Title: GOP congressman [Rep. Thomas Massie]: Trump could be one-term president if health bill passes Source:
CNN URL Source:http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/polit ... -erin-burnett-out-front-cnntv/ Published:Mar 22, 2017 Author:Jason Squitieri Post Date:2017-03-26 22:54:56 by Gatlin Keywords:None Views:916 Comments:7
As President Donald Trump makes his final push to seal the deal with Republicans before the House votes Thursday on its bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, one Republican congressman opposed to the bill has a dire warning for the President.
"We're afraid he's a one-term president if this passes," Rep. Thomas Massie said during an interview on CNN's "Outfront" with Kate Bolduan. "We are trying to save him."
"Electorally, voting for this is bad today and it's going to be really bad in two or three years when the changes start kicking in and health insurance prices start going through the roof," said Massie, of Kentucky.
The White House and House Speaker Paul Ryan have both expressed confidence they have momentum on their side, but Massie said he is not buying it.
"They're not telling you they have the votes because they don't have the votes," he said. "They're using a lot of euphemisms and they're sounding really optimistic, but I can tell you they're in trouble."
Massie said any changes that may still be made to the bill will not be enough to flip 30 conservative lawmakers he knows are opposed to the bill, and predicted there is only one way for that to happen. "I think we could get to yes, but I think it's going to take this bill going down tomorrow," Massie cautioned.
"They may pull the bill from the floor or they may push it to the floor," he said "If they do, I think it will fail."
Massie also gave Trump and Ryan advice on how to proceed if the bill is defeated.
"After this bill goes down tomorrow, we can go back to the drawing board and they can bring conservatives to the table instead of just trying to break their kneecaps and twist their arms after the bill is written, and then we can all take the credit for a good bill," he said.
"We're afraid he's a one-term president if this passes," Rep. Thomas Massie said during an interview on CNN's "Outfront" with Kate Bolduan. "We are trying to save him."
Thank God that the brave Freedom Caucus managed to save President Trump from Lyin' Ryan and his sinister fake-repeal plan which would have cemented the key portions of 0bamaCare for the next 50-100 years. And would thereby have caused President Trump's defeat in 2020.
I thought Massie was funny. And being from Kentucky, it is very easy for him to oppose it. Kentucky is widely considered the Trump-voting state that would suffer more than all others because they have a lot of people in the 55-65 range that are working poor. Lyin' Ryan's bill was a hitjob on those voters. Massie's and Rand Paul's voters.
Ryan cooked up a bill that would hurt only these conservative House districts (and precluded non-enrolled states from joining 0bamaTrumpCare while allowing all those who already sucked up huge subsidies to stay in 0bamaCare effectively). This was considered only fair. In a way, this bill was a peculiar punishment for anyone foolish enough to vote GOP or for Trump. And all just to reward the liberal GOP House members so they would never, ever be asked to take a hard vote that might risk their precious seats.
The Beltway is deeply offended that the Freedom Caucus refused to betray their own voters and fall on their swords on command. In much the same way as the Blue Dog Dems did when they fell for Pelosi's similar scheme and every Blue Dog House member then lost their seats. Some of the seats they lost were won by...members of the now-despised Freedom Caucus whose own elections to the House were premised on accepting nothing less than a full repeal of 0dingaCare.
Well, this isn’t the headline Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was hoping for as the GOP gets set to pick up the pieces after the AHCA failure on Friday:
The report comes from the Washington Post on Thursday on Ryan’s outreach to Rep. Don Young:
Leaders continued to plead with individual lawmakers to support the measure well into Thursday night, with the House Rules Committee slated to meet early Friday morning to consider the proposed changes.
Ryan got down on a knee to plead with Rep. Don Young, an 83-year-old from Alaska who is the longest-serving Republican in Congress and remains undecided.
