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Conservatism's worst enemy? The Freedom Caucus.
Post Date: 2017-03-27 15:39:29 by Gatlin
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Friday was a great day to be part of the American left. What a coup for Democrats to score a huge legislative victory when they're the minority party in both houses. How on Earth did they do it? Was it brilliant strategy? Was it top-notch fundraising? Was it powerful rhetoric? Nope. They didn't have to do anything. The House Freedom Caucus — supposedly the most conservative members of the House of Representatives — handed them victory on a silver platter! Who would ever have guessed that the saviors of Planned Parenthood would be 31 Ted Cruz disciples? They sound conservative, they act conservative, and they represent conservative districts, but the House Freedom Caucus ...
AG Sessions says he’ll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars
Post Date: 2017-03-27 15:15:47 by cranky
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday he’ll begin punishing sanctuary cities, withholding potentially billions of dollars in federal money — and even clawing back funds that had been doled out in the past. Speaking at the White House, Mr. Sessions said his department is preparing to dole out more than $4 billion in funds this year, but will try prevent any of it from going to sanctuaries. “Countless Americans would be alive today … if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended,” Mr. Sessions said. He said he’s carrying out a policy laid out by the Obama administration last year, which identified three grant programs — the COPS grants, Byrne ...
GOP cave on Obamacare repeal is the biggest broken promise in political history
Post Date: 2017-03-27 15:06:23 by Tooconservative
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Broken promises are as old as politics itself, and there are many famous examples of them in modern history. President George H.W. Bush's "read my lips, no new taxes" pledge comes immediately to mind, as does President Bill Clinton reneging on his middle-class tax cut, and President Barack Obama never closing Guantanamo Bay. But in each of those cases, those were promises that were made in a given campaign by a given politician. The promise of Obamacare repeal is much different. Republicans ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare for seven years, over the course of four election cycles. They won the House majority in 2010 in large part because of the backlash against the ...
Enough With the Recriminations [over RyanCare], Go Back to Work
Post Date: 2017-03-27 14:38:13 by Tooconservative
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Yes, Ryancare was a bad idea and yes, failing to pass it will be sold as a defeat for Trump. So what?What’s the old quote? God helps invalids, small children, and the United States of America? There’s another one, which came courtesy of Winston Churchill: “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything else.”Somewhere between those two old chestnuts is where we are in the aftermath of the American Health Care Act — otherwise known as Ryancare — being pulled by House Speaker Paul Ryan when it was clear there simply wouldn’t be enough votes to pull it to passage.That failure has already been thrown around ...
Levin: A big thank you to the Freedom Caucus patriots!
Post Date: 2017-03-27 14:19:25 by Tooconservative
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“I want to congratulate the Freedom Caucus, the true constitutional conservatives, the true patriots, for stopping this disastrous bill from passing,” Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin said Friday evening on the radio. The American Health Care Act, or RINOcare, was defeated today as Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. pulled the bill from the floor of the House of Representatives before it could go up for a vote. The Obamacare repeal-in-name-only bill didn’t have enough votes to pass, largely because of the Freedom Caucus’ refusal to break their promise to the American people. Listen: The bill ultimately failed, Levin explained, because too many Republicans do ...
The Freedom Caucus owes GOP leadership an apology
Post Date: 2017-03-27 13:43:28 by Tooconservative
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Congressman Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, is really naive. You see, when all Republicans running for office ran incessant ads during the past four election cycles promising to fully repeal Obamacare, Meadows actually thought they meant it! What a fool. When Mitch McConnell promised to repeal Obamacare “root and branch,” Meadows actually thought that he meant … well … root and branch. And when Mr. Meadows read the fifth sentence of Speaker Paul Ryan’s “Better Way to Fix Health Care,” which declared, "Obamacare must be fully repealed so we can start over and take a new approach,” well, he though it meant full repeal, ...
Opinions The Freedom Caucus blows its chance to govern
Post Date: 2017-03-27 11:43:37 by Gatlin
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A few days before the House Freedom Caucus brought down the American Health Care Act, Rep. Mark Meadows laid out the stakes for his group: “This is a defining moment for our nation, but it’s also a defining moment for the Freedom Caucus.” The North Carolina Republican was right. The vote was indeed a defining moment — a test in which the Freedom Caucus had to decide: Would it remain a minoritarian opposition bloc whose only role was to defend truth without compromise? Or could it become something bigger, transforming itself into a majoritarian governing force that could lead Congress toward achievable conservative victories and have a lasting impact on the direction of ...
Ryancare Is Just A Shittier Version Of Obamacare
Post Date: 2017-03-27 11:32:48 by Tooconservative
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After having seven years to work on a repeal and replace plan, House Speaker Paul Ryan finally released his bill. For all practical purposes, it is Obamacare, just 35 percent shittier. This is an impressive feat because, in their pursuit of a lower score from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Democrats made the Affordable Care Act as shitty as they could get away with while still calling it “universal” health care. While many other analyses are focused on how Ryan’s American Health Care Act will make life worse for certain lower income Americans compared to Obama’s Affordable Care Act, pointing out the similarities is more important for understanding its ...
Following Health Care Debacle, White House Considers More Conservative Outreach
Post Date: 2017-03-27 11:23:03 by Tooconservative
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"There could have been more outreach to conservative groups." That was the reflection of a senior White House aide about 24 hours after the decision by House speaker Paul Ryan to scrap Friday's vote on the American Health Care Act. The bill, presented as the best chance to repeal and replace Obamacare and backed by President Trump, didn't have enough votes in the House thanks to factions on both sides of the Republican conference's ideological spectrum. But it was conservatives who helped kill the bill, from those in Congress who held together firmly as a bloc to help deny Speaker Ryan the votes to outside interest groups to health-care experts and commentators on ...
Dana Loesch just NAILED IT on the problem with fixing health care…
Post Date: 2017-03-27 10:59:50 by Tooconservative
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Dana Loesch was on Fox and Friends this morning and dished out some cold hard truth on the health care fight that ended last week. I’ve got it cued up to 6:58: Dana Loesch points out that for now at least, the American people have won in the health care fight. And in discussing the real issue with the health care bill, she nailed Paul Ryan pretty good:: This compromise still funded Planned Parenthood. It was a one year bait and switch; we were still going to fund Planned Parenthood. The regulatory structure was still in place. The penalty was still in place. The subsidies were still in place. It was like Paul Ryan rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic and telling America ...
Merry Christmas
Post Date: 2017-03-27 10:05:02 by interpreter
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Merry Christmas! Santa Claus was wrong. Today is the actual day Jesus was born. On this day in 4 BC, a bright Venus (the Star in the East) appeared over Bethlehem at high noon. As the Wise Men expected, it was right on time, exactly 4000 years after Adam (the first modern (civilized) man appeared in Mesopotamia, also called the Garden of Eden--as both the Bible and all archeologists and historians say. Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Dispensational View of the Genesis creation saga is correct, March 27th, 4 BC marks the beginning of DAY 5 of the reign of man on Earth. We are in Day 7, marked by the drying up of the Euphrates at its beginning as prophesied. After today--which ...
$10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even the DoD — Knows Where It Is
Post Date: 2017-03-27 09:49:40 by Deckard
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By Claire Bernish Over a mere two decades, the Pentagon lost track of a mind-numbing $10 trillion — that’s trillion, with a fat, taxpayer-funded “T” — and no one, not even the Department of Defense, knows where it went or on what it was spent. Even though audits of all federal agencies became mandatory in 1996, the Pentagon has apparently made itself an exception, and — fully 20 years later — stands obstinately orotund in never having complied. Because, as defense officials insist — summoning their best impudent adolescent — an audit would take too long and, unironically, cost too much. “Over the last 20 years, the Pentagon has broken every ...
OPINION: The Damage the Freedom Caucus Has Done to the Young Trump Presidency, Republicans and the Country May Be Felt for Years
Post Date: 2017-03-27 09:32:07 by Gatlin
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It is hard to overestimate the damage the Freedom Caucus has done to the fledgling presidency of Donald Trump, and to the country. By blocking the American Health Care Act of 2017, the conservative group has guaranteed that Americans will struggle forward under the burden of Obamacare. In the next few months insurers will announce their premium hikes for the coming year; chances are, given the continuing withdrawal of major companies from the marketplaces and the ongoing failure of the bill to attract enough young and healthy participants, the new rates will not be pretty. Last year premiums went up 25%; it’s likely the increases will be higher this year. Republicans will own those ...
Trump shifts blame to Freedom Caucus
Post Date: 2017-03-27 09:13:34 by Gatlin
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked conservative lawmakers for the failure of the Republican bill to replace former President Barack Obama's health care law, as aides signaled a greater willingness to work with moderate Democrats on upcoming legislative battles from the budget and tax cuts to health care. On Twitter, Trump complained: "Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare!" The Freedom Caucus is a hard-right group of more than 30 GOP House members who were largely responsible for blocking the bill to undo the Affordable Care Act, or ...
Poe says some members of Freedom Caucus would vote no against Ten Commandments
Post Date: 2017-03-27 08:57:00 by Gatlin
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Video is HERE. Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), who resigned Sunday from the conservative House Freedom Caucus, criticized the group Monday for its constant opposition. "The Freedom Caucus has always been the opposition caucus and I guess the Democrats, and now, when we are in the majority, it continues to be the opposition caucus against anything in the Republican Party," Poe said on CNN's "New Day." "And, we had not been included in the past, but we were included in the healthcare replacement bill." Poe said the group spent more than an hour with President Trump and members of the administration talking and making compromises. "Compromises were made. ...
Latest Establishment Talking Point: Trump May Be Guilty of ‘Treason’
Post Date: 2017-03-27 08:41:32 by cranky
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Over the past week, numerous Democratic Party operatives and establishment pundits have used the word “treason” in a seeming attempt to smear President Donald Trump over unproven claims of collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. On Monday, Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager, Bobby Book, demanded Trump’s campaign aides be “prosecuted for treason” if evidence emerges of coordination with Moscow during the recent presidential campaign. One day later, on Tuesday, Michael Winship, senior writer for BillMoyers.com, wrote an opinion piece titled, “‘There’s a Smell of Treason in the Air’” Winship is a former senior ...
Who Owns Obamacare Now?
Post Date: 2017-03-27 02:50:15 by Gatlin
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Who Owns Obamacare Now? Mark Meadows and the so-called Freedom Caucus. Otto von Bismarck famously said, “Politics is the art of the possible.” This is a reality that President Trump and the GOP congressional leadership understand. Sadly, a small clique of rigid ideologues constituting about 10 percent of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives is clearly ignorant of this fact. These people call themselves the “Freedom Caucus.” Yet, by refusing to support the American Health Care Act (AHCA) last week, they preserved one of the most outrageous assaults on individual liberty ever signed into law. They have virtually guaranteed that Obamacare will never ...
Disgusting: The Freedom Caucus Saves Obamacare Again
Post Date: 2017-03-27 02:26:05 by Gatlin
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AHCA was pulled from the floor yet again this afternoon, and it now is probable that Obamacare will be the law of the land for years to come. This is an utter disaster for U.S. health care, not to mention individual liberty, and the responsibility rests squarely on shoulders of a small cadre of political opportunists with the effrontery to call themselves the “House Freedom Caucus.” These people held out for the impossible — full repeal of Obamacare in one fell swoop — and have thus destroyed the only realistic opportunity their party will have in the near future to eradicate the law’s individual and employer mandates, enact entitlement reform, expand HSAs, defund ...
Trump: Democrats ‘Smiling’ Because Freedom Caucus ‘Saved Planned Parenthood’ and Obamacare
Post Date: 2017-03-27 02:03:24 by Gatlin
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Before the American Health Care Act was pulled from the House floor on Friday, President Trump took to Twitter to call out the House Freedom Caucus specifically: Follow Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrumpThe irony is that the Freedom Caucus, which is very pro-life and against Planned Parenthood, allows P.P. to continue if they stop this plan! 5:23 AM - 24 Mar 2017 Trump delivered some brief comments in the Oval Office on Friday and when asked about the Freedom Caucus, he said he was “disappointed” that this group of Republicans opposed the legislation. The caucus did oppose the AHCA, but there were Republicans outside that group who came out against the bill as well. ...
Trump shifts blame for health-care collapse to far right
Post Date: 2017-03-27 01:50:42 by Gatlin
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President Trump cast blame Sunday for the collapse of his effort to overhaul the health-care system on conservative interest groups and far-right Republican lawmakers, shifting culpability to his own party after initially faulting Democratic intransigence. His attack — starting with a tweet that singled out the House Freedom Caucus as well as the influential Club for Growth and Heritage Action for America — marked a new turn in the increasingly troubled relationship between the White House and a divided GOP still adjusting to its unorthodox standard-bearer. And it served as a warning shot, with battles still to come on issues such as taxes and infrastructure that threaten to ...
The Freedom Caucus is at a crossroads
Post Date: 2017-03-27 00:42:24 by Gatlin
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Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), chair of the House Freedom Caucus. Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call The loose agglomeration of hard-line conservatives known as the House Freedom Caucus routinely threatened to derail the government during the presidency of Barack Obama. Now, they’re threatening to derail the top legislative priority of President Donald Trump. On the morning of the day the House is supposed to vote on the American Health Care Act, the White House — facing enough defections from both the Freedom Caucus on the right and a “coverage caucus” of moderate-ish Republicans — is negotiating directly with the Freedom Caucus to try to win over its support.But what’s ...
Kushner to lead White House innovation office (Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Ivanka, etc...)
Post Date: 2017-03-27 00:15:30 by Hondo68
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© Getty Images President Trump is reportedly creating a new White House innovation office that will be led by his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.The White House Office of American Innovation will be announced Monday, the Washington Post reported, and will report directly to the president. The idea is to help meet some of the goals President Trump pledged to accomplish during his campaign, such as working to help with veteran care and fight opioid addiction. The new office, which is described in the Post report as a “SWAT team” to fix the federal bureaucracy, is working with tech giants such as Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Tesla founder and ...
The obsession of the House Freedom Caucus
Post Date: 2017-03-26 23:45:43 by Gatlin
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Rep. Justin Amash [a libertarian] insists the group that pushed John Boehner to the exits isn't just a bunch of bomb throwers. They want real reform in how the House works. [No the don’t they want to control the House….and they are damn well doing it!] Rep. Justin Amash, a leader of the House Freedom Caucus who helped plunge the House of Representatives into an unprecedented state of chaos, wants to talk about rules. […] Amash, a 35-year-old libertarian-minded Republican first elected in the tea party wave of 2010, is at the heart of a new power center in the House Republican Conference. With roughly 40 members, the Freedom Caucus has an outsized role in selecting ...
Rep. Thomas Massie Is Voting for Trump
Post Date: 2017-03-26 23:15:42 by Gatlin
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Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie is, along with Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, one of two members of the House of Representatives who is frequently described as a libertarian. We included him when we sent around Reason's quadrennial "Who's Getting Your Vote?" survey (full results coming soon!), and he just replied with this note: I've voted for Bob Barr (Libertarian) and Pat Buchanan (Reform Party) for POTUS in the past, but this year I plan to vote for Donald Trump. […]
GOP congressman [Rep. Thomas Massie]: Trump could be one-term president if health bill passes
Post Date: 2017-03-26 22:54:56 by Gatlin
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As President Donald Trump makes his final push to seal the deal with Republicans before the House votes Thursday on its bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, one Republican congressman opposed to the bill has a dire warning for the President. "We're afraid he's a one-term president if this passes," Rep. Thomas Massie said during an interview on CNN's "Outfront" with Kate Bolduan. "We are trying to save him." "Electorally, voting for this is bad today and it's going to be really bad in two or three years when the changes start kicking in and health insurance prices start going through the roof," said Massie, of Kentucky. The White ...
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