America Now Lacks Anyone to Govern
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Author: Robert Reich
America is in a crisis of governance. No adult is in charge.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, in his press conference following the demise of his bill to replace Obamacare, blamed Republicans who had failed to grasp that the GOP was now a “governing party.”
“We were a 10-year opposition party, where being against things was easy to do,” said Ryan. “You just had to be against it. Now, in three months’ time, we tried to go to a governing party where we actually had to get 216 people to agree with each other on how we do things.”
Ryan said it was “the growing pains of government.”
Rubbish.
Apparently Ryan doesn’t grasp that he put forward a terrible bill to begin with. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, it would have resulted in 24 million Americans losing health coverage over the next decade, would hardly make a dent in the federal debt, and would transfer more than $600 billion to the wealthiest members of American society.
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