Posted on 03/31/2017 9:47:25 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Health Reform: For a week now, the conservative House Freedom Caucus has been taking hits for derailing the Republican effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare. But why are moderate/liberal Republicans who refused to support the bill getting a free pass?
The Freedom Caucus was the most vociferous in its opposition to the American Health Care Act — or at least its criticisms of the bill attracted the most attention.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page blamed the group, calling it the "Freedom-From-Reality Caucus." CNN reported that "its members … are Public Enemy No. 1 on Capitol Hill."
President Trump went so far as to tweet that "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!"
The truth is that nobody knows for sure who would have voted against the bill — since House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled it from the floor before a vote was cast.
However, IBD examined two lists — compiled by NBC News and Heavy.com — of those who had publicly stated that they were leaning or definite "no" votes on the American Health Care Act. Combining the two lists, it adds up to 44 Republicans who could have cast "no" votes if they'd had the chance.
Of those, only 18 are members of the Freedom Caucus.
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You are complaining about the wrong people, Stickman. The problem isn’t the principled congressmen, it is the unprincipled ones. The ones that will sell themselves for open borders and Ryancare, and pulled their support from Ryancare when it became “too conservative.” These unprincipled ones are running the Kabuki theater, not the HFC.
“The problem isn’t the principled congressmen, it is the unprincipled ones.”
Principled congress-critters who don’t accomplish anything are like tits on a hog.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
That’s hilarious!!!
You quoted a progressive. LMAO!!!
I completely agree with you. I just hope the president recognizes that he is likely to find far more enthusiastic allies among the FC for most of his policies than he will among the Republican membership of the House at large. The acrimony between the Freedom Caucus and Ryan, however, will not go away anytime soon. As Mark Meadows stated the other day, “I can tell you there is no conversation going on right now with regard to replacing the speaker.” I’m quite sure that the ‘right now’ was inserted purposefully.
These are the guys that many on Free Republic want to get rid of.
smh
And these are the people that they want more of.
Notice that most of them support amnesty.
Double shaking my head.....
The Republican Main Street Partnership is a group of....
......Cheap Labor Express stooges.
Just because you appear to be unaware of what has been accomplished doesn’t mean that nothing has been accomplished. Every one of the 535 members of Congress has an actual voting record and more than any other sub-group in Congress the Freedom Caucus has the most members with a perfect 100% conservative voting record according to the conservative organizations that track how members vote on the key issues that conservatives care about.
They can’t all fit in a phone booth, though.
I was originally responding to a post which minimized the number of liberal Republicans in Congress. The primary liberal Republican group is twice the size of the primary hard core conservative Republican group.
The fake news media are the drivers of the whole thing.
We noticed how quick Rand Paul got in front of the cameras when that bill was introduced.
You know...many claim to admire Ronald Reagan an what he stood for. Yet they forget what Reagan said about legislation. You get what you can, and go back for the rest later.
They dont admire Reagan, never did in my opinion. They give him lip service and then.. Remember this, nearly all of them are the me generation.
That’s correct, sir.
“The House should have just resubmitted the bill from 2015. The fact that the House leadership was unwilling to do that speaks more about the leadership than the HFC.”
Maybe it does. But it seems to me the H”F”C could have made enough noise to get it done. Whoever’s to blame, it sure is a whopper of a dereliction of duty.
I did.. We were all just Freeping along and boom.. the people who use AL
L CAPS all the time arrived. Debate and reason, which was this sites unique shining star left the building. They were against CEO bailouts, stimulus and amnesty, now all of those things are huge and beautiful. R is their guiding light and nothing else matters. I think when Alito was killed (right before a union vote iirc).. it emboldened them to damn The Constitution to his grave. Freedom.. not their thing.
And Bannon is leading the attack.
So you supported RINOcare? Because it was nothing but 0bamacare dressed up in a Republican suit.
The Freedom Caucus saved Trump from Ryan.
Remember, “progressivism” came out of the Republican Party first.
Does anyone know who were the Republicans who rejected the American Health Care Act?
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