{"id":31097,"date":"2017-06-28T10:28:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31097"},"modified":"2017-06-28T10:28:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:28:31","slug":"remember-the-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31097","title":{"rendered":"Remember The Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you give us the House, we will repeal <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">ObamaCare<\/a>. If you give us the Senate, we will repeal ObamaCare. If you give us the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">White House<\/a>, we will repeal ObamaCare.&#8221; How about you actually keep your promise and vote to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Repeal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Repeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">REPEAL<\/a> ObamaCare. Then you can work to replace it! Otherwise, let&#8217;s just throw the whole group out, get a new group, and keep doing that until ObamaCare is repealed.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalistpapers.org\/us\/deep-pocket-gop-donors-closing-wallets-republicans-accomplish-something\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Federalist Papers<\/a> posted an article that may be an indication that I am not the only voter who feels that way.<\/p>\n<p>The article states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>It was at a ritzy gathering in a Rocky Mountain resort over the weekend that major GOP donors aligned with the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Koch family\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koch_family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Koch brothers<\/a> made their concerns known.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Texas GOP donor Doug Deason said he and ten other big Dallas donors are withholding any contributions to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Republican Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Republican Party<\/a> until they can actually get something accomplished.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Until then, his \u201cDallas piggy bank\u201d is closed for business, LifeZette <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifezette.com\/polizette\/gop-donors-grow-skittish-lack-legislative-progress\/\">reports<\/a>. Specifically, Deason wants to see movement on replacing Obamacare and significant health care reform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>\u201cGet Obamacare repealed and replaced, get tax reform passed,\u201d Deason said, according to the Associated Press. \u201cYou control the Senate. You control the House. You have the presidency. There\u2019s no reason you can\u2019t get this done. Get it done and we\u2019ll open it back up.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Deason said he has already said no to two prominent House members \u2013 both aligned with the so-called \u201c<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Freedom Caucus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_Caucus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Freedom Caucus<\/a>.\u201d Reps. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mark Meadows (North Carolina politician)\" href=\"http:\/\/meadows.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Mark Meadows<\/a>, from North Carolina and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ohio\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.1219998333,-80.6839998333&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=41.1219998333,-80.6839998333 (Ohio)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Ohio<\/a>\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jim Jordan (U.S. politician)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Jordan_%28U.S._politician%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Jim Jordan<\/a> asked him to hold a fundraiser and he turned them down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cI said, \u2018No, I\u2019m not going to because we\u2019re closing the checkbook until you get some things done,&#8217;\u201d Deason said, adding that he even pressured two dozen other Texas-based donors to refuse to partner with them on the fundraiser.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This may be the only way to get things accomplished&#8211;cut off the donation money from the big donors. The danger in that is that those of us who are conservatives may not always be on the same page as the big donors.<\/p>\n<p>I have reached the conclusion that ObamaCare may be here to stay. If that is in fact the case, the Democrats are no longer the only ones to blame. The lack of spine in the Republican Party and the desire to thwart Trump by the Washington establishment will also be responsible for the end of private healthcare in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you give us the House, we will repeal ObamaCare. If you give us the Senate, we will repeal ObamaCare. If you give us the White House, we will repeal ObamaCare.&#8221; How about you actually keep your promise and vote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31097\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3357,734,7,1493,134,3415,211],"class_list":["post-31097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-obamacare","tag-party-leaders-of-the-united-states-senate","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-republican-party-united-states","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31098,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31097\/revisions\/31098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}