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Title: The obsession of the House Freedom Caucus
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Politico
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/ ... aucus-house-republicans-214819
Published: Oct 15, 2015
Author: JAKE SHERMAN
Post Date: 2017-03-26 23:45:43 by Gatlin
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Views: 693
Comments: 8
Rep. Justin Amash [a libertarian] insists the group that pushed John Boehner to the exits isn't just a bunch of bomb throwers. They want real reform in how the House works. [No the don’t they want to control the House….and they are damn well doing it!] Rep. Justin Amash, a leader of the House Freedom Caucus who helped plunge the House of Representatives into an unprecedented state of chaos, wants to talk about rules. […] Amash, a 35-year-old libertarian-minded Republican first elected in the tea party wave of 2010, is at the heart of a new power center in the House Republican Conference. With roughly 40 members, the Freedom Caucus has an outsized role in selecting the next speaker of the House. If its members vote as a bloc, which they say they intend to do, it essentially gives them veto power over the next speaker of the House [and it gives them power to do anything they damn well please….or the power to stop anything his libertarian ass doesn’t like]. […] “The worst scenario,” Amash continued, “is where you have one person or a small group of people dictate to everyone else what the outcome is going to be in advance.” [Yea, tell me about it …] “The obsession of the House Freedom Caucus.”
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#8. To: Gatlin (#0)
It IS the Republicans' fault, not the Freedom Caucus. The House could have passed a clean "Kill Obamacare" bill, but they didn't. They didn't because they couldn't get a full repeal through the reconciliation process with the Senate. It is said that the Senate "can't" pass Obamacare repeal, "because of the filibuster". Truth is, though, as the Democrats showed, the Republicans can strike down the filibuster anytime they want to, on any subject. Senate Republicans PRETEND that they cannot, they PRETEND they are limited to judicial appointments, because that's what the Democrats limited themselves to when the Democrats changed the rule, but Democrat actions do not limit the Republicans. They could go much bigger, much wider, and turn the Senate into a majority-vote body in order to push through any agenda they please. The only thing stopping them is themselves. So, the House COULD have presented a clean "Repeal Obamacare" bill, and then presented a clean "Republican Care" bill that was done right. They didn't, because the Senate insists on a rule that they could change at any time. It's not the Freedom Caucus' fault, it's the Republican Senate's fault. The consequences of this will be pretty bad for Republicans if they don't turn it around with a bunch of wins.
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