So now the Constituion has been reduced to mere whimsy ?
As for the "art of the possible", we have the house, senate, and presidency, so it is possible to cleanly repeal the AHA by removing the filibuster rule.
No, repealing the ACA in one fell swoop has been reduced to whimsy.
This same GOP Congress—with the votes of the HFC and others—sent "repeal" legislation to Obama's desk a half dozen times or more.
Now that there's a President who would actually sign such a bill, no such legislation is forthcoming.
I perfectly exemplifies that absolute hypocrisy emanating from the GOP—every faction.
And the GOP—all of them, including the HFC—unanimously elected a Speaker that they—all of them, including the HFC—knew would never let a repeal bill get to the floor under the new President.
Not that it matters, of course, whether a repeal bill did make it to the floor, because now such a bill wouldn't come anywhere close to passing.
And some want to pontificate about "inconvenient truths"?
The House GOP—all of them, including the HFC—knew exactly what they'd be getting when they elected Paul Ryan Speaker of the House. And they—all of them, including the HFC—did it anyway.
The time for courage and leadership for the HFC was then—when the Speaker was being chosen. Whatever happened afterwards is moot, because the practical boundaries were set at that precise moment. And every GOP representative—all of them, including the HFC—participated in the charade.
So there's plenty of hypocrisy to go around, and the House Freedom Caucus is certainly no exception. They seem to be rather selective about when they decide to "stick to their principles", because when it came to choosing a GOPe speaker, they were 100% behind him.
It's a dog and pony show by virtually everyone involved, with no exceptions...