Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro, whose show President Trump urged his followers on Twitter to watch earlier in the day, opened her program at 9pm on Saturday by calling for Speaker Paul Ryan’s resignation.
“Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House. The reason, he failed to deliver the votes on his healthcare bill, the one trumpeted to repeal and replace ObamaCare, the one that he had 7 years to work on; the one he hid under lock and key in the basement of Congress; the one that had to be pulled to prevent the embarrassment of not having enough votes to pass.” Pirro said in her opening statement.
“Speaker Ryan, you come in with all your swagger and experience and sell them a bill of goods which ends up a complete and total failure and you allow our president, in his first 100 days, to come out of the box like that, based on what?” Pirro said.
What made Pirro’s fiery comments about Ryan especially notable is that they came hours after Trump tweeted to encourage his followers to watch “Justice with Judge Jeanine.”
Watch @JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews tonight at 9:00 P.M.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2017
While Trump has urged people to watch TV shows in the past, typically it was when the president himself was appearing on them. However in a twist, Pirro suggested that she had not coordinated her statement with Trump in advance.
“I have not spoken with the president about any of this,” Pirro said of her call for Ryan to step down on her show, where president’s counter-terrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka also appeared on Saturday evening.
On Friday Trump told Ryan to pull the Republican healthcare bill, upon learning there were not enough votes in support among House Republicans. The move marked Trump’s first legislative defeat as president and followed seven years of rhetoric from Republicans who campaigned on a pledge to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.
In the initial round of fingerpointing, Trump blamed Democrats for not backing the GOP healthcare bill, warning that Obamacare would “explode” on its own, and signaled that he would move on to other priorities such as tax reform. On Saturday, the NYT reported that the blame among Trump’s closest circles had fallen on Reince Priebus and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, while Ryan was spared Trump’s anger. Trump and White House press secretary Sean Spicer also indicated that they appreciated Ryan’s effort to get the bill passed, amid criticism from some Trump allies over the failed effort.
Following the Pirro statement, the blame now appears to have shifted back to Ryan, as Bloomberg originally reported on Friday.
Pirro insisted in her first segment that the failure was on Ryan and not on Trump. “Folks, I want to be clear. This is not on President Trump,” she said. “No one expected a businessman to completely understand the nuances, the complicated ins and outs of Washington and its legislative process. How would he know on what individuals he could rely?”
“Ryan has hurt you going forward, and he’s got to go,” Pirro said.
Judge Jeanine is absolutely correct here. Ryan has been an impediment to good legislation the whole time he has been in office and especially since he has been Squealer of the House. Both he and McConnell need to realize that they are has-beens that need to get out of the way and let “We the people” who elected Trump produce on his agenda to Make America Great Again. It is time for big government as usual to get the hell out of our country.
Yeah, he should get the hook, not because his bill didn’t pass, but because it was a total piece of shit payoff to the insurance industry, and would have fucked everyone out here if it had passed. Don’t forget that Trump was pushing for it, so he’s as wrong as Ryan on this one.
There was never any Republican opposition to ACA nor a desire to either repeal and replace it. 7 years of sitting on their hands and pretending to be opposition rather than even the slightest bit of action in making ready to actually do something is the reality. It is up to Trump to either rewrite the narrative and start selectively targeting the Fake Republicans or to prove that he was never up to the job of President. I’m curious how his sense of self is going to steer his actions going forward.
“…pretending to be the opposition” is why I hate the GOP. At least the Dems are somewhat honest about their crazy goals.
“Following the Pirro statement, the blame now appears to have shifted back to Ryan, as Bloomberg originally reported on Friday.”
Folks, Ryan and the crooked asswipe “republicans” were ALWAYS the target, along with the crooked Demos. Remember, back to the election. Trump and Ryan disagreed, and even publicly called each other out. Do you think Trump forgot that? Do you think he just “buried the hatchet”? Not a chance. That is not Trump.
Just watch. Get your popcorn ready, as the fun is just beginning.
Oh, and Ed, I know you are going to come back with the charge that I am just another “fanboy” like in the other thread, fine. We’ll see. So far though, it is shaping up to be very interesting indeed.
Sure, anonyfanboy. This was Trump’s plan all along. Bullshit. What was it, a triple cross, where he pretended to back the bill so that the dems would vote against it because Trump liked it, but Trump actually hated it so this was a big win? Yeah, it makes sense if you don’t think about it.
Check out the way the lying fake news AP presented it:
“WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is attacking conservative lawmakers after the failure of the Republican bill to replace Obamacare.
On Twitter Sunday, Trump says: “Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare!”
The Freedom Caucus is a hard-right group of House members who were largely responsible for blocking the bill to undo President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The bill was pulled from the House floor Friday in a humiliating political defeat for the president.
Trump initially focused his blame on Democrats for the failure and predicted a dire future for the current law.
Before the bill was pulled, Trump tweeted at the Freedom Caucus, saying Planned Parenthood funding would continue if they blocked the legislation.”
See how the lying msm presents this as a repeal of O’care, when it was anything but? Trump tried to present it the same way, though it didn’t repeal anything. We’ll see. I doubt we’ll like what we see, but time will tell.
Trump has been (correctly) plotting to get rid of that weasel Ryan for quite some time. Ryan is totally out of touch with what is happening in this country. He is a typical Rotary Club – Chamber of Commerce – Babbitish -Goofball – Semi-Corrupt idiot. This healthcare farce gives Trump plenty of ammo to send him to the firing squad.
Never forget Ryan initially ran as a member of, and was elected by, the Tea Party. He turned his back on them immediately. While I’ve never seen a more duplicitous and weaselly man than John McCain, Ryan runs a close second. Come to think about it, he even looks a bit weaselly.
He looks like that Munster kid….
Ryan was in Congress long before the Tea Party. Perhaps you mean the guy in the adjoining district across US 90 in Illinois, Adam Kinzinger. He ran as a Tea Party guy and sold out three seconds after first smelling the Potomac.
Quite right. Poor phrasing on my part. Let me amend it by saying that Ryan sought the support of and cast himself as a supporter of the Tea Party. Regardless, in less than a New York minute he proceeded to dump on them.
Ryan is another good argument for term limits.
Yeah, and Ryan is also a good argument for hanging politicians from lamp posts.