Saturday, March 17, 2018

GOP Deep State


It’s well known that Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan doesn’t want to be in an actual leadership position; and it’s also well known -enhanced by the campaign, and victory, of Donald Trump- that Republicans did not want to win the majority position and face having to reveal their true UniParty agenda.

The evidence of this UniParty positioning has been staring the electorate in the face, repeatedly and brutally, since candidate Donald Trump actually campaigned on key tenets of the Republican Party and found himself being openly opposed by GOP leadership.

Now, a stunning discovery surfaces of Paul Ryan’s Congressional Leadership

SuperPAC, congressionalleadershipfund.org, actually campaigning for the Democrat, Conor Lamb, in the recent PA18 congressional race.

As evidenced by Big League Politics the Paul Ryan SuperPAC sent a mailer to Pennsylvania CD-18 voters touting Lamb’s favorable position on gun ownership rights:

Now, there will be some who think this is just a bone-headed move by Paul Ryan because the Democrats already held a +50,000 registration advantage in the district and the SuperPAC didn’t know this mailer would actually end up supporting Lamb.  However, as mentioned, there’s a history here that tells us “a mistake” is likely not the case.

The real motive, based on an honest review of history, is the professional UniParty apparatus knew that Democrat Conor Lamb needed a lift to offset the cross party voting that was reflected in the district voting (by over 20 points) for Donald Trump in 2016.

The DC Republican apparatus is quite comfortable losing their majority position so long as they are not forced to support Trump policies which are entirely against their financial interests.  [How Mitch McConnell Crushed The Tea-Party]

Even before candidate Trump entered the 2016 presidential race, the agenda was visible for anyone who was willing to admit it.  In 2014 the same Republican leadership paid Democrats to vote against the Republican primary winner of the Mississippi Senate race (Cochran -vs- McDaniel) simply because Mitch McConnell didn’t like the idea of having an actual Republican in the seat.

Remember, this is the GOP wing of the UniParty who operate on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce {DEEP DIVE} and support: comprehensive immigration reform to include amnesty; lax border security to allow cheap labor; Omnibus spending as reflected in their Obama budget-fulfillment votes; the retention of ObamaCare as mandated by the U.S. CoC; the expansion of federal common core education standards; the Wall Streettrade agenda to include TPP.  All of these “DC-Republican” positions are opposed by the current Republican President and the majority of Republican voters.

Enhancing and emphasizing my argument that this mailer as a deliberate effort to elect a Democrat, I would remind everyone of a few brutally obvious points:

♦the Republican controlled senate voted unanimously to block any Trump recess appointments (summer 2017);

♦and also the reality that both the House and Senate had no legislative constructs prepared for a Trump victory in January/February 2017;

♦and top off the cake of duplicity with the fact it was Republican controlled House and Senate committees who willingly opened ridiculous investigations against their own elected president claiming a ‘Vast Planetary Russian Collusion Conspiracy’.

In short, both Republicans and Democrats want the threat of Donald Trump removed.

There is no desire on the part of Paul Ryan/Kevin McCarthy or Mitch McConnell/John Cornyn to actually win seats in 2018.  These GOP “leaders” would just as soon lose their majority position so they can go back to the comfortable indulgences of remaining in leadership in the minority status.

Lobbying cost in 1986- $61 million- average $113,700 per lawmaker.  Lobbying cost in 2016 - $3.1 billion spent – average $5.8 million per lawmaker.  - Fox Research

In the minority the leadership of the GOP are no longer threatened by President Trump and can hide behind the smokescreen of loyal opposition.

Substantively nothing changes, and the GOP leaders are just as well compensated in the minority by the lobbyist industry within DC.

The only threat to the financial interests of the GOP is President Donald Trump remaining in office and having to actually face carrying out a conservative Trump agenda in 2019 and 2020.  That Trump agenda is entirely against their “establishment republican” interests.

The Paul Ryan mailer to elect a Democrat is just another example of how corrupt the entire UniParty political apparatus is within Washington DC. That truism is entirely why this MAGA graphic, from 2015, remains accurate:


Comments

For decades I called it a one-party system.  Republicans would campaign as conservatives and vote with the Democrats. I called them Demo-Publicans.  Eventually we started calling them RINOs.

It was clear that their loyalty was not to the Constitution or the Voters, but to themselves.  The US Congress was a happy bi-partisan club. They received $millions from the lobbyists and return the favor with their votes. It’s governance by bribery. They also receive threats from special interests and that keeps them quiet and compliant. It’s governance by fear.

When these RINOs enter a campaign, they place themselves in the hands of a “professional” Campaign
Manager, who raises money. They launch vicious attacks on other Republicans to win the primaries. They play it safe on the issues and offer nothing to change the status quo.

We can end this by restricting campaign contributions to individual voters only for candidates on their ballot and cut out the special interests. Nothing will change until we do this. If we do this, we will finally get good candidates. They are trained to look good and become vapid robots reciting platitudes.

I recommend you look at the Conservative Review Scorecard to find those in Congress who cast unconstitutional votes and earn low scores. Large numbers of Republicans and all Democrats have failing scores.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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