assholes you keep sending back to Congress.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. Try this.
Ryan is still Pissed that he and Willard got their lunch handed to them. This is Ryan giving us his pay back,that is the long and short my friends. This will be born out in months to come.