Trump tells GOP to take it or leave it on ObamaCare repeal [vote Friday]

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jennifer Jacobs‏Verified account @JenniferJJacobs 11m11 minutes ago More
BREAKING: Paul Ryan is coming to White House to brief the president on latest health care bill, I'm told.

[Mom MD]

It's very interesting   On a thread about a trump tweet on the freedom caucus as TOS a few of the Trump supporters are starting to turn on him   Got popcorn?

[ABX]

Trump will sign any bill that makes it to his desk....

Interesting. Do you have a source link where he said that?

[Right_in_Virginia]

The happiest man in America today .....

[endicom]

The happiest man in America today .....

If that's his house then he should be.

[Sanguine]

Have you all contacted your representative and told him/her how you want them to represent you?

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Interesting. Do you have a source link where he said that?

No.  That's a prediction based on widely-reported efforts by Trump and Ryan to try to get some movement out of either the Freedom Caucus, or the moderates, or both.  It wasn't them insisting on just a single particular bill.  And I don't think they cared which group gave ground -- they were just trying to push at either end to see if it was possible to cobble together enough votes.  And I think Trump would have signed it either way, else they wouldn't have even been trying to move either/both  groups.

The core problem is that there are too many moderates in the House and Senate who will not vote for the kind of bill demanded by the Freedom Caucus.  That is the core reality, and blaming Trump, Ryan, or McConnell doesn't make sense because they cannot dictate how individual Senators/members will vote.

[corbe]

Have you all contacted your representative and told him/her how you want them to represent you?

   Mine's a DEM and he will do just as pelousy dictates.

[Right_in_Virginia]

If that's his house then he should be.

I noticed, too .. he really does have a great house.  Unless, of course, he's gotten himself a nice part-time job.   ^-^

[corbe]

   No way does this guy mows his own grass, Trump must have deported his landscaper.

[Silver Pines]

It's looking more and more like my refusal to vote for Trump was well founded!

@Bigun

I don't regret voting third party, and if I had it to do over, would do the same.

[Mom MD]

So trump gets bored and abandons what he ran on already   If gorsuch turns out to be another Kennedy he will be an unmitigated disaster in the first 100 days

[Bigun]

@Bigun

I don't regret voting third party, and if I had it to do over, would do the same.

Based on the information I had at the time, so would I.  Now I'm not so sure but looking more and more like it.

[ABX]

It looks like it is going to be a 'leave it' - it is being reported Ryan is pulling the TRyanCare bill, not only does he not have the votes, he is losing the votes he had.

Loss for Donny and Pauly.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Katherine Faulders‏Verified account @KFaulders 2m2 minutes ago More
.@VP Pence is now at the Capitol Hill Club, where the Freedom Caucus is currently meeting.

[Right_in_Virginia]

It looks like it is going to be a 'leave it' - it is being reported Ryan is pulling the TRyanCare bill, not only does he not have the votes, he is losing the votes he had.

Loss for Donny and Pauly.

Is your champagne ready to be popped?

[ABX]

Is your champagne ready to be popped?

Nope, I don't get that attached to anything coming out of DC. Happy to see RINOCare gone and a chance for a repeal, but when it gets down to it, the actual 'game' of politics is all bread and circuses.

[Free Vulcan]

What good does that do us?

We may want to fantasize that "they'll get all the blame", but that's not true.  If it goes down the toilet, Republicans will get the blame because they will have controlled the government when that happened.

The "solution" of doing nothing and "letting it go down the toilet" is the dream scenario for Democrats.   The truth is that the Medicaid expansion subsidies will remain, and won't go down the toilet at all.  And that's the biggest expense.  The parts that might go down completely, like the individual markets, will be blamed on Republicans, who let it happened and didn't pass an alternative.

I suppose some conservatives may take smug satisfaction in being proven "right", but we'll be in an even worse place.

Because what's being propsed isn't going to work. We're just rearranging and basically going with the same core plan. We need to start over and rewrite it. That also means that the moderates are going to have to give on some things, not just the conservatives.

If they're not willing to do that, then they need to forget doing it at all. This isn't some smirky little playground game where you can shuffle shells around in cute configurations. If they can't come up with something that will economically work, we are right back to where we started.

[Sanguine]

Is your champagne ready to be popped?

@Right_in_Virginia, not me; I don't care for champagne.  But - I am very glad that this bill has been pulled and hopefully buried.  It would have been a disaster for the GOP to own this abomination.

[Bigun]

Is your champagne ready to be popped?

Mine is if we actually manage to avoid this bullet! 

[bolobaby]

Is your champagne ready to be popped?

This would be a champagne popping moment. A win for conservatism instead of kabuki theater BS "repeal."

Buuuuut... you're fully vested in Trump, so you would like your own arse if he said to do it.

[Silver Pines]

CNN‏Verified account @CNN  7m7 minutes ago

 GOP source: House Speaker Paul Ryan tells President Trump they don't have the votes for health care bill

[Right_in_Virginia]

Nope,

Why not?  If I held your political worldview and opinion of the orange one ... I'd certainly have champagne chilled and ready to go.

So, forgive me for not quite believing you.   ^-^

[Silver Pines]

Maggie Haberman‏Verified account @maggieNYT  32m32 minutes ago

 Word of caution for all as details leak from White House - Trump loves misdirection, so do some aides. Narrative and reality may not match.

[Silver Pines]

Washington Post‏Verified account @washingtonpost  1h1 hour ago

 Per House members, phone calls on the GOP health bill run 35-to-1 against