The malfunctioning Republican Party

Here's the overwhelming lesson of the AHCA debacle: The Republican Party is broken

Paul Ryan's no good very bad day.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

The grand Republican plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare was yanked from the House floor Friday, just before it was to be voted on. The reason the bill, called the American Health Care Act, failed so spectacularly is that despite much last-minute whipping from President Trump, the votes simply were not there.

This leads to one overwhelming and unavoidable conclusion: The Republican Party is broken.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.