Ryan wounded by health care fiasco. But don't expect a coup attempt against the speaker.

[DonViejo]

By JOHN BRESNAHAN and RACHAEL BADE 03/25/17 07:10 AM EDT

The painful public collapse Friday of Paul Ryan's biggest endeavor as House speaker — legislation to unwind the Democratic health care law he and his party spent years castigating as a disaster — dealt a serious blow to the Wisconsin Republican. But as embarrassing a setback as this was — Obamacare is here to stay "for the foreseeable future," Ryan conceded — he isn't going anywhere.

No one is prepared to challenge Ryan for his job, said GOP lawmakers from across the Republican Conference. While some right-wing media and outside groups are agitating to replace the speaker, and his antagonists on the White House staff needle him anonymously in the press, there is no way he will be ousted.

President Donald Trump hasn't turned on him, either — at least not yet. And Ryan remains popular with his rank-and-file members, who genuinely like him. Critically, Ryan is not a liability for them back home, the ultimate litmus test for any congressional leader. Yet the debacle over the American Health Care Act showed how the promise of Ryan as speaker has failed to live up to the reality.

When he took over for former Speaker John Boehner in November 2015 following an uprising by conservatives, Ryan was seen as the one figure who could heal the divisions within the GOP Conference, especially with the hard-line Freedom Caucus. That hasn't happened, to put it mildly.

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[Hugin]

1. And, there it is....

The "Full Confidence" article.

Ryan is toast.

[librechik]

2. NOBODY wants the Job of Shame, not even Ryan

they had to coax and pamper him to take it, and then they promised him the ultimate: Be the man who killed Obamacare. That appealed to him, so that's his karma.

[ladjf]

3. The proposed bill wasn't a health care bill. As everyone knows, it was just

another plan to take money from those who truly need it and transfer it to the rich. (Reverse Robin Hood)

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4. Tax cut for the wealthy. eom

[ladjf]

5. It was a blatant con game and the majority of Americans knew that. nt