The way some freepers (and President Trump) are carrying on about the Freedom Caucus, I guess they would rather that we had left Eric Cantor in office so that they could have passed Rubio’s amnesty in the summer of 2014 to get the issue off the table as planned to clear the way for Yeb! and there would have been no President Trump.
Donald does not trust the FC. He met their initial demands and they immediately asked for more. You don’t cross him like that
I happily voted for him, but attacking conservatives — who almost unanimously supported him — is not only stupid, but will alienate his most supportive base.
The Ryancare Route — Winning by Losing?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3538784/posts
Did the Freedom Caucus just pull the Republican Party back off the ledge, before it jumped to its death? A case can be made for that.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Yeah, it should be much easier to get support from the Democrats when you want to do something that is overbearing and unconstitutinal.
Slanted story to play up a so-called division in the ranks of republicans.
The President always straddles the fence while prodding the members to move in the direction he campaigned on.
Never forget the President is an outsider first, and that most of Congress is bought and paid for.
Good thing Trump doesn’t need their votes for his agenda.
I have a bad feeling Trump is going to feed us another shit sandwich with NO repeal! He thinks one of his rallies will pacify us why we get screwed over.
This is a mistake with long term consequences. The far right backed him in his bid for the Presidency. The RINO’s he’s in bed with now all opposed him.
Not likely.
Lyin’ Ryan is the snake.
He has a 9% approval among democrats. 9%. The people on DU are the democrat base. Take a stroll though there and you’ll see what they think of him.
Even if Schumer/Pelosi agree with Trump on an issue they can’t support him, and if he moves left to embrace them he will erode his own support among conservatives. Despite Jarod and Ivanka’s best efforts his only shot at avoiding a failed one-term presidency is to stay on the right. The left will never forgive him for destroying Hillary. Pity Dubya never learned this lesson.
Hey Trump...the FC isn’t responsible for your lies about repealing Obamacare. You shot your big mouth off at every rally telling us that you would repeal and replace! You never sad one word about this being done in “Phases!”
The FC is holding you to YOUR promises!
I’m with the Freedom
Caucus on this and I think President Trump is going to find out the hard way that the Dummycrats are not going to make an agreement that’s good for the “American”People.
They will stab him in the back before they agree with him on health care.After all it was a memorial to Lord Obama.
If you like your ObamaCare - you can keep your ObamaCare
~~~ Donald Trump.
One version I have heard is that the Freedom caucus negotiated and got concessions in the AHCA and then reneged when it came time to vote, i.e. negotiating in bad faith, which does tend to piss off business people. To be successful in business, you have to be willing to say yes to something.
RINOs and FC don’t seem to be able to get along. Ryan is incompetent but If that doesn’t change, Trump can dump the RINOs and go where? Or dump the FC and go to dems who get along with RINOs and get legislation passed. It may be bad legislation but we need to get some things fixed. If we can’t get good fixes from the Rs, Trump will try to at least get some fixes with R+Ds. And I’ll support him even though I prefer FC fixes, because so many current laws are unacceptable and even incremental fixes for taxes, health care, immigration, budget, etc are preferable to doing nothing.
The Freedom Caucus was doing what they promised to do in the last election.
I am NOT going to give Trump a pass because I voted for him.
REPEAL OBAMACARE.
Just go on TV and show all it’s problems. The current costs are through the roof, you can’t keep your doctor OR your plan, etc...
So what that 20 million are “insured” - what good is crappy insurance no one will take?
Trump is putting pressure on the FC and leadership (see the “suggestion” of getting Ryan to step down). They all want a deal more than he does now. Moreover, he is using the threat of getting the Democrats to the table as even more pressure against the FC and their ilk. They are going to come to him with something (this is my guess) and he’ll be able to get the things he REALLY wants in their otherwise he’ll just say, I won’t sign it without the Democrats. He has leverage now. Between the Democrats, the FC, the GOP Leadership and Trump it is Trump who now has absolutely no pressure to make a deal because he’s moved on. From a distance he’s looking very cunning.
DJT: You are starting to piss me off. They saved you from a YUGE mistake.
This I tell you.