Most of the FC people voted for Ryan and Boehner to be Speaker in the past.
They are fronting for “Never Trump” along with the usual suspects Levin and Beck.
True. Most of the FC are backbenchers who no one would recognize by name or face. They haven’t accomplished anything and never will, except to band together to block the new Presiden Trump on his first major piece of legislation in a spectacularily stupid way. All of their objections could and would have been dealt with through the reconciliation process between House and Senate but no, they had to stand on their ideology. And just like Cruz, we see again that unbending conservative ideology gets you lots of attaboys from a minority of the population. Plus, by opposing Trump they put themselves in the crosshairs. You can be assured that Trump will do everything possible to never allow this situation to happen again - take that as a promise or a threat, whichever you prefer.
As Rep. Poe said, they never would agree to a deal because they were out to prove a point. Now we will see has the most points when Obamacare continues to fail and they are held responsible for blocking replacement.