{"id":506,"date":"2017-03-25T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2017-03-25T21:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T02:42:02","slug":"republicans-control-washington-are-fractured-as-a-party-can-they-effectivey-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/506","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Control Washington, Are Fractured As A Party… Can They Effectively Lead?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the failed attempt to repeal and replace the ACA\u00a0made clear to the nation\u00a0the party controlling Washington DC is\u00a0nearly as internally divided has as America itself. Something Trump can take at least partial credit for.<\/p>\n

Time is short tonight as prior commitments are consuming our time. So, following is an excerpt from The Washington Post<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>that makes the point well.<\/p>\n

President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan made it a binary choice: You\u2019re either for their health-care legislation or you\u2019re for \u201cObamacare.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Reps. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) to Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.), spanning the party\u2019s ideological spectrum, the answer came back Friday: No, it\u2019s much more complex. It was filled with several different options and possible routes ahead, and dozens of Republicans agreed with their sentiment.<\/p>\n

That left Republicans well short of the votes they needed to fulfill a seven-year promise to destroy the 2010 Affordable Care Act once they were fully in charge, delivering a stinging defeat to both Ryan and Trump.<\/p>\n

It also suggested a new dynamic in which both the right and left flanks of the Republican conference are emboldened to challenge leadership. And that could make each future negotiation more difficult as the issue matrix gets more complicated and the pockets of internal GOP resistance continue to grow, not shrink, in the new era of Trump\u2019s Republican-controlled Washington.<\/p>\n

Some parts of these botched negotiations looked a lot like the recent past. Franks and his House Freedom Caucus cronies played the role of obstructionists who will buck party leaders no matter if it\u2019s John A. Boehner, Ryan\u2019s predecessor, or now Trump. These ideologues gobbled up tons of attention, resulting in much care from Trump, Vice President Pence and top West Wing advisers.<\/p>\n

By lunchtime Friday, Franks still would not commit to publicly supporting the bill \u2014 even though he admitted it was far better than current law. \u201cOf course it is, yeah, it\u2019s a lot better than Obamacare, of course it is. There\u2019s not even any comparison,\u201d Franks said a few hours before the legislation went down in flames.<\/p>\n

Franks remained upset that conservative proposals were left out of the bill because they would have violated Senate budget rules, meaning that the proposal to replace the ACA was nowhere near to his liking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat still is like putting dirt in ice cream,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Other parts of the negotiation, however, were new and quite different from the previous six years of Republican control of the House. Nothing capped this off more than the stunning announcement Friday morning from Frelinghuysen, just three months into his hold on the coveted Appropriations Committee gavel, that bucked leadership.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUnfortunately, the legislation before the House today is currently unacceptable as it would place significant new costs and barriers to care on my constituents,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Skip<\/p>\n

Democrats, who have been relied on in the past to backfill those lost conservative votes, have signaled they will not do so this time if the legislation includes funding for controversial measures such as Trump\u2019s request for funding to build a border wall.<\/p>\n

That messy task falls to Frelinghuysen\u2019s committee \u2014 and it will become much more difficult for the new chairman to ask for loyalty votes on his legislation just a few weeks after he walked away from Ryan on the AHCA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CONTINUE READING<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Below\u00a0is a definite must read. With video,<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s path forward only gets tougher after health-care fiasco<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the failed attempt to repeal and replace the ACA\u00a0made clear to the nation\u00a0the party controlling Washington DC is\u00a0nearly as internally divided has as America itself. Something Trump can take at least partial credit for. Time is short tonight as prior commitments are consuming our time. So, following is an excerpt from The Washington Post … Continue reading Republicans Control Washington, Are Fractured As A Party… Can They Effectively Lead?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-8a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":202,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/202","url_meta":{"origin":506,"position":0},"title":"A Divided America…","author":"Les","date":"February 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"America is a divided nation. 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