The problem I have with the FC is that they're such "principled" fellows that they'd apparently lose everything, rather than accept incremental gains.
Losing the fight over the principle involved can never be assuaged by whatever minor operating details are conceded. Lose the "gay marriage" fight, and you will be baking gay wedding cakes whether you like it or not. Anyone who has watched how this stuff works, knows that if you lose the principle involved, the rest of your objections will also be swept away eventually.
It pretty much seems that they won't work with anybody who's not willing to give them 100% of what they want. And so ... nobody's going to work with them, and the effective majority in the House transitions to the Democrats.
Democrats with an "(R)" behind their names.
To get anywhere at all, is going to require the GOP to figure out how to put together a bill that will allow members from across the political spectrum to vote for it. Nobody's going to get everything they want. Everybody's going to have to bend a little.
Yeah, the many bills they had previously voted for are simply not good enough, because they were
lying back then, and now they are telling us that they sorta like socialized medicine because it helps their corporate donors save money.
They are probably also in favor of the US Government absorbing their corporate donor's failing pension systems.