Posted on 03/28/2017 5:52:23 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
I voted for Donald Trump and I support him 100%. I wanted him to kill Obamacare and I knew he would have to move feckless spineless Republicans who made 60 – count them 60 SHOW BUSINESS votes to repeal Obamacare when it didn’t count. Now when it can count lies are oozing out of their teeth.
What has the Freedom Caucus ever done for us? A thorough search of available mentions of the Freedom Caucus unsurprisingly reveals that it has done nothing for us. Sad failures that they are, they crow about getting other “conservatives” elected and try to pass that off as accomplishments.
According to its mission statement the Freedom Caucus says, …it gives a voice to countless Americans who feel that Washington does not represent them. We support open, accountable and limited government, the Constitution and the rule of law, and policies that promote the liberty, safety and prosperity of all Americans."
Well the Freedom Caucus had its chance to “give a voice to countless Americans who KNOW Washington does not represent them..”; and guess what thanks to the Freedom Caucus Washington still doesn’t hear the voice of millions of Americans trapped in Obamacare’s daily nightmare.
The Freedom Caucus that now attacks Paul Ryan (make no mistake I’m not a Ryan fan) gave him to us. In its statement supporting Ryan for Speaker, the Freedom Caucus said, ““Paul is a policy entrepreneur who has developed conservative reforms dealing with a wide variety of subjects, and he has promised to be an ideas-focused speaker who will advance limited government principles and devolve power to the membership….”
Gee doesn’t that SOUND so good? Either the Freedom Caucus is not very bright and Ryan fooled them or they lied for the sake of expedience when they said these laudatory comments about Ryan.
So what has changed? Why would Ryan “lose” his skills as a “policy entrepreneur?”
The answer could be found in who is bankrolling the Freedom Caucus and whose bidding they are doing.
The Freedom Caucus’ mission statement raises questions that beg to be answered. We have to ask who the members of the Freedom Caucus are but far more importantly, who is bankrolling them and what could these supporters possibly want from Freedom Caucus members?
Among the donors who have brought us the Freedom Caucus are groups that hate Donald Trump and have not been hesitant to let the world know they do.
The Koch brothers who make no pretense about their anti-Trump feelings gave Freedom Caucus members $144,000.
The Club For growth another group of devoted Trump haters gave Freedom Caucus members $391,000.
Warren Buffet, yet another Trump hater gave the Freedom Caucus $87,000.
While the exact nature of what drove these groups and people to support the Freedom Caucus is likely attributable to their personal animus toward President Trump, there is no such latitude in understanding the motives for lobbyists from various healthcare groups giving huge amounts of campaign donations to Freedom Caucus members.
The healthcare industry slipped the Freedom Caucus over $2.07 million to insure it got what it wanted which is the continuation of Obamacare with little or no of their “finger prints” on the defeat of the latest repeal effort.
So now we know what the Freedom Caucus has been up to. They backed Paul Ryan only to betray him and far more importantly to betray us.
Fourteen members of the Freedom Caucus were avid fans of Ted Cruz the face of the NeverTrump movement among Republican nomination contenders. None of these people are particular Trump fans even now that he has been elected president.
What our “sooo much more conservative than us” friends in the Freedom Caucus could have done by supporting the repeal bill was establish a starting point to begin to free American slaves from the clutches of Obamacare.
Right now Secretary Tom Price could be busy reversing the rules and powers in Obamacare meant to screw the American people. Price could be easing their burden of worrying about their family’s well-being; but instead these suffering Americans have been given the assignment of suffering to advance the narrative that The Freedom Caucus is a group of patriots who are willing to put their careers aside in order to help them.
The irony of the Freedom Caucus’ failure to help the American people is that now they have aligned themselves with the greater lying do nothing Republican Caucus and become indistinguishable from the rest of the worms. The Freedom Caucus’ sole accomplishment is that they have engineered the first failure of a repeal bill in a Republican controlled House.
Because of the Freedom Caucus WE lost, President Trump lost and they and Chuck Schumer won. . They could have been active voices in the continuing process of saving Americans from Obamacare, but instead they choose to preen and show us how “oh soo conservative” they are.
Their “conservatism” won’t help parents of children who need services they can’t now find even if they could pay for them.
Their “conservatism” has exposed them of being unworthy of the trust Right To life activists placed in them and now Planned Parenthood will continue to rip apart innocent babies to sell their parts to buy shiny new sports cars.
The Freedom Caucus went all in and thought they won; they didn’t.
Well they saved us from the Trump\Ryan care crap
We can hang them!
Is this trollsville or what?
The abortionists would still be slaughtering babies, with or without this horrible bill. In spite of the fact that all of the reins of the U.S. government are in the hands of “pro-life” Republicans.
They did.
And that has the Free Traitors up in arms.
It was the Freedom Caucus that fought like hell to bring that same bill repealing Obamacare up for a vote again but with Trump as president, as an alternative to Ryancare. Ryan and the GOPe killed that effort.
I am sick of rinos supporting democrat policies and forcing government down our throats and stealing our money.
Your theory about funding is a canard. Yes, the Freedom Caucus members did get funding from those donors, but so did many other politicians—and much more money, to boot. SOP.
The Freedom Caucus saved us and President Trump, for that matter, from a steaming heaping pile of a bill that would have bit Republicans and Trump in the behind in ‘18 and ‘20.
Trump got bad advice, and Ryan blew it by allowing the bill to be drawn up in secrecy without input from Freedom Caucus and other key Republican groups. Ryan confounded this early error by not getting enough support before introducing the bill to the floor and trying to strongarm it. Ryan was doing business as usual for the uniparty/governing elites.
The Freedom Caucus saved the Republican Party and Pres. Trump from sure defeat in the House elections next year. When only 17% of the electorate approves your plan, you’d better drop it or you won’t survive as the majority party.
Agree. Put forward a one paragraph or sentence “Obama are is repealed” bill. Get the RINOs on record for voting against that.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3538590/posts
"Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted," the bill states.
Mo Brooks is a member of The House Freedom Caucus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have met the enemy and he are us! While we engage in the debate of ideological purity versus the altar of Trump, we fail to notice the hordes gathering at the gate. That horde, my FRiends, is Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All.
Because he cooked up a turd sammich that preserved all the big government infrastructure and overreach of homobamacare. HFC did you a favor.
They can make any legislation a little more conservative. They can persuade some moderates to be a little better. They can negotiate for a few items to be a little less bad.
The can negotiate to get one or two conservative items in a bill.
They can stop any legislation completely.
They cannot write legislation and get rinos to sign on.
"Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted," the bill states.
Mo Brooks is a member of The House Freedom Caucus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ask your Congress Critter to sign the discharge petition for US Representative Mo Brooks's bill titled, "Obamacare Repeal Act"!!!!!!!!!!!
I support the Freedom Caucus and I support Trump.
The Freedom Caucus is Right about Obamacare, however.
You people supporting the repeal and REPLACE with more government are not getting the point and are going to destroy republicans in the end.
Americans do not want more government but less. We also want our old health care back....just put laws into place to stop outrageous lawsuits for all but the extreme cases and allow insuance to sell in every state plus take out the turning away of pre-existing conditions. If you have to have government health-care do it only for the very poor that can not work.
They saved us from RYANCARE.
Better question to ask who had the most to gain by the failure. RYAN! 20 of his top pac donors are from health, ins and finance sectors. You think he’s turning off that spigot? Or his DeMONRAT wife?
Study: Senate Can Repeal Obamacare’s Regulations through Reconciliation, with Only 51 Votes
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/study-senate-can-repeal-obamacares-regulations-through-reconciliation-only
The Real Repeal Obamacare Bill has been Languishing in Committee since February 10 (links)
http://thewashingtonstandard.com/real-repeal-obamacare-bill-languishing-committee-since-february-10/
Sherman Antitrust Act Break UP MONOPOLIES, Big Pharma, INS and Congressional Lobbyist
https://www.britannica.com/event/Sherman-Antitrust-Act
The Big Money Behind Paul Ryan’s Political Career
Ryan’s 20 biggest backers are in the financial, insurance, or health sectors
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/08/14/the-big-money-behind-paul-ryans-political-career
Paul Ryan: Bankrolled by the Banksters, the Privatizers, and the Kochs
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/08/11704/paul-ryan-bankrolled-banksters-privatizers-and-kochs
House Budget Robs Social Security for Welfare Payments
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/29/house-budget-robs-social-security-welfare-payments/
How the AARP Made $2.8 Billion By Supporting Obamacare’s Cuts to Medicare
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2012/09/22/the-aarps-2-8-billion-reasons-for-supporting-obamacares-cuts-to-medicare/#5d182c745935
How Money From Pharmaceutical Companies Sways Doctors’ Prescriptions
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/04/13/doctors-receiving-pharmaceutical-money.aspx
How Much of Big Pharma’s Massive Profits Are Used to Influence ...
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33010-how-much-of-big-pharma-s-massive-profits-are-used-to-influence-politicians
New drugstore lobby mandate would increase prescription drug costs in Medicare
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/325777-new-drugstore-lobby-mandate-would-increase-prescription-drug
Medicare Funds Totaling $60 Billion Improperly Paid, Report Finds
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/medicare-funds-totaling-60-billion-improperly-paid-report/story?id=32604330
Here’s how hospitals mark up saline solution by 1,000%
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass_roundup/2013/08/hospital-overcharging.html
Big Pharma and Big Profits: The Multibillion Dollar Vaccine Market
http://www.globalresearch.ca/big-pharma-and-big-profits-the-multibillion-dollar-vaccine-market/5503945
Big Pharma’s big donations to 2016 presidential candidates
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/health/big-pharma-presidential-politics/
True Cost of Healthcare
http://truecostofhealthcare.net/
Why Pharma Faces So Many Corruption Allegations - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jwebb/2016/02/23/why-pharma-faces-so-many-corruption-allegations/#4f672b771bd3
New Harvard study reveals Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and how FDA cannot be trusted with public safety
http://seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/institutional-corruption-of-pharmaceuticals-how-FDA-cannot-be-trusted-with-public-safety.php#sthash.etRtisFQ.dpuf
Sen. Feinstein’s Husband’s Company to Bag $1 Billion for Government Deal
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/17/sen-feinsteins-husbands-company-to-bag-1-billion-for-government-deal/
Pelosi is just as BAD. And I didn’t even touch Medicaid which is bankrupting states, because of refugees and Illegals, FRAUD/Waste or the VA WHICH IS AS BAD.
VA’s record of waste, fraud and abuse keeps piling up
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/3/golden-hammer-vas-record-of-waste-fraud-abuse-keep/
The Secretary of The Dept. of Veteran Affairs & How He Is Wasting Our Tax Payer Money
https://sofrep.com/29130/the-department-of-veterans-affairs-fraud-waste-abuse-eric-shinseki/
$750 Million in ObamaCare Subsidies Paid to Illegal Immigrants
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/22506-750-million-in-obamacare-subsidies-paid-to-illegal-immigrants
Because Of Obamacare, Illegal Immigrants Get Taxpayer-Financed Care
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2016/03/25/because-of-federal-health-law-illegal-immigrants-get-care/#2139b2082139
Stopping bad legislation is as important (if not more) than proposing good.....they did that.
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