The Further Adventures of Paul Ryan, Bold Truth-Telling Policy Wonk
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RyanCare is going to bring sweet, sweet bankruptcy and death freedom to the American people. And, above all, the process will be transparent. Bigly.
Yesterday, House Speaker Paul Ryan boasted that his party would follow a deliberate, transparent process to repeal and replace Obamacare. “This is how the legislative process is supposed to be designed,” he told the Today show. “We’re not hatching some bill in a backroom and plopping it on the American people’s front door.”
This is, in the most literal sense, accurate:
Today, House Republicans made it known that they will release their plan tomorrow and that it will only be made available to House Republicans. Representative Chris Collins tells the Washington Examiner the plan “would be made available Thursday morning to Republicans in a basement room of an office building that adjoins the Capitol.”
It is not clear what distinction Ryan draws between a “backroom” and a “basement room” only members of his party may access.
Look, he said backroom, not basement. He’s still an honest policy wonk! YOU HAD TO PASS OBAMACARE TO FIND OUT WHAT’S IN IT!
I think a corollary to dsquared’s dictum that “good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptance” is “good ideas do not have to be completely hidden from the American public before Congess can vote on them.”