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March 30, 2017 04:25 PM UTC

Would Buck have voted for the GOP bill to repeal Obamacare?

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

POLS UPDATE: An op-ed from Rep. Ken Buck supporting Trumpcare gets Tweeted out by President Donald Trump himself:

Unfortunately for Rep. Buck, he appears to be contradicting himself with this new position supporting the moribund American Health Care Act, which we suspect won’t make The Donald very happy:

It’ll be fun to see how this shakes out, won’t it? Stay tuned…

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Rep. Ken Buck (R).

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) told a conservative radio host Friday that he would have supported the GOP’s proposal to replace Obamacare, if it had come up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives last week.

Buck told KNUS 710-AM’s Steve Kelley that he was “very reluctantly willing to support” the American Health Care Act, in part, because Trump “deserves a honeymoon” after showing his willingness to “work with conservatives.”

Steve Kelley: So, were you going to vote for it?

Ken Buck: You know, I told the Speaker that I didn’t like a bill. I didn’t like the process, but if they needed my vote I would vote for it. I consider myself a lot more conservative than this bill, but I also think it’s important that we get things done. And I also feel like this President deserves a honeymoon. He gave us a great Supreme Court nominee. He gave us a great cabinet. And he has proven that he is willing to work with conservatives, and conservatives should step forward to work with him. And so, I was very reluctantly willing to support this…

Kelley: The idea of, “this [death of the AHCA] may be, in fact, the best thing because it is going to force the issue.” Do you agree with the President on that?

Buck: I think it is going to force the issue. I don’t think it was the best thing. I think the best thing would have been to pass this and also force the issue.

Buck, who’s a member of the House’s ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, joins U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in publicly supporting the GOP’s Obamacare replacement, while the rest of Colorado’s GOP House members didn’t take a public position.

The Freedom Caucus, Buck said on air, was invited to the White House to “go bowling” with Trump, and also to attend “probably a half dozen” meetings and dinners  to discuss the health care legislation, but ultimately Trump couldn’t get enough votes needed to pass the GOP bill.

Buck’s comments on KNUS were made from Dulles airport at the end of Friday after the GOP legislation was withdrawn.

On Friday morning, just before the bill was scheduled for a vote, The Denver Post’s Mark Matthews quoted Buck as saying, “I’m reading and I’m trying to gather information and I’m not going to have my arm twisted by anybody.” Matthews tweeted that Buck was undecided.

After the bill failed to come up for a vote, Buck told 9News he “was not completely sold” on it. This led 9News and other Denver outlets to report that Coffman was the only Colorado House Republican to publicly support the Republican legislation.

Buck was not among 33 Republicans identified by the New York Times as opposing the bill and causing its demise. None of Colorado’s Republicans were on the Times’ list.

Listen to Buck on KNUS 710-AM March 24:

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32 thoughts on “Would Buck have voted for the GOP bill to repeal Obamacare?”

  3. Man, the buck clearly doesn't stop with Buck. Unless it’s a Koch buck. Or a briefcase full of them.

     

    He must be studying Advanced Political Obfuscation and Diversion with Con Man Cory Gardner, and Meaningless Mealy-Mouthed Weasel-Word Salad with Professor Mike "Forked Tongue" Coffman.

        1. I wouldn't count on the Russians' help next election, Moldy.  Their orange stooge was only useful in a "screw with American Democracy" sense, and he's already circling the bowl. 

    2. Still waiting for you to provide reputable sources backing up your claim that Obamacare is failing.

      You really want to pass a repeal bill?  Insist that the WH just keep Steve Bannon as their negotiator with the FC.

    3. You fool. Don't you see that this is when Trump turns his back on the angry white crackers and he and his band of billionaire oligarchs join with the captains of industry in welcoming the New America. 

      The Freedom Caucus, any remaining liberal Republicans, and the progressive Democrats working together against Trump, the Kremlin, and the Lords of Wall Street (and their Senate subcontactors)

      Epic….

      2. Soooo clever and original, CarnHolio! Never heard that one before! I must write it down for future use!

         

        You mutts are as weak and lame as your Deer Leeder. It's going to be a pleasure taking you all down.

  5. I'm hoping this is a case of of Buck loving Old Yeller after it's been put down.  I thought I saw a glimmer of a soul when he spoke about protecting the access to health care for millions.

      2. MJ:

        You still fixated on Interns?

        Ever since Bill was kicked out of the White House and disbarred for being dishonest they have been safe.

        Where does your "lowly intern" assertion about Buck come from.

        He was a lawyer working for the Congressional Iran-Contra committee.

        I get he is a conservative and you hate conservatives, but no need for creative history writing.

        1. Why are you still so fixated on the Clintons, CarnHolio?

           

          Oh, of course, that's right — anything to divert attention from the crashing-and-burning D.C. clusterfuck you scumbags have imposed upon our previously admired nation (now a pariah and a laughingstock) – and for which you're about to pay an incalculably high price, comrade.

            1. That's for damn sure. These mongrels never managed to lay a finger, much less a glove, on President Obama or his family. Their psychotic, deranged hatred of a black president always blinded them to his stellar qualities as both Commander in Chief and as a human being — or 3/5 of one, as they see it.

        2. Say one thing about Clinton CarnHallio.  But his trying to get the Paula Jones case thrown out and failing is likely to come back and bite Trump.

        3. OK, corrected to show Ken Buck was a lawyer when he worked for Cheney. "Intern" would still describe Buck's first job, working for the Wyoming legislative services office.

          I notice that you didn't reply to my main points; that Dick Cheney was Buck's mentor, and that Buck helped Cheney to cover up the Iran – Contra investigation. I think those items are more relevant than his job title while he worked for Cheney.

          I also notice that Buck's east coast, Ivy League background  is not mentioned in his official biography. Buck likes to present himself as a Western, "bullshit on the boots" kind of guy.  Is a run for governor imminent?

          It's so easy to troll you. All one has to do is write anything disparaging about Ken Buck. winkAnd there's so much to choose from. Buck was the only member of the Colorado delegation to unconditionally support Trump's Muslim travel ban.

          And I also notice that you haven't acknowledged my long post about the Russian killings related to the Trump campaign.

          Pols has to moderate the comment (too many links, or edited too often), but here's the relevant parts again:

          Nine Russian Operatives Dead – Two with strong connections with Trump campaign –

          *Oleg Erovinkin, who helped to assemble the KGB dossier with "kompromat" (compromising information for blackmail purposes), and

          *Alex Oronov – Ukrainian businessman, connections with Michael Flynn, Russian Mafia, lived in Trump's building, met with Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen during the campaign, murdered after NYT exposed Ukrainian plot

          Putin's organization kills journalists, dissidents, more dissidents, political competition, lawyers for whistleblowers – this is accepted by the American right wing. You all understand very well who you are getting into bed with. Small price to pay for an R by the President's name, and a chance for future favorable Supreme Court decisions, right?

          Trump's business ties to Russian organized crime are well known. The FBI has arrested 10 men in New York as part of its Trump / Russia investigation.

           

           

          1. MJ:

            Buck graduated from a public high school in New York and from Princeton in 1981.

            Polis graduated from La Jolla Country Day School in California and from Princeton 1996.

            I also noticed that the State of California is not mentioned in Polis's official biography.

            Just sayin'.

             

      3. According to the Denver Post article, after graduating from Princeton, "Buck packed his parents’ furniture and moved them to Greeley."

        That seems like an awful thing to do to one's parents.

          1. Well Buck does enjoy the smell of manure especially the kind he spreads although he might have grown a heart if he had relocated to Boulder.

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