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Final Betrayal:Ryan Republicans Join Obama as #ToiletTerrorists (Uses 43 Repubs to Help Obama)
Conservative HQ ^ | 26 May 16 | George Rasley

Posted on 05/26/2016 7:06:47 AM PDT by xzins

We’ve asked this question before: Is there any group in the conservative coalition that Speaker Paul Ryan and the Republican establishment have not betrayed? After last night’s vote to codify Obama’s extra-constitutional “guidance” mandating that men must be allowed into the showers, dressing rooms and public toilets used by women, the answer would have to be "NO," there’s no issue left upon which Ryan and his servile underlings have not betrayed America’s conservative majority. 

About now someone is going to say “hold it” you’re being unfair, because Paul Ryan didn’t vote for the amendment from Democratic Rep. Sean Maloney (NY-18), that codified Obama’s executive order 13672 Paul Ryanmaking transgenderism the law of the land.   

Ryan trying to absolve himself of responsibility for last night’s vote is as shameless a lie as you will ever hear from any politician. 

Obama’s executive order, promulgated in July 2014, the precursor to the recent threats against North Carolina’s recently passed privacy law, instructed bureaucrats to sever contracts with companies that don’t follow the Obama mandated sexual identity agenda.  This could include companies that don’t allow men into female bathrooms in their private corporate offices.  The Maloney amendment to the $37.4 billion FY 2017 Energy &Water Appropriations Bill (H.R. 5055) codified that unilateral act into law. 

Speaker Ryan controls the House Floor process completely; no bill or amendment gets to the floor without his approval by being “made in order” by the Rules Committee. 

And you will recall that in another betrayal by the Ryan Republicans, just ten days ago conservative Representative Paul Gosar’s (AZ-4) amendment to prohibit illegal aliens from serving in the military failed because the House Rules Committee refused to make it in order for a vote on the House Floor.  

So why make a Democratic amendment that betrays the fundamental cultural conservative principles of the Republican Party in order? 

As our friend Daniel Horowitz of Conservative Review pointed out in his excellent reporting on last night’s vote:

GOP leaders are forever blocking key conservative initiatives and legislation in order to violate the GOP platform; certainly they can block an anti-religious liberty transgendered amendment from Democrats to protect the integrity of the GOP-controlled House.  Could you imagine Democrats allowing an amendment to pass on an issue that violates their very essence while they are in control of the chamber?  

GOP leaders are always twisting arms to get conservative members to vote for bad bills.  Somehow we are to believe they were impotent in ensuring “moderate” members (what is moderate about transgenderism?) adhere to the party’s platform? 

The reality is that Paul Ryan has long been a supporter of ENDA (Employment Non Discrimination Act), the legislative vehicle for enshrining transgenderism into law and mandating adherence to its dogma on private businesses.  That is why he’s been absent in this fight.  Moreover, Republicans have failed to allow a single anti-religious bigotry bill to the floor since the illegal gay marriage decision was issued by the Supreme Court, despite the ubiquitous threats against private businesses, states, and private property.  Clearly, whipping against this vote was not a priority. 

The passage of the Maloney amendment coupled with the news that Ryan has agreed to bailout Puerto Rico and the announcement that the budget deficit is projected to expand to $544 billion, $105 billion above last year’s levels, prompts us to answer with an emphatic NO! the question, “Is there any conservative principle or constituency in the conservative coalition that elected Ronald Reagan and won the historic elections of 2010 and 2014 that Capitol Hill’s Republican leaders haven’t betrayed?”  

Consider the following facts about what the Capitol Hill Republican “leadership” has done on the agenda of each of the three legs of the Reagan coalition.  

Economic and Fiscal Conservatives:  

Despite record tax collections the past few years, the government has run a deficit every year that Republicans have had the majority under Speakers Boehner and Ryan.  

In 2010 federal revenue was $2.1627 trillion; in 2017 revenues are estimated to be $3.7550 trillion – and Capitol Hill Republicans are on track to double 2010’s tax collections by 2020, so much for the Republican Party's long-held goal of starving the Leviathan. 

While national defense and national security outlays are down from 2010, outlays for the Department of Health and Human Services are up by about a third ($854.059 billion in 2010 to an estimated $1.145 trillion in 2017). 

As our friend Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government observed in a recent article, “the U.S. economy performed worse over the past ten years than at any time since the Great Depression, and at the same time, our nation’s debt to GDP climbed from 63.9 percent to 103 percent.” 

National Defense Conservatives: 

While Pentagon spending does not necessarily correlate to an improvement in our national security it is at least an objective metric that can’t be spun, and it has steadily deteriorated since 2010. Despite the failure of Obama’s national security policies in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, Libya, Ukraine and Eastern Europe and the Western Pacific – China theatre of operations defense spending is down by $80 billion (from $666,715 billion in 2010 to $586,834 billion in 2017). 

And on the national security policy front Capitol Hill Republicans aided and abetted Obama’s worst and most dangerous decisions; the Iran nuclear weapons deal and his creation of two more failed states, Libya and Syria, in the heart of the Muslim world. 

Without the treasonous actions of Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee the Iran nuclear weapons deal would have never met the constitutional threshold of two-thirds consent and passed the Senate, sanctions on Iran would not have been lifted and Iran would remain a pariah state with a hobbled economy. But with Republican help Obama has lifted sanctions on Iran, granted it access to the benefits of normal trade and made it the regional hegemon in the Middle East. 

And the same goes for Obama’s disasters in Libya, Syria and Iraq. Without the enthusiastic support of Republican Senators Marco Rubio, John McCain and Lindsey Graham there would be no “bipartisan” air cover for Obama’s failed policies. As it now stands, Capitol Hill Republican leaders can share the blame with Obama and Hillary Clinton as Islamist armies destroy what little is left of western-leaning political support in the Middle East and North Africa. 

In President Reagan’s day the prescribed requirement for the aircraft carrier inventory was fifteen, it was then dropped to twelve; today we have only ten carriers available, down from eleven when Republicans took over in 2010. The ship that would bring the number of carriers available back up to eleven, the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, is behind schedule and over budget. 

Cultural Conservatives

The videos detailing how Planned Parenthood engages in the ghoulish practice of trafficking in human baby body parts shocked millions of Americans and engendered quick promises from Capitol Hill Republicans to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood. 

The result of all this outrage and those promises? 

The end-of-year CRomnibus did not defund the Title X family planning or teen pregnancy prevention programs or include policy riders that would prevent Planned Parenthood from accessing federal health care funds, allow states to exclude Planned Parenthood or other abortion providers from their Medicaid programs, or allow employers to block their employees from receiving insurance coverage for abortion. 

According to the Heritage Foundation, the data shows that Planned Parenthood Federation of America remains the country’s largest abortion provider with affiliates performing more than 300,000 abortions per year, which amounts to approximately one out of every three in the country. 

No freedom of conscience legislation has passed protecting health care and insurance providers from being forced to fund abortions. 

And on the education front, the federal Department of Education received a $1 billion-plus increase in funding, plus passage of the massive 1,000+ page ESSA. 

House Speaker Paul Ryan forced through the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) conference report — by a 359-64 margin — reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).  Ryan’s actions were a repudiation of the Republican stance to abolish the Department of Education and return power to local districts and parents. The biggest loser in what Congress has done, said grassroots education activist Erin Tuttle, are the kids. “Those little kids sitting in schools counting on us, counting on Congress to do what’s right for them. It makes me angry.” 

And in another betrayal of the conservative grassroots, the bill, Tuttle said in an interview with our friend Ginni Thomas of The Daily Caller News Foundation, did not end Common Core.  

“Wiggle room” was added to text language, Tuttle explained, that belie the claims of GOP sponsors that they limited federal power. Besides, the American Principle Project has said, “the highly prescriptive requirements for dictating standards, assessments, and accountability systems” are still in the bill, regardless of what standards are named. 

More spending, but not on the core constitutional responsibility of the federal government to provide for the common defense. A deteriorating national security posture and a rapid degradation of America’s military capabilities, intrusive and extra-constitutional federal interference in education and other powers reserved by the Constitution to the states, and the complete abandonment of any pretense of governing according to cultural conservative principles are the legacy of the past decade of Republican “leadership” on Capitol Hill. 

“Is there any conservative principle or constituency in the conservative coalition that elected Ronald Reagan and won the historic elections of 2010 and 2014 that Capitol Hill’s Republican leaders haven’t betrayed?” Clearly the answer is NO, and without new leadership in the House and Senate Republican Conferences the betrayals will continue. 

Please sign our petition. Tell Speaker Paul Ryan: Stop Obama's Liberal Transformation of America or Go Home! 

List of Shame of Republicans Who Voted for the Maloney Amendment



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List of Shame of Republicans Who Voted for the Maloney Amendment:

Amash

Brooks (IN)

Coffman

Costello

Curbelo

Rodney Davis

Denham

Dent

Diaz-Balart

Dold

Donovan

Emmer

Fitzpatrick

Frelinghuysen

Gibson

Heck (NV)

Hurd (TX)

Katko

Jolly

Issa

Kinzinger

Lance

LoBiondo

MacArthur

McSally

Meehan

Messer

Paulsen

Poliquin

Reed

Reichert

Renacci

Rooney (FL)

Ros-Lehtinen

Shimkus

Stefanik

Upton

Valado

Walden

Walters, Mimi

Young (IA)

Young (IN)

Zeldin

1 posted on 05/26/2016 7:06:47 AM PDT by xzins
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Horowitz wrote: The amendment passed 223-195 with 43 Republicans supporting it. The GOP House just supported arguably the most radical Democrat agenda item in the dead of night. - See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/05/gop-house-codifies-obamas-transgenderism-into-spending-bill#sthash.l1gt6soZ.dpuf

Ryan used DEMOCRATS to pass a bill that he knows we would oppose.

2 posted on 05/26/2016 7:07:57 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

Shameful !


3 posted on 05/26/2016 7:09:03 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: xzins

Primary these scum. Beginning with Paul Ryan.


4 posted on 05/26/2016 7:09:12 AM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: Pelham

Paul Ryan is proof that Romney threw the 2012 election.


5 posted on 05/26/2016 7:10:30 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

Worse. They working with Glen Beck to assassinate Mr. Trump,
figuratively and by Beck-literally.


6 posted on 05/26/2016 7:13:54 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: xzins

“Paul Ryan is proof that Romney threw the 2012 election.”

I think a lot of us have suspected that the GOP elites have been in the tank for Obama. They were as queer for electing “the first black President” as any Democrat leftist.


7 posted on 05/26/2016 7:15:44 AM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: Diogenesis

This explains Ryan’s so-called dilemma. He’s a liberal.


8 posted on 05/26/2016 7:16:48 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Pelham

It’s reasonable to believe that Candy Crowley worked with BOTH the Obama and Romney camps before that debate.

We always said it seemed so scripted.

And it was Romney’s cue to stop fighting. Which he did.


9 posted on 05/26/2016 7:18:01 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Pelham

Paul Rino!!


10 posted on 05/26/2016 7:18:52 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: xzins

Ryan MUST be Cantorized

And I don’t ever want to hear that McSally is “conservative” ever gain.

Joe Heck should NOT be elected Senatpr from Nevada.


11 posted on 05/26/2016 7:19:15 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: xzins
THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!!
12 posted on 05/26/2016 7:21:16 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: xzins

Reichert? That would be Dave, my own congresscritter. Ex-King County Sheriff, Green River killer, etc, was a decent guy before going to DC.


13 posted on 05/26/2016 7:22:51 AM PDT by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
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To: DarthVader

Paul Rino !

LOL !


14 posted on 05/26/2016 7:23:35 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (UK out of the EU; UN out of the USA !)
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To: xzins
Conservatism does not work for Conservatism. The nu 1 reason is we have confused Conservatism with corporatism. I now believe that all of the tax cuts on business and on C of C “Republicans” was a serious mistake. WE should raise them just teach them a lesson and maybe we could reform them since they are so adverse to paying taxes but not adverse to spending the money. Also all of the money they make by cheap labor from Mexico should be taxes as well. That would teach them!
15 posted on 05/26/2016 7:26:24 AM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: xzins

He doesn’t respect the Constitution or conservatives. Or the party platform. Trump needs to cut him out of his convention duties. Who wants a liberal running that show?


16 posted on 05/26/2016 7:28:40 AM PDT by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that rmemoveth his neighbor's landmark)
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To: monkeywrench

Trump should also deny Ryan the speakership with whatever influence a president has with the House, IF Ryan wins his district, and IF the republicans retain the House.


17 posted on 05/26/2016 7:29:43 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins
Final Betrayal:

Are you kidding me they are just getting started.

18 posted on 05/26/2016 7:40:18 AM PDT by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The only thing that McSally is good for is to help retain the leadership of the House. She represents the Tucson area, which is heavily Dem.......Gabby Giffords old area.


19 posted on 05/26/2016 7:50:23 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: originalbuckeye

The leaderhip of the House is doing Obama’s bidding. How is that helping US?


20 posted on 05/26/2016 8:02:23 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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