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Title: Rep. Amash compares Trump to a 5th-grade child over attack on the Freedom Caucus
Source: The Blaze
URL Source: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/0 ... -attack-on-the-freedom-caucus/
Published: Mar 31, 2017
Author: Carlos Garcia
Post Date: 2017-03-31 00:47:11 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 766
Comments: 5


Rep. Justin Amash said Thursday that President Trump was trying to bully the Freedom Caucus of conservative Republicans. Image Source: YouTube.

President Trump appears to be putting the blame of the failure of the “American Health Care Act” that he backed on the Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) is pushing back. Amash told reporters that the president acted like a fifth-grade child Thursday.

“Most people don’t take too well to being bullied,” he told reporters, laughing.

“Do you think this is an actual negotiating tactic by the president,” a reporter asked, “though, or do you think, is this a constructive way to do it?”

“I mean it’s constructive in fifth grade,” Amash answered after carefully considering the question. “It may allow a child to get his way, but thats not how our government works.”

Amash was responding to recent tweets by the president attacking the Freedom Caucus as being the culprit behind the failure of the health care bill that Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) developed to fulfill campaign promises to “repeal and replace” an ailing Obamacare.

Trump took to Twitter to blame the group and make what appeared to be a threat to unseat them in the 2018 midterm elections. Some Trump allies, like Newt Gingrich, blamed the GOP leadership and especially Ryan for presenting a weak bill and not allowing enough input from dissenting voices.

Amash responded earlier by tweet as well, saying, “It didn’t take long for the swamp to drain @realDonaldTrump. No shame, Mr. President. Almost everyone succumbs to the D.C. Establishment.”

Meanwhile Speaker Ryan said that he could understand why Trump is frustrated, but warned against working with Democrats as that would result in legislation where health care is controlled by the government instead of the patient and doctors.

U.S. House Speaker Paul 
Ryan tells reporters

The bill failed after the Freedom Caucus opposed it for being too accommodating to the legislation it was supposed to be replacing, former President Obama’s signature accomplishment. Supporters of the bill postponed the vote for one day to change the bill, but after finding that it was losing support from moderate Republicans, they abandoned the effort altogether.

Trump has said his new strategy was to let Obamacare collapse and “explode” on its own in anticipation of Democrats coming to him for a deal to escape the political backlash.

Amash has been a critic of Trump before this latest altercation, most notably when he called on Trump to “drain the swamp” of his own foreign entanglements.

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#1. To: All, A K A Stone (#0) (Edited)

Rep. Justin Amash's 'Libertarianism' Will Likely Disappoint Libertarians
“Of course, it was Amash’s sterling reputation as a strict libertarian
that made his talk a bit of a disappointment.”

Amash is a total disappointment in everything he does.
He is an obstructionist that needs to be voted out of office in 2018.
Go after him, Donald - Drain the Swamp.

Gatlin  posted on  2017-03-31   1:34:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Gatlin (#0)


The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party

"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Hondo68  posted on  2017-03-31   1:48:48 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: hondo68 (#2)

Gatlin  posted on  2017-03-31   14:39:57 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Gatlin (#1)

“Of course, it was Amash’s sterling reputation as a strict libertarian that made his talk a bit of a disappointment.”

Amash, like Ron Paul and even Rand Paul, is not a strict libertarian and never has been. They generally consider themselves "libertarian Republicans" but Republicans foremost. They see the two as intertwined. They define themselves this way as opposed to statist Republicans who like Big Government solutions to everything, served up with a lot of pork for patronage.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-03-31   19:21:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Tooconservative (#4)

Amash is good on a few issues. He is a piece of shit muslim lover though. He likes them coming in our country freely. He thinks they have a right to come even if we don't want them on their satanic religion.

A K A Stone  posted on  2017-04-01   7:32:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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