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Three Strikes Means You’re Out, Speaker Ryan
« on: April 28, 2017, 01:49:28 AM »
Hey, Mr. Speaker, what does “progress” mean to you if you can’t get a bill passed? Maybe you should take your bat and go home.



Paul Ryan’s leadership as House Speaker is dismal. His chief duty is to manage the House’s legislative agenda, not to enrich his Twitter feed.

Given that he has now failed not once, but twice in corralling Republican Members of Congress to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, President Trump should ask him to step aside. The necessity of Ryan being replaced becomes even more clear because, apparently, we are looking at a third attempt to pass the American Health Care Act.

    House Republican leaders delayed a vote on their Obamacare repeal bill until next week at the earliest, denying President Donald Trump a major legislative victory during his first 100 days in office.

    Speaker Paul Ryan and his top lieutenants decided during a late-night huddle in the Capitol that they still do not have the votes to pass the stalled health-care legislation. At least 15 House Republicans remain solidly opposed to the bill, with another 20 leaning no or still undecided, according to GOP lawmakers and aides.

    White House officials, after striking a deal with conservatives, had publicly raised expectations that the vote would occur this week. And they privately pushed Ryan (R-Wis.) to hand Trump something he could tout as a major legislative victory before Saturday, his 100th day in office.

    But GOP leaders are still struggling to secure the votes.


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/04/three-strikes-means-youre-speaker-paul-ryan/

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Re: Three Strikes Means You’re Out, Speaker Ryan
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2017, 02:08:23 AM »
Byron York: Why can't House repeal Obamacare? Because a lot of Republicans don't want to

Republicans have 237 seats in the House. Repealing Obamacare will require 216 votes. Even with unanimous Democratic opposition, Republicans could lose 20 votes and still prevail on repeal. Why haven't they done it?

By this time, it's becoming increasingly clear that Republicans have not repealed Obamacare because a lot of Republicans do not want to repeal Obamacare.

They don't even want to sorta repeal Obamacare. The bill currently on the table, like the bill pulled in March, falls far short of a full repeal of Obamacare. And yet Republicans still cannot agree on it.

About a week after the first Obamacare repeal failure, a House Republican, speaking privately, said the difficulty in passing the bill was not a parliamentary problem involving the complexities of the Senate and reconciliation. No, the lawmaker said, "It is a problem that we have members in the Republican conference that do not want Obamacare repealed, because of their district. That's the fundamental thing that we're seeing here."

"I thought we campaigned on repealing it," the lawmaker continued. "Now that it's our turn, I'm finding there's about 50 people who really don't want to repeal Obamacare. They want to keep it."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-why-cant-house-repeal-obamacare-because-a-lot-of-republicans-dont-want-to/article/2621543