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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservatives Face A Choice On Obamacare: Trump Or Their Principles **
** What Principles ?Huffington Post
As the GOP plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act becomes less of a pamphlet and more of a bill, House Republican leaders are hoping recalcitrant conservatives in their party who claim they can sink those efforts wont be willing to cross President Donald Trump.
GOP leaders are insisting that Trump is with them. Yet nobody is quite certain where the president stands on the current repeal bill ― or where he ultimately will be.
Republicans were listening carefully to Trumps words during his address to Congress Tuesday night, and while he didnt get out in front of the repeal and replace plan, he did seem to back key parts of GOP leaders yet-to-be released bill.
Some members drove that message home ― totally not at the direction of leadership, they insist ― when they lined up at the microphones and talked about how Trump was very popular in their districts and how they would get fried, in the words of Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.), if they didnt support the Obamacare repeal.
What GOP leaders and their allies lack in subtlety, they may make up for in sheer momentum. The plan to repeal and replace Obamacare was looking like it could be in real trouble early in the week, when more conservative Republicans were drawing hard lines on the legislation and members were coming out saying they couldnt support the bill if it looked like the one that leaked two weeks ago.
The House Freedom Caucus took an official position against any repeal that is weaker than the one Republicans passed in 2015. Those roughly 40 House Freedom Caucus members, as well as the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, were speaking out against the advance refundable tax credits that would be part of a health care plan.
I think Boehner called this correctly a couple of weeks ago - Obamacare is here to stay !
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Conservatives Face A Choice On Obamacare: Trump Or Their Principles ** (Original Post)
Jimbo101
Mar 2017
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luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)1. They have principles?
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)2. When did that start?
eniwetok
(1,629 posts)3. The proof the GOP has principles is....
Back in 1993 80% of GOP senators signed on to co-sponsor bills with an individual mandate.
But then they dropped it... and adopted the current GOP bullshit plans.
So sure they had principles... they were for national health care on principle before they were against it... on new principles.