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herding cats

(19,564 posts)
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 05:47 PM Mar 2017

GOP Rep Quits Freedom Caucus over Trumpcare Vote

Republican Rep. Ted Poe has quit the hardline House Freedom Caucus over the group’s opposition to an Obamacare replacement plan heralded by President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan. Poe was reportedly inclined to vote in favor of the American Health Care Act, before Ryan and Trump pulled it from the floor when they realized they did not have enough votes. “Leaving this caucus will allow me to be a more effective Member of Congress and advocate for the people of Texas. It is time to lead,” Poe said in a statement. Trump lashed out at the Freedom Caucus on Twitter Sunday morning, accusing them of having “saved” Planned Parenthood and Obamacare.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/03/26/gop-rep-quits-freedom-caucus-over-trumpcare-vote.html?via=mobile&source=copyurl

It's like someone smacked saftey glass with hammer.
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GOP Rep Quits Freedom Caucus over Trumpcare Vote (Original Post) herding cats Mar 2017 OP
Let them all whine. Sculpin Beauregard Mar 2017 #1
hahahaha mercuryblues Mar 2017 #2
in fact donnie did tweet his anger at the freedom caucus for "saving planned parenthood and ocare". unblock Mar 2017 #5
Dumpf & rwnjs busy blaming Ryan when FC's deplorable Panich52 Mar 2017 #3
Fuck him too world wide wally Mar 2017 #4
Hmmm.... BumRushDaShow Mar 2017 #6
More likely this OnDoutside Mar 2017 #7
My son lives in Ted Poe's district and would love to see this idiot voted out Gothmog Mar 2017 #8

Sculpin Beauregard

(1,046 posts)
1. Let them all whine.
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 05:52 PM
Mar 2017

They should go live in their own compound, if they can't handle being decent human beings. Sadistic snivellers.

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
2. hahahaha
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 05:52 PM
Mar 2017

Being part of the caucus didn't prevent him from voting yes on trumpcare. He is free to vote on legislation however he pleases.

My guess is he is trying to avoid trump's "revenge"

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
3. Dumpf & rwnjs busy blaming Ryan when FC's deplorable
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 05:56 PM
Mar 2017

additions (or, more correctly, subtractions of coverage) made the bill not only a break with anything the blowhard promised on the campaign trail into the exact opposite of anything he promised.

Meanwhile, all that hard work Ryan claimed SCROTUS did was comprised of threatening congressmen & holding rallies about himself to sate his narcissistic needs.

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