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Health/Medical Title: Louie Gohmert: Trump Listening to ‘Establishment to the Core’ Reince Priebus Conservative congressman and House Freedom Caucus member Louie Gohmert said on Sunday that the reason a deal wasn’t made on repealing Obamacare and the reason President Trump has launched a war against conservatives and Tea Party representatives in Congress is because he’s listening to RINOs Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus, who he described as “establishment to the core.” Gohmert said that if the GOP establishment got their way in passing the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a faux Obamacare repeal bill that doesn’t fully repeal Obamacare but instead only amends it around the edges, keeping its infrastructure in place and many of the free-market crushing regulations, mandates and subsidies that have caused both health insurance premiums and deductibles to unnecessarily skyrocket, it would be a double win for the establishment. Gohmert said the GOP establishment’s “twofer” would be to “destroy conservatives — the grassroots who stood by the president” and to “make the president look terrible” because the next four years the Trump administration would be defined as a “fraud” as the bill promised to repeal Obamacare but instead gives even more power to the federal government than the original Obamacare bill. “We were demanding ‘we’ve got to do some things to bring down prices. People can’t stand this’,” Gohmert said on FOX News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “Oh, and the president agreed with us twice,” Gohmert revealed. “And each time Priebus and Ryan say ‘No, No, No, you can’t do that.’ He [President Trump] wanted to make a deal and we were negotiating with Paul, with Kevin McCarthy right up through Tuesday, and all of a sudden they had a meeting and they decided ‘We’re so close to having the number we need, let’s go to war and get the president to help us go to war’ against the people who defended the president when Ryan and those guys said ‘abandon him.'” On Thursday, President Trump launched his war against Tea Party conservatives and their only representatives in Congress by threatening to primary members of the House Freedom Caucus in the upcoming 2018 elections: — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 30, 2017 Also on Thursday, Karl Rove, a longtime enemy of the Tea Party movement, penned an opinion piece in the pro-cronyism Wall Street Journal, in which he put the Freedom Caucus in his crosshairs, writing that the “Freedom Caucusers” were guilty of “political libel against their Republican colleagues” for not voting for the RINOCARE bill that has an abysmal 17% approval among Americans. Then on Saturday, after Rove urge the president to not directly attack the Freedom Caucus but instead have his underlings do the dirty work, Trump social media director, Dan Scavino, followed the directive, specifically calling for Congressman Justin Amash , who won his district by a whopping 22 points last year, to be defeated in 2018 primary: — Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) April 1, 2017 But I’m telling you, the president’s administration will either succeed or fail over the next 30 days. He can work with the people that got him there — that defended him when others like Ryan and the establishment were running scared — or he can work with us to help him fulfill his promises. But this bill doesn’t satisfy any of the promises that we made. It’s gonna be bad. It’s really gonna be a disaster.” On Sunday, President Trump tweeted that there is “love” in the Republican Party. However, it’s unlikely that the Tea Party conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus — all Republicans — are feeling the love. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2017 Here’s Rep. Gohmert’s full FOX interview from Sunday morning: Poster Comment: I liked how Gohmert constructed the timeline and gave the FC's side of the story. You can see the video at the source website or at FNC. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 6.
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Trump put together a bill he thought could pass the House and Senate. Of course the bill could be more to the right. It could also be more to the left. Giving in to the Freedom Caucus would have lost the moderate votes. Does Louie Gohmert have a bill that would get 216 votes? No. He'd rather do nothing than give an inch. What does he care? He's not President.
Ah, but Ghomert said they will “hold their noses” and support health care legislation if they can be assured premiums would come down….according to a report by Mark Swanson at News Max. Did I just see a first blink … Nah, it has to be some kind of a trick …
I think this is likely the key sticking point. Freedom Caucus types (and Rand/Ted/Mike/Tom in the Senate) feel they are already compromising too much by agreeing to allow most of 0bamaCare to escape repeal. But they will not vote for something that does nothing to bring costs down. To them, that is worse than doing nothing and waiting for 0care to collapse, either this fall or in fall 2018.
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