[Alberta's Child]

The Freedom Caucus is the only thing keeping the GOP leadership in the House from self-immolation. The “three phase” B.S. wasn’t going to work, and everyone knew it. If the GOP passes a Phase 1 that doesn’t reduce premiums for people for 2018, there won’t be a Phase 2 because the GOP will face a disaster of historic proportions in the 2018 midterms.

[central_va]

The Free Traitor™ caucus more like it. Who needs them? Let Globalist Cheap Labor Express form their own meaningless party and GTFOOTW.

[sargon]

The Senate will modify whatever the House passes. Every single member of the House will have an final opportunity to vote "Yea" or "Nay" on whatever emerges from the Senate.

I think that the House Freedom Caucus should see this phase through, and vote to send this bill over to the Senate, where Ted Cruz and Rand Paul will have plenty to say.

I've concluded that the best option is to give the Senate something to work with.

This bill is far from being law, and will clearly be changed by the Senate, so the absolutist argument that it needs to stop here and now is simply not convincing.

The House should pass the best bill they can and the process should continue. Anything else automatically condemns Americans to more pain...

[palmer]

The Freedom Caucus is the only thing keeping the GOP leadership in the House from self-immolation. The "three phase" B.S. wasn't going to work, and everyone knew it.

I was in the pass-something camp, but I listened to a freedom caucus guy on C-SPAN and changed my mind. It would have been possible to pick up their votes with a less bad bill, but the killer was the remaining federal insurance regulations.