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(32,278 posts)publicly and then maybe I'll believe him. Nah...no chance I wouldn't believe this lying sack of ####
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(53,912 posts)then he can also "regret" that he can't just legally fire all the people he has to work with....
GP6971
(32,278 posts)government hierarchy. He doesn't understand anything about it and therefore just barges ahead thinking he can control everything without how the system works. Does the system work? Generally. yes. Does it need improvement? Also generally yes. As with anything, it can be improved.
Dolt45 is out of his league.
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(53,912 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)It is Ryan's fault,that's the ticket.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)that's his "out", heaven forbid he should ever take accountability...
Thomas Hurt
(13,905 posts)if it goes down tomorrow, he has to have to someone else to blame why it failed while he was holding Touch Myself Rallies.
JI7
(90,100 posts)brooklynite
(96,882 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)Or make America great again. I don't know which was his first priority. I think maybe they're sort of related.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Trump, obviously coached to the max, acknowledged that gutting health care had to come first. That would provide the spending cuts to open the door for the massive transfer of the Treasury into the pockets of the wealthy, aka tax cuts totaling more than $880 billion over the next ten years.
By law (yeah, I know), they can't move on to tax cuts without without commensurate spending cuts. It wouldn't surprise me that that little tidbit has slipped Trump's mind.
Gothmog
(152,036 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)What is odd, to me, is how quiet Ryan seems to be about the POTUS pushing congress around...
This situation has lots of moving parts, with failure very likely.