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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaul Ryan predicts bloodbath if Republicans dont unite behind Obamacare replacement bill
"If we don't keep our word to the people who sent us here, then yeah," Ryan told CBS' "Face the Nation," when asked if he agreed with President Trump's comments last week that the party would suffer a "bloodbath" in the 2018 midterm election if they failed to pass legislation repealing and replacing Obamacare.
"We ran for repeal and replace in 2010. We ran on repeal and replace in 2012, in 2014, in 2016. Oh, by the way, we spent six months last year developing a replacement plan. We ran on that replacement plan," Ryan added, calling opposition from his fellow Republicans "really puzzling."
Ryan's comments coming amid relentless attacks on the bill from others within the GOP came as the White House trotted out various Trump cabinet members to defend the bill.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ryan-predicts-bloodbath-gop-won-back-obamacare-replacement-article-1.2995843
Better theirs than ours - GOP needs to be unraveled and FAST.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)Especially if 24 million lose their healthcare.
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)Theirs - politically speaking (GOP's) . . . or Americans who will needlessly die due to lack of affordable treatment/no affordable coverage.
Which group does Mr. Psychopath care most about? The former of course. Everyone else can...well... drop dead.
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)you would think that would get some attention.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)Republicans can't run fuck.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)Regardless of how you vote you are screwed. You painted yourself in a corner...to many republicans think you didn't go far enough and enough think you went to far.
Your only hope to save face is to let the ACA ride.
gordianot
(15,244 posts)They would keep their mouth shut and vote NO and crow about it later. Lucky there are no smart young Republicans to pick clean after the coming carnage.
eleny
(46,166 posts)It's as plain as the nose on his face. But he'll cut off that nose to spite us all. That's the bloodbath in his future.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)republicans' political lives.
The question is, how many decent people will have to die to kill off the political careers of these wretched excuses for humans?
Either way, Ryan and his gawd damned thugs will lose because the people this repeal will kill are a huge portion of the sorry idiots who voted for the Cretin.
May Ryan rot.