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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
That's not why it was killed. The Freedom Caucus thought it was too generous so they refused to support it.
edit: Although there were a few Republicans that realized it would screw over their constituents and didn't want to lose their seats. There weren't as many of those though.
edited 25th Mar '17 12:22:10 PM by Kostya
This was not a victory of reason. Trumpcare died because the most reactionary members of the Republican party in the House didn't think it was extreme enough. We're still deep in crazytown.
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edited 25th Mar '17 12:13:49 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"66% of polled Americans
want a more independent investigation of Trump's Russia connections.
A Hill GOP aide involved in last-minute negotiations told the Times that Bannon and White House legislative affairs director Marc Short pressured the president to let the House vote on the Obama Care replacement bill.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), however, strongly advised Trump against letting the bill go to a public vote on Friday, as several dozen Republicans remained opposed to the legislation.
According to the Times, Ryan argued that publicly exposing the GOP lawmakers who opposed the bill could do substantial damage to Republicans, especially those who could face primary challenges.
Ryan also reportedly maintained that the move would alienate some rank-and-file Republicans whose support will be needed in pursuing the GOP's upcoming legislative agenda, such as raising the debt ceiling, and do nothing to punish the conservative Freedom Caucus that vocally opposed the bill from the start.
Trump was initially unconvinced about pulling the bill from the House, the Times reported, but following a bleak vote count that showed the bill lacking support, the president told Ryan to withdraw the legislation.
General Flynn may have made a deal with the FBI to save his own skin
Your twitter link about Flynn is now dead, FYI. So maybe this is nothing.
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Huh. I get an error (every time, and the rest of my internet works fine, including twitter) along the lines of :Corrupted Content Error The site at https://mobile.twitter.com/sethabramson/status/845719948018302977
has experienced a network protocol violation that cannot be repaired. Which I never seen before... any ideas?
And as for a new healthcare law passing, it would have to be a decent one. Trumpcare pisses off the reactionaries (and the Dems), while a full repeal scares off the moderates (who team up with the Dems to stop it). So he'd need to bring up something that could appease the Democrats and mainstream Republicans. Good luck, Ryan.
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Thanks.
This I agree with, going for the stick while leaving out the carrot doesn't work. Bannon is no LBJ or Nixon.
edited 25th Mar '17 2:12:06 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Bannon is dead set to piss off people far more powerful than himself.
My take on this? Let him do it, it will destroy the Republican's reputation and potentially kick out Bannon from having too much of a say because everything he touches will be tainted for Republicans as it is for the Democrats.
Inter arma enim silent legesNot for Obama (2009) as far as I can tell. I don't even know if he had engaged plans on the ACA in that period. He had an almost 70% approval rating.
I can't check for Bush's on Wikipedia, the only 3 presidents with pages dedicatied to what I dub their "Napoleonic period" (the first 100 days) there are Obama, Roosevelt and Trump himself.
edited 25th Mar '17 2:30:08 PM by MorningStar1337
This is interesting:
http://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-apologize-pizzagate-fake-news-574025
InfoWars Alex Jones is apologizing for pushing Pizzagate.

It didn't have much to do with logic afaik. A lot of Republicans were apparently not gonna vote for it because it didn't screw over people enough.