They did the same when they were swept into power under GWB. And acted like Pork Project dems, took it to a whole new level of spending.
Time to clean out all RINOS. Do not give a dime to the national GOP orgs.
“They did the same when they were swept into power under GWB. And acted like Pork Project dems, took it to a whole new level of spending.”
As the 2016 campaign season began, we learned why Denny Hastert, Speaker during the Bush Administration, was compromised. He was outed as a pedophile by anonymous sources in the Department of Justice who revealed to the press why he was being blackmailed.
Current House Speaker Ryan certainly behaves as though he is compromised and being directed by someone else. His public comments targeted at Donald Trump alienate the large segments of the GOP voter base supporting Trump, yet Ryan persists in piling on Trump with the media and Democrats. A political leader cannot remain in power by alienating a large segment of his constituency, yet Ryan persists in doing so. Compare Ryan’s “leadership” to Mitch McConnell who seems to be deliberately playing the safe game by staying out of the media frenzy. Jim Jeffords and Arlan Spector demonstrated currying favor with Democrats and the media by betraying the party will not earn any points for a turncoat Republican so Ryan’s suicidal behavior can only be explained by extortion. Someone has something on Ryan he doesn’t want to be exposed and it is so bad he is willing to risk offending voters he will need for a future presidential run.
Replacing Ryan with another long time GOP politician vulnerable to extortion is not going to result in a conservative agenda being enacted. Due to the high cost of running for reelection most conservatives who are not independently wealthy when elected to Congress, quickly become corrupted by the system. They sell out for one or more of the following — money, power, sex, time in the media spotlight.
Looking at Ryan, he doesn’t seem to be a media hound like John McCain and Lindsay Graham so his behavior likely cannot be explained by a desire to be constantly in the media spotlight. Ryan grew up in modest circumstances and today has a larger home than a Congressional salary alone would afford him so he may have sold out to monied interests and the lucrative book deals, highly paid speaking engagements given to politicians who do the bidding of the big money donors. Power and ambition seem to drive him as he has run for both Vice President and Speaker of the House, plus he has done nothing to discourage talk of a future presidential bid. Likely he has made a deal with the behind the scenes donors who will support his Congressional reelection campaigns as well as the staffs, consultants, and research any prospective presidential candidate will need to lay the groundwork for a future campaign.
As to sex, there have been no scandals involving Ryan yet, but Hastert’s pedophelia was not outed until after he moved out of the Speaker office and into a cushy lobbyist job. It may be Hastert’s calculated outing by DOJ officials, just as the 2016 campaign season began, was a warning to Republican office holders who were showing resistance to the establishment game plan. Could Ryan have been one of those for whom the message was intended?