[JayGalt]

I don't think the FC=conservatives so that's an unfair statement.. Also Trump's tweet: "The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast. We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!" is not a promise to fight them. It is putting them on notice that they weren't team players and to get anything done he is going to need to fight an uphill battle with them as well as the Dems unless they come to the table and seriously work at getting a healthcare solution passed.

Still doing my due diligence on looking up their positions but thus far there's good & bad. Amash is an idiot. Others have worked to good effect. They don't even release the names of all of their members.

My reading so far suggests that the FC asked for concessions like an end to essential healthcare benefits and when they got those concessions pulled back the votes they had promised. There is an extensive discussion on the internals at
How a secret Freedom Caucus pact brought down Obamacare repeal on Politico

[KyCats]

Look at what he wrote:

“The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast.”

Period.

“We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!”

Exclamation point.

Two distinct sentences which stand independent of each other.

He DID NOT write:

The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda.

If they don’t get on the team, & fast, we must fight them, and Dems, in 2018.

You see the yuuuuge difference?

He could have chosen to write the 2nd, conditional version. But he chose not to. Instead he declared war. Now you want to foster a deceit and rewrite it for him.

Either the man stands by his word or he doesn’t. Which is it?