Freedom Caucus: House doesn't have votes for health plan

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Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus emerged after a closed-door meeting late Tuesday emphasizing the new GOP repeal plan has no chance of passage in the House in its current form.

"As things stand right now the speaker is going to need a lot of Democrat votes to pass what would be the largest welfare program sponsored in the history of the Republican party," said Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., after leaving the meeting.

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the caucus chairman, was also doubtful about the bill's passage, which House Speaker Paul Ryan guaranteed would get the 218 votes to pass the House.

"I think that a clean repeal [of Obamacare] with a replacement that works are the only way that you get to 218 votes," Meadows said. "I am not aware of any bill that will get 218 votes today."


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/freedom-caucus-house-doesnt-have-votes-for-healthcare-plan/article/2616750

[RobJohnson]

I hope that crappy piece of legislation does not have enough votes.

[HAPPY2BME]

I hope that crappy piece of legislation does not have enough votes.

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The reason it is a 'crappy' piece of legislation is because it is being steered, protected, and rammed up the nation's ass by a 'crappy' neocon piece of shit - Paul Ryan.

Both Ryan and McConnell are every bit the enemies of Donald Trump as are Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi are.  They are simply playing the neocon game - and they are damned good at it too.   Progressive neocon 'Republicans' still eat their 'crappy' and so very easily spotted propaganda daily, and expect the rest of us to eat it too.  If you have been following it closely, Ryan and McConnell are staging their Obamacare 'revisions' to go into effect in 2020.  That's right - 2020 AFTER THE ELECTIONS.

We are going to clean the damned swamp.

FreedomWorks Opposes Speaker Ryan’s Obamacare 2.0 Plan

Jason Pye, director of public policy and legislative affairs for FreedomWorks, said:

    We support Rep. Jim Jordan and the Freedom Caucus’s decision to introduce repeal only legislation that passed last term. I’m proud of the members who still plan to keep their campaign promises. Unfortunately, some of them were committing fraud against the American people, voting for repeal when they knew Obama wouldn’t sign it. Now they’re supporting a different variety of Obamacare.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/07/freedomworks-opposes-speaker-ryans-obamacare-2-0-plan/

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Once again, Republicans could be their own worst enemy

Congressional Republicans, on the precipice of repealing and replacing Obamacare, are facing a familiar and stubborn foe: themselves.

Infighting ensued immediately Tuesday as House and Senate Republicans dissected for the first time the American Health Care Act, the GOP vehicle for replacing former President Barack Obama's signature law.

President Trump and Republican leaders made the case for the AHCA and warned conservative opponents not to stand in the way. Insurgent Republicans, deriding the bill as "Obamacare lite," said they had the votes to block it and vowed to do so absent major changes.

The intraparty warfare was characteristic of congressional Republicans during the Obama years, and responsible for sinking some of the best deals the GOP could have hoped to achieve with so liberal a Democrat.

Now, once again, this time with a Republican in the White House, Republicans are threatening to stand in their own way and block themselves from an incremental policy victory and potentially major political win.

The question is whether Trump will be able to forge consensus, and whether Republicans will let him.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said Republicans had to be careful not to let the desire for perfection waste the opportunity they have to finally get rid of the Affordable Care Act.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-could-be-their-own-worst-enemy/article/2616744

"We need to go as far as we can to do what we said we would do if we got elected and were controlling Congress," Tillis said.