As GOP schism grows, Trump attacks fellow Republicans
By Darlene Powers Apr 02, 2017
President Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks Thursday on the conservative House Freedom Caucus that played a key role in his withdrawing the American Health Care Act from a floor vote in the House last week, demanding certain of the group "get on board" his agenda. On Thursday morning, Mr. Trump tweeted that "we must fight" the conservative band of representatives.
Senior White House aide Dan Scavino called for the electoral defeat of vocal House Freedom Caucus member Justin Amash in a Saturday, continuing the White House's feud with the conservative group of lawmakers over its opposition to the Republican health care plan.
The Trump administration will face an early test in how it handles a lawsuit the House filed against the Obama administration, which the new president's team inherited.
The online publication Breitbart, which was formerly headed by White House Strategist Steve Bannon and was defined as the nexus of the Alt-Right by the corporate media, has seemed to have lost its independence. They have also taken a stand knowing that while Trump is popular in their districts, they are equally so.
The discord following the healthcare debacle was not limited to tensions between Trump and the Freedom Caucus.
While fierce backers of Trump, such conservatives have enthusiastically supported the HFC for years, lionizing its members for standing on principle and refusing to fall in line with the GOP establishment on a host of issues. But by embracing the House bill, that is exactly what President Trump has done. On Thursday, Ryan offered his reaction to Trump's tweet criticizing the Freedom Caucus. I have always figured that half a loaf is better than none, and I know that in the democratic process you're not going to always get everything you want. "We shouldn't go home until we've done just that-fully repeal Obamacare, and replace it with reforms that actually lower premiums for Americans". "About 90 percent of our conference is for this bill to repeal and replace "Obamacare" and about 10 percent are not, and that's not enough to pass a bill". A top aide to President Donald Trump is urging the primary defeat of a conservative House member from MI. Mr Trump said on Twitter yesterday. It concedes the falsity of the idea that Trump is a modern-day, omni-competent Cincinnatus who will lay down his golf bag to save the republic.
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But on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told Fox News, "I think the president is disappointed in the number of people he thought were loyal to him that weren't". "They were all Trumped up there for a while, but now they're laying pretty low".
The effort to undo Obamacare also has laid bare sharp divisions among Republicans that could bedevil Trump in the future, particularly if he moves on to tax reform, infrastructure spending and cutting the budget.
"We have come a long way in our country when the speaker of one party urges a president NOT to work with the other party to solve a problem", Corker wrote on Twitter.
At the local Frisch's Big Boy, 69-year-old Chuck Siegenthaler said he was disappointed with Jordan and the other Republicans who didn't support the bill.
A case can be made for a presidential political strategy that attempts to play House Freedom Caucus hard-liners off against Democrats to bring either one group or the other into a governing majority in Congress.
Senator Cory Gardner, a Republican who served in the House from 2011 to 2014, said his former colleagues needed to quit arguing and come to a consensus "sooner rather than later".
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