re: The AHCA is failing because Trump is a bad dealmaker

GOP and Ryan had 8 fricking years

That's roughly 2900 days to come up with a repeal and replace. They failed miserably. They can all go seriously frick themselves.
This election to anyone with a brain has shown just how spineless the majority of the GOP is as a whole. Unbelievable.

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How about cueing "it's not a good bill" instead.

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Bad bills pass Congress every time it meets.

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It's failing because it's a bad bill.

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It's both. Trump threw all his weight behind it and couldn't close the deal. It's being reported they have have more no votes today than they did yesterday. Tru.o is going to blame Ryan and House R's, throw a temper tantrum and probably wind up costing him political capital with them. I doubt he gets any major legislation passed.

I tend not to run all Bill's into one. I have the ability to assess them one at a time. In this instance it's a horrible replacement bill because it doesn't fully repeal Obamacare. Try to stay focused. Feel free to bring up other Bill's and I will comment.

With as much media profile as this?

People have been bitching and theorizing about this for years, with different congressmen having different demands from their constituents.

I wouldn't equivocate it to your average "every Tuesday is taco day and we all get pork" bill.

That said, Trump's inability to STFU set the table for congressmen to have the spine necessary to stand for principles.

I agree with Iosh. Trump should buy off the freedom caucus with pork the way Obama did southern dems and pass this bitch using parliamentary trick shots because unilateral rule over 20% of the economy worked so well the first time.

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Trump weakened his negotiating position by showing his hand

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Trump is too untrustworthy to make credible side-deals

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Trump's policy ignorance hinders his judgment about what terms to propose

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All bad but the third item scares the sane among us.

Do you think it's a gotcha type question?

Here is where conservative voters rise above their left leaning counterparts. We will call our leaders on doing the wrong thing. Does that mean they are wrong on everything? No.

If more people in the left had the balls to call out their political leaders we would be in a better way in this country. Give it a try some time. It's fun to be an educated voter and citizen. You don't have to accept everything as being good because it's your party.

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He supports the framewok

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Why? Everyone agrees it's a horrible bill.

He is going a little out of his way to troll the board here, but I'm going to allow this.