Have you ever noticed how it is that whenever
something is presented to you as being “new and improved” it is rarely if ever
actually new, and is almost never improved.
But what it ALWAYS is, is far more costly than was the original. So it is too then, apparently, that this very
same rule can also now be said to be applicable to our newest “Speaker of the
House.” Because it’s in looking at our
‘new’ Speaker that one is able to recognize that there is nothing new, and
definitely nothing improved when it comes in how he conducts business, compared
to the man he replaced.
When he first assumed his new position as Speaker,
Paul Ryan actually sounded like he was genuinely concerned about getting this
country back on firm footing. But
somewhere between then and now he seems to have morphed into Paul
‘Boehner’. Nothing proves that better
than what he said of the recently passed $1.1 Trillion spending bill, saying that
while it isn't everything Republicans wanted, it most certainly advances the
party's principles "in the right direction." And what was amazing was how he was able to
make that statement with a straight face.
It was also our ‘new and improved’ Speaker who said,
"We scored major policy wins for conservatives — for our country — in this
bill." And he went on to say,
"We advanced our principles. Did we advance all of our principles as far
as we want to go? No, because we’re in divided government. But we did advance
them in the right direction." He said
it was important to get what was possible now, then fight for more later.
"And I think we’ve set ourselves up for more success in 2016." Fight for more later? Wouldn’t that indicate that he had put up a
fight this time?
And we’re told how conservatives, however few there
may actually be in the House, didn't particularly like the massive amount of
spending in the bill, the failure to halt Syrian refugee resettlement or the
continued funding of Planned Parenthood. But as long as ‘Boehner’ had enough
RINOs willing to join with Democrats to pass this Obama-nation, so he could ignore
them. So how fucked up is it that we can
have a very sizeable Republican majority in Congress, a majority of whom can
oppose a piece of legislation, and yet that legislation can still be passed? How does that work?
Paul ‘Boehner’, in pointing out what he hysterically
referred to as being just ‘some’ of the gains made, tried to paint this bill as
being a good deal. For instance, the
bill permanently lifts the ban on oil exports.
He said, "That's something we’ve been trying to do for 40 years in
this country." He went on to say,
"When America can export its oil, that means we can compete with OPEC. We
can put OPEC out of the business of controlling the world’s oil markets." And, he noted, that it’s something that also
hurts Russian President Vlad Putin's ability to sell oil and gas to Europe.
And Paul ‘Boehner’ said, "We can become more
independent. We can keep our prices low by having more control over the marketplace
and create more jobs right here in America." He added, "It’s
fantastic for our foreign policy. It's really good for American jobs. And it's
something we're actually getting done that we haven’t been able to do for
decades." And then he went on to
say, that this bill will also prevent the Internal Revenue Service from
"trying to pull the stunts they pulled in the 2012 election," when it
held up tax-exempt application from conservative groups.
Paul ‘Boehner’ went on to say, "The IRS allowed
the Obama administration to turn them into a political weapon to infringe upon
free speech and to intimidate conservative groups from exercising their free
speech rights to participate in political speech." And he added, "So, we have a rider in
here that prohibits the IRS from putting out a regulation on this." So I’m guessing this was what, an attempt to
pacify us, to prevent conservatives from complaining too loudly? No matter what this boob says, that fact is
when you look at this bill it’s clear that conservatives got screwed.
And what makes it even clearer that conservatives
got screwed is the fact that Democrats in Congress are so happy. I’m quite sure that they viewed the $1.1 Trillion
omnibus spending bill they ‘negotiated’, and I use the term loosely, with the
new Speaker as being an early Christmas gift as well as a significant victory
for both themselves and for the White House.
And, needless to say, there has much celebrating by both the White House
and congressional Democrats, after succeeding, and in a very visible way, to once
again leave conservatives sucking hind tit.
Adam Jentleson, Minority Leader ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid’s
dip-shit of a deputy chief of staff, wasted no time in taking to Twitter to do
a little gloating. He tweeted out, “In
addition to nixing more than 150 GOP riders, the final agreement will secure
major progressive policy successes.” And
the White house was also quick to release a statement Wednesday noting the lack
of ideological policy directives, writing:
The Administration appreciates the bipartisan effort to provide full-year
appropriations legislation for FY 2016 largely free of new unrelated
ideological riders.
You see, it was those “unrelated ideological riders”
which the administration referred to were many of those policies that were favored
by conservatives and by the voters. You
know, those things that we thought we were going to get by providing to the
Republicans their requested majority in the Senate and the largest majority
that either party has had in the House since the 1920s. So instead of getting any of things that were
promised during the 2014 campaign, all we really got was, fucked! And by the guys on our own team, which makes
it all the more infuriating!
Democrats released a report detailing 150
conservative policies that were left out of the bill. They included: a provision prohibiting
funding for sanctuary cities that shelter illegal immigrants, a provision
prohibiting tax dollars from going to defend the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrives (DACA) policy in a pending court case; A provision prohibiting funding
for climate-focused studies and reports, a provision prohibiting funds to
subsidize abortion services in connection with a plan offered under the
Obamacare exchanges and a provision restricting the federal government from
requiring licenses for Canada gun exports worth less than $500.
So I think we can now safely argue that not only do
we have the best Democrat Majority Leader in the Senate we also, obviously have
the same in the House. It is going to take a thorough house cleaning to remove
all of those Democrats that seem to be embedded within in the Republican Party.
And yet they wonder why it is that Donald Trump has such a large following. But let's face it, the Democrats didn't
really strip anything out of the bill. Paul ‘Boehner’ wanted much of the same
things that ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid did, gave in faster than a hooker with a $100
bill in her pocket.
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