Ryan's Pact with Trump
By John Cassidy
February 7, 2017
... Ryan began by talking about Republican efforts to roll back “excessive regulation”—which is killing jobs, he claimed—and then he moved on to the Affordable Care Act. Blithely ignoring the recent announcement that 9.6 million people have signed up for coverage this year on the private insurance exchanges set up by the law, the Speaker declared that he and his colleagues had decided “to rescue the American health-care system from the collapse that is coming because of Obamacare.” Moving “step by step,” he said, the Republicans would replace the current reform with “a much better system, a patient-centered health-care system” that is “far better for families, far better for patients.”
Ryan then took questions. This was the first one: “The President made some new false statements yesterday, notably that there are major terrorist attacks that the media, essentially, isn’t covering. Are you getting concerned at all about his grasp of the truth?”
Ryan shrugged his shoulders ...
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/what-explains-paul-ryans-craven-words-about-trump
