David Weigel
First, they struggled to answer questions about the need to
vote before the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had estimated the costs of an
amended AHCA.
“I would prefer to have it scored,” said Rep. Mo Brooks
(R-Ala.), a member of the House Freedom Caucus who was elected in the 2010
backlash to President Barack Obama’s health-care law.
Next, they brushed off questions about whether they’d read
the bill, which would impose a significant change on one-sixth of the U.S.
economy and was polished off in a Rules Committee meeting after nightfall
Wednesday.
Catherine Rampell
For years, reports of a mythical figure have lingered in
Washington and reverberated through congressional districts around the country.
Its legend is spread by talking heads, donors, even many of us in the news
media.
This is the Myth of the Moderate Republican.
To be sure, among the general population, moderate
Republicans are real and plentiful. But not on Capitol Hill, where the Moderate
Republican — a creature whose prudence and clearheadedness will rescue the
country from the uncompromising dogmatism of the House Freedom Caucus — is an
extraordinary popular delusion, a madness of crowds.
The Tuesday Group was really just a subsidiary of the Freedom Caucus all along.
Last and certainly not least, Betrayal, Carelessness, Hypocrisy (that covers some of it).
No need for a tease on this one. You know you're going to read all of it.
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