text: Meadows has played Trump and Ryan beautifully. Any future consensus on healthcare now has to go through his so called "freedom" caucus. Acceding to their demands will lose the bill Republican votes in the House and ensure it has very little chance of getting to 50 in the Senate. Paul Ryan is a failure as Speaker. Now that his poorly designed, universally panned disaster of a healthcare bill has been pulled we will hopefully read less about what a policy genius he is. I love how the Republicans are telling each other that this is actually a brilliant ninja move by Trump because now when Obamacare blows up it will somehow be all Chuck Schumer's fault. Complete control of Washington and all they have are poor excuses for failure.