House Speaker Paul Ryan is attempting to couch taking health insurance away from 24 million people and crippling Medicaid as a good and necessary thing. And, as usual, he lies in order to do so.
“I’ll accept that we will get hit for this,” Ryan said Wednesday at an Axios’ News Shapers event. “But we’re in leadership. We don’t have a choice. … What are we supposed to do, just sit back and let this thing collapse?”
The speaker has consistently made the case that the 2010 health care law is collapsing and it’s incumbent upon Republicans to fulfill their campaign promise to repeal and replace it.
While he understands the GOP will be attacked over their bill, the American Health Care Act, he feels Republicans will ultimately be rewarded in the 2018 midterm election for fulfilling their campaign promises.
“I think they’re excellent because we’re in the midst of keeping our promises,” Ryan said when asked about the chances the GOP will keep control of the House.
Obamacare wasn't in danger of collapsing until Ryan's team took over in the White House and started sabotaging it directly. The panic is setting in now among insurers and they are laying the blame squarely on Trump and his fellow Republicans—as are the voters. So Ryan's hopes are placed entirely in the voter suppression and gerrymandering basket.
And off topic, Ryan's PR effort to try to appear as a human being continues.
In a more lighthearted part of the event, Ryan talked about how he discovered gifs when someone sent him one three weeks ago, which happens to be the week that the House passed the health care bill.
“These things are awesome," he said. "...I send GIFs to people who really don't expect it from me."
Ryan cited GIFs featuring Stifler, Britney Spears and Caption Obvious, saying, “These things are pretty damn funny.”
Fuck you, Paul Ryan. We're going to take the House away from you, you sociopathic robot.
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