House Republicans despair after health care collapse

[workinclasszero]

House Republicans despair after health care collapse
'It’s a failure for the American people — and this is on the Senate,' one GOP House member says.
By RACHAEL BADE, JOHN BRESNAHAN and KYLE CHENEY 07/28/2017 11:47 AM EDT

Speaker Paul Ryan was not his typical Eagle Scout optimistic self.

At a closed-door conference meeting with House Republicans hours after Sen. John McCain scuttled perhaps the last best hope of repealing Obamacare, Ryan read an excerpt from “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” a song about sailors drowning in a 1975 shipwreck. He likened the tune to what he deemed the Senate’s tragic failure to repeal Obamacare.

GOP House members lit into their Senate counterparts Friday, fingering them — and only them — for the death of a seven-year campaign promise. After taking a politically poisonous vote on a controversial repeal bill, the Senate failed to unite around a substantial policy replacing President Barack Obama’s health care law, leaving House Republicans exposed.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/28/obamacare-repeal-failure-house-republicans-react-241086

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Good. They deserve their misery.

How terribly sad for them that they were unable to take health insurance away from millions of people.

[workinclasszero]

11. Yes the republicans haz a sad because they couldn't strip health care away from sick children

I hope they and the damned koch bros choke on their own bile.

[Cosmocat]

18. They are THAT deluded by their own bullshit ...

they LONG ago actually began to believe the bullshit they feed their pods.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Cold Beer hear,Cold Beer hear!!

[loyalsister]

3. I wish they cited the excerpt

"That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed when the gales of November came early"?

[dalton99a]

4. The type of Eagle Scout who can't wait to shove Grandma under the bus

[workinclasszero]

12. Yeah

Evil bastard ain't he?

[MiddleClass]

22. Not bus, a cliff

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[eleny]

5. Better that they despair politically than those who would have lost health insurance

[jodymarie aimee]

6. Ryan is one of ours in WI

a more vile man you will not find....oh, except for Walker, Priebus, Sheriff white hat, Ron Johnson, Grothman, Duffy...yeah.. they are all pigs.

[world wide wally]

8. Wi used to be a great place.

WTF happened up there?

[dalton99a]

13. It became Wississippi

https://www.wpr.org/wississippi-reporter-examines-whether-wisconsin-has-more-common-southern-states

[jodymarie aimee]

17. same thing they are attempting in the USA

we were the petri dish for the Kochs...and KS, also. Lying and cheating and rigging election machines.

[gibraltar72]

7. Perhaps they

should rush to the Rose Garden to have a presser!

[gratuitous]

9. No kegger on the White House lawn? Bummer, dudes

I know! Each and every House Republican should just resign his or her seat. That would teach the American people and the Senate Republicans a good lesson.

[NastyRiffraff]

15. They can always cry in their beer.

That way they can still have the kegger!

[Renew Deal]

10. So their view is "they made us look bad"?

[maxrandb]

14. A Shipwreck

is a good euphemism for Republican governance

[maxrandb]

16. Only ReTrumplicans

could equate the tragic loss of dozens of Sailors in the most horrific Great Lakes shipping disaster in history with the failure to throw millions of Americans off of basic health care.

What's next ReTrumplicans? D-Day is as horrific as an unfriendly toilet tweet from the Orange Shitgibbon.

You know what really pisses him off? He's going to have to Hoover some serious Koch-Dick to get the money tap open again.

[MiddleClass]

19. Ryan was giddy at the possibility of eliminating one of the 3 "ENTITLEMENTS" it was his baby

It was the first to start this overreach, and now it is still a failure.

Serves them right, the Senate was not as heartless, close, but not

[Vinca]

20. Yeah, but they'll always have the memory of their Rose Garden ceremony.

[workinclasszero]

24. LOL

[Buns_of_Fire]

27. First the frat party, now the hangover. nt

[FSogol]

21. Haw-Haw! n/t

[Demtexan]

23. No check from the one percent now.

How sad.

I love my Obama Care.

[Skittles]

25. the GOP House members fignered their Senate counterparts

[Not Ruth]

26. They dodged a bullet

If they kept their "promise", they would own healthcare and it would cost them when it fails. Of course they cannot tell their constituents that.

[Sugar Smack]

28. I can't stop giggling. It's all so MAUDLIN and OPERATIC.

It calls for the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony. Like, this should strum the tender sympathies, that stir within all regular people, on THEIR behalf. (Them trying (& failing) to get the rest of us to drop dead, I mean.)

[OnDoutside]

29. After a quiet start, their spirits picked up. Video here

[bagelsforbreakfast]

30. This one might also apply...