Posted on 09/06/2017 10:42:27 AM PDT by Starman417
Congressional Republicans are a mystery. P.J. O'Rourke said it best:
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.Barack Obama single handedly dismantled the democrat party, losing more than 1,000 seats during his tenure. The GOP now controls the House, Senate and the White House but you'd never know it. They act like beaten dogs. They cower before democrats. They are afraid of their own shadows. And good golly are they ignorant. I don't think anyone has looked more like an idiot over the last month than Paul Ryan. If you've followed this blog you know how we've gone after the antifa for being the anarchist Communist-inspired anti-American hooligans they are. Paul Ryan, along with Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney, declined to condemn them and their violence. The FBI and DHS knew about them as far back as April of 2016.
Ryan's duplicity doesn't end there. back in 2014, he was fierce in his condemnation of obama enacting DACA via Executive Order, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional":
“First of all, it’s unconstitutional so we’re already going through the court system on other unconstitutional executive orders that [Obama] has worked on and we would add this to the pile,” Ryan said at the time.No, you can't. Unless your name is Barack Obama.“If he were to do that, by the way, he would put millions of people in legal limbo, poison the well for Congress, and do something that’s so blatantly unconstitutional so we’re telling the administration don’t even think about doing this,” he asserted.
“If you want to change a law, then go to Congress,” Ryan said. “You can’t unilaterally write a law as the executive.”
DACA was an extra-constitutional exercise- obama was writing and implementing law. Jeff Sessions:
"Such an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the executive branch," Sessions said about Obama's executive action.DACA was designed to be temporary. It wasn't supposed to last forever and it is not law- it is policy."Simply put, if we are to further our goal of strengthening the constitutional order and the rule of law in America, the Department of Justice cannot defend this overreach," Sessions added.
Sessions discussed further problems with the program, linking it to an increase in minors who came over the border during Obama's second term, and to shrinking job prospects for native-born Americans.
"The effect of this unilateral executive amnesty, among other things, contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences," Sessions said. "It also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens jobs."
Yet today Paul Ryan is singing a different tune. Now he doesn't want DACA rescinded by Trump:
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Friday he doesn't think President Trump should end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.Did you catch that? obama did not have legislative authority to enact DACA as an EO but Ryan doesn't want Trump to nullify Obama's EO via his own EO. And there is a reason for that tortured thought. Why would Ryan want to have stand a policy written out of think air?"I actually don't think he should do that and I believe that this is something Congress has to fix," Ryan told WCLO Janesville.
Ryan added that he doesn't believe President Barack Obama had the legal authority to institute DACA, but it's up to Congress to fix the situation.
"President Obama did not have the legislative authority to do what he did," said Ryan. "You can't, as an executive, write law out of thin air."
Because Ryan doesn't want to have to deal with it.
Should it be Congress' job? You bet. Ryan has had literally years to fix it and has demurred.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
Ryan is a Democrat in sheep’s clothing....................
RINO Ryan will fold likes cheap suit..GOPe weasel!...
Judge a tree by it’s fruit. Ryan is walking, breathing proof that we are ruled by a #uniparty. They are just playing “good cop, bad cop” with us.
I don’t play any more.
“President Obama did not have the legislative authority to do what he did,” said Ryan. “You can’t, as an executive, write law out of thin air.”
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Then why the heck weren’t you and Boehner and Cantor in court the next day to sue him and stop it?
You remember Eric Cantor, he put illegal aliens ahead of his constituents..........
Ryan’s days are numbered.
Ryan is an Obama clone. He struts around, running off at the mouth, exhibiting his self-pride for being “so important”, and his new-found “power”.
His “assignment” from Soros is to block Trump in every way possible, and cater to the democrats.
Ryan has to go.
The Chamber of Cronies has given Ryan his marching orders. They don’t care how much of a hypocrite he looks like to conservatives, they expect him to do their bidding if he wants to remain in the Speaker’s chair.
Paul Ryan gives clear meaning to the phrase “empty suit.” Before he ran for VP he was the rising star darling of the political right. Most conservatives, including most on FR, were singing his praises. Then came that awful VP debate and I wondered what the heck people saw in him. He came across then and has remained pretty stupid in several important ways. As a group, politicians are really not much more than dumb money raising machines, but Ryan is bottom of the barrel clueless even for a politician.
I think these GOPe hacks are sheep in wolf's clothing.
Exactly so.......................
PRyno is a professional, lying, can kicker.
A lazy bum only interested in being re-elected.
???? It wasn't that long ago when we didn't want congress to pass anything because it would be amnesty.
All of a sudden we trust Ryan?
Coulter: We want absolutely no House bill on immigration! Not even a bill to build a fence and enforce E-Verify. Until the Senate is safely in Republican hands – and preferably Rubio-free – the House should not vote on anything resembling an immigration bill. If it does, the House bill will go to “conference” with the Senate … and come out an amnesty bill. An amnesty bill would pass in the House right now. (It will get the votes of 100 percent of Democrats and enough stupid Republicans, e.g., Paul Ryan.)
WND EXCLUSIVE ANN COULTER: U.S. 'FINISHED' IF AMNESTY PASSES 'WND 06/18/2013)
Someone has to take the torch from McCain.
I cut Ryan a lot of slack. He’s just the majority leader in a congress completely controlled by the #uniparty. He’s doing the best he can to make it look like there are two separate parties. Lately that is a very, VERY difficult task.
For me, Ryan is not the problem any more than the first plane in a thousand plane raid is the problem. It’s much bigger than him. And once one sees the REAL issue, one can plan for the REAL battle coming.
“House Speaker Paul Ryan earlier called the Democratic leaders’ push for a short, three-month increase in the debt limit “a ridiculous idea.””
Where’s The Budget, Paul?
PJ O’Rourke is a combination of Mark Twain and HL Mencken for our times. He is a treasure.
Ryan is afraid of his own shadow. He show up, cashes his check, does nothing.
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