March 28, 2024

Time for Paul Ryan to go

Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis., speaks at a news conference following a House GOP meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan told GOP lawmakers that he will run for speaker, but only if they embrace him by week's end as their consensus candidate, an ambitious bid to impose unity on a disordered and divided House. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Paul Ryan is acting like every Democrat’s wet dream.  The massive budget he is shoving down America’s throat is a wish list full of everything the Democrats could possibly want.

o He’s giving $1.6 billion to resettle illegal aliens rather than deport them.

o He is fully funding Obama’s illegal amnesty.

o He is fully funding Obamacare.

o He is fully funding Planned Parenthood and their baby cutting tactics.

o He is allowing Obama to bring in hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees.

o He is fully funding the EPA’s program to shut down coal-fired power plants.

o He is going to add hundreds of billions of dollars to our national debt.

Ryan also went back on his promise to change the process and have spending bills be reviewed in committee, one at a time; this is the same fat huge omnibus budget made behind closed doors that almost no one had read or reviewed as in the John Boehner era.

It’s time for Paul Ryan to go.  Republican who ousted John Boehner should launch another motion to declare the speaker’s chair vacant. But they’re not.

But unlike past fiscal battles, when lawmakers took shots at GOP leaders and tried to tank bills, this time conservatives are largely holding their fire. Even as they vow to oppose the package, many are still praising Speaker Paul Ryan’s handling of the $1.1 trillion spending bill and $680 billion in tax breaks. “In terms of the process, I can tell you I’ve had more meaningful conversations with the speaker and leadership in the last couple of weeks than I think I have in the last couple of years,” said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who instigated the revolt against Speaker John Boehner.

So it’s a terrible budget, but Meadows had good conversations.

Virginia Republican Dave Brat, a Freedom Caucus member who also sits on the budget panel, said Ryan has also gained support because he has been “credible on regular order” — Congress-speak for empowering committees and rank-and-file members — and has already teed up the budget process for the beginning of 2016, a starting point unheard of in recent years.

Next year!  He’s no good now, but just wait until next year!  Where have we heard that before?

“It’s pretty bad,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Freedom Caucus chairman. Jordan led an effort Wednesday to amend the omnibus package to strip out a cybersecurity provision that many conservatives oppose and also include Syrian refugee language. Ryan has said the omnibus is not open for changes.

But the blame for the final product, conservatives say, rests on Boehner and Senate Democrats. Ryan just inherited the mess, they argue.

He inherited it!  But Boehner is gone.  There is no one forcing Ryan to pass this monstrosity.

Instead, they focus on other promises the Wisconsin Republican made when he took the job.

“Paul made some pretty sustainable commitments about things we’ll do next year: a major overhaul of our tax system, welfare reform, replacing Obamacare,” [Arizona Rep. Matt ] Salmon said. “These are major things. If we do those things and define clearly what we stand for, that’s the best we can hope for.”

Next year!  He promised to do better next year.  Always next year.

Paul Ryan is Nancy Pelosi with a beard.   And the “Freedom Caucus” are mouthing the same exact words as John Boehner did: “We can’t fight now, but just wait until next year!”  A Republican with guts would call to vacate the speaker’s chair again.  A pity there isn’t one.

Exit question: Reince Priebus.  Scott Walker.  Paul Ryan.  Is there anything good that comes out of Wisconsin…besides cheese?

Source: American Thinker
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