Yesterday, the membership of the House Freedom Caucus of No forced the American Health Care Act, the first stage of a three-stage Obamacare repeal and replace program offered by the majority of the House Republican Conference, to be withdrawn from the day’s backup vote (recall that these No-ers already had forced a delay from Thursday’s vote over their demand to have their way or there could be no Act), and so there will be no AHCA.
As a result of the No-ers’ our way or nothing attitude, the American people now get nothing at all. We’re forced to stay with Obamacare and the disastrous failure of that program. Of particular interest, included in those American people are these No-ers’ own constituents, whose interests these No-ers so loudly pretend that they’re protecting. Yet, with their performance, they’ve ensured that their own constituents also get nothing; the No-ers have betrayed their own electorate.
I have to ask: on whose side are the No-ers; their tactics have led directly to the continuation of Obamacare? Are they on the side of the Progressive-Democrats whose program Obamacare is? Or are they in Congress for their own benefit?
They’re certainly not interested in the welfare of the American people, or of their own constituents.
For your reference in the 2018 election cycle, here are the members of the House Freedom Caucus of No, who put their demands ahead of the nation’s citizens’ needs:
- Mark Meadows, North Carolina, Chair
- Justin Amash, Michigan
- Brian Babin, Texas
- Ted Poe, Texas
- Randy Weber, Texas
- Rod Blum, Iowa
- Dave Brat, Virginia
- Tom Garrett, Jr, Virginia
- Morgan Griffith, Virginia
- Jim Bridenstine, Oklahoma
- Mo Brooks, Alabama
- Ken Buck, Colorado
- Warren Davidson, Ohio
- Jim Jordan, Ohio
- Ron DeSantis, Florida
- Bill Posey, Florida
- Ted Yoho, Florida
- Scott DesJarlais, Tennessee
- Jeff Duncan, South Carolina
- Mark Sanford, South Carolina
- Trent Franks, Arizona
- Paul Gosar, Arizona
- David Schweikert, Arizona
- Andy Harris, Maryland
- Jody Hice, Georgia
- Raúl Labrador, Idaho
- Alex Mooney, West Virginia
- Gary Palmer, Alabama
- Steve Pearce, New Mexico
- Scott Perry, Pennsylvania