SAVING PUBLIC RYAN

Representative Paul Ryan Republican of Wisconsin has become a meddlesome presidential newsmaker as Speaker of the House. He has distorted his role in a job he supposedly reluctantly, accepted to do, then elevated himself, in arrogant pomposity by not immediately endorsing Trump.

Why,  Speaker Ryan did not say "I fully support the choice of the primary voters, and will meet with Trump to both congratulate and offer my assistance in the general election campaign..." is beyond our comprehension as conservatives. Yet, sadly it does compute, when looking at the liberal-like state of the Washington GOP, that pretends to uphold the tenets of the historic Grand Old Party, but instead sleeps with social progressives.

Since when did all voters ever happily enter the presidential general election excited about the winning nominee? Speaker Ryan may not have been happy that Trump won, but he has an obligation to put personal feelings aside. In fact, isn't that the advice we as voters were given by our Party during Romney's election? Why isn't the establishment following their oft spoken admonition to voters, namely, get over your disappointment and support the Republican ticket. 

Indeed, the divide between Washington Republicans and conservatives voters is highlighted by Romney being a party choice and making the establishment smile, while many voters frowned now Trump the people's choice, makes the voters smile, while the establishment frowns.

Trump won fair and square and your value ambiguous establishment GOP candidates lost the voters  early, so it is about time, you lose the negative attitude and support the people's nominee with grace and or silent decorum. It is time for you to listen to the voters and act as a representative.

For Speaker Ryan to be weighing in with criticism on every Trump comment is unseemly, especially because it aides Democrats and Hillary Clinton's election rally talking points. 

Trump doesn't need the Speaker's approval, he needs the voter's approval. Trump doesn't need the Speaker's endorsement, he needs Americans' endorsement. Trump doesn't need, (especially from the conservative side of the aisle) another finger waving a social progressive, politically correct, hypercritical voice of condemnation. Hillary Clinton and the liberal loving media has that faux outrage role covered and it is a shame for conservatives to help ring the dinner bell to a pandering progressive culture vulture's  buffet.  

Perhaps Americans should inform Representative Ryan that the job of House Speaker does not entail a crown, nor a scepter, or crop, so as to beat a herd of elephants, into acting like politically correct, braying donkeys.

Speaker Ryan should be leading his Republican collogues toward House Bills that counteract Obama's odious job killing regulations and finding ways to use the power of the purse to reign in unconstitutional fiefdom by federal bureaucratic agencies. 

Speaker Ryan would do well to stop sticking his proboscis in the presidential election process and mind his own business, a business, that should involve, among many issues, restoring fiscal integrity to the nation's spending crises. 

First, Mr. Speaker, you are not Speaker for Americans, Speaker for Trump, Speaker for all Republicans, Speaker for all those that are politically correct and or incorrect, but rather you are suppose to set the agenda for Congress.

Speaker Ryan has much to prove to conservatives. He can start by reading the Constitution, and ensure that legislation, federal agencies and monies are not being spent frivolously, dictatorially or outside the boundaries that Congress intended when it passed them into law.

Speaker Ryan has an opportunity to stop the lazy and reckless congressional trend of writing Bills that hand the power of rule and law making to unelected federal pencil pushers, that is burdening Americans with hidden taxes and putting the American dream out of reach for our prodigy.

Speaker Ryan can help his party return to the core principles of small federal government, States' Rights and a strong sound national defense of this country's unflickering light of liberty.

Speaker Ryan has the opportunity to choose to walk a differing path than John Boehner or follow in the previous Speaker's well worn and publically loathed footsteps. Speaker Ryan should note, that should he choose to follow in Boehner's  Beltway trail, it led, not just to an end to the Ohio Representative's political career, but to a quiet revolt and angst by voters.

This anti-politician popular-ism has been partly fueled by a Republican Party that no longer acts like a separate Party with principles and values opposite from Democrats. It has made voters feel as though Washington no longer has a two party system, but rather, one dysfunctional one. That Washington represents corporations and the rich, while everyone else is ignored and devalued. 

Speaker Ryan and the GOP needs to look deeply in the mirror and change or the voters will change the landscape for them. The days of pretending to be a conservative and acting like a social progressive politician are waning and waning fast.

  

Speaker Ryan, the voters rejected your old running mate's (Romney) brand of conservatism, they rejected the former Speaker's (Boehner) brand of conservatism, and they rejected all the establishment candidates (Bush, Rubio, Kasich) brand of conservatism. If ever there was a time to reset the priorities of the Party, the time is now. Save the country and save the Party and save yourself, by listening to the voters outside the bubble of the Beltway!

NO TEARS FOR BOEHNER

Conservatives are cheering the resignation of Speaker John Boehner from the leadership role in the House of Representatives and from the House seat he holds for Ohio voters. He announced his resignation to come at the end of October, 2015. I guess Halloween at the Capital will be missing one less corporate zombie, but one wonders if his ghost will haunt the House after he turns in his gavel.

Some are viewing his surrender as a win for the conservatives in the House that have been actively pushing for his ouster as speaker, while some more cynically believe that Boehner is resigning, to ensure that he can influence the House, to elect an establishment moderate to replace him.

The vision of John Boehner crying to House members to evoke sympathy and votes, for an equally sycophantic elitist, that cowers to Obama and the Democrat Party isn't an unimaginable speculation. Indeed, the GOP has shown the American people nothing but political cowardice by refusing to mount any opposition to Obama's reckless agenda, while the Democrats have been faithful cogs for the Marxist ideologue machine.

Over the next few weeks the people will be able to gauge whether this is another tactic by the GOP to continue its pretense of conservative values, or whether there has been a systemic changing of the guard in the GOP. There is no doubt that this resignation signals a growing strength of genuine conservatism within the GOP born from grassroots voters seeking to oust corruption, yet moderates still seem to be in the majority. 

The people will be watching closely to see who is elected as Speaker of the House before being able to claim a real victory. Moreover, if the House elects a strong conservative to replace Boehner, then the pressure will be squarely placed on the Senate's majority leader Mitch McConnell to also step aside.

Americans are in an anti-career politician, anti-establishment candidates, anti-Washington elitism and anti-lobbyists mood. They are frustrated and angry that their voice after elections goes dark and silent on the ears of those politicians that promised them change, then keep the status quo, or worse, continue to give away our jobs, freedoms and values.

The GOP needs to get the message (Trump is dispositive of that message) that conservatives want to be able to fight for American values, not politically strategizing each upcoming election to win it, and do nothing. What has it served conservatives to win a historic majority in the House and then have the GOP acquiesce to every Obama wish? What is the benefit of a majority that hides under the sheets and doesn't challenge the minority Party? What avenue is left for the American people when they vote for opposition to liberalism, win the election and then get stabbed in the back by their own so-called conservative leaders?

They vote for Trump, Carson and Fiorina while Scott Walker and Rick Perry drop out of the 2016 primary. They stop sending money to the GOP. They stop trying to grow the Party by no longer extolling GOP virtues telling friends to vote Republican. They start thinking that they might sit on their hands and not vote at all, next election.

 

The GOP has a unique opportunity to change the conservative dialog into positive approval and rally backing for the Party to grow. To stand up against unconstitutional laws and speak for the people. To regroup around staunch conservatism and finally be an opposition Party against social progressive policies ruining this country's hard fought freedoms. However, if they replace Boehner with the current GOP whip Kevin McCarthy of California then it will be " meet the new boss, same as the old boss".

  

Time for people to write their House members and ask for real conservative leadership, because it is well past time for the Republican Party to once again represent genuine conservative values. Most Americans will watch John Boehner leave the capital building without shedding a tear, because the future of America relies on steely verve not wimpy nerves.