The Art Of The Deal

The American Health Care Act is dead.  Its death is being spun by the left as the Kenyan and the left won; Trump and the right lost.  Nonsense.  Some say Ryan played Trump.  He probably did.  Others say Trump played Ryan.  He probably did.  But thankfully the ill fated, so called Obamacare replacement bill has failed.  That bill was simply a poorly watered down version of the authoritarian edict imposed upon us now.   And had nothing to do with health care, and everything to do with government control.  Even the most contentious elements of the original law were left in.  The American people let Congress know, in no uncertain terms, that they wanted that freedom-sapping monstrosity gone.  Repealed.  Not replaced.  Repealed. The word replaced slid into the political lexicon much later as a wink and a nod to the RINO donor class and Never Trump types who still haven't come to grips with the result of the last election.

You own it, Paulie

That miserable. insulting bill was the product of Paul - "I'll never support Trump.  Not now, not ever" - Ryan,  the soon to be former Speaker of the House.  One can imagine Trump telling Ryan, "Paulie, I'll back that donkey if you can sell it.  But either way, if you present it to the party leadership and American people, you own it."  The bill was DOA.  It stunk so bad, it didn't even make it to the House floor for a vote.  And now Ryan owns it.  All of it.

Thankfully, the folks who put Trump in office remember those campaign promises, that contract between the people and President Trump.  Nowhere was there a promise for a version 2.0 replacement for the heinous Obamacare.  The promise was to repeal Obamacare.  In its entirety.  The American people want a free market approach to their health care.  They want to freely pick and choose their doctors and their health care plans.  They want their personal and private health issues and subsequent care known only to their doctor and to themselves.  No government involvement is needed or wanted.  Or warranted. 

But Ryan and the rest of the big government totalitarians see things differently.  They know better than we do, and they know what's best for us.  And he doesn't care what contract we may enter into with our president, he'll go about business as usual implementing freedom-sapping laws that are contrary to Americans' individual self interests.  But Friday that contract won out over government bullying.  There were leaders who recognized the sanctity of that contract between the president and the people, and they made it clear that the days of government running rough-shod over the American people's best interests are on the wane.  And they killed the bill.  True, we'll continue to be saddled with Obamacare for the foreseeable future, but hopefully the lessons in Congress were learned.  The electorate is serious, and it will not sit idly by while more and more grinding bureaucracy is imposed upon it.  

Trump masterfully set it up so Ryan's duplicity is on public display, showing him to be nothing more than resident scum in the globalist and lobbyist controlled Washington DC swamp.  And as such he demonstrated what will happen when the will of the people is ignored.  People want the shackles of government removed, not merely rearranged.  It's a long and arduous process, but ousting the totalitarian elitists from government - on both the left and the right - has been going on for a decade or so.  It continues even now.

Meanwhile, confidence is high that we will return soon to slay this onerous KenyanCare monster that has been left in effect.  Here's why.  "I always go into a deal anticipating the worst.  If you plan for the worst - if you can live with the worst - the good will always take care of itself."  Interesting observation, Mr. President.  In the context of repealing ObamaCare, the good will indeed take care of itself. 

And that is the art of the deal.