Sellout Repubocrats Must be Defeated
(Breitbart) – Congress
has adopted a 2016 federal budget that makes it official: The Republican Party
and the Democrat Party have merged.
In the name of
stability and progress, Republican leaders have agreed with Democrats to put
big government on autopilot — with no change in the programmed destination,
full-blown socialism. On December 18, at Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan’s urging,
150 House Republicans voted to double down on the politics of surrender.
Yesterday, we thought
we had two parties, Republicans and Democrats, but now we see that we have only
one, the Repubocrat Party, the party of No Shame.
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In the upcoming 2016
election, you can vote for the candidate of your choice, and it won’t matter.
Government growth is on autopilot and the expansion of an imperial federal
government will continue, whether we elect Democrats or Republicans.
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Republicans will talk
about smaller government, but no one is fooled: they won’t actually DO anything
about it. Republicans will talk
about border security, sanctuary cities, and five million visa overstays, but
they won’t DO anything to alter the status quo. Republicans will talk
about reining in an out-of-control EPA, but they won’t pass any funding
controls to change EPA behavior.
The Repubocrats’
federal budget abandons every promise made to Republican voters. Against
criticism, they chant, “Obama made me do it!” while cowardly refusing to send
Obama any bill worthy of his disdain.
Folks, the zombies are
not on television, they are in Washington, D.C., and they meet at the Capitol
Hill Club and call themselves “Realists.” They are now celebrating their
singular 2015 accomplishment: they avoided a government shutdown! Instead, they chose a
shoot down: they have killed the spirit of accountability and hollowed out the
meaning of representative government.
The Republican
majority in the House and Senate chose to surrender control of the budget to
the Obama White House, producing a gargantuan spending plan that
makes Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) smile.
The $1.1 trillion
Obama-Ryan budget will result in another deficit of over $400 billion dollars,
with expenditures and grant programs for every special interest group lined up
at the federal trough.
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The 2009-page bill was
unveiled at 2:00 AM on Wednesday morning and then adopted by roll call vote
only two days later. How many members read it? THAT kind of cynical
chicanery was supposed to end.
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It continues almost
all of the subsidies and slush funds of the prior budget, like the 30% solar energy investment tax credit, tax breaks for race horses and film productions,
while dropping over 150 restrictions on spending that
were in the House-passed budget resolution.
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Dropped from the bill at
White House insistence was the ban on funding of Planned Parenthood, a
prohibition of EPA’s unconstitutional expansion of carbon emission rules never
authorized by Congress, and a rollback of Obama’s takeover of local zoning
under an illegal expansion of the Fair Housing Act.
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Not a single one of
Obama’s several unconstitutional executive actions was defunded.
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The bill expands the
number of low-wage workers brought into the country as guest workers, guest
workers who never go home because no one is enforcing the visa expiration
dates.
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The bill also expands
the number of Muslim immigrants and refugees to nearly 300,000 annually.
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It allows DHS to tap
into a $1.6 billion “refugee resettlement” pot to house and then “resettle” the
tens of thousands of “Unaccompanied Children” crossing our southwest border.
They brag about a
2-year delay in the “Cadillac tax” on employer-sponsored health care plans,
when it should have been repealed outright, not delayed. And, of course, there
is no rollback of Obamacare itself. That will have to wait…and wait….and wait.
If you listen
carefully and decode the Beltway rhetoric, the apology offered by Republican
leaders amounts to a confessional:
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Fulfilling commitments to K-street lobbyists is more important than
keeping promises to the voters who elected us. Voters have
preferences, but lobbyists have checkbooks. If you expect us to repeal slush
funds and illegal regulatory mandates for the sake of principle, you’re living
in a different world.
Folks, talk of a third
political party is passé. America doesn’t need a third party, it needs a
second party, one with a pulse and a backbone. A brain would be nice, too.
Rush Limbaugh got it
dead right when he said after the new budget was unveiled, “We don’t even need
a Republican Party if they’re gonna do this. Just disband the Republican
party.”
It has become
painfully obvious that the only thing that will change the Republican Party’s
direction is the forced retirement of a few dozen “party leaders” — beginning,
yes, with Speaker Paul Ryan. The GOP establishment didn’t learn the lesson with
Eric Cantor’s defeat in 2014, so in 2016, we need to “go big.” Purge the
leadership or disband the thing and build something new from scratch.
Paul Ryan wants his
weekends free? Fine, let’s give him all 365 days free. Ryan says, quite
literally, “I inherited a mess; next year will be different. Trust me on
that.” Sure, “trust me,” and I have a bridge in the Mohave Desert you can
have at a bargain price.
As for myself, I left
the GOP two months ago and am now an independent. But, to paraphrase our
elected dictator, I have a phone and a pen and a political action committee,
“TEAM AMERICA PAC.” I will try to raise a million dollars to help take
out some of the 150 Republicans who betrayed our country by rubber stamping a plan
for accelerating our slide into socialism, bankruptcy and chaos.
There is work to be
done. Conservatives and constitutionalists must find and support good
candidates to replace the current congressional leadership — in Republican
primaries where that is possible, or as independent challengers where
necessary.
To those who warn that
this will lead to loss of the House majority, there is an easy answer. What
difference does it make? We can do better; we must do better. Living on
hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.
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