Ryan Leads Republicans to Defeat

[Joe Cooper]

When Paul Ryan ran for speaker of the House of Representatives, he said
Republicans "need to move from being an opposition party to being a
proposition party." After a record-breaking eight years as the top
republican on the House Budget Committee followed by a stint on Ways &
Means, Ryan seemed well prepared to lead a newly energized house
Republican majority toward reclaiming the power of the purse, which the
framers of our Constitution vested in them.
Well, the results are in, and they're not good. Ryan has proved no better
than his hapless predecessor, John Boehner, in cutting wasteful spending,
reforming the tax system, defunding liberal interest groups, or
instituting good conservative policies.

The 2,009-page, $1.1 trillion Consolidated Omnibus spending bill, which
the Republican Congress approved and President Obama signed a week before
Christmas, violates every promise that Republicans made to the voters who
rewarded them with landslide victories in the 2010 and 2014 midterm
elections. It's no wonder that betrayed Republican voters have adopted a
throw-the-bums-out attitude that supports the presidential campaigns of
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson.

Democrats lost no time gloating over what Chuck Schumer hailed as a
"great victory for the principles Democrats stand for." As Senator Patty
Murray explained, "We rolled back the automatic budget cuts ... and we
kept out poison pill riders even after the Republicans spent months
talking about defunding Planned Parenthood."

Besides Planned Parenthood, which was caught selling body parts from
aborted fetuses, the Omnibus continues high levels of spending for such
liberal priorities as the Legal Services Corporation, which sues states
on behalf of illegal aliens, and Head Start, which the government's own
studies prove has no lasting value. It increases the annual budget for
the Internal Revenue Service, despite that agency's documented record of
abusive misconduct toward tea party conservatives.

The new budget not only fails to stop Obama's executive amnesty, known as
DACA and DAPA, which two federal courts have said is illegal, but it
quadruples the controversial H-2B program, which imports low-skilled
foreign workers for blue-collar jobs that millions of Americans can do.
That provision violates Paul Ryan's recent pledge not to push for higher
immigration levels, at least until the next president takes office.

"There is a reason that GOP voters are in open rebellion," Senator Jeff
Sessions, R., Ala., said when he learned of the surreptitious increase in
the number of low-wage guest workers. "They have come to believe that
their party's elites are ... openly hostile to them."

Despite the recent massacres in Paris and San Bernardino, both of which
were committed by Muslims loyal to ISIS who crossed national borders with
impunity, the Omnibus continues full funding for the resettlement of
Syrian refugees without additional screening. Despite the deaths of Kate
Steinle and other Americans murdered by Mexicans who had previously been
deported, there is still no limit on federal subsidies for sanctuary
cities.

The recently concluded UN conference on climate change, where Obama
committed the United States to reducing our energy use before China does,
offered a great opportunity for congressional action. The Omnibus failed
to block the EPA's Clean Power Plan and Waters of the United States rule,
but it provided plenty of money, which Obama can reallocate to the UN's
Green Climate Fund.

Ryan's surrender was so complete that it's no wonder Obama said "kudos to
him" before boarding Air Force One for the First Family's annual vacation
in Hawaii. As Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Steve
Israel explained, "We ended up with a bill today that has all the good
stuff in and most of the bad stuff out. That's the definition of
victory."

The Democratic budget victory came despite Republicans winning the
largest number of seats they've had in Congress since the 1920s,
reinforced by winning a thousand seats in state legislatures across the
country. The Republican leaders' failure to make use of their majority,
to make good on their promises, supports Rush Limbaugh's theory that
Republican leaders "are willing to throw away their current base for the
new one they hope to get."

Although the current congressional leadership seems to have lost its will
to fight for conservative policies, the 95 Representatives and 16
Senators who voted against the deal provide hope for building a more
effective conservative majority next year. Our marvelous Constitution
provides many ways for concerned citizens reduce the size of our
government.

Meanwhile, some excellent candidates are lining up to challenge the
Republican incumbents who forgot why the voters sent them to Congress.
Find one of those candidates in your area and give him or her your full
support.

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ISIS: "We've contained Obama."

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on behalf of people who aren’t and to impose their will on those who
didn’t ask for it." (Derek Hunter)

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of dangerous denial about the identity of the enemy and its dramatic
successes. We are a people who remember an important lesson from World
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do. Above all, we are a people who refuse to be guilt-tripped into
national suicide"--Joy Overbeck

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