Paul Ryan played Donald Trump for the political amateur that he is.

[Jan2017]

There's more . . .

The dealmaker-in-chief got beat like a drum by the Speaker of the House.

Paul Ryan played Donald Trump for the political amateur that he is, and even Trump knows it.

Mr. Trump has told four people close to him that he regrets going along with Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s plan to push a health care overhaul before unveiling a tax cut proposal more politically palatable to Republicans.
He said ruefully this week that he should have done tax reform first when it became clear that the quick-hit health care victory he had hoped for was not going to materialize on Thursday, the seventh anniversary of the act’s passage, when the legislation was scheduled for a vote.

http://www.gq.com/story/paul-ryan-ou...d-donald-trump

[CPUd]

[timosman]

Paul D. Ryan - the Kingmaker

[timosman]

Taking the helm from Nancy Pelosi as the WH insider.

Schumer passes his to Rand.

[timosman]

Now lets talk about style.

And btw, was anybody promoting my books?

[eleganz]

Now the media is helping us create division between Trump and Ryan.

Speaker Massie anyone?

[angelatc]

Now the media is helping us create division between Trump and Ryan.

Speaker Massie anyone?

Amash has suggested Labrador in the past.

[timosman]

Amash has suggested Labrador in the past.

That was a very long time ago.

[PatriotOne]

Trey Gowdy for Speaker of the House. He's got the right stuff for the job.

[Jan2017]

It takes one "privileged" GOP House member - Meadows introduced it against Boehner - to file a motion to Vacate the Speaker.

Put that up on the floor and although they do not vote on it right away, that really starts the process for thinking about
just who can get something done with the GOP majority that Ryan can't.

Sen. Mike Lee was on with Chuck Todd today . . .

Chuck Todd : "The GOP party's core promise for four straight campaigns broken. How did it happen? And why are they giving up so easily?"

Like Rand this past week, Lee said repeal of 0care is not over yet . . . even if Trump doesn't want to play anymore.

But it was discouraging that Lee said that there was now some sort of federal architecture in place (still 0care)
for recognizing "a health care right". Only providing catastrophic health care from the federal government is about
the only right I could possibly see flying - having actual constitutional muster to get by the Supreme Court.

[merkelstan]

Half of US health care is already socialist - Medicare / Medicaid

[eleganz]

Amash has suggested Labrador in the past.

And then endorsed Paul Ryan for speaker (which I didn't really mind anyways) but the funny thing is, nobody in the liberty movement is shtting on Amash like they did when Rand endorsed Mitch.

Double standards.