I would take the HFC a lot more seriously if they stood on principle when it was UNpopular to do so.
Instead, what do they obstruct? The Trump agenda. Instead of working on pulling the bill more to the right and maybe getting assurances that the rest of the stages would be implemented? It’s just stomp stomp stomp, no no no.
The bill probably would have still failed, but if they’d shown even a little more willingness to work with the President, he’d be working with them instead of the liberals when the next bill came out.
Their ‘principled’ stand did their cause far more harm than good with this stunt because they proved that they either can’t be trusted or can’t be reasoned with.
+1000
I think that you are forgetting that every member of the Freedom Caucus has a longstanding voting record on conservative issues. They have earned their designation as “hard core conservatives” not by how they would have voted on this one bill but on how they actually have voted for years.
Since President Trump asked Speaker Ryan to pull the bill, we don’t know which members or how many members of the Freedom Caucus would have actually voted against it in a roll call vote.
Here’s some of the members of the Freedom Caucus and their conservative voting record from Conservative Review:
Dave Palmer-AL 100%
Dave Bratt- VA 100%
Justin Amash-MI 97%
Jim Bridenstein-OK 96%
Jeff Duncan-SC 96%
Jim Jordan-OH 96%
Tom Massie-KY 94%
Ken Buck-CO 94%
Raul Labrador-ID 93%
Trent Franks-AZ 90%