Paul Ryan fell apart on Fox News Sunday and when
pressed refused to say that he would guarantee Obamacare subsidies for
the people who might lose them.
Chris Wallace asked if Republicans would come up
with a way to keep the ACA subsidies going? Ryan answered, “We will have
an answer. We will have a solution. We don’t want people to fall victim
because of this bad law, and we want to give people freedom from
Obamacare.”
Ryan listed a series of Obamacare lies, and Chris
Wallace come back at him by asking if he was guaranteeing that people
will be able to keep their subsidies. Ryan tried to dodge the question,
“Well, we will have a solution that address this law that gives people a
bridge from Obamacare.”
Wallace asked, will you demand an end to the
mandates, the employer mandates, the individual mandates, and Ryan
refused to answer again, “Well, I’m not going to get into all that,
because we want to see what the ruling is. We want to give people
freedom from Obamacare. We want to actually let them buy what they want
to buy.”
Paul Ryan refused to answer the simple question of
whether House Republicans are going to screw millions of people out of
their health insurance. Ryan’s answers were an admission that the
Republican Party has no backup plan because Republicans can’t agree on
what to do if the Supreme Court strikes down the subsidies.
If the Supreme Court gives conservatives the ruling
that they want Republicans are in deep trouble. Most of the states where
people will lose their subsidies are Republican controlled red states.
Fox News doesn’t want to see Republicans held
accountable by voters if the subsidies are taken away, which is why
Chris Wallace was pushing Ryan so hard to guarantee the subsidies.
Instead
of honestly answering the question, Paul Ryan ducked and dodged while
doing his usual deer in headlights schtick. Reality is knocking on Paul
Ryan’s door, and the Wisconsin Republican is about to discover that life
isn’t an Ayn Rand fantasy novel.
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