These days, House conservatives prefer to eat their own
Fight Club on the Hill
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Wednesday, April 24, 6:54 PM
House conservatives met Wednesday for the latest installment of their “Conversations with Conservatives” luncheon series, but they took their places on the dais without sampling the Chick-fil-A sandwiches and nuggets on offer.
These days, House conservatives prefer to eat their own.
Republican leaders had scheduled a vote in the chamber for Wednesday on a plan to help people with preexisting health problems get insurance — part of a broader scheme by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) to make Republicans appear to care about the little guy. But the conservatives lunching in the Rayburn House Office Building weren’t biting.
One after the other, they vowed to defeat the Republican leaders’ bill, which they said was not much better than President Obama’s health-care reform...
(More here.)
House conservatives met Wednesday for the latest installment of their “Conversations with Conservatives” luncheon series, but they took their places on the dais without sampling the Chick-fil-A sandwiches and nuggets on offer.
These days, House conservatives prefer to eat their own.
Republican leaders had scheduled a vote in the chamber for Wednesday on a plan to help people with preexisting health problems get insurance — part of a broader scheme by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) to make Republicans appear to care about the little guy. But the conservatives lunching in the Rayburn House Office Building weren’t biting.
One after the other, they vowed to defeat the Republican leaders’ bill, which they said was not much better than President Obama’s health-care reform...
(More here.)
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