Free the Market

Ann Coulter nails it again:

Until the welfare program is decoupled from the insurance market, nothing will work. Otherwise, it's like forcing grocery stores to pay for everyone to have a house. A carton of milk would suddenly cost $10,000.

That's what Obamacare did to health insurance. Paul Ryan's solution was to cut taxes on businesses -- and make the milk watery. But he still wouldn't allow milk to be sold on the free market.

While Ryan's RINOs are making fools of themselves by dancing around the elephant in the living room, the American people are watching -- and we aren't liking what we're seeing.

Gonna be an ugly primary in '18 if you bunch of greedy soft-hands in Congress can't get your act together. There'll be no populist coattails to ride this time, and Trump is clever; he's shining a very bright spotlight on Congress while clucking his tongue. As a populist, he understands something that pack of professional hyenas does not: What the electorate giveth, the electorate can taketh away.

In fact, Trump is counting on exactly that. He can maneuver this in such a way as to replace a significant percentage of the Republicans in the House with people who will cooperate with him in '18. In the meantime, his HHS Secretary can take a knife to Obamacare and effectively gut it from the inside out. Trump comes out smelling like a rose, Congressional Republicans have egg on their faces (again), and he gets a more cooperative legislature out of it. Win-win, as they say.

Once again Trump has revealed Congress to be a bunch of rank amateurs as he leads them around by the nose. I suspect he's enjoying it. I'm certainly getting lots of chuckles from watching it.