{"id":1028547,"date":"2023-12-12T17:13:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1028547"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:26:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:26:55","slug":"bob-is-not-good-meet-the-new-house-freedom-caucus-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/bob-is-not-good-meet-the-new-house-freedom-caucus-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob (Is Not) Good: Meet the New House Freedom Caucus Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to House Republicans electing Rep. Bob Good as the new House Freedom Caucus Chair, <\/em>DNC National Press Secretary Sarafina Chitika released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMAGA House Republicans, who\u2019ve become notorious for their ability to pick a leader, are rounding out their disastrous first year in the majority by electing far-right extremist Bob Good to head the House Freedom Caucus. Good continues the GOP\u2019s sprint to the extreme right on every issue Americans care about and embraces widely unpopular stances: fighting for a national abortion ban, calling for a government shutdown, advocating for ripping away health care and essential benefits, and chasing a baseless impeachment inquiry for political gain. The House GOP\u2019s decision to elevate Bob Good to HFC chair is their latest message to America\u2019s working families that they\u2019d rather push forward their extreme MAGA agenda than join President Biden in making progress on the work hardworking families want to see: lowering costs, creating jobs, and strengthening our economy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Good is one of Congress\u2019 most vocal anti-abortion extremists, who has called for a national abortion ban and called on his colleagues to be \u201cunflinchingly and unapologetically pro-life.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cRep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who is championing a total abortion ban co-sponsored by more than 160 House Republicans, said, \u2018We need to do what our base sent us here to do and what is the right thing to do, which is to ban all abortion.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good<\/a>: \u201cWe need to be unflinchingly, unapologetically pro-life. I think when you have moderation, you have tepid, vanilla, benign statements on the issue of life \u2014 if you\u2019re trying to talk about 15-week bans that only affect less than 10 percent of abortions \u2014 I think what that does is that demotivates our base. It\u2019s not inspirational. It suppresses turnout in red states, and it leads to us losing elections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to be bold and aggressive and paint with bright red colors on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good is hell-bent on ripping away health care access from millions of Americans and introduced legislation that could subject millions more with preexisting conditions to discrimination from greedy insurance companies. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good<\/a>: \u201cWe’re going to end the policies that have been expanded [Medicaid].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protect Our Care<\/a>: \u201cSelf Insurance Protection Act: Introduced by Congressman Bob Good, this legislation will protect access to stop-loss insurance, insurance for employers who self-fund their employee benefit plans, but do not want to assume liability for losses. This promotes use of non-ACA compliant plans such as AHPs and other self funded benefit plans.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid House Republicans\u2019 self-inflicted chaos that threatened multiple government shutdowns, Good has cheered for the government to shut down all year long. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good, January 2023<\/a>: \u201cWe will have zero leverage … if we\u2019re not willing to threaten [a government shutdown] and willing to follow through on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NPR, July 2023<\/a>: \u201c\u2018We should not fear a government shutdown,\u2019 Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., declared at an event outside the Capitol this week. \u2018Most of the American people won’t even miss it if the government is shut down temporarily.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill, August 2023<\/a>: \u201cRep. Bob Good (R-Va.) \u2014 who in July said \u2018we should not fear a government shutdown\u2019 \u2014 went even further when talking to The Hill last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Eighty-five percent or so of the government continues to operate, and most Americans won\u2019t even miss it,\u2019 Good said. \u2018And if that\u2019s the leverage that we need to utilize to force the Democrats to accept spending cuts and an end to the harmful policies that are, again, crushing the American people \u2014 I mean, then we need to do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Good continues to drag on the baseless impeachment sham into President Biden and his family and has even floated <\/strong>leveraging those threats for policy negotiations <\/em><\/strong>(not a great or normal way to run Congress). <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cRep. Bob Good (R-Va.), in an interview with Axios, floated using impeachment threats as leverage in policy negotiations: \u2018A fair trade off: we won\u2019t pursue impeachment, but you go back to Trump border policies that were working.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@RepBobGood<\/a>: \u201cThe Bidens believe they are above the law and are relying on the media to run cover for them. No Republican should vote against a formal impeachment inquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to House Republicans electing Rep. 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