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Title: Why the Freedom Caucus Has Reopened Repeal Talks with Ryan and Trump
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The American Spectator
URL Source: https://spectator.org/why-the-freed ... eal-talks-with-ryan-and-trump/
Published: Mar 29, 2017
Author: David Catron
Post Date: 2017-03-29 07:52:41 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 775
Comments: 8
The most telling feature of Melissa Mackenzie’s post about the decision of House Speaker Ryan and President Trump to reopen negotiations with the “100-Percent-Of- Nothing” caucus is the New York Times report to which she refers. The Times claims, “House Republican leaders and the White House, under extreme pressure from conservative activists, have restarted negotiations on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act.” This is Orwellian BS. It isn’t the GOP leadership or Trump that have been “under extreme pressure.” It is, rather, the capricious members of the House Freedom Caucus who have been feeling the heat. The President has been hammering them on Twitter with jabs like this : “The Republican House Freedom Caucus was able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.” If you don’t believe this kind of pressure is having an effect, I invite you to watch HFC ringleader Mark Meadows squirm when ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pressed him on Sunday morning about a similar Trump tweet. And the President is by no means the only Republican who has condemned Meadows and the HFC. Rep. Ted Poe resigned from the caucus and told CNN, “There’s some members of the Freedom Caucus, they’d vote no against the Ten Commandments if it came up for a vote.” Other disgruntled members of the HFC, like Rep. Brian Babin, are also thinking about resigning: “I worked very hard to get President Trump elected. And listen, we have a president that will sign our legislation now. So we need to support that agenda.” Poe and Babin are not “moderate” Republicans. They are conservatives in good standing. Members of another conservative caucus, the Republican Study Committee, are also grumbling about the HFC. The Washington Examiner reports that RSC member Rep. Barry Loudermilk implied that the RSC dealt with the President more honestly in their negotiations with the President, “We lived up to our word.” Republican Rep. Austin Scott was less diplomatic than Loudermilk when he tweeted, “Mark Meadows betrayed Trump and America and supported Pelosi and Dems to protect Obamacare.” Another Republican, Rep. Doug Collins was incensed that the HFC let Planned Parenthood off the hook: “I am unable to understand how many of my colleagues allowed political myopia to prevent them from supporting the opportunity to defund America’s largest abortion peddler.” The list goes on and on, but the point is this: If the House Freedom Caucus adheres to any core set of actual principles, the President, many of their House colleagues, and even some if the group’s own members are unable to detect them. The HFC is, as Andrew Malcolm phrased it, “a rump pack of Republicans themselves who’ve shown a keen interest in policy-strutting but none in the actual teamwork of governing.” Mark Meadows and his pompous accomplices have been hearing this from all sides, and that is why they are back at the table. It has nothing to do with “pressure” on the President or the GOP leadership. The members of the HFC, like Caesar’s assassins, expected to be greeted as heroes for their perfidy. Now that they have been disabused of this hubristic fantasy, they are suddenly willing to talk.
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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)
Total repeal then fix issues. Anyone think otherwise has a few screws loose in the old noggin. This is the same old shit where neoclowns turn the table to bring the GOP right back to being dim-lite. Pubs touch Obummercare then the GOP will own it and be blamed for it. Why can't sane pubs get this?
Nonsense. Trump and Ryan and the GOP have been running for 7 years through 50 votes, bitching and vowing to repeal 0care. They don't dare face the voters in 2018 without having a repeal or at least something that failed that looked like a repeal (but that they can blame on Schmuck Schumer). But this was no repeal. It was a hastily thrown together hatchet job that would hurt a lot of people in the 55-65 age group in key Red states like Arizona, Kentucky, Alaska, Nebraska, etc. And that is why both Trump and Ryan, having announced they wouldn't return to repealing 0care until it collapses, had to suddenly do a 180° turn to announce that they do still want to do it. Freedom Caucus won. Period. And it is eating you up. Which is what makes it so funny. And Trump and Ryan's public pouting only humiliated them as they realized they had no choice but to continue repealing 0care.
Because he hates the Freedom Caucus, Gatlin wants the GOP to receive full credit for the failing ObamaCare by attaching an (R) to it. The Gatlin Plan A rather accurate cartoon. Good find.
Just curious, why do you think Gatlin hates the Freedom Caucus ?? Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."Theodore Roosevelt-1907. I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Note the word "Freedom", Gatlin fears the very concept. He needs a big brother authoritarian government to keep him in line, otherwise he might be smoking crack, and God only knows what else! LOL !!! Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."Theodore Roosevelt-1907. I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#2. To: Gatlin, hondo68 (#0)
It isn’t the GOP leadership or Trump that have been “under extreme pressure.” It is, rather, the capricious members of the House Freedom Caucus who have been feeling the heat.
#3. To: Tooconservative, The Gatlin Plan (#2)
Freedom Caucus won. Period. And it is eating you up. Which is what makes it so funny.
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
#5. To: All (#0)
(Edited)
Why the Freedom Caucus Has Reopened Repeal Talks ...
#6. To: hondo68 (#3)
" he hates the Freedom Caucus "
#7. To: Stoner (#6)
why do you think Gatlin hates the Freedom Caucus ??
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#8. To: hondo68 (#7)
" He needs a big brother authoritarian government to keep him in line, otherwise he might be smoking crack, and God only knows what else! "
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