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Poe was the Freedom Caucus member who took the LEAST from the medical lobbyists and was obviously embarrassed by the fact that the Freedom Caucus is owned by the Trump hating Koch brothers and Trump hating Club For Growth. Now millions of Americans will be forced to continue to suffer under obamacare but hey they can take comfort knowing they suffer for the Freedom Caucus’ “conservative principles.” Planned Parenthood’s chopped up babies will be proud to die for Mark Meadows as well I guess.

Question WHAT HAS THE FREEDOM CAUCUS EVER DONE FOR US?

They gave Mark Sanford a place to rehabilitate himself after he lied about hiking the Appalachian Trail, when he really was betraying his vows to

Jennifer Sullivan Sanford (born September 11, 1962[1]) is the former First Lady of South Carolina, heiress, and former investment banker.[2] She was married to Governor Mark Sanford, whose initial campaigns she substantially funded. On December 11, 2009, she announced that she was filing for divorce, after it became known that Governor Sanford had flown to Argentina to have an affair with Maria Belen Chapur, a 43-year-old divorced mother from Buenos Aires six months earlier. The divorce decree was granted on February 26, 2010. The couple's divorce was finalized on March 19, 2010.[3]

Mark Sanford is not like most Republicans in Washington.

His policy résumé is beyond reproach to those on the right: He was D.C.’s dashing fiscal hawk during his first stint in the House, and then, after term-limiting himself and returning home to South Carolina, he won the governorship, vetoed hundreds of measures from his Republican-led Legislature and gained fame by refusing to accept President Barack Obama’s stimulus funding in 2009. His political instincts are razor sharp: Sanford has never lost a campaign, which, joined with his ideological mooring, once made him a conservative favorite for the presidency. And his personal failings—namely, the infamous 2009 affair with Argentinian television journalist María Belén Chapur—appear to have been forgiven by the people of South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, who sent him back to Congress in a 2013 special election before re-electing him in 2014 and 2016.

All this gives Sanford a unique sense of liberation to speak his mind about a president whose substance and style he considers a danger to democracy. “I’m a dead man walking,” he tells me, smiling. “If you’ve already been dead, you don’t fear it as much. I’ve been dead politically.”

His digs at Trump cover the spectrum. The president, Sanford says, “has fanned the flames of intolerance.” He has repeatedly misled the public, most recently about the national murder rate and the media’s coverage of terrorist attacks. He showed a lack of humility by using the National Prayer Breakfast to ridicule Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ratings on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Most worrisome, Sanford says, Trump is unprepared for the presidency.

His digs at Trump cover the spectrum. The president, Sanford says, “has fanned the flames of intolerance.” He has repeatedly misled the public, most recently about the national murder rate and the media’s coverage of terrorist attacks. He showed a lack of humility by using the National Prayer Breakfast to ridicule Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ratings on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Most worrisome, Sanford says, Trump is unprepared for the presidency.

That’s a Sanford quote from LAST month. Revealing to see the never Trump company these “principled conservatives” are keeping. They are getting played like a drum in this beltway kabuki theater by the usual suspects. How sad.