Yup. They can all quote Atlas Shrugged and none of them can whip a vote.

This is true. I’m still surprised it was so poorly drafted though.

Wait, you mean they guy who doesn’t understand how insurance (of any kind) works might not be the best guy to lead the fight on healthcare?

I think actual think tankers have never had less to do with conservative politics than they do right now. Really the only two places for them to go with this are

Well, given the crowd he runs with, saying he’s THE WORST is hyperbole. You’ve got Gohmert & Co. out there.

Right? To me that was the biggest thing. They literally should have had a bill ready to go and know which 5-10 guys might be on the ideological edge and figured it out, not reforming a bill at the last minute. Being a GOP think tank must be the easiest job in the world.

I think the consensus is Republicans literally have no bill writers anymore. They spent the last 10 years shouting ‘NO!’ and flat out forgot how legislation works.

Precisely! Paul Ryan is a “wonk” in the sense that most undergraduate students are “wonks.” (I include the 18-22 year old version of myself in this group). They have ideologies on how the world should work but never get into actually playing out how those ideologies may be functionally enacted and the consequences of…

My two cents on that is that their was absolutely no bill they could have drafted that would have passed.

Not to take anything away from the spectacular suckfest that Trump and Ryan put on, but what the fuck have Republican think tank thinker ls been doing for the past decade? The ACA took months to pound together after starting with a bill that had been written over years by industry/think tanks/pols. The ACHA was…

And on Fox News:

sober policy knower Paul Ryan

insurance companies may no longer be required to cover prenatal care, maternity and newborn care, mental health, prescription drugs, emergency visits, hospitalization, outpatient care, preventative care, and more.

You don’t have to cut what doesn’t grow.

They probably snuck out like the cowards they are/were.

Don’t be sad. Get angry. Why have the offending parents not been named?

Even if it were a cow, he would still hump it. Misogyny and all that.....

Interesting, I thought this was more of a “Chad” kind of move.

1) the right “response” to the bull statue should be a cow statue, preferably straight out of Cow Parade.