This story was originally published on nationaljournal.com on March 28, 2017 With Friday’s collapse of the Republican effort to decapitate President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, it would be an understatement to say that the GOP is in disarray. There isn’t much of a defense against the charge that after voting more than 60 times over seven years to repeal Obamacare, they couldn’t come up with anything to replace it that could pass the House, let alone the Senate, when the vote really counted. A substantial element of the very conservative House Freedom Caucus didn’t think the American Health Care Act was enough of an improvement on the much-reviled Obamacare, while a number of Republican moderates and members in swing districts felt that it was too draconian. Much of the blame is focused on the Freedom Caucus, a group that many say wouldn’t take yes for an answer. The truth is that for many of the most conservative members of the House (and a few in the Senate), their view of the role of government is so minimalist that many would
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