The announcement:

BREAKING: House Republicans, short of votes, withdraw health care bill. — AP Politics (@AP_Politics) March 24, 2017

My reaction:

Can we please move on to trade and immigration now? — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) March 24, 2017

Not that I expect the #TruCons in Congress to do anything on those issues either — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) March 24, 2017

#TruCons, ladies and gentlemen. It ended the only way it could have ended. In a clusterfuck https://t.co/vnnTbg0u2N — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) March 24, 2017

Trump’s agenda is pretty much dead unless he can push it through executive order. Even then, courts will block him — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) March 24, 2017

This is only the first embarrassment that Ryan and the incompetant #TruCons will visit on @POTUS. I told you so — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) March 24, 2017

My prediction:

I was already worried that Trump was going to interpret his victory as a mandate for Paul Ryan’s agenda: taxes, healthcare, GOP stuff — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) November 22, 2016

7/ What happened to BUILD THE WALL? Maybe we will get to that in 2020 after plunging into a healthcare fight like Obama did in 2008 — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 2, 2017

I’m not against repealing Obamacare. I don’t want healthcare to CONSUME Trump like it did w/ Obama — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 3, 2017

Obama wanted to pass amnesty, but he blew all his political capital on the stimulus & healthcare and lost Congress to the Tea Party in 2010 — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 3, 2017

Pretty much. Don’t forget healthcare was THE black hole that consumed Obama’s entire agenda https://t.co/pCyNbnmwEl — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 3, 2017

As @RichardBSpencer has pointed out, Trump has maybe a year to deliver on immigration. Instead, we’re plunging into the healthcare tar baby — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 3, 2017

Here we go again: plunging into the vortex of healthcare and tax cuts. It will be like Obama in ’08 and ’09 + W. in ’01 — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 3, 2017

The good news is that we are done with healthcare. Trump got out before he could sink further into the quicksand. The bad news is the Republican Congress is likely useless on other issues.