"Trump would not fight so hard for something he hadnt seen and approved.
I simply will not believe that. "
There, you have it.
You've identified your own problem, ...
not facing reality!
How many times did Trump meet with the Freedom Caucus ?
What did the Freedom Caucus say ?
Read parts of the article again:
RUSH: ... Sad to say this was in the cards.
I think the Freedom Caucus is getting a very bad rap as being the reason that bill, folks, there were two ways to look at it. The bill by itself maintained Obamacare aspects.
So why vote for it?
It maintained Obamacare aspects.
In some cases premiums were going to increase.
Why do this?
Why put your name to that?
Why would any Republican do it?
Unless the objective was just get a win,
just say within 60 days we tackled the biggest legislative issue to come down the pike, and we got it done.
See?
We repealed and reformed, except there wasnt gonna be any of that.
They needed phase 2 and phase 3.
Freedom Caucus said theres nothing here.
Freedom Caucus said, You know what?
The people urging us to vote for this are not even telling us whats in it.
Theyre not selling it to us.
Theyre telling us to vote for it,
to stick with party unity,
to make sure that it looks like the partys united,
but nobodys telling us the decent things.
So we went in, we got some concessions, we got some things that we wanted in it,
but not enough.
I think a real analysis of this would show that the greater number of defections was actually going to be among the so-called moderates in the House.
But the conservatives are always gonna get the blame because the Washington establishment, both parties, despises them. ...
RUSH: ... For all of you who think that Paul Ryan is the problem in the House, Trump here is siding with him.Number one. Thats what this tweet means.
So the health care bill going down the tubes, Trump is not blaming Ryan for it.
Hes clearly blaming the Freedom Caucus.
... if the Freedom Caucus doesnt get on board, then Trump is gonna try to take em out in 2018.
... But in the final analysis, it means that Trump is siding with Ryan here,
not with Ryan in any way other than the health care bill being defeated.
Trump is not holding Ryan in any way, shape, manner, or form responsible.
I know many of you do, but this means that Trump isnt.
You also have to keep in mind that Trump is not ideological.
I have made this point over and over.
He knows what conservative policies are, he knows what liberalism is, but he doesnt see people that way.
Its a big difference.
You look at Chuck Schumers opposition to Gorsuch.
Trump doesnt chalk it up to the fact that Schumer is a liberal.
He chalks it up to the fact that Schumer is, you know, a de facto ill body part or hes a weird guy, just a mean guy or wrong or whatever.
But Trump is typical of many Americans.
They dont think ideologically, they dont analyze ideologically, they dont even know ideology.
These people, you start talking about liberalism or conservatism, you lose them.
About as far as they go is Republican versus Democrat, but conservative/liberal? Act!
Sadly, that is the case.
I wish it were otherwise.
So the Freedom Caucus
I think Trumps a media creature.
The Freedom Caucus has been blamed; I dont know how you escape that.
Trump sees these guys as people who opposed him.
Hes a Republican president.
Hes largely responsible, in his mind, for their having acquired power, and theyre opposing him.
N-n-n-n-nooo.
He doesnt see em as a bunch of conservatives who have to be swayed.
Now, hes got people in his regime that no doubt do.
Dont misunderstand.
Im talking about Trump himself.
...
Im just telling you, everybody has their own makeup their own personality and political makeup
and Trump has not been someone who decides on policy based on the ideological aspect or component of it.
Ill give you an example of the branding on this. One of the places that I play golf, when we all gather there and this group I know is made up of people who always vote Republican.
Many of them do not like conservatives because their wives have nagged em on abortion.
Look, it is what it is.
They have a misunderstanding of it, even though they are.
Even though they live their lives this way, even though when you listen to them talk, you would swear they are conservative.
You call em that and they say, No, no, no, no.
All right.
You take 10 of us sitting around the table having breakfast before we go out to the range,
and a dyed-in-the-wool movement conservative will sit down at the table and start talking about whatever the latest news is in dyed-in-the-wool conservative terms.
Half the group of 10 will get up and leave.
They dont want to hear it.
They think the guys a kook think the guys a literal kook
and all hes doing is talking conservatism, traditional American values.
They think hes a kook.
These are the people that Im talking about.
They dont see things ideologically.
In fact, these people, when you do get to ideology, they kind of get nervous and back off.
... Now, as I say, he may be growing, learning more and becoming more understanding of things ideological.
Dont know.
But its important to know that he isnt.
So his opposition to the Freedom Caucus is not strictly because theyre conservative.
Its mostly because he thinks that they voted against him. And if youre not on his team, you know, hes not gonna woo you.
You either join him or youre out in the cold.
In my opinion, Trump did not know or, for that matter, really care about all the details in that Bill.
All Trump cared about was, that his name was going to be attached to that Bill, and anything with his name on it ... MUST ... ABSOLUTELY MUST ... be a WINNER !
I see nothing in there that says Trump was ignorant of what was in the RyanCare deal.
Would you push something that you’d never even looked at?