Posted on 03/31/2017 1:20:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Trumps tweet slamming Freedom Caucus this week has a lot of Trump supporters very upset. While conservative talk show hosts spent most of the day Tuesday slamming those who didnt support the healthcare bill introduced in the house, listeners of those shows almost unanimously called into the shows to defend them. The message to the Freedom Caucus on social media and comments to articles like Dennis Pragers is pretty clear—Never Give Up and Never Surrender!
It is extremely frustrating to see a window of opportunity like we currently have go to waste when we, the people of the United States, have worked so hard to get here.
So for those whove taken to the airwaves and social media to slam the Freedom Caucus, Heritage Foundation and every American who didnt support the bill because we dont trust our government to ease into anything, let me share a little perspective—not from the right or the left, but from the hard-working Americans who are suffocating from the government noose tightening around their necks.
Dennis Prager said on his radio show this week that we need to support fragile compromise to get to what we want. As someone who has been involved in elections, grassroots campaigns, and civic activism for two decades I know how the underbelly of this political system works. Fragile compromise never works in favor of constitutional conservatives.
We have been dealt a bill goods and the American people just dont trust it. I am all for compromise when it makes sense but weve worked way too hard to get where we are to settle for mediocre labeled with just trust us. The American people dont trust government—of any party affiliation. Were not even in the trust but verify stage. Were leery and will scrutinize everything carefully. Going after the Freedom Caucus—people we worked tirelessly to elect—does not help their case.
There are a few points we should make clear. Donald Trump was not elected by the people of this country because he is a Republican. He was elected because the American people believed he was courageous enough and tenacious enough to go against the establishment of both parties and really get things done. A lot of Trump supporters this week wished hed remember that.
The Freedom Caucus is not the enemy, they are Trumps best asset to fulfilling his promises to the American people who elected him. Many of us had serious misgivings when President Trump chose Reince Priebus as chief of staff. Those misgivings diminished greatly when his other appointments were announced. Now many are wondering if President Trump is listening to the wrong people and ignoring all those we elected to support him.
The healthcare bill will never be supported by Democrats no matter what it says. They wont support anything Donald Trump does, supports or introduces so why are we trying to appease them? The members of congress arent there to do whatever it takes to keep their jobs, theyre there to support and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The members of the Freedom Caucus take this oath very seriously even when it is unpopular. Im not dismissing the constitutional allegiance of other members of congress who supported the bill Im sure many of them truly believed it was the right thing to do. Those of us who didnt think the bill was enough are not blaming or throwing insults at those who supported it. We deserve the same respect.
We have good reason to be cautious. We have been fighting Obamacare since Nancy Pelosi proclaimed congress needed to pass it so they could see whats in it. Hundreds of thousands of Americans descended on the nations capital to protest the Affordable Care Act but they passed it anyway. The Supreme Court was the next hope but they sold out the constitution. After phone calls, emails, rallies and protests, finally the American people had hope that Donald Trump was the person who could finally get the job done. He didnt promise the American people Ill piecemeal it away in phases. He promised to repeal and replace. Senator Ted Cruz wrote an excellent article on how simple it would be to do it and Senator Rand Paul introduced his own replacement which is much more what we are looking for.
Obamacare was run through congress like an unstoppable bulldozer because the Democrats had the numbers to do it. Well now we have the numbers so why are Republicans not doing the same. And why are we making it about parties at all when we elected Donald Trump to blow past party allegiances and get things done?
It shouldnt be about parties, it should be about defending the constitution and doing whats right by the American people. This isnt high school, its the real world. Members of congress should be much less worried about being accepted by a party and more worried about what America will look like in the next election if Obamacare isnt repealed.
If congress keeps trying to repeal Obamacare little bit at a time well never get it done. What will happen is things will get worse, Republicans will get the blame and any hope of a conservative surge is gone forever. Bring the full repeal and replace to the floor and let each member of congress make their vote on the record. Well remember who voted against it. The last few elections proved that. The American people are suffocating. Freedom Caucus members dont want to loosen the noose a little, they want to cut the rope. Give them the scissors and get it done!
The FC latest proposal is a different story.
I was referring to the original Ryan bill.
Passing even a tepid first bill to begin the process of dismantling the crushing burden of Obamacare would have been an important first step in weakening the left not only by beginning to repeal Obamacare but by strengthening the Trump presidency and the presidents ability to go forward with tax-reform and other parts of his conservative agenda. The president is now damaged, and the Republican Party looks ludicrous what other word can one use to describe the party that passed 60 resolutions in seven years to repeal Obamacare and then cant pass a bill to repeal or replace Obamacare when it is given the House, the Senate, and the presidency?
Make no mistake, ye of pure heart, this may well be the last time in your lifetimes that Republicans control both Houses of Congress and have a conservative president. And understand that time is not on our side; there are congressional elections in a year and nine months.
Providence or luck made it possible to have a conservative president. Act accordingly.
I am completely behind Mo’s beautiful bill. So, when is that coming up for a vote?
I agree.
I will fully admit that I don’t know what’s in the bill or what was in 0vomitcare. But what I do know is that whenever the goobermint tries to control our lives, it ends badly.
So my position is repeal, repeal, repeal.
Allow insurance sales across state lines. Restricting that is control by the goobermint. (See previous remark about ending badly.)
By Grapthor’s hammer....
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