WAR: Tea Party Enacts Swift Retribution Over Paul Ryan Betrayal
(Washington Times) – Conservative activists are targeting House
Speaker Paul D. Ryan for a primary challenge next year as retribution for the
massive spending bill the Wisconsin Republican ushered through Congress at the
end of the recent session.
The effort is spearheaded by Wisconsin tea party groups and
pro-life activists, who feel betrayed by Mr. Ryan’s nearly $2 trillion package.
The spending bill avoided a government shutdown by surrendering on
conservatives’ top priorities, including giving up the fights to defund Planned
Parenthood and to block President Obama’s plan to bring at least 10,000 Syrian
refugees to the U.S.
The hunt is on to find a suitable conservative candidate who can
beat Mr. Ryan, who received 94 percent of the vote in the 2014 primary in his
district, which sits against the Illinois border in the southeastern part of
the state.
“There are people who are seriously looking for that,” said
James Murphy, founder of Green Bay Tea Party. “There is a sympathetic ear to
having someone beat him.” The Ryan campaign team in Wisconsin has shrugged off
the threats, treating them as mere talk in the absence of a viable candidate to
mount a challenge in the district.
However, there is precedent for a tea party challenger to topple
a member of the House Republican leadership. Eric Cantor, while serving as
majority leader, lost his seat in a Richmond, Virginia, suburb in a 2014
primary upset to tea-party-backed Dave Brat.
However, Mr. Ryan’s predecessor as speaker, John A. Boehner,
easily defeated a tea-party-backed primary challenger the same year in Ohio. At
the time, Mr. Boehner faced widespread opposition from conservatives and a
revolt in the House Republican conference, which ultimately prompted him to
resign in October.
Mr. Ryan, the 2012 Republican nominee for vice president, did
not seek the speakership but was drafted by conservative and establishment
members who saw him as a unifying figure who could mend the divide in the
conference. Still, the discontent on the home front for Mr. Ryan is part of
ongoing tension between conservatives who want aggressive action to rein in Mr.
Obama’s agenda and party leaders who have taken a measured approach.
Ken Crow, a tea party activist in Iowa, gave voice to the
dissatisfaction in a blog post calling for a grass-roots uprising to unseat Mr.
Ryan.
“If this Omnibus bill is any sort of indication of the way
Speaker Ryan is going to govern, it is time to do what ‘Barney Fife’ told us to
do so many years ago, ‘NIP-IT, NIP-IT’ in the bud now!” Mr. Crow wrote.
He continued: “All patriots should contact your group leaders
and begin organizing nationwide to put down this RINO in order that he is not
re-elected to his seat in Wisconsin. The Badger State patriots need to begin
soliciting your State Senators, high-profile business leaders or the State
Legislators who reside within the 1st District of Wisconsin.”
The fury from conservative activists over the spending package,
which renewed popular tax breaks and increased the federal deficit by hundreds
of billions of dollars, also was directed at the 150 House Republicans whom Mr.
Ryan cajoled into supporting the bill.
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, which opposes illegal
immigration, launched a drive to find primary challengers for all 150 House
Republicans who backed the bill. “These sellout Republicans have made a huge
mistake voting for this on top of the huge surge in public anger at DC
politicians that have betrayed their constituents,” said William Gheen,
president of the political action committee.
The spending bill enraged advocates for a crackdown on illegal
immigration by funding so-called sanctuary cities that provide safe harbor for
illegal immigrants and failing to rein in Mr. Obama’s executive action to grant
deportation amnesty.
Mr. Ryan has defended the bill and his loyalty to the
conservative cause. “The members that asked me to become speaker, that elected
me to speaker, know that I come from the conservative movement and that I’m a
movement conservative with an eye on the prize, which is actually achieving
success,” the speaker said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” after
passage of the bill.
“In divided government, you don’t get everything you want,” he
said. “So we fought for as much as we could get. We advanced our priorities and
principles. Not every single one of them, but many of them.”
Comments
The worst
outcome of the Omnibus is funding the invasion of massive numbers of Muslim
refugees and maintaining open borders.
There will be no new jobs for the 100 million US citizens who are
unemployed. We need to ban Sharia law in
the US or we’re screwed.
The other
disaster we could face is the passage of TPP that destroys US sovereignty by
replacing US law with international courts. Ryan would surely support TPP.
The real
cause of these dangers is that 80% of the House and Senate members are Democrat
and Republican Liberals, who vote to pass these dangerous laws. There are only 20% Conservatives in the US
Congress. We need to increase the number
of Conservatives in November 2016.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party
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