(Just an aside. People might’ve noticed that I published this 2 nights ago and pulled it. I hate doing that but I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to print it or not. It came in an email with a note saying it “was” going to be on the Daily Caller. I thought it said “is” on the Daily Caller. I didn’t want to step on toes.
The tipster was C. Steven.)
Ya know, I thought it was going to get easier once we elected a president and senate and House of Representatives. It’s only gotten harder.
We have to get even busier.
My local Republican representative is a Paul Ryan buttboy and I hate his incompetent liberal ass guts.
Oh dear! This going to make “The Other Tucker” go ballistic. 🙂
You can’t fix stupid, but you can embarrass the shit out of it on twitter. FYI this stories been on FB for two days.
The only way to drive down costs is through competition. That is a hard fact and it wasn’t suffiently addressed in bill one which realistically won’t have a 2nd let alone a third passed. The third being allowing insurance to sell nationwide. Ann Coulter had a better take.
Guess who Trump played golf with Saturday. Another recruit.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/03/rand-paul-wants-susan-rice-before-congress/
That’s okay BFH, I’ve mid-read many of your clever article titles. Sometimes I tell myself ‘man, he could have made that a lot better by changing one word.’ Then later on in the day I scroll the page and see you DID make that one word change and I think to myself ‘who told him my thoughts?’
“Sanford also told The Post and Courier in his home state that Trump dispatched Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, a former caucus member who is also from South Carolina, to deliver a harsh warning before the health bill crashed.
“The president asked me to look you square in the eyes and to say that he hoped that you voted ‘no’ on this bill so he could run [a primary challenger] against you in 2018,” Sanford said Mulvaney informed him.”
Thank you as always for posting BFH.
Oh goodie! Another article bashing the only “republicans” (the Freedom Caucus) that supported Trump at election time. I seem to remember Paul Ryan (along with several of his establishment cohorts) saying he would never, ever support Trump. Was the Freedom Caucus stupid when they supported Trump while the establishment hacks like the Bush dynasty, Kasich, McCain, et. al refused to support him? Yet now the Freedom Caucus supposedly sucks and is just stupid, while Paul Ryan is supposedly a super hero for bring forth a bill for which he had not lined up support. The freedom caucus actually showed some backbone with their vote on the AHCA which is a pleasant surprise for any group within the GOP.
And C. Steven – it isn’t so much that many conservatives that were against the AHCA don’t understand the senate rules as you seem to like saying. In part, it is that we understand that they are merely rules, not laws, and rules can be changed or used to one’s advantage rather than just using them as an excuse for why you can’t do something you promised (as republicans have done ad nauseum for the last couple of decades).
I have high hopes that a better bill will result from the failure of leadership (from Paul Ryan) that was the AHCA from the start. Instead of bashing the Freedom Caucus, why no try to write a bill that it (and other factions in the GOP)can support BEFORE putting it out for a vote?
This last go-’round with the GOP members of Congress was just too public in their self-bashing. It was stupid on steroids. And much of it was just petty. Some of it was outright lying to the public about the contents of the bill. Same old BS. Both sides of the GOP. People are FED UP! We sought solace in trying to understand the “rules” as if that would bring some sort of relief through that understanding. It did not. Too many of us who are outside the sanctuary of group health insurance plans or gov’t-paid premiums are dying out here, if not literally, then we will be in poverty by the time we hoped to retire! Can you believe that a majority of catastrophic insurance plans cost about as much each month as a healthy mortgage payment? And if you want to use it?! Penciled out, our family will have to pay, out of pocket, about $32,000.00 a year before any insurance payments are made on claims. Peanuts to those hosers in the Senate, perhaps, but they better get their heads out of their a$$es before summer on this, or they will get primaried. Ask me if I give a rip over who is a “real” conservative and who isn’t at this point. Go ahead.
There’s a HUGE difference between being strictly “conservative” while getting your insurance paid in part by an employer or another group plan versus the rest of us schmoes (primarily self-employed) who pay every last dime out of pocket and after taxes. And besides, Trump played this by the book and still no one could compromise.
How about them Heels!
Just shows you how much bullshit is involved in all those Reps elected since `08.
They knew what to say. No intention of actually being conservative.
Now that the rubber hits the road, you see they aren’t road worthy in the least.
They are the epitome of Nancy’s statement: “It shouldn’t matter whether the candidate or incumbent has a “R” or “D” behind his or her name, or whether they call themselves “conservative” or “progressive.” “
I think there is gonna be another slaughter
at the mid terms, and I will giggle like a
twelve year old girl when it rolls out.
Term limits across the House and Senate are L-O-N-G overdue. There are way too many legislators beholden to influence peddlers at all levels of government. I find it fascinating that the liberal media are fixated on the net-worth of all of Trump’s cabinet, but not a word of how a Senate salary is parlayed into millions by senators, like Reed. My point being that perhaps the AHCA was never intended to be repealed by Congress, by either side of the aisle, and the leadership knew the Freedom Caucus would torpedo the bill so they were the perfect scapegoats. If there were hard term limits, “buying” Congress would become a lot more expensive proposition for “special interests”. I had a very heated debate with an early Trump supporter who castigated the FC yesterday. I asked him when was the last time the progressives compromised on anything. Why is it ALWAYS conservative principles being compromised? I said “governing by compromise” is what has gotten the Republic to the sorry state it’s in today and it’s way past time to draw the metaphorical line in the sand and say enough. We should ALWAYS refuse to compromise Constitutional principles any further, even against squishy RINOs, using the same tactics the Left does to get their will imposed. If our elected leadership took the same tack as President Trump did to win the election by ignoring the braying press, then I believe you would see a groundswell of support for them, just as you did for the President. Do I want unity in the GOP, absolutely. But I want it for the right reasons, not just more of the same old same old RINO BS which has allowed America to become a debtor’s nation. http://www.usdebtclock.org/
This is precisely what is needed and what would be a natural instinct for anyone remotely affiliated with conservative values: http://www.newsmax.com/MichaelShannon/mitch-mcconnell-chuck-schumer-border-wall-filibuster/2017/03/07/id/777474/
I don’t believe Mitch McConnel has had any truly Conservative thoughts for quite some time. He’s purely a political survivor which means he always follows the path of least resistance, regardless of principle, which is precisely the precept that the Daily Caller article was imploring the Freedom Caucus to adopt. This is one reason the FC is so despised, their fidelity to principle reveals how threadbare every other caucus in DC has become. If you own the House, the Senate and the Presidency and you still can’t get a bill passed, the problem is clearly the leadership, not the membership. So why don’t we take a closer look at what the FC actually wanted in the bill and what Ryan refused to remove before we castigate those who are obviously under tremendous pressure and are paying high political costs for their convictions? Maybe, just maybe, there’s a real Conservative case to be made for their intransigence.