president obama ran for office on a plan very similar to what aca became. not only that but so did hillary clinton and john edwards back in 2008. not only that, the chairman of the senate finance committee at the time had white paper very similar. the democratic party as a whole had coalesced around the basic ideas that underlined the law. there was a lot of consensus over many, many years. hard fought going back to the clintons. they had come around to the basic idea. when it came time to legislate, they were more or less on the same page. trump didn t run on a particular health care plan. paul ryan had some ideas. nobody was really paying attention. no one thought they would have a chance to do this. they coalesced around repeal. they are more in a situation similar to 1993. what does the president do? he s going to be in michigan and tennessee. michigan event is supposed to be about the economy, auto emissions and the like. what does he do when democrats are trying to tell in
two. two. a clean bill is very unlikely to get through the senate. everyone knows that. chris: michael. a very unfair way to frame the issue. you have one chance on 51-vote republican threshold and what conservatives are saying, take the architecture of obamacare and do the rest when you need to get democrats. what they re proposing going through is the exact opposite. you do the rest now and magically get 60 votes, eight democrats, now that you passed your bill that keeps the architecture in place we are going to join you to tear down the architecture. trump didn t run on doing the rest later, he ran and repeal and replace and that s why he s backing congressman ryan right now. the house speaker, because he knows that they will own they will own health care, they will own every horror story.
two. two. a clean bill is very unlikely to get through the senate. everyone knows that. chris: michael. a very unfair way to frame the issue. you have one chance on 51-vote republican threshold and what conservatives are saying, take the architecture of obamacare and do the rest when you need to get democrats. what they re proposing going through is the exact opposite. you do the rest now and magically get 60 votes, eight democrats, now that you passed your bill that keeps the architecture in place we are going to join you to tear down the architecture. trump didn t run on doing the rest later, he ran and repeal and replace and that s why he s backing congressman ryan right now. the house speaker, because he knows that they will own they will own health care, they will own every horror story.
two. two. a clean bill is very unlikely to get through the senate. everyone knows that. chris: michael. a very unfair way to frame the issue. you have one chance on 51-vote republican threshold and what conservatives are saying, take the architecture of obamacare and do the rest when you need to get democrats. what they re proposing going through is the exact opposite. you do the rest now and magically get 60 votes, eight democrats, now that you passed your bill that keeps the architecture in place we are going to join you to tear down the architecture. trump didn t run on doing the rest later, he ran and repeal and replace and that s why he s backing congressman ryan right now. the house speaker, because he knows that they will own they will own health care, they will own every horror story.