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Conservative congressman and House Freedom Caucus member Louie Gohmert said on Sunday that the reason a deal wasnt made on repealing Obamacare and the reason President Trump has launched a war against conservatives and Tea Party representatives in Congress is because hes 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 doesnt 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 establishments 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 weve got to do some things to bring down prices. People cant 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 cant 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 Were so close to having the number we need, lets 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:
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:
On Sunday, President Trump tweeted that there is love in the Republican Party. However, its unlikely that the Tea Party conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus all Republicans are feeling the love.
Heres Rep. Gohmerts 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.
#1: misterwhite To: Tooconservative (#0)
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.
misterwhite posted on 2017-04-02 19:23:07 Reply Private Reply
#2: Gatlin To: misterwhite (#1)
And the reason he gives is
GeeezeGatlin posted on 2017-04-02 19:40:28 Reply Private Reply
#3: Gatlin To: misterwhite (#1)
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
Gatlin posted on 2017-04-02 19:57:45 Reply Private Reply
#4: Hondo68 To: misterwhite (#1)
H.R.2300 - Empowering Patients First Act of 2015 www.congress.gov/bill/114...e-bill/2300/related-bills (Price)
H.R.132 - ObamaCare Repeal Act www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/132 (King)
That's just a sample of some of the bills that Gohmert would have likely voted for.
Hondo68 posted on 2017-04-02 20:46:46 Reply Private Reply
#5: misterwhite To: hondo68 (#4)
You will note that all three bills were introduced ... and died. They went nowhere.
Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch comes to mind.
misterwhite posted on 2017-04-03 09:37:36 Reply Private Reply
#6: Tooconservative To: Gatlin (#3)
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.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-04-03 11:17:28 Reply Private Reply
#7: Hondo68 To: misterwhite (#5)
That's because Paul Ryan and GOP leadership love Obamacare and just want to brand it with an (R), so they killed those bills and went with Obamacare Lite, but the Freedom Caucus defeated it.
The Freedom Caucus supports Trump, but he's stabbing them in the back.
Hondo68 posted on 2017-04-03 12:08:31 Reply Private Reply
#8: Tooconservative To: hondo68 (#7)
Tooconservative posted on 2017-04-03 13:09:31 Reply Private Reply
#9: Hondo68 To: Tooconservative (#8)
Ryan is a Punk!
Hondo68 posted on 2017-04-03 14:51:15 Reply Private Reply
#10: Tooconservative To: hondo68 (#9)
Traditional bow hunting required considerable stalking skills. Ryan's bow is a step below the no-effort-required shooting of a deer with a rifle and high-power scope.
I prefer hunting when it is a sport (where the animal has a chance and a hunter has to have woodland skills to make the kill).
Tooconservative posted on 2017-04-03 15:11:48 Reply Private Reply