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BREAKING VIDEO : WOW! Gowdy Destroys Schumer for DEMANDING Nunes be Replaced
Post Date: 2017-03-28 22:38:26 by Gatlin
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Trey Gowdy was not mincing words when he went after Chuck “Crybaby” Schumer for calling on Intel Chair, Devin Nunes to be replaced by global stooge Paul Ryan. Schumer criticized Nunes for telling the American people the TRUTH regarding classified developments and allegations that Obama spied on the Trump campaign. Gowdy thinks Chuck should mind his own beeswax because the chairman will do what is best for the American people. “I just love it when Senator Schumer gives Republicans advice on what we ought to do,” Gowdy said. “Devin is doing exactly what the chairman is [supposed] to do.” Watch the video here.
TRUMP SAYS HE EXPECTS A HEALTH CARE DEAL SOON
Post Date: 2017-03-28 21:49:38 by Gatlin
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump says he expects to make a deal on health care, even though his first attempt failed just a few days ago. Trump is hosting a reception for senators and their spouses at the White House. It attracted both Republicans and Democrats. He says the bipartisan crowd is "a very good thing" and predicts a deal on health care will happen "very quickly." He says: "I know that we're all going to make a deal on health care. And that's such an easy one." Trump also sees potential for working with Democrats on other issues like infrastructure. He says: "Hopefully it'll start being bipartisan. Because everybody ...
BREAKING : Trump Calls for an Investigation of Hillary’s Ties to Russia
Post Date: 2017-03-28 21:11:57 by Gatlin
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There’s now mounting evidence that Hillary and Bill Clinton, along with John Podesta have meddled with Russia. President Trump went onto Twitter to ask why congressional lawmakers aren’t probing the various deals, transactions, and connections former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have to Russia. From Breitbart “Why isn’t the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech,” read Trump’s first tweet, which was followed by, “…money to Bill, the Hillary Russian “reset,” praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a ...
BREAKING : Podesta Reportedly Received $35 Million Dollars From Russia While Working for Obama and Hillary
Post Date: 2017-03-28 21:08:54 by Gatlin
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iberals opened up a pandora’s box when they started down the “Russian conspiracy theory” road. There’s no proof of any connection between President Trump and Russia, however, Hillary and her cronies are definitely tied up tight with the Kremlin. ….and it’s just getting worse. Now, we’re learning that John Podesta received $35 million from Russia while working with Obama and Hillary. Mr. Comey, when does this investigation start? Watch the video here.
BREAKING : WHOA! Trump Calls Out John Podesta for his RUSSIA TIES
Post Date: 2017-03-28 21:05:41 by Gatlin
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The Russia/Trump “collusion” story is the fakest news to come down the pike since the infamous “hands up don’t shoot” BS the lying liberal media irresponsibly pushed. This is why our media has no credibility. They are shoving the “Russia conspiracy” down our collective throats despite the fact that there is zero evidence of any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of proof that Clinton and her campaign have close ties to Russia, but the liberal media ignores REAL NEWS in order to continue pushing anti-Trump FAKE NEWS. President Trump has had enough (can you blame him?) and is now calling out John Podesta for his Russian ties.
Angering Trump, the Freedom Caucus may have overplayed its hand
Post Date: 2017-03-28 20:48:57 by Gatlin
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Republican leaders and rank-and-file members have been grappling with how to handle the House Freedom Caucus since most of them came to Washington in 2010's Tea Party wave. Now that they have defied President Trump, they're hoping he can finally make them fall into line. "When he tweets things like he did … it gives me cover to echo that," Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., told the Washington Examiner about Trump's jabs at the House Freedom Caucus via Twitter. "The Republican House Freedom Caucus was able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory," Trump tweeted Monday night, three days after enough of its members refused to back the healthcare bill crafted by ...
Purists Kill Whatever They Believe In
Post Date: 2017-03-28 19:15:04 by Gatlin
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The GOP now looks ridiculous, and it may have passed up the opportunity of a lifetime to defeat the Left. According to the New York Times, ten moderates, 15 conservatives, and eight other Republicans would have voted against the Republican repeal-and-replace Obamacare Bill. So, then, 15 or so conservatives made it impossible to pass the bill favored by nearly every other Republican and by President Donald Trump. If that is the case, what we have here is another conservative example of purism and principle damaging another major opportunity to do good. The first purist conservative example were the Never Trumpers, who believed it was better for Hillary Clinton to be elected president and ...
Freedom Caucus founder blindsided during MSNBC healthcare interview
Post Date: 2017-03-28 18:55:16 by Gatlin
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Between falling into disfavor with President Trump and one of its founders being caught off guard in an interview on MSNBC, it looks like it's going to be a rough week for the Freedom Caucus. Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, who appeared Tuesday on "Morning Joe" to discuss President Trump's failed healthcare bill, was asked first to explain why he opposes efforts by the federal government to get involved in paid family leave. The problem with the interview is that paid family leave is MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski's pet issue, and Labrador was not prepared for the question. It didn't go well for him. "Well I just do think it's the government's role to ...
GOP's impatience with Freedom Caucus boils over
Post Date: 2017-03-28 18:47:13 by Gatlin
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52 GOP's impatience with Freedom Caucus boils over © Moriah Ratner House Republicans’ long-simmering impatience with colleagues in the conservative Freedom Caucus are spilling out into the open after the failure to pass legislation repealing and replacing ObamaCare. On Sunday, President Trump tweeted, “Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare!” Rep. Ralph Abraham (R-La.), who had supporter the GOP's healthcare bill, on Monday became the latest GOP lawmaker to pile onto the caucus. Abraham quoted Trump’s tweet and added: “.@POTUS is absolutely ...
Second GOP lawmaker mulls leaving Freedom Caucus
Post Date: 2017-03-28 18:41:01 by Gatlin
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The conservative House Freedom Caucus might lose another member after facing blame from some fellow Republicans for last week’s failure to pass the House leadership's bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Two days after Texas Rep. Ted Poe (R) left the Freedom Caucus, fellow Texas Rep. Brian Babin (R) wouldn't rule out leaving the group himself during an interview with The Hill Tuesday. “It’s something that will be a decision in the future, OK?” Babin said when pressed on whether he’s considering leaving the group of conservative hard- liners. Babin had planned to vote for the GOP leadership’s bill, titled the American Health Care Act, following ...
Freedom Caucus divided on tool to force Obamacare repeal vote
Post Date: 2017-03-28 18:35:51 by Gatlin
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Conservative hard-liners are weighing a thorny procedural move. House Freedom Caucus conservatives who brought down the GOP’s Obamacare replacement bill are divided over whether they should try to force a floor vote on a repeal-only bill with a procedural tool that could put their GOP colleagues in a bind. Several of the group’s most rock-ribbed conservatives are already setting in motion plans to file a so-called discharge petition. The legislative mechanism forces the chamber to vote on legislation — in this case, one of the group member’s Obamacare repeal bills — after it garners more than 216 lawmakers' signatures. “We will show to the American ...
GOP Sours on Obamacare Repeal; Next Attempt Unlikely Before 2019
Post Date: 2017-03-28 15:36:49 by Gatlin
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House Republicans won’t renew their effort to repeal the ACA and its taxes this year, likely delaying another attempt until 2019, lawmakers said March 27. The two committees responsible for designing the House’s failed Affordable Care Act repeal legislation have no plans to try again, Reps. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said. With midterm elections coming in 2018, the Republican effort to repeal the ACA is likely delayed until 2019, Collins told Bloomberg BNA. “The wounds are so deep and so raw,” Collins said of the failure to pass the repeal bill. ...
Having Co-Opted the Tea Party Nationwide, Trump Tries to Stamp out its Remnants in Congress
Post Date: 2017-03-28 07:39:41 by Deckard
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The ultimate outsider candidate collaborates with the GOP establishment to marginalize the House Freedom Caucus and pivot toward centrist DemocratsHave you seen the latest craze among Trump administration officials and their enablers in the Republican establishment? It's called Pin the Blame for Ryancare on the House Freedom Caucus, and it starts right at the top: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare! This assessment of the famously stubborn, 29-member group is shared by an uncounted number of the their colleagues, and even one of their own: ...
What Are the Republicans Waiting For?
Post Date: 2017-03-28 06:58:26 by Deckard
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The inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20 means that, once again, the Republicans have absolute control of the government. The Republicans regained control of the Congress that they had lost during the last two years of the presidency of George W. Bush when House Republicans won a majority of seats in the 2010 midyear elections and Senate Republicans won a majority of seats in the 2014 midyear elections. Just like when the Republicans held a majority in both Houses of Congress during the last six years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, all that was lacking was a Republican president “to make America great again.” This happened two other times in recent history. Republicans ...
Republicans should be disgusted with the House Freedom Caucus
Post Date: 2017-03-28 05:42:24 by Gatlin
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Reports from Capitol Hill today indicate ,B>rising exasperation among old-school conservatives about the shifting, raise-the-ante, refuse-to-say-"yes" demands from most members of the House Freedom Caucus, with regard to the upcoming vote on the House Republican healthcare bill. The exasperation is well-justified. The House Freedom Caucus is clearly driven by outside groups such as Heritage Action, which has become such an all-or-nothing, my-way-or-the-highway outfit that it makes Patrick Henry look like a compromising squish. It seems as if every concession made to the Freedom Caucus is met with a new demand. I just returned from a barbecue place in conservative Mobile, ...
Freedom Caucus: Do these 29 white men run America?
Post Date: 2017-03-28 05:20:10 by Gatlin
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A group of about three dozen men stopped President Trump's healthcare bill cold. Who are they, and how much power do they have? President Donald Trump's first major legislative push came to a halt last week as the American Health Care Act (AHCA) failed to be given a vote. Much of the blame for the bill's failure was placed on the Freedom Caucus, a secretive group of Republicans who refused to get in line behind Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Mr Trump. The Freedom Caucus emerged in 2015, in response to complaints that then-Speaker of the House John Boehner tried to jam through legislation in defiance of House rules - specifically, legislation they thought wasn't ...
House forms Freedom Caucus
Post Date: 2017-03-28 04:40:38 by Gatlin
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BOISE — Rep. Bryan Zollinger, R-Idaho Falls, has announced that he will be one of two co-chairman of the new Idaho House Freedom Caucus. Rep. Mike Kingsley, R-Lewiston, will be the other co-chairman. The two held a meeting with reporters in the press room at the Capitol to announce the idea. “We have great ideas, but they’re never going to go anywhere,” Kingsley said, referring to several bills that couldn’t get hearings before House committees. Zollinger and Kingsley said they hope unifying the House’s conservative wing would mean more clout, making it harder for committee chairmen to refuse to hear their bills. Zollinger and Kingsley are freshmen who ...
Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) On Why He Resigned From The Freedom Caucus:
Post Date: 2017-03-28 04:26:29 by Gatlin
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“I resigned from the Freedom Caucus because of this last bill, the Obamacare bill repeal and replace. We met with the President over an hour and half, Vice President Pence was there, members of the cabinet were there and the President was trying to work and compromise and get more things the Freedom Caucus wanted in the bill. Those things were added but it wasn’t good enough so at the end of the day, they were going to vote against the bill and I thought that was being obstructionist but we should have supported a bill that maybe wasn’t perfect but it was better than what we have so now we are stuck with Obamacare and that is why I resigned from the Freedom Caucus.” ...
Why Steve Bannon Might Be the Winner of the GOP’s Health-Care Civil War
Post Date: 2017-03-27 17:05:02 by Hondo68
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Winning? Photo: Win McNamee/Getty ImagesWith hours to go before the House is set to (finally) vote on Paul Ryan’s health-care bill, the Trump administration is putting a full-court press on recalcitrant Republicans to rally votes. Last night, the White House sent senior officials including Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon to Capitol Hill to deliver an ultimatum to wavering House members: Pass the bill or Trump is moving on to other priorities. The message was intended to put blame for a failed vote on Congress.The failure to repeal and replace Obamacare would be a stinging defeat for Trump. But it would be an even ...
Many GOP lawmakers furious at Freedom Caucus over healthcare bill
Post Date: 2017-03-27 16:24:53 by Gatlin
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Rank-and-file House Republicans have had enough of the Freedom Caucus' opposition to the way GOP leaders and President Trump propose to repeal the Affordable Care Act. One day before the bill is set to hit the House floor, the majority of the decidedly conservative caucus remains unwilling to yield to entireties from the Trump administration and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to support the legislation. That, leaders and more and more of their Republican colleagues say, cannot stand. Inaction is not an option. And if they torpedo the bill Thursday, it is argued they will embarrass the party and Trump. "I just feel like that this is our moment to move forward — no it's ...
Abraham, Higgins: Blame GOP Freedom Caucus for saving Obamacare
Post Date: 2017-03-27 16:12:59 by Gatlin
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Congressman Ralph Abraham blistered his GOP colleagues in the "Freedom Caucus" for the demise of the House Republicans' health care bill Friday, saying their opposition may lead to a nationalized health care system. "We had an opportunity to repeal Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood and reform Medicaid — goals Republicans have worked for years to accomplish — and yet some members of my own party defeated those goals by sinking this bill," said Abraham, R-Alto, who represents Louisiana's 5th Congressional District. Congressman Mike Johnson, R-Benton Congressman Mike Johnson, R-Benton (Photo: Courtesy photo) "Their decision marches us closer ...
Rep. Adam Kinzinger: Freedom Caucus hampering GOP’s ability to govern
Post Date: 2017-03-27 15:48:01 by Gatlin
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Monday the House Freedom Caucus is torpedoing the GOP’s ability to govern, and said the party should look to work with Democrats to get things done on Capitol Hill. Mr. Kinzinger said the debate over health care showed that the House GOP is better off building a center-right coalition than trying to wooing “the so-called Freedom Caucus,” whose members, he said, typically are “never, ever, ever going to get to ‘yes.’” “They have been in existence for about three years and every time they have tried to come to the table they consistently move the goal post and they did that on President Trump,” Mr. Kinzinger said on ...
Conservatism's worst enemy? The Freedom Caucus.
Post Date: 2017-03-27 15:39:29 by Gatlin
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Friday was a great day to be part of the American left. What a coup for Democrats to score a huge legislative victory when they're the minority party in both houses. How on Earth did they do it? Was it brilliant strategy? Was it top-notch fundraising? Was it powerful rhetoric? Nope. They didn't have to do anything. The House Freedom Caucus — supposedly the most conservative members of the House of Representatives — handed them victory on a silver platter! Who would ever have guessed that the saviors of Planned Parenthood would be 31 Ted Cruz disciples? They sound conservative, they act conservative, and they represent conservative districts, but the House Freedom Caucus ...
Following Health Care Debacle, White House Considers More Conservative Outreach
Post Date: 2017-03-27 11:23:03 by Tooconservative
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"There could have been more outreach to conservative groups." That was the reflection of a senior White House aide about 24 hours after the decision by House speaker Paul Ryan to scrap Friday's vote on the American Health Care Act. The bill, presented as the best chance to repeal and replace Obamacare and backed by President Trump, didn't have enough votes in the House thanks to factions on both sides of the Republican conference's ideological spectrum. But it was conservatives who helped kill the bill, from those in Congress who held together firmly as a bloc to help deny Speaker Ryan the votes to outside interest groups to health-care experts and commentators on ...
Poe says some members of Freedom Caucus would vote no against Ten Commandments
Post Date: 2017-03-27 08:57:00 by Gatlin
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Video is HERE. Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), who resigned Sunday from the conservative House Freedom Caucus, criticized the group Monday for its constant opposition. "The Freedom Caucus has always been the opposition caucus and I guess the Democrats, and now, when we are in the majority, it continues to be the opposition caucus against anything in the Republican Party," Poe said on CNN's "New Day." "And, we had not been included in the past, but we were included in the healthcare replacement bill." Poe said the group spent more than an hour with President Trump and members of the administration talking and making compromises. "Compromises were made. ...
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