Paul Ryan needs to be gone as Speaker of the House

There was a point in time when I thought House Speaker John Boehner was the worst leader the Republican Party could possibly have.  It looked like Ryan was merely Boehner’s shadow. After only a couple of years under Paul Ryan I stand corrected. In fact Ryan’s suck-up to liberal ideologies makes Boehner look like an amateur liberal suck-up in comparison.

 I have been saying for several years that the Republican Congressional leaders have been more inclined to advance the liberal agenda than the conservative agenda. They “go along to get along”. When the leaders whined that they could not control spending if they weren’t in power in the House Conservative voters gave them a majority in the House in 2010. Their complaint then turned to we still can’t promote Conservative legislation without controlling the Senate also. Conservative voters gave them a majority in the Senate in 2012.The sniveling Establishment Republicans then claimed they still couldn’t accomplish anything significant without also having the Presidency. The Conservative voters gave them the Presidency in 2016. As far as I’m concerned they have run out of excuses. It is now an open hostility from the Establishment Republicans towards President Donald Trump. They are openly embracing liberal/socialist ideologies in an effort to prevent Donald Trump from achieving his agenda. They are traitors to the cause and don’t seem concerned in the least that many are facing reelection in less than two years.

 There has been this big deal made by critics of what Trump has accomplished in his first 100 days. The list of accomplishments is actually lengthy. It would be even longer without the obstructionist Republicans in Congress. It would be even longer yet without the obstructionist, activist liberal judges put in place by Mr. Obama. President Trump must find a way to either bring establishment Republicans on board with his agenda or find a way to negate their obstructionism.

 Ryan presented a hastily produced piece of garbage as the solution to Obamacare. That pile of stinking legislation did not come even close to the “repeal and replace” promises they had been making for six years. They had submitted dozens of legislative bills that would repeal Obamacare so why did they not resubmit one of those instead of this piece of crap they brought up for a vote. Thank the good Lord for the Freedom Caucus; they stood their ground against immense pressure from both sides of the aisle. To this point I see them as the only current politicians that have actually made an effort to keep their campaign promises. More on this later in the blog.

 Donald Trump has not completely abandoned any of his promises but he is allowing Ryan to kick the start dates down the road. In an effort to prevent a government shutdown Trump has agreed to put off funding for the southern border wall until September. In order to prevent a government shutdown Trump has agreed to sign a Continuing Resolution that will still fund Planned Parenthood. Ryan has declared discussing tax cuts are off the table until at least August or September. Ryan is about to offer up another crappy health care bill he believes will be palatable to the Freedom Caucus. If it is better then why did they not present that the first time? Who is running this show, Ryan or Trump? If my Constitutional studies are correct the order of dominance is President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House. Ryan failed to achieve the second position in 2012 but is managing to lead the Trump opposition party from third position in 2017. How does that happen?

 I want to give Donald Trump credit for achieving a big campaign promise. He managed to get Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court thanks to Mitch McConnell stepping up and doing his job as Senate Leader. Trump has so far managed to maintain the support of his base voters but the longer he allows Paul Ryan to run roughshod over him he will gradually start losing even that support. He is not now nor ever has been a Conservative. His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared , the Kushners, are becoming his principal advisors on social issues and foreign-policy. If those two turn out to be his principle advisors we are in serious trouble. They are both reasonably hard-core liberals and are pro-government spending on social issues. Kushner’s father Charles spent time in federal prison for illegal campaign contributions to Democrats, tax evasion, and witness tampering. He was also disbarred from practicing law in New Jersey. Does the apple ever fall far from the tree? That little tidbit of information will clear up any question you may have had about why Chris Christie was barred from holding a White House or cabinet position: Chris Christie was the US Attorney General of New Jersey who put Charles Kushner in prison. Being a crook is one thing but being a vindictive crook is a totally different issue especially when the crook is backed up by the most powerful man in world.

 I had intended to list the names of the 20-something Freedom Caucus members who had opposed Ryan’s original health care boondoggle but I am no longer inclined to do so. Even though the Caucus members admitted it still does not repeal Obamacare they are now prepared to support the new bill in order to keep their promise to their constituents. Horse apples! Their promise was to REPEAL Obamacare. They did not promise to leave any portion of it intact. Just when I thought that there were still some honest and common sense Conservative voices in Washington I get disappointed again.

 God help America!

 God Bless America!!!