If there is ever a question in your mind about how little
difference there is between Republicans and liberal lawmakers consider the
following tidbit. Representative Chris Collins (R-NY) said to Brian Williams on
MSNBC: “In my district, right now there’s a lot of misunderstanding as to what
it is we’re doing and once we get it done, and then we can have a chance to
really explain what’s in it”. Collins is talking about the Republican version
of Obamacare. As Yogi Berra would have said “It’s déjà vu all over again”. What
Collins said is almost verbatim of what Nancy Pelosi said about Obamacare back
in 2010: “We have to pass a bill to see what’s in it”. There is little
difference in the “group speak” of Republicans and liberal lawmakers in the DC
swamp. It really is a matter of “us against them”!
I find it extremely doubtful, but I am hopeful, that somehow
or other the Republican establishment led by Paul Ryan has pulled the wool over
Donald Trump’s eyes concerning this healthcare bill. It does not have any
content that will “repeal and replace” Obamacare. It basically contains the
amendments to Obamacare that the Republicans wanted to place in the bill during
its inception in 2010. Obama refused to allow any Republican amendments so now
that they’re in charge they can do the amendments on their own. The problem is
they are leaving Obamacare virtually intact. This Republican version eliminates
the mandated purchase of insurance by taxpayers but then requires taxpayers to
continue to foot the bill for other people’s insurance. Their excuse for
non-repeal is that this must be done in three phases in order to bypass the 60
vote requirement for passage in the Senate if they repeal and start from ground
zero with a new bill. Why can’t they just submit the repeal bill that the House
has passed on numerous occasions in the past? As I noted in an earlier blog
those repeal votes were merely for show; appeasement of their Conservative base
to ensure their continued loyalty. Now that they are in charge their big scam
has been outed and they’re not going to be able to produce the results that are
expected by the 63 million voters who put them and Trump in office.
Now let’s go back to Donald Trump. He campaigned for a year
and a half on repealing Obamacare. All of a sudden he is threatening reprisals
on Conservative Republican legislators who do not vote for this watered-down
version of what will soon be called Trumpcare. If this passes he will own it.
This could very well be the broken promise that makes him a typical politician
and a one term president. It struck me as his first opportunity to take Ryan and
the establish Republicans down a notch or two. All Trump would have had to do
was make an appeal to his voting base and request additional time to actually
present a bill that is acceptable to them. He could easily have made the case
that it was more complicated than even he and his advisors expected and that he
will need more time to produce a replacement bill that will be ready to be
placed in to law within the same vote that would repeal Obamacare. Instead of
taking that simple tact he, in my opinion, has created his own dilemma. Donald
seems to have forgotten that the same conservatives that voted for him also
voted for the conservative legislators that are opposing this revised version
of Obamacare. Donald, you can’t claim to represent the people at the same time
you are threatening the people’s representatives. Reprisals from the voters
will happen but it won’t be against their representatives that stood strong for
their cause.
If this new health bill fails Trump has threatened to drop
Obamacare off the agenda altogether and move on to tax reform. The problem with
that is that Americans will continue to suffer financially and medically under
the system that is left in place. On top of that establishment Republicans are
telling him that they cannot move on to tax reform until they have Obamacare
and its financial fiasco settled first.
It appears that the
bulk of the continuing roadblocks to the advancement of Trump’s agenda will
come from the establishment Republicans. The three things that I consider to be
the most important to accomplish are sealing the border, repealing and
replacing Obamacare, and tax reforms that will entice American businesses back
to the US and increase jobs available to Americans. Ryan and the establishment
are blocking two of the three. Of course the most important one, sealing the
border, is being blocked by two or three anti-American liberal federal judges
who took an oath of office to defend the Constitution of the United States but
seem never to have read it. These un-American lunatic judges are conferring our
Constitutional rights on every person on the planet. Their injunction against
Trump’s ban on terrorists invading US soil should be considered treason making
it an impeachable offense. I believe Congress has the power to remove these
imposters from their judicial positions.
I got a bit off my main topic of Ryan/Trumpcare so I may as
well finish up with more of the same. This repeal and replace bill may very
well be Donald Trump’s first stumble. I sincerely hope it is his last. If he
does not pursue action against these activist rogue judges his base supporters
may very well start to fade away. If he allows the Republican establishment to amend
and distort his campaign promised agenda his base supporters will dwindle even faster.
If he fails to build a wall on even 1 mile of our southern border his support
will melt faster than the last snowman of the season. If Trump fails to deliver
on all three of the big promises he made he will be a one term president. He
will end up being part of the swamp sewage he has promised to drain.
This last thing is even further off-topic. I read that one
of our larger-than-life liberal media pundits complained about the amount of
time and money Trump spends playing golf. Ain’t hypocrisy a hoot?
God Bless America!!!
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