It's going to pass......JMHO.

[Maru Kitteh]

69. Of course he was excited!

He can use this bill for his campaign commercials & fundraisers, just like he did that last one. It's all good for him. Sure, it would have been better to have it die in the Senate, but he can still say "blah blah I proposed a comprehensive answer blah blah blah whatever."

I still don't think he ever expected it to become law. He's not a moron (unfortunately). He knows it would take much more than a couple weeks and a bill he pulled out of a KrackerJack box to actually pass something.

He wanted to weaken Trump, and he did.


All this being said, I don't doubt for one single second that given his druthers, Paul Ryan would yank healthcare away from every single person - elderly, babies, disabled, poor, women, men, children - every last one who relies upon a single federal dollar for care; and watch them die with that deplorable smirk on his face.

But the man knows what the score is. He knows what is politically possible, and what is strategically beneficial to his own self-interest. Paul Ryan is one calculating, patient motherfucker; and he wants more.