Quote Originally Posted by ClubDirt:
i don't understand. republicans have been saying for the last 7 years how obamacare is the worst thing that's ever happened to humanity and now they are in complete control and can't even get a bill passed among themselves to improve it.
that's like taking over the browns organization and having all of the time and money you need and saying, nope, we can't come up with one thing to make them better. what kind of morons are we dealing with here?
It's really easy to be on the outside complaining about the other side, yelling and screaming about how much better we can do, and throwing out promises and not explaining how we are going to do it.
It's like the local radio guy who keeps screaming that the coach of the football team or basketball team should be fired. Then you ask him who should replace them, and they have no idea. Being vocal about getting rid of something is easy. It's coming up with the replacement plan that's the hard part, and unfortunately I'm seeing that the Republicans don't have plans for the things they were outspoken against.
Being in the majority is a whole different animal. Passing legislation is really tough. Just in the House, Republicans realized they have moderate republicans to appease as well as far right republicans to appease, and those people have small areas they represent and they need to do what their voters want. Even though they are Republicans, they represent different people who want different things.
This vote represents a pretty big problem facing Republicans. They aren't all on the same page, and they don't all want the same things. Trump has flip flopped on so many things, and changes his mind daily, they can't rally around him because they don't know exactly what he wants, and what legislation he wants. This health care bill wasn't his idea...it was Paul Ryans. And while Paul Ryan is a leader in the party, he isn't the President. Trump had a lot of great sound bites when he was running, but it's becoming obvious that's all they were...sound bites. The only thing he's really tried aggressively to go after is the travel ban, but they are so unorganized they keep writing the executive order in a way that it's open to getting shot down in court, and of course it keeps getting shot down in court.
What I didn't see coming in the opposition to this bill was that there were people that didn't like the bill because it got rid of Obamacare subsidies, and then there were people that didn't like it because it wasn't far right enough. It was obvious that there was no way to find a way to pass through a Republican congress. If that's going to be a trend moving forward, the Republicans are in big trouble in trying to pass legislation.
The travel ban has been a disaster in court, healthcare couldn't even pass the House, there obviously isn't going to be a wall, Trump's budget proposal is ridiculous, it's obvious the Hillary emails and Benghazi talk was a sham because they promised prosecution, and they haven't done anything with that (they don't even mention it anymore)...so what exactly are they going to deliver on that they promised?
Based on what I've seen so far, my guess is not much.
Hot Forum Topics
