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The political struggle will likely determine if the Republican Party keeps the status quo or returns to their true conservative principles.

Written by Brandon Morse for The Blaze:

The in-house Republican battle over the repeal of Obamacare is about to boil over as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) are engaged in an increasingly sharp war over words over their disagreements on how to proceed forward with the promised repeal and replace of former President Obama’s signature legislation.

Paul has been waging a war against the House GOP Obamacare repeal and replace plan since even before it was given to the public. Calling it “Obamacare Lite,” Paul has lambasted not only the bill, but his fellow Republicans for their less-than-diligent attempts at getting rid of the unpopular healthcare law. This time, he turned his attention toward Ryan, who has been the bill’s primary spokesman.

“I think that Paul Ryan’s selling [Donald Trump] a bill of goods that he didn’t explain to the President, and the grassroots doesn’t want what Paul Ryan is selling,” Paul told CNN. …

Other Republicans in Congress have joined Paul in his efforts to push a more conservative version of a repeal bill, which focuses solely on repeal, and repeal alone. Rep. Jim Jordan and Paul have both submitted versions of the bill in the Senate and the House, and has the support of conservative legislators such as Rep. Justin Amash,Sen. Mike Lee, and Rep. Jeff Duncan, and Sen. Tom Cotton. This list of allies now also includes a group of moderate Republicans rattled by the recent CBO report.

As the battle continues between the conservatives and GOP leadership, the faith of the voters hangs in the balance, according to the conservatives. Paul believes that should the GOP pass “Obamacare Lite,” Republicans will pay for it come election time. Duncan wrote in the Daily Signal that should the bill pass, voters “will feel betrayed.”

If that is true, then winner of the struggle between Paul and Ryan may determine the GOP’s future momentum.

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“Though I want to believe the glass is half full, I am tempted, very tempted, to smash a glass half full of Obamacare Lite — smash that glass to smithereens!”

Written by Sen. Rand Paul for Breitbart:

Washington politicians are so far gone that the Constitution is not even an afterthought, and their master seems to be whatever industry funds them.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We just had an election about change, about draining the swamp. President Trump promised to be different, and I believe he sincerely wants to be. But he is being taken for a ride through the swamp right now on “Obamacare Lite.”

For four STRAIGHT elections, REPUBLICANS ran on repealing Obamacare, and now “Republican orthodoxy” — I’m told — is keeping insurance subsidies, mandates, taxes, and insurance company bailouts.

That’s not acceptable to me. And it isn’t keeping our promise.

Though I want to believe the glass is half full, I am tempted, very tempted, to smash a glass half full of Obamacare Lite — smash that glass to smithereens! …

The current Ryan Plan — “Obamacare Lite” — is not about patients. It isn’t about better health care. It isn’t about lowering costs.

It is, plain and simple, about getting more money to the insurance companies and running more of your life from Washington.

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Republicans should be working to agree on a truly conservative plan to repeal Obamacare rather than bickering about numbers.

Written by Dana Loesch for The Blaze:

The bipartisan chorus continues to grow against the Republican Obamacare replacement bill. Conservatives in both chambers of Congress have voiced concerns about the bill, derisively referring to it as “Obamacare-lite.” The political news got worse for the bill when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the bill would result in millions of additional uninsured Americans.

On Dana Loesch’s program Tuesday evening, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has said he would prefer a clean repeal to Obamacare first.

“What I do know is bill that’s in front of us, that leadership has brought forward, isn’t a full repeal, it isn’t going to bring down premiums and doesn’t unite the Republican party. It is not consistent with what we told the voters. … There’s a reason every single conservative group in the country is opposed to it. There’s a reason that conservative people like you are opposed to it. Even conservatives who are for it, … call it Obamacare-lite,” Rep. Jordan says.

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Rand Paul is hoping that Trump will negotiate for a much more conservative bill that completely repeals Obamacare.

Written by Ben Wolfgang for the Washington Times:

President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have tried to present a unified front on the GOP’s health care bill, but a top Republican critic of that legislation on Sunday tried to stoke divisions between the two.

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said flatly that he doesn’t believe the president is fully committed to the legislation as currently written. The House Republican leadership, he added, is presenting a false choice between the status quo or the current alternative proposal backed by Mr. Ryan.

“I think there’s a separation between the two,” Mr. Paul told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “I’ve talked to the president I think three times on Obamacare and I hear from him that he’s willing to negotiate. You know what I hear from Paul Ryan? It’s a binary choice, young man. But what does a binary choice mean? His way or the highway?”

Mr. Paul said he doesn’t think the bill, as it stands now, will get the needed 51 votes in the Senate.

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The American Action Forum was set up to run ads against conservatives who oppose the “Obamacare Lite” bill. Guess who’s funding that PAC?

Yep, the pharmaceutical companies.

House Republicans like Speaker Paul Ryan tell us that the new health care bill will repeal Obamacare and lower costs. We’ve already shown why that’s untrue. Now, evidence that the pharmaceutical companies are supporting the bill with millions of dollars proves that costs will remain high and benefit them, not you.

Stand with Rand and oppose Obamacare Lite!

The President today submitted to Congress legislation to provide five-star accommodations with a scenic view, a fireplace, high-speed Internet, and conjugal visits with people other than their wives for any offender who once held the highest office in the land.

“A President has served his country and should circumstances arise where he needs to serve years beyond the end of his term he should be afforded prison accommodations befitting his social rank, regardless of whether he finds himself inconvenienced for larceny, fraud, or espionage,” said White House advisor Steve Bannon, “We think this is appropriate to that end.”

Trump made the highly unusual move of tweeting during daylight hours in support of the bill:

Republicans have stated that they fully support Trump but don’t think they have enough votes, despite holding the majority in both houses of Congress and having done away with the filibuster.

“You won’t find a single Republican opposing the President,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan, “but we just don’t have the votes yet. We’re still trying to identify how a conscience made its way past security and we hope that our base understands that this is entirely the Democrat Party’s fault.”

Congress will resume consideration of the bill after their October-February Christmas break.