Conservatives: Don’t Get Suckered Into Backing A “Compromise” Speaker Who Is Boehner-Lite

Conservative HQ ^ | 10/9/2015 | CHQ Staff

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The sudden implosion of the supposedly inevitable ascension of establishment Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to the office of Speaker of the House, now occupied by his mentor John Boehner, has shown the Capitol Hill Republican establishment to be a fragile edifice ready to collapse.

Paul Ryan.

Conservatives should not be suckered into propping it up any longer by abandoning their battle to elect principled conservatives to run the House of Representatives.

But that is exactly what is going on in Washington right now as those establishment politicians who stand to lose out if new leadership is elected and cleans house scramble desperately to hang on to their corner offices and their power to divide up the spoils the welfare state extorts from producers.

A number of names have been floated as potential “compromise” Speakers: Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is the candidate most often touted by the Washington political class as the ideal “compromise” Speaker, but Representatives Lyn Westmoreland, Mike Conaway, Jeff Miller, Tom Cole, Pete Sessions and Tom Price are also in the mix, according to our Capitol Hill sources.

We strongly urge conservatives to stand fast behind principled limited government constitutional conservative Daniel Webster of Florida, and not allow themselves to be suckered into backing a “compromise” candidate for Speaker who will continue the policies of Boehner and McCarthy and keep their anti-conservative staff in place.

Conservatives who fold and back a “compromise” Speaker will own the results of that Speaker’s policies and find that they are boxed-in and unable to effectively oppose a new anti-conservative leader they helped elect.

And this is particularly true of Paul Ryan, whom many conservatives once thought of as a rising conservative star, because of his image as being a pro-life family man and his “reform conservative” style budget ideas, but who has in reality abandoned conservative principles to push amnesty for illegal aliens, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, breaking the budget caps and many other anti-conservative policies.

As we explained in our article “Paul Ryan: Now the Ugly Face of the GOP Establishment,” the Paul Ryan of today is anything but a principled limited government constitutional conservative.

How Paul Ryan went from budget-balancing conservative wunderkind, to GOP vice presidential nominee, to channeling Nancy Pelosi when he snarled, “It’s declassified and made public once it’s agreed to,” as he tried to sell Obama’s Trade Promotion Authority and Trans-Pacific Partnership treaties to skeptical conservatives during a Rules Committee meeting is one of Washington’s saddest tales of how DC’s inside elite capture talent and bend it to their will.

As Ryan became more visible, first as Ranking Member and then as Chairman of the Budget Committee he became part of a group who styled themselves the “young guns” of the House Republican Conference.

Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan were visualized as a new generation of Republican leader who would challenge the older establishment-types.

Yet, after the 2010 Tea Party wave election that returned Republicans to the majority in the House, and vaulted Cantor, Ryan and McCarthy to leadership position in that new majority, what the conservative voters who turned-out to make that majority possible was a series of lies about the budget and spending, “me-too” Republicanism and not even a scaling back of the Democratic agenda.

Republicans, who had had promised $100 billion in real cuts during the campaign, compromised with the Democrats for $38.5 billion in future savings and claimed the deal would result in "the biggest annual spending cut in history," as President Obama termed it.

Yet, as then-Senator Jim DeMint later noted, there was no actual reduction in spending. Here’s what really happened when the fiscal year ended on September 30, 2011: the Congressional Budget Office found that the April deal to avoid a government shutdown resulted in an increase of more than $170 billion in federal spending from 2010 to 2011.

Hailed by leaders of both political parties (and the establishment media) as a historic compromise that produced the “largest spending cut in history,” the deal negotiated by Paul Ryan ended up being a spending increase.

No one on the outside seemed to notice the lie upon which the spending deal was founded, because everyone on the inside, and especially Paul Ryan, knew there would be no decrease in spending. And the historic “budget cuts” would actually result in the federal government spending $3.6 trillion -- a 4.2 percent increase in outlays that also ballooned the annual deficit to $1.298 trillion.

Yet Paul Ryan’s star continued to rise and when Mitt Romney chose him as his running mate in 2012 many conservatives embraced the Ryan choice as an opportunity to place one of their own in line for the presidency and in the near term have a key spokesman for the conservative agenda in the inner circle of the decidedly non-conservative Romney campaign.

What conservatives got from vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was pretty much the same as they got from Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan – someone who out of the camera’s eye told them he was a “young gun,” but who failed to move the Romney campaign to the right, or to even get it to embrace his own ideas, while he readily went along and got along with Romney’s listless content-free establishment Republican ideas and campaign.

Why would conservatives “compromise” and hand the Speaker’s gavel to a younger, more aggressive, more articulate, more arrogant version of John Boehner?

It is the House Republican establishment who are blocking the will of the people, not conservatives, such as the House Freedom Caucus members, who are fighting to elect a transformational leader, like Daniel Webster of Florida, as Speaker.

Those conservatives who saw Paul Ryan and his fellow “young guns” as the vanguard of a new conservative House, or who think some “compromise” candidate for Speaker is a viable alternative to continuing the fight to elect a principled limited government constitutional conservative as Speaker, might profit from recalling the ending of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

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Every candidate mentioned in the media has establishment credentials. McCarthy was an establishment stooge who got out when his bimbo problems seemed likely to come to the surface.

[Timber Rattler]

Problem is that all of our guys are refusing to step up right now and instead want to shirk in the shadows.

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So who are the true conservatives who might consider being nominated for the Speaker position?

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The few dozen conservatives do not have even half the votes to select a Speaker in the GOP House caucus. There will be no conservative Speaker until after the 2016 election if ever.

[vbmoneyspender]

That’s why people should support Webster. He had the guts to throw his hat in the ring when all of the other potential candidates didn’t want to take a chance because they thought McCarthy had a lock on the job. Courage should be rewarded and cowardice punished.

[Timber Rattler]

That’s why people should support Webster. He had the guts to throw his hat in the ring when all of the other potential candidates didn’t want to take a chance because they thought McCarthy had a lock on the job. Courage should be rewarded and cowardice punished.

I agree 100%. And he even challenged Boehner back in January, even though he knew that there would be retribution. The other chestbeaters back then too ran away from the fight.

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We strongly urge conservatives to stand fast behind principled limited government constitutional conservative Daniel Webster of Florida, and not allow themselves to be suckered into backing a “compromise” candidate for Speaker who will continue the policies of Boehner and McCarthy and keep their anti-conservative staff in place.

From the article.

Daniel Webster is the best bet. He is running. He is conservative. Rumor has it that he knocked McCarthy out of the race.

[Jane Long]

The closest we have are the two that were ready and willing to be in the election, that should’ve been held, yesterday....Webster (supported by Freedom Caucus) and Chaffetz.

Boehner & GOPee are determined to force a RINO on us.

[Iron Munro]

Compromise for democrats is like the camels nose for muslims.

A little compromise with democrats today, a little bit more tomorrow and the next day and soon you have given up everything.

Every time a republican compromises with democrats the democrats gain a little toward their goal and the republicans give up a little more of their principles.

“In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”

— Ayn Rand

[Logical me]

I doubt we will have a speaker that will in complete agreement to conservatives policies.

[Jane Long]

ICIRR = Illinois Coalition for Immigration and Refugee Rights

In posting the announcement on his Twitter and Facebook pages, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said, “This is not Rep. Ryan’s first time in Chicago but it is his first time at a pro-immigrant event in our pro-immigrant city. Let’s show Rep. Ryan – an influential voice among House Republicans – the enthusiasm and strength of Chicago’s pro-immigrant community, and in so doing impress upon him that by standing with immigrants he’s standing on the right side of history.”

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/04/16/new-immigration-reform-duo-luis-gutierrez-and-paul-ryan/

[Bratch]

There will be no Republican Speaker that’s not bought and paid for by Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce.

There’s simply too much money at stake.

[butlerweave]

Obama needs John Boehner or someone like him so the GOP can CAVE and close Gitmo for him

[TomGuy]

Conservatives: Don’t Get Suckered Into Backing A “Compromise” Speaker Who Is Boehner-Lite

Exactly!

Yesterday, the buzzword in the media was for a 'bipartisan' candidate.

Translation: Another speaker who will fold and bend to further the Obama agenda under the guise of 'bipartisanship'.

[sarge83]

But the conservatives have the power if they stick together to dictate terms to the GOPE if they want to retain one of their stooges as speaker.

The GOPE’s other option is to ask for democrat support for their speaker nominee which would shock some conservatives who are still on the Republican Party Plantation.

If the conservatives stick together as a voting block they can raise hell in the house and should!