NBC's MTP Takes a Hatchet to ‘Area 51’ Freedom Caucus and Cruel GOP

Nicholas Fondacaro | March 26, 2017
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In the wake of the failure of the House GOP’s health care legislation on Friday, blame was being hurled all over Washington. And during Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC, the panel joined in and savagely began tearing into the different factions of the Republican Party on the Hill. “That loss isn’t on the President it isn't on Paul Ryan and it is on the Area 51 sub-caucus of the Freedom Caucus, which believes in legislative flying saucers,” spat Republican radio host Hugh Hewitt.

Which believes in legislative flying saucers that ignore the Senate and Senate rules and the reconciliation rules and they own the loss. Nobody else,” he continued to rant.

Hewitt’s anger was released by moderator Chuck Todd who stated: “This is what The Washington Examiner headline is, ‘GOP cave on Obamacare repeal is the biggest broken promise in political history,’ and it was at the top of, I believe, Phil Klein's analysis. Is he right?” To which, Hewitt replied that “No, it’s overstated.”

Todd then called on former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, who mocked the House GOP with:

The fact of the matter is the entire Republican side of the House for seven years has been screaming about repealing Obamacare. So they come up with a plan that they do in the middle of the night and they shove it in front of the House and they say take it or leave it. The President buys into that. What they created really was a circular firing squad and the command was ready, fire, aim.

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