House Freedom Caucus Member Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) urged President Trump to continue working with the caucus, because they have been a staunch ally of his throughout his tenure.
Gohmert said on "Sunday Morning Futures" that Trump and the Freedom Caucus came to agreements twice during the ObamaCare replacement negotiations, but that "establishment" figures convinced the president to rebuff them.
Republican 'establishment' leaders like Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus "had a meeting" and decided to "go to war against the people that defended the president, when Ryan and those guys abandoned him," Gohmert said.
He said the ObamaCare replacement bill that nearly made it to a vote would have caused consumer costs to rise and given the government more authority in health care.
"If the bill passes, the president's administration will be defined for the next four years as a fraud," Gohmert said, because the voters will notice that their health care would get worse.
Gohmert, 63, said the environment during the negotiations felt like that of the 2008 Wall Street bailout or the President George H.W. Bush-era tax hike: "We got to get this done."
He added that President Ronald Reagan "only succeeded" when he rebuffed the establishment and aligned himself with conservative Republicans.
Gohmert said the Republican establishment would get a "twofer" from passing their version of health care reform: "destroy" conservatives and "make the president look terrible."
Appearing to refer to last October, when Ryan was recorded on a conference call saying he would "not defend Donald Trump" in the wake of the infamous Billy Bush tape leak, Gohmert said the president "can work with the people that got him there, that defended him, when others, like Ryan and the establishment were running scared."
"The demographic most opposed to President Trump is not a racial minority, but a cultural elite." Daniel Greenberg
"Failure to adequately denounce Islamic extremism, not only denies the existence of an absolute moral wrong but inherently diminishes our chances of defeating it." Tulsi Gabbard
"It’s a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs, who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will." Donald Trump's Victory Speech 11/9/16
INSIDE EVERY LIBERAL IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT -- Frontpage mag
The ObamaCare debacle has me worried. The Freedom Caucus opposed Ryan's replacement plan because it looked too much like a warmed over version of the original. ObamaCare Lite as it was called. I am very much disappointed President Trump supported Ryan's version because that is not what he promised. Moreover he allowed himself to be manipulated by Ryan when told there enough votes to pass the Lite bill when there were not. The result made the President look amateurish and inept (perhaps that was the plan all along) and the forces of the Left had a field day ridiculing the President when his first major policy program failed. Now we are being told there will be no further action on ObamaCare at least for the foreseeable future. So the thing we were supposed to be rid of off the bat is still with us and will be until heaven knows when (another part of the original plan?).
It was the Freedom Caucus what brought him to the dance and the President had best realize that both for his sake as well as ours.
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #2The ObamaCare debacle has me worried. The Freedom Caucus opposed Ryan's replacement plan because it looked too much like a warmed over version of the original. ObamaCare Lite as it was called. I am very much disappointed President Trump supported Ryan's version because that is not what he promised.
Moreover he allowed himself to be manipulated by Ryan when told there enough votes to pass the Lite bill when there were not. The result made the President look amateurish and inept (perhaps that was the plan all along) and the forces of the Left had a field day ridiculing the President when his first major policy program failed. Now we are being told there will be no further action on ObamaCare at least for the foreseeable future. So the thing we were supposed to be rid of off the bat is still with us and will be until heaven knows when (another part of the original plan?).
It was the Freedom Caucus what brought him to the dance and the President had best realize that both for his sake as well as ours.
Don't bail on Trump so fast Cincinnatus. I'm not there yet although the events did look discouraging. I'm still fairly confident he's in top of things. He knows how to "bob and weave" but he doesn't lose his focus. The idea that he is being manipulated and fooled by Paul Ryan sure seemed to be the case. But he was only playing the hand that was dealt him. Yesterday he was golfing with Rand Paul and Paul's post golf comments countered that theory. Paul said he was "very optimistic" they'd get a clean repeal of Obamacare.
It's just my opinion based on how he operates. I believe Trump is wise enough to let things play out in their natural order. He sends out those "tenderizing" tweet comments here and there to soften up both sides, especially those who seem unwilling to work together. But Trump is the only one who can bring into being this "repeal and replace" promise made to the American people.
"The demographic most opposed to President Trump is not a racial minority, but a cultural elite." Daniel Greenberg
"Failure to adequately denounce Islamic extremism, not only denies the existence of an absolute moral wrong but inherently diminishes our chances of defeating it." Tulsi Gabbard
"It’s a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs, who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will." Donald Trump's Victory Speech 11/9/16
INSIDE EVERY LIBERAL IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT -- Frontpage mag
I said nothing of bailing. I said I was worried and I am.
Cincy, TM,
I haven't read enough to make a judgement call. This was all going on when my PC decided it was time to retire. I doubt Trump would be taken in by the likes of Ryan and wondered if Trump was setting him him up for failure.
What worries me it the unrelenting virulent torrent of innuendos, smears, lies, half-truths. and lies by omission by Democrats, Republicans, and the media. .
Illegitimi non Carborundum
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell
Aaron Klein's take on the multifacted attempts to obstruct Trump
Trump’s First 100 Days: Establishment Goes to War to Halt President’s Agenda by Aaron Klein28 Apr 20173,652
Donald Trump’s first one hundred days in office have been clouded by an unprecedented obfuscation campaign by Democrats, some Republicans, the establishment news media and a coalition of outside agitators attempting to disrupt the billionaire’s presidential agenda, smear top administration officials, sow seeds of chaos, and delegitimize his already historic presidency.
Pre-Inauguration
A review of events is instructive. Even before Trump took office, the attempts to delegitimize the billionaire kicked into high gear when Hillary Clinton’s campaign joined the improbable recount efforts led by Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
When those efforts failed miserably, the Clinton campaign turned to an outlandish attempt to usurp Trump’s Electoral College victory. John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s top political adviser who served as chairman of her presidential campaign, expressed his support in December for a petition calling for Electoral College voters to receive an intelligence briefing on claims of Russian intervention in the presidential election.
The Estabishment = The Swamp = Dems and Republicans!
What's obvious is that the Swamp does not take kindly to being drained! We've pulled our hair out dealing with the likes of McCain and Lady Lindsay finding a way to compromise and prevent the conservative agenda from coming into being. I'm looking for DT to negotiate a way through the Swamp
"The demographic most opposed to President Trump is not a racial minority, but a cultural elite." Daniel Greenberg
"Failure to adequately denounce Islamic extremism, not only denies the existence of an absolute moral wrong but inherently diminishes our chances of defeating it." Tulsi Gabbard
"It’s a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs, who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will." Donald Trump's Victory Speech 11/9/16
INSIDE EVERY LIBERAL IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT -- Frontpage mag