[exit82]

This is the second time they could not get a vote together on something in the works for 7 years.

Third time is enemy action.

Ryan,McCarthy and Scalise are screwing around with the President and we don’t like it one bit.

And it is not the Freedom Caucus this time.

[af_vet_1981]

This is the second time they could not get a vote together on something in the works for 7 years.

And that is the difference between being an opposition party and being a governing party ...

There are no Democrat votes. The Republicans lost 5 seats in the election. There are 4 vacancies due to resignations (3R, 1D), so there are only 238 Republican votes possible out of 431 votes. Republicans need 216 votes so can only afford to lose 22. The Tuesday Group and the Freedom Caucus have too many members defecting from the proposed legislation. 70-80% of what they desire is better than 0 and losing the House to Nancy Pelosi, who only needs to flip about as many seats as those who refuse to make a deal (probably 25).

[ManHunter]

I agree, but it wasn’t the Freedom Caucus the first time. First time around, more Republican members at large than members of the Freedom Caucus opposed the measure.