Monday, December 21, 2015

End of year omnibus deal a "cake already baked."

This is an infuriating interview with Paul Ryan defending the massive spending deal covered on the Washington Times

Paul Ryan said the cake was already baked when he took over and he made the best of it and seized key GOP wins.

I know of one omnibus win that is no win at all, crude oil on the global market. It's never explained how that is considered a win. America, capitalism exemplar supposedly, and yet its own crude is not available on the global market until now. Somehow attaining that is a win for Ryan's conservative base of voters expressing their deep concern about federal budget.  And the cake analogy is rejected. It's offensive. We know how to get rid of cakes we don't like. You drop them on the floor and say, "There's your cake." You ruin the party shut off the lights send everyone home unhappy. Comparing expenditures of United States government to party bakery product is rejected. We are not talking about a cake.  
"In divided government, you don’t get everything you want"
But Democrats did get everything they what and more. Democrats are lauding Ryan on process. Ryan respects process, they say. They are saying this to assuage Republican base that has seen process abused against them for seven years by an administration that foils process wherever required, using  their money to do it, beginning with the beginning and persisting throughout and not yet ending. So process might be a good argument for Eagle scouts another time but not for Republicans and not now. Screw process. That is the present mood. 

Bless Ryan's heart for following good solid Roger's Rules of Order process. We've all had so much of that lately. And nice now to settle down to reliable law. Only Republicans straight laced conservative boy scouts do that anymore. This is the age of community activism by the highest offices. Having t others doing the dirty work for them of shutting things down. Ryan failed, and Ryan failed for process. The same people who laud Ryan for excellent process also mock Ryan for being a pushover. 

The interview is painful all the way through. It is impossible to resist Fisking Ryan line for line as you read slowing it down considerably as he repeats the same things we heard all week as if they are fresh and his dismissiveness is intolerable. 

He first states the crude oil thing. Ding. 
We fought for as much as we could get. 
No, he did not. No fight at all. Nothing. Nothing whatsoever far less newsworthy. He will say things were in committee being fought there out of sight as they should, but that's for their recommendations, not for them to gather with their lobbyists and list their demands as legislation as they have. That is not proper process. Because we are watching closely and it went like this: nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, omnibus, vote. 

And that is why efforts to primary Paul Ryan are being stepped up. All I saw were a few Facebook posts and we'll see how far they get but the point is they're having Ryan know they are not pleased with him and his answer about a brighter 2016 doesn't cut it. 

Apparently it's conservative's fate to be ever disappointed and betrayed. Put to his first real test of consequence and Ryan failed his constituency in the same way John Roberts Failed conservatives his first serious test. As if it is Washington itself that wrecks people. The miasma irresistible. Once saturated in other people's money the permeation of fiat currency means nothing more substantial than air being breathed. 

Republicans lawmakers ditched the Planned Parenthood problem that their base presented them by stuffing it into an Obamacare repeal bill that will be reliably vetoed by Obama. They imagine their base will not notice, that they will forget, that the issue will soften. So, that means Republicans must do Democrats do naturally, push with tremendous enthusiasm, double the effort, take the signal to be activated, increase the heat, turn up the pressure, crank up the noise, repeat the catchphrases, slap on the bumper stickers, produce the satires, draw up holiday talking points, destroy careers and lives, make sure everybody is upset.
"We advanced our priorities and principles. Not every single one of them, but many of them. And then we’re going to pick up next year and pick up where we left off and keep going for more.”
More debt, and the principles of open market for crude oil and mere parliamentary procedure. He didn't hold any meetings behind locked doors and make deals without any Democrats present as did happen with Affordable Health Care. That sort of holding to procedure.  He didn't buy off any Senators as did happen with Affordable Health Care.  He didn't switch terms in the final stretch from fee to tax contrary every single discussion.  Didn't use any of the power available and vested to apply pressure but still insists that he fought. Didn't allow the president to shut down government and have Republicans absorb blame/credit for being ideologic and uncooperative.

Ryan finishes by saying the people who put him into position know he is conservative with an eye to actually achieving success. Doubly, as  Longfellow does, they know I come from a conservative movement and that I'm a movement conservative with an eye on the prize and that prize is achieving success.

Actual success, not fake success like access to markets that were closed artificially.  

The success of making Democrats happy and conservatives of all strips quite lastingly cross. 

Democrats must be wondering why they didn't demand more of everyone else's money.

14 comments:

edutcher said...

Bull-oney.

Ryan had the votes to kill it if he wanted which ionly leaves the questions

What was his price?

What did they have on him?

AllenS said...

Somebody left the cake out in the rain.

Tank said...

Another shit sandwich to swallow. Ya know, for me and most of us here we've lived most of our lives and have 5, 10, maybe 20 years to go. This crap is going to explode on our kids and our families for long after we're gone. Mostly, they've voted for it, so good luck.

Guildofcannonballs said...

Exactly Tank, it is the young folks who brought us all of this shit, by being so stupid.

We were fucking brilliant when indoctrinated in school, heck, look at us now!

We are to take no blame for anything, zero accountability for us forevermore.

They, them, the youth, it's their fault. Our generation told them we were ^#%~>#^ them bloody, but they just looked at us as if to say "why did you do that daddy?"

Guildofcannonballs said...

I blame Breitbart and O'Keefe.

Why didn't they do more for us?

Guildofcannonballs said...

http://firepaulryan.com


It ain't much, but it's better than a %*#%}? Up the %^#.

Tank said...

LOL. I didn't say we don't deserve blame (well, not me, I've been voting and pushing the other way for decades). Our generation has royally F'd up, but, the truth is, the generations after us vote for more and more of what is killing us. More "free" stuff, more diversity, more PC. So, even though we've done it, they're endorsing it. I see it on my facebook page every day. They, thy young, endorsing and voting for the Zero, Bernie Sanders, climate change regulation, etc. Well, they're likely gonna get that, and they'll be living with it.

Chip Ahoy said...

Tank, I feel the same way. I'm very mad at my own generation and before us, every single person that I know in my own age group and older will happily vote for Hillary or for Sanders and that's why I'm disgusted. There is no talking to them either.

I don't have children (that I know about) so my concern is for my children of my sibs and when I think it through every single one of them will most likely vote Democrat and justify their vote the customary way, parents and children, so thinking it through is even more hazardous because it leads directly to, "fuck all of them."

And that sentiment is unChristian.

So I pray, and Jesus goes, "Yeah, I know, right?"

rcocean said...

Yeah, its just the same old blah-blah we've been getting from Boenher, McConnell, Lot, and all the RINO's for the last 15 years.

The problem is they never compromise on what their rich donors want, only on what the American people and their voters want. They're always making these compromises where by the Democrats get what they want, the Rich Donors get what they want, and everyone else gets screwed.

As Limbaugh, if we keep leaders like Ryan we might as well disband the party and just have one Repubcrat party.

ampersand said...

Ryan's hanging his hat on trading oil to the Chinese?

bagoh20 said...

Ryan really stepped in it right out of the gate.

Methadras said...

No more Darth Cheney or Padawan Bush to blame anymore. First Ryan uses the Card Player parlance first in that this was the hand they were dealt and now he's using the baker parlance of making a cake that's already baked. All this tells me is that he is a shitty card player and a even worse baker. What's next driver or car analogies? Cause those will end up being an accident that gets everyone killed and costing a lot of money. Oh wait.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Apparently it's conservative's fate to be ever disappointed and betrayed.

Lol. Actually that's pretty close to how their ideology is conventionally defined: Life sucks, deal with it. Remember, it can never get better. Progress is an illusion.

Why you would expect any better in what your leaders can do for you or each other is a mystery, given that very low bar of what to achieve or expect out of life at all, let alone in politics.

But I like your realization. It's a start.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

I don't have children (that I know about) so my concern is for my children of my sibs and when I think it through every single one of them will most likely vote Democrat and justify their vote the customary way, parents and children, so thinking it through is even more hazardous because it leads directly to, "fuck all of them."

They will vote Democrat because they realize that reciprocal generosity is the only way to maintain any sort of social contract. Reciprocal stinginess goes nowhere, especially when you aim it at the society at large.

Look at me talking this way. And in a year where I'm pretty sure I'll have no Democratic presidential candidate worth voting for.

It is what it is.