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House Freedom Caucus seeks swift Obamacare repeal, setting up clash with leadership
CNN ^ | Feb. 14, 2017 | MJ Lee and Deirdre Walsh,

Posted on 02/14/2017 1:30:43 PM PST by Innovative

Despite mounting pressure from the House Freedom Caucus to quickly repeal Obamacare, House Republican leaders insisted Tuesday morning that they would take a "step-by-step" approach to overhauling the Affordable Care Act.

The Freedom Caucus, a group of influential conservatives, publicly expressed their impatience Tuesday with Republican leaders for failing to schedule a vote to repeal the sweeping health care law. But GOP leaders are concerned about the political backlash that could come from swift and wholesale repeal of the health care law without having a replacement plan ready.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; obamacare; republicans
Some of these so-called "Republican leaders" are truly RINOs.

Go, Freedom Caucus, go Trump -- don't let the b****s grind you down.

1 posted on 02/14/2017 1:30:43 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

This is completely inexusable. They have had seven years to have a replacement ready to go. This shows these rinos are all talk and no spine. Gutless cowards all.


2 posted on 02/14/2017 1:36:27 PM PST by Daddaroo
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To: Innovative

I said before Roberts the traitor ever did his deed that he would do it and we would never rid ourselves of it because the GOP secretly was in favor of it. Anyone see anything that would debase me of that opinion?


3 posted on 02/14/2017 1:37:24 PM PST by itsahoot (Return the power to the people, and Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%)
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To: Innovative

Freedom Caucus?

Wow - what have any of those people done since they’ve been elected?


4 posted on 02/14/2017 1:42:27 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Daddaroo

“They have had seven years to have a replacement ready to go.”

The all counted on (and many wanted) The Crook winning in November.


5 posted on 02/14/2017 1:48:58 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Tzimisce

It’s pretty damned hard to “do” anything if you can’t get your legislation out of committee.


6 posted on 02/14/2017 1:50:15 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Innovative

Shows once again why Lyin’ Ryan should never have been reelected speaker.


7 posted on 02/14/2017 1:54:04 PM PST by Fungi (Every breath, another five thousand fungal spores enter your body. All five thousand will be named.)
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To: Innovative

vote. let’s see them.


8 posted on 02/14/2017 2:03:50 PM PST by dadfly
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To: Innovative

Bullschtein!

Do it and do it now. Sick of these pantywaists.


9 posted on 02/14/2017 2:26:15 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Innovative
Freedom Caucus backed a proposal to immediately bring up a repeal bill that Republicans passed in 2015 to roll back Obamacare

It passed both houses of Congress (simple majority on budget reconciliation) and went to Obama, who vetoed it in January 2016.

The main thing the bill did was to end Obamacare penalties and taxes.

It's a great idea to re-pass it since Trump will sign it, and to do so before the April deadline for filing 2016 income taxes.

I'm glad that the Freedom Caucus has proposed doing so. Gives me hope that it'll get done.

10 posted on 02/14/2017 2:31:27 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Innovative

The replacement is called the free market.


11 posted on 02/14/2017 2:39:18 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: itsahoot

Sadly, no


12 posted on 02/14/2017 3:08:58 PM PST by CottonBall (Thank you, Julian)
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To: dhs12345

Ping to Post # 10.

The Freedom Caucus has proposed re-passing the bill repealing the Obamacare penalty which Obama vetoed last year.


13 posted on 02/14/2017 4:04:14 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG
The Freedom Caucus has proposed re-passing the bill repealing the Obamacare penalty which Obama vetoed last year.

The bill repealed the penalty, the subsidies, and the taxes.

14 posted on 02/14/2017 4:12:16 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Get ‘er done!


15 posted on 02/14/2017 4:17:23 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG

Thanks! Progress, I hope.


16 posted on 02/14/2017 4:41:14 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: itsahoot

“Anyone see anything that would debase me of that opinion?”

Correction:

Anyone see anything that would disabuse me of that opinion?

You’re a good FReeper and should not be debased. :)


17 posted on 02/14/2017 4:49:01 PM PST by sergeantdave (Cats are like potato chips - you can't have just one.)
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Anyone see anything that would disabuse me of that opinion?

Thanks I didn't catch that :) But I am getting old, senile and half blind, then auto correct does some strange things, but that was a doozie.

18 posted on 02/14/2017 5:03:26 PM PST by itsahoot (Return the power to the people, and Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%)
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To: itsahoot

“But I am getting old, senile and half blind...”

Nonsense.

Always remember that you’re not ageing as in growing old, but rather, you are ageing as in fine wine.


19 posted on 02/14/2017 5:39:02 PM PST by sergeantdave (Cats are like potato chips - you can't have just one.)
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To: sergeantdave
but rather, you are ageing as in fine wine.

Would that that were true, Dave. I have a driving license and a pilots license but you should have seen me trying out my new zero turn radius lawnmower yesterday.

20 posted on 02/15/2017 7:11:44 AM PST by itsahoot (Return the power to the people, and Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%)
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