let's just take a moment to appreciate just how impressively epic this fail is

[unblock]

republicans control the white house and both houses of congress.

they essentially campaigned on repeal of obamacare for eight solid years and claimed their victory was a mandate to do just that.

obamacare includes some taxes (on high earners), so repeal by definition includes a tax cut.

and they're in a new president's first 100 days, historically the ideal time for passing new legislation.



... and they couldn't even get it though the house, where democrats have effectively zero power, not even the filibuster power we have in the senate.


this is truly an impressively epic demonstration of incompetence, not only on donnie's part, but also on ryan and mcconnel and the entire republican (non-)leadership.


FAIL

FAIL

FAIL!!!!

[leftstreet]

1. DURec. Trump will have a shitty weekend at Mar-A-Loco

Link to tweet

[unblock]

2. omng no! i actually lol'd at work!

[mainstreetonce]

7. He is supposedly

staying in DC.

[Sentath]

58. Credit to another thread

But, the forecast calls for fairer weather in DC than Florida.

[TeamPooka]

88. If you don't pass your bill you don't get to go play golf with your friends in Florida. #newrules

[lunatica]

26. A recent photo of him in Maralago terrorizing the club members.

[LW1977]

76. Roflmao

[adigal]

79. Beep, beep!!! Honk, honk!!! Here comes little Donny!!! Nt

[nolabear]

3. I have been sick of listening to "The American People want Obamacare repealed" for years.

They can use that bill for their next colonoscopies as far as I'm concerned.

[unblock]

4. what really pisses me off is they get to keep their jobs

i mean, if the public really wanted obamacare all along, why can't we have hillary as president and a democratic congress?

[nolabear]

9. No kidding. Anything but honesty.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. For today they do

at the rate the Russia scandal is unraveling on so many fronts
and the WH staff are frantically trying to delete the tweets and emails they were told to keep
and Ryan's reputation just caught on fire
and the country is showing outrage by what Nunes is pulling..

for today they keep their jobs.

[unblock]

16. by next november foxnews will have them in an uproar about a democrat forgetting to run a virus scan

and somehow half the country will insist that's at least as bad as the republicans' espionage, election tampering, trying to kill sick americans, and gross incompetence.

[nolabear]

36. True dat.

[vlyons]

34. and I am sick of them saying that

it's in a death spiral.

[ailsagirl]

67. Never understood that

[alterfurz]

5. from Trump to Rump...

...from "closer' to "loser"

[Sculpin Beauregard]

66. Omg

This a true, pure, glorious summation of this administration. My only nitpick: needs more Putin.

[ailsagirl]

68. LOLOLOL

[tblue37]

103. Trump looks like he is "enjoying himself" a bit too much there! nt

[MFM008]

6. Even CNN

is saying its a huge F A I L U R E.

[Adrahil]

8. The Art of the SQEEEAAALLL! NT

[oswaldactedalone]

10. How has Faux News

characterized Trump's latest success? Surely, they'll laud him for pulling the bill and standing up to rogue elements in his party. What else can they say?

[unblock]

14. i think they're scouring local news across the country for a pretty blonde young woman gone missing.

squirrel!

[GulfCoast66]

60. I actually listened on the radio

It failed because it had no democratic support. That's their line and they're sticking to it.

[keithbvadu2]

75. Trump wants to blame democrats for his own failure to lead his party.

Trump wants to blame democrats for his own failure to lead his party.

"We had no votes from the Democrats," Donald whined.

Actually, he had no votes from republicans either, because they were too scared to put forth their bill for voting.

[3catwoman3]

80. "Actually, he had no votes from republicans either."

A very good point.

[kentuck]

11. Yep!

Super fail !

[malaise]

12. A Huge Loss

Celebrate

I alone can fix it - oh no you can't

[Marie Marie]

62. Dibbs on the Dark Chocolate Coconut.

A Toast to You All!

[malaise]

63. Back at you

[Maru Kitteh]

15. I'm lovin' it!

Make no mistake, THE RESISTANCE played a big part in this! There was no appetite for any of these lawmakers to go home and face constituents who had their (or their loved ones) healthcare yanked out from under them. For more crowds of angry protestors and stories of suffering and death because of their vote to take away their healthcare.

[lunatica]

30. You're absolutely right

This is a result of the American People coming out en masse.

[ailsagirl]

116. So proud of them!!!

[malaise]

61. +1,000

[Maru Kitteh]

64. VIVA LA RESISTANCE! :-)

[stopwastingmymoney]

102. Croissant! Garcon! Oui, Oui

[raccoon]

113. Maru, consider starting a thread with this post. nt

[creoledna]

17. 2,556 Days

To come up with an acceptable replacement and
they ended up where Boehner left off...

[JudyM]

90. Boehner has a big smirk on his face tonight. The tea party crashed the ship good this time,

and it's not on him.

[hibbing]

18. I believe they always claimed they had a plan

Different day, same crap. Be able to sell insurance across state lines and health savings accounts. These two things alone would solve all the problems.


Peace

[world wide wally]

19. I don't understand how it failed.

A president with a 37% approval rating pushing a congress with an 11% rating to pass a bill that 17% of Americans approved of.
What could have gone wrong?

[unblock]

20. good point. they'll try later with a more conservative plan.

[WinkyDink]

21. Never. I'm taking bets. This was a huge DEFEAT, a BI-PARTISAN DEFEAT.

[unblock]

25. i think they'll leave it be for a while, but remove or reduce the taxes separately.

that's what they really hate about obamacare anyway, the taxes on the rich used to fund it.

and they'll continue to rail against it and find ways to undermine it.

eventually, they'll be able to say it's bad (because they ruined it) and swelling the deficit (because the under-funded it) and then they'll take another shot at it. might take a few years. hopefully they're out of power by then....

[WinkyDink]

37. You could be right about this, but IMO, only as Trump is now predicting: DEMOCRATS will come up with

a better plan!

[unblock]

39. vote for democrats! only we can fix it!

[WinkyDink]

41. Better us than them!

[lunatica]

38. I don't think they want this deep of an embarrassment again

Especially after everyone in creation goes to town on this one. We ain't seen nothing yet!

[joshcryer]

84. They have to own the resulting legislation, which they are too cowardly to do.

The only improvements that can be made to Obamacare are liberal (prescription drug negotiation, public option). Anything else will make it worse for everyone. That's why new laws that help people are good, because repealing those laws that help people will hurt people, and those people will then vote you out of office.

[Stuart G]

22. k and r.....others will add more, I will listen and enjoy !!!

[Lonestarblue]

23. What a Loser!

Trump and Ryan both deserve to go down in flames. Republicans showed their true colors with this healthcare bill, though it should be called a health destruction bill--there's very little care about it. Immediately after the election, Ryan was absolutely gleeful about taking away people's rights (and I consider decent healthcare a right), punishing older people by reducing Social Security, and helping to kill poor people by doing away with Medicaid. Republican politicians care only about themselves and kowtowing to the rich. I am sick of their lack of even a semblance of moral behavior. They're the family values party as much as I'm the next president--NOT!

[lunatica]

40. I hope Paul Ryan cries himself to sleep every night for a year

I hope he feels the profound loss of this just like those people whose healthcare he takes away. Every frigging inch of it.

[sarge43]

24. OK. American political history mavins, question

Has any other administration ever fallen on its ass so quickly and so spectacularly?

Is this one for the history books?

[unblock]

28. well, he's outlived william henry harrison.

which is a damn shame, i have to say.

[sarge43]

35. Yes. So far, his one notable accomplishment

[True Dough]

27. Let's face it

if this were The Apprentice, Trump wouldn't be thanking Paul Ryan for working "very, very hard." He would fire Ryan's ass for failing to complete the task.

LOSERS!

[unblock]

32. let's face it, if this were the apprentice,

ahnold would fire donnie's ass!

[DesertRat]

29. But, but he said there would be SO MUCH WINNING

We'd get tired of winning.

[unblock]

33. and look, we *are* winning!

[C_U_L8R]

31. Trump looks foolish

And Republicans are just meanspirited bumblers.

[OldRedneck]

42. Well, I gotta tell you . . . .

. . . we've been winning so much, I'm bored with winning!!!!

[vlyons]

43. onward and upward to Medicare for All

Find out everything we can about European, Canadian, Austrailian comprehensive healthcare. So we can begin to tell our voting family and friends how a Medicare for All comprehensive healthcare system that provides healthcare from cradle to elderly nursing home would actually be cheaper and easier to administer and serve people. Take for-profit insurance companies completely out of the picture. A system paid with payroll taxes that would certainly be far cheaper than paying annual premiums to an insurance company.

Ask your friends and neighbors "Why can't we have a healthcare system like they have in Europe, Austrailia and Canada?"

[LuckyLib]

99. Well said. We have been hearing since we were children about the $10 aspirin,

the multi-thousand dollar broken leg, the outrageous surgery costs. They still exist. We need to ask, "Why? And what can be done to change this? How can fixing the Affordable Care Act be the first step toward sanity in medical care?"

[BadgerMom]

44. I was brought up not to gloat

but I'm currently sorely tested in that regard. 😝

[3catwoman3]

81. Aawww, go ahead.

It is OK to depart from one's upbringing from time to time.

[DinahMoeHum]

45. Nelson Muntz agrees. . .

[Stuart G]

46. What goes around..comes around... Republicans got exactly what they deserved!!!!!

[Initech]

47. Hey conservatives!

So where do I start selling my "Conservative Tears" coffee mugs and t-shirts?

[Fast Walker 52]

48. Sad!

[DesertRat]

49. Obamacare is broken and I alone can fix it!

[workinclasszero]

50. Bigly fail! Sad!

Art of the whiny snowflake fail!!

[Stuart G]

51. for exposuer....

[Ilsa]

52. Everyone could smell the Fart of the Deal. The bill stank. nt

[elmac]

53. Its a koch brothers orchestrated fail

and we know how evil they are. It will be up to voters to keep the pressure on the fascists, otherwise their puppet masters may get a full repeal.

[IronLionZion]

54. Trump actually gives credit to Democrats for killing it

Because he got sick of winning already! After only 2 months of winning the greatest wins ever he lost to a Democratic minority of snowflakes

[NastyRiffraff]

55. Remember when Ryan gushed about Trump

"closing the sale" after he met with Republican Representatives, just last week? He looks like an idiot now and I'm loving it!

[H2O Man]

56. Recommended! (#99)

We are living in historic times.

[randr]

57. His tax plan and his infrastructure plan will meet the same end

The man is an imbecile and incapable of governing. Besides he is working with a dysfunctional Repub majority, guarandamnteed to fail.

[DefenseLawyer]

59. I still think it's possible they failed on purpose

I think McConnell knew that repealing the ACA would cause chaos and hurt Republican Senators in purple states if it passed. If it failed, Senate republicans in red states risked being primaried. Ryan knew that the House had to push to repeal immediately or they would all get branded as RINOs (even more than they are already) by the rabid far right that comes out and votes in the House midterms. So, they were in a no win situation. The House had to push repeal and the Senate Republicans wanted no part of having to vote on the thing either way. The solution, while not painless, was to put something forward that wouldn't pass the House. And it was supposedly brought down by the ultra conservative "Freedom Caucus". But honestly, can we think of a time ever when those people didn't ultimately fall in line? Especially on something that was this important? That's why I think it was orchestrated to begin with. But it's just a theory, of course.

[Adsos Letter]

77. I tend to agree with you.

Ever since the inauguration I have had this vague feeling that we are being played on a much larger scale than is evident. Perhaps I give them too much credit, but I just can't shake the feeling that something much larger is afoot behind the obvious circus act known as the Trump administration.

[unblock]

82. I appreciate the appeal of this arguments, I disagree

Or at least, if they did indeed kill it on purpose, they're idiots and it's still an epic fail.

I've been saying ever since the election that they had a pretty simple path to a win here. Just repeal Obamacare and replace it with donniecare, which is surprisingly similar, but just different enough that fox news can insist it's completely and utterly not exactly the same thing.

Maybe change the "mandate or penalty" to a mathematically equivalent "rebate or tax". Then make the taxes more regressive. Screw the poor and smoke and mirrors, the usual republican crap.

The fact that they couldn't pass anything at all is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

[Cha]

98. And didn't ryan go to the wh in a last ditch effort?

Anyway you look at it the gop FAILED.

[joshcryer]

85. It was orchestrated in that the Republicans thrive on failure, incomptence, and cowardice.

I don't think they actually discussed making the bail fail, at least not among the legislative chamber, maybe at the top (with Ryan, McConnell). Instead what happened was that an opportunity, as it were, was seen where the Republicans wouldn't have to own up to having any part with health care. They can now allow Obamacare premiums to rise because of its faults (needs prescription drug price renegotiation, which will never make it out of committee, needs a public federal level option).

Let Obamacare get worse for people and less useful because of skyrocketing premiums, and then 2-4 years later they can run on repealing it again.

[JudyM]

92. Raising enough public interest/support about this is bit of a long shot but it's worth a try.

[longship]

89. More ten dimensional chess by the GOP???

Please! Let's don't even think of going down that path.

The GOP voted how many times to defund the ACA when Obama was POTUS? Now when it won't be vetoed they chicken out because the ACA, although not very good, has insured that millions have health coverage who didn't before. And women get to be treated like humans. And folks with cancer or genetic disabilities get treated, too.

People have woken up to what GOP healthcare is about. It's healthcare is only for those who can afford it.

That's why this thing crashed and burned.

[JudyM]

93. Interesting. Ryan's comment last night that they'd waited and worked on it 7 yrs seemed peculiar,

given that they were still far off on (supposedly) principled doctrinal objections. It looked like he was lying, I didn't get the point strategically for that statement unless he thought there was a good chance of a win, but neither did he look hopeful. By the same token, blustertrump made such a showing of throwing his weight around and then insisting on an early all or nothing deadline was a huge risk. Would've been better to just blame the Dems like he did anyway. Why expend that political capital, or appear to expend it.

Something does seem off about all this.

[GulfCoast66]

65. I could get used to winning like this

[SHRED]

69. Massive fail

[Glaisne]

70. I believe the term used in the industry is

EPIC FAIL!

[turbinetree]

71. And I truly believe it started on this day because of this ACT of Unity on Jan. 21,2017

to defeat this misogynistic bill and other services being provided to human beings and we are not going to stop to health care as a right, not a privilege , we are coming

[mopinko]

72. 3 cheers for indivisible.

hoist on their own petard.
they invented that town hall swamping, screaming to be heard by people who dont want to listen to you, and getting everybody off their butts and in the streets.

only we wear it sooooooo much better.

[TNNurse]

73. Trump is whining that they had no democratic support for that awful bill.

Did democrats have any republican support for the ACA??

[meow2u3]

74. The Art of the FAIL

#LoserTrump

[meadowlander]

78. Who could have predicted that people with nothing but contempt for governing would do it so poorly?

[58Sunliner]

83. I love it. Thank you all who showed up, protested, wrote, inspired, and called.

They are, for the moment, defeated and demoralized. What will take to hang this like a dead chicken around their necks? Figuratively speaking of course.

[Dopers_Greed]

86. Agreed

After the disaster that was the election, I can't even begin to say how satisfying it is to watch these evil idiots completely face plant.

This is a total victory for us, but only a small step in taking down Herr Orange.

[Kimchijeon]

87. ❤️🎆🎇YAY!🎉🎊Whoo Hoo!🎈🍾🍸😜

[zentrum]

91. Is this also an epic

...fail to his diehard followers? To them, he tried really hard, went to bat for them to kill off that hideous Obama care that they don't know has helped them and the forces in DC thwarted their hero. At least he tried they say.

I can see how it's an epic win for Ryan because it's been demonstrated to the Repug Party that you don't have to kowtow to 45. But to his followers?

[unblock]

95. No, it's a fail all around for them.

It's basically Ryan's plan, so he loses.

President backs a bill and it can't even get to a vote? LOSER!

They'll spin and spin, and yeah, few repugs will abandon them, but none of these them are r ally thrilled right now.

Well, except for those who realize Obamacare is actually a good thing....

[zentrum]

97. Let it be so.

[Hamlette]

94. Trump is a loser. Call it what it is.

[Cha]

96. Ya know.. that's what I was thinking.. I've seen posts going..

but, but, but.. But this is TODAY and it's FREAKING AMAZING.. a gop trump "health" bill FAILED in the GOPaul ryan HOUSE!

Haven't they been dreaming about his for years?

Mahalo, unblock!

The Fight's not Over but it was an Awesome Day!

[world wide wally]

100. Now Republicans have two issues to use in every election. Repeal Roe v Wade and repeal Obamacare

[unblock]

106. i don't think this will play quite like roe v. wade. that's a supreme court issue.

that's worked great for them because they can insist they need a republican president and a republican senate and time it with the right retirements until they get a supreme court that's right-wing enough to overturn roe v. wade. it's the gift that keeps on giving for them because it takes forever to accomplish.

obamacare repeal, on the other hand, is a legislative issue. they've got all the ingredients in place now. if they can't do it now, controlling the white house and both houses of congress, then why should voters keep giving them more chances. i know, i know, these are republicans we're talking about, but still.

i think it will play out more like medicare and social security. republicans hate it and would love to kill it, but they can't, too many of their own republican constituents depend on it, so they'll look for ways to undermine it, like they want to piratize social security.

[world wide wally]

110. Now if the voters could just figure that out we could maybe make the world a better place

[still_one]

101. I think it would be wise for us not to gloat too much. Until 2018 if we are able to take back at

least the House, healthcare and the country will be in grave danger, and we really can't lay back. There is no doubt in my mind the republicans are still going to try and do everything to damage the ACA, and that don't need to repeal it to do that.

[unblock]

107. i'm all too aware this is just one battle in a long, long war; that said, battles won are

worth celebrating a bit....

besides, this is not just any old battle.

this is has been their signature issue for 8 years. they have enough republicans to pass it with zero democratic votes, and they still couldn't figure it out.

epic.

[LiberalLovinLug]

104. Face it, Republicans are stupid if they are anything

To push their plan through within 2 months. Not only does it have the appearance of a rush job, it is a rush job. Not well thought out. They didn't do squat while they had 8 years to come up with something, but that was well known. It is adding insult to injury for a lot of small r Republicans to then slap something together like this.

But also, for their own benefit, it should have been worked at for a bit longer to convince the tea baggers in their peer group. Whittle down the benefits, and add more tax breaks for CEOs, or just throw some pork into a few of the more stubborn Senators. Seriously whats the rush? I thought they believed Obamacare would implode on itself anyways.

Oh well, coulda should woulda...

[unblock]

108. the epic fail started with arrogance and horrendous project management skills.

it's been said that a good lawyer never asks a witness a question at trial that he doesn't already know the answer to.

similarly, they should have never brought this bill up if they didn't know it (or something similar) would pass.

to do otherwise is to ask for a self-inflicted wound, and that's what they got.

[L. Coyote]

105. Who knew Health Care could be that complicated?

[Freddie]

109. Another good thing

With all the news lately, more people are starting to understand what the ACA does (like all health care, it's complicated!) and its approval is higher than ever. They also now know what will happen if it's taken away.
Fix it, don't nix it.

[Honeycombe8]

111. SAD! nt

[suffragette]

112. K&r to the moon!

[panfluteman]

114. Don't Pull the Plug on Grandma!

Remember that one, way back from 2009? This time it's for real. People power has won the day!

[elias7]

117. Maybe Trump should spend less time playing golf

$182,000,000 per year would be saved