Posted on 10/26/2015 2:10:21 PM PDT by conservativejoy
Establishment Republican candidate for Speaker of the House Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan is so confident that he will be elected Speaker that he is measuring the curtains in the Speaker’s plush suite of offices in the Capitol and allegedly is already hiring staff.
According to The Washington Post’s Robert Costa, in “Paul Ryan taps GOP power broker David Hoppe for top job” Ryan has hired lobbyist David Hoppe as Chief of Staff for the Speaker’s office.
Amnesty supportersOne of the objections of conservatives had to the way Speaker John Boehner ran his office was the blatant revolving door between Boehner’s office and the corporate lobbyists of Washington’s K Street.
Boehner’s off-and-on Chief of Staff Barry Jackson moved back and forth between Capitol Hill and K Street and even formed an anti-conservative PAC – American Action Network. (See Jeb Bush, John Boehner And The Anti-Reagan Republican Establishment and Boehner Friends Attack Conservatives Prop Up RINOs In Corrupt Alliance With Obama)
Hiring a lobbyist as his Chief of Staff is the strongest indication yet that Ryan has no intention of changing much in the Speaker’s office.
But some conservatives, including Ohio’s Rep. Jim Jordan and 25 other members of the House Freedom Caucus, have been suckered by Ryan’s sales pitch – or intimidated by pressure from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP’s Capitol Hill establishment.
“We [the "super majority" of the Freedom Caucus] think Paul has the kind of vision and is the kind of messenger our party needs to accomplish the things we told the voters we’re going to accomplish,” group Chairman Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan said on "Fox News Sunday."
So, does that mean Paul Ryan abandoned amnesty, Obamatrade, massive increases in H1B visas, breaking the spending caps and that he will fight to defund Planned Parenthood, executive amnesty and Obamacare?
Not a chance.
“The House leadership thinks it’s gonna be Jeb or Rubio,” Rush Limbaugh said last week. “The dream: Jeb or Rubio in the White House; Ryan Speaker of the House. Then in the first 12 months of the Rubio or Jeb administration, first 12-to-18 months, the donor-class agenda is implemented, including amnesty and whatever else they want. That is the objective here. That’s what I think all this adds up to.”
The “tell” that Rush is right (as usual) is a promise Ryan made first in a closed-door House GOP conference meeting then in a subsequent meeting with the House Freedom Caucus—the meeting at which Ryan secured enough support for a likely-to-be-successful Speakership bid—that he wouldn’t bring up any amnesty bill while Barack Obama is still president.
That promise, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, subsequently confirmed by our friend Julia Hahn of Breitbart News from various sources, including Ryan's spokesman Brendan Buck. Buck, when asked the follow-up question of whether Ryan’s no amnesty bill promise doesn’t extend into the timeframe after Obama leaves office under a future administration, has not responded.
His refusal to answer that question is telling, concluded Hahn, meaning Ryan is intentionally leaving the door open for what conservatives fear – Ryan as Speaker, with Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio as President.
And the fact that Clinton, Ryan, Bush and Rubio share exactly the same positions on amnesty for illegal aliens, increasing H1B work visas for foreigners and other key policy items is the crucial element of the current split in the Republican Party.
It isn’t that John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy have been incoherent advocates of conservative policy. It is that they, and Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio favor exactly the same policies as do Hillary Clinton and far-Left Democratic Congressman and advocacy advocate Luis Gutierrez.
Jim Jordan may think that Paul Ryan “has the kind of vision and is the kind of messenger our party needs,” but as long as that vision is amnesty for illegal aliens, massive increases in H1B visas, breaking the spending caps and funding of Planned Parenthood, executive amnesty and Obamacare the grassroots demand for change in the Republican “leadership” on Capitol Hill is only going to get stronger and the fissure in the GOP is only going to get deeper.
Conservatives still have the votes to stop Paul Ryan and his plan to eliminate the last vestiges of democracy in the House of Representatives.
If the remaining patriots in the House Republican Conference will stand fast we can still win this fight.
But they need to hear from you NOW on the phone and through social media and email.
The easiest way to register your opinion is to call your Representative’s office through the House switchboard - 1-866-220-0044.
You can also use this handy list from Tea Party Patriots to call key Republican members of the House.
You can email this video explaining Paul Ryan’s background and agenda to your friends and contacts and ask them to join the battle and to contact their Representative.
You can also post to the House Freedom Caucus Facebook page through this link to let them know what you think of their vote to all but endorse Paul Ryan.
Finally, you can sign the open letter to House Republicans signed by 55 conservative leaders demanding that the next Speaker pursue a conservative agenda and make good on the campaign promises Republicans made in 2014.
OK....well he’s going to have a long wait...LMAO...
He won’t wait that long. Plan on it happening during the lame duck.
As for contacting Congress, it looks like there will be a grand total of maybe 5 gopscum who will vote against him. 5 people who have the intestinal fortitude to syand up and say no. For all the campaigning and money and calls to congress, that’s what we get. 5.
Voting is a waste of time and counterproductive.
He is not going to wait for the next President. He is going to ram it through and fund it in 2016.
Today, Boehner and Ryan agreed to help Obama-the-Undocumented
Indonesian Moslem AGAIN. They will fund him and his treason
for the next two years.
America did not elect the GOP to do this.
Nor to release rapists, terrorists, and then to arm them.
Nor to continue ObamaCARE (ignored by the EXEMPT).
Ryan and Boehner are complicit criminals against the
US Constitution and their voters ... who were tricked.
Uniparty politics bump for later.....
We definitely know who the powers that be want as President. So I definitely know who I won’t be supporting.
As soon as they can say who the two nominees are they will push it.
Maybe conservatives will realize Republicans are not your friends... nah.
The “Donor” class is also waiting.
Wisconsin can do us all a favor and vote this poseur out in 2016.
May they all be vaporized.
Well my message to those uniparty quislings is tell it to President Trump 15 months from now. They are in for a really rude awakening and I cannot wait to savor watching it.
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