Elite’s Bipartisan Festivity . . . Ryan And Pelosi Celebrate Christmas With Herodian Budget Deal

By DEXTER DUGGAN
Massive abortion for Christmas.
Another half-billion taxpayer dollars sent to the slaughterhouse gang that still was fresh in everyone’s mind for being exposed for cutting out the brains, hearts and other organs of defenseless aborted infants for money.
Just before the celebration of the birth of the baby Savior, the Republican Party’s congressional elite exchanged a bloody handshake with the Democratic Party of Death to ensure that the privately operated Planned Parenthood got another big gift in 2016 from unwilling taxpayers through the year-end Omnibus spending bill.
Deck the halls with dismemberment, provided by PP as well as ISIS terrorists. Everyone’s hands get dirty.
Now newly elevated U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), a Catholic, could be festive with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), a Catholic, that both political parties sealed the deal for barbarous business as usual while aborting the nation’s soul and once again expelling Americans from having any control over that business.
Americans might as well have celebrated December 25 out at the barnyard manger, because there absolutely was no room for them in the in-crowd’s halls of power. If it’s any consolation, that means being with Jesus and His parents rather than Herod in his Capitol Hill palace.
But First Century shepherds, craftsmen, and merchants who made that society run had no power to choose their rulers. It was supposed to be different in the 21st Century United States.
Pelosi’s Democrats lost their House majority in the 2010 elections that were energized by outraged voters, costing Pelosi her speakership. However, both Ryan and his failed predecessor as speaker, Catholic John Boehner (R., Ohio), reassured the permanent governing class that there’s still nothing to fear from rebellious voters.
Boehner had recruited Ryan to succeed him as speaker with a specific plea to Ryan’s Catholicism and the proposition that God wanted him to take the job. Either God made a big mistake — or Boehner and Ryan did.
Whether it’s resurrecting Big Business’s expired Export-Import Bank, advancing globalist profiteers’ brand of capitalism, or keeping the borders wide open for mass movement of humans manipulated as pawns by the elite, the good times roll on.
Left-wing U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) was among overjoyed liberals gloating over the Republicans’ abject December surrender. Saying he wouldn’t have believed earlier in the year that Democrats could achieve such a win, Schumer boasted, “This bill is a great victory for the principles Democrats stand for.”
And conservative national radio talk host Rush Limbaugh groused, “Everything Obama wanted, everything he asked for, he got. You go down the list of things, it’s there.”
As for progress in reforming the law to save pre-born babies from routine extermination by PP president Cecile Richards’ organ pirates? Don’t get your hopes up.
Peaceful pro-life Christmas carolers on the public sidewalks still are hassled by police for allegedly disturbing the peace, while a few feet away Supreme Court-approved abusive abortionists keep busy plunging suddenly assaulted babies into the everlasting silence of death.
Voters pleading for change from Barack Obama’s arrogant lawlessness gave the GOP a majority in the U.S. Senate, too, in the 2014 elections. With what result?
Newly elevated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) takes vocal pride in producing bills to please the left-wing president while McConnell warns how futile it is to pass legislation that offends His Alinskyite Majesty.
McConnell also insufferably instructs Republicans that they must nominate other invertebrate “moderates” like himself — instead of upstart candidates who faithfully express the foot-stomping impatience of an exasperated electorate shopping for real change.
It’s as if McConnell were an automobile salesman who lured people in search of new wheels into his emporium by promising them a super ride, but, once they signed the contract, revealing that they just agreed to pay him $28,000 for only one repaired taillight.
American voters had grown more than disgusted by previous massive legislation produced in the dead of night that no one was expected to read. Yet the elite did just that again with the latest Omnibus bill, exceeding 2,000 pages and spending more than $1.1 trillion when authorized by a simple majority vote in each chamber.
Paul Ryan scrambled for cover by promising that he’d give priority in the new year to putting bills on Obama’s desk to defund Planned Parenthood and Obamacare. But if Ryan wouldn’t allow these restrictions in the Omnibus package, when he had some bargaining leverage over Obama, what does Ryan think Obama would do to standalone bills the president opposes except veto them?
Just days before the Omnibus was approved, Planned Parenthood in Ohio was exposed by that state’s Republican attorney general for having sent aborted babies’ bodies to landfills — a polite term for garbage dumps — after they were steam-cooked in autoclaves.
But what’s to get surprised about when the nation’s biggest baby butcher treats its annual third-of-a-million victims with contempt? Hey, PP says, what did you expect? Little tiny hearses and caskets? Har-har-har. Now fork over our federal moolah!
The professional political class was comfortable being rooted in congressional compost.
If millions of play-by-the-rules Americans are hoodwinked time and again by political hucksters, those hucksters haven’t helped anyone, not even themselves, if the nation finally splits apart in strife because desperate demands for change only were laughed at and subverted.
Founding Father Thomas Jefferson knew something about replacing intolerable rulers, having helped to do so himself when the ragtag colonists stood up to the arbitrary British Empire. Not that Jefferson was eager for recurring revolution. But he knew there comes a time.
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical,” Jefferson wrote in 1787 to his contemporary James Madison. “. . . It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
If Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and their crowd repeatedly continue to defy the voters on foundational matters, what remedy remains?
In a Christmas Eve telephone interview with The Wanderer, former southern California conservative Republican congressman Robert Dornan recalled that the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) had warned against “defining deviancy down.”
Moynihan’s immediate context in 1993 was crime, but the term’s wider applicability was apparent in the general social unraveling already begun that recast deviant behavior as normal.
Ryan excused his pushing through full funding for Planned Parenthood in the Omnibus, along with other spending insults and outrages, because he simply was stuck with a deal negotiated with Obama, a radical pro-abortionist, by the outgoing speaker, the Catholic Boehner.
Which suggests that Ryan’s capacity for outrage has been defined down, as was Boehner’s. If Boehner had handed Ryan a bill obligating the government to pay for tearing the limbs off 4,000 babies a day, would Ryan simply have shrugged that he’s stuck with what Boehner and Obama negotiated? Or would Ryan have torn up any such monstrous deal?
But generously funding PP is just what Ryan accepted, as long as the babies aren’t out of the womb yet.
In his Wanderer interview, former congressman Dornan, a fiery conservative who lives in Virginia now, said evangelist Franklin Graham’s recent resignation from the Republican Party should be a warning to GOP leadership.
Graham, president of the Samaritan’s Purse international Christian relief organization and son of prominent evangelist Billy Graham, posted on his Facebook page on December 21 that he was declaring himself a political independent, explaining:
“Shame on the Republicans and the Democrats for passing such a wasteful spending bill last week. And to top it off, funding Planned Parenthood! A Huffington Post article called it ‘a big win for Planned Parenthood.’ I call it a big loss for America. After all of the appalling facts revealed this year about Planned Parenthood, our representatives in Washington had a chance to put a stop to this, but they didn’t.”
Dornan said Graham’s resignation “puts the (GOP) leadership on notice that there are some issues that are just paramount,” and that to shove them aside is a deal-breaker.
“This slaughter of innocent human life is not like any other issue,” Dornan recalled that he had warned a GOP leader when he was a member of Congress.
Graham’s resignation is “an alarm bell for the election next November” and raises the question of how many Republican voters might stay home then, considering the GOP to be “gutless,” Dornan said.
Herod’s name has gone down in history as a villain because he had babies murdered in a futile effort to find and slay the infant Jesus, Dornan said, adding that about 25 babies in the village of Bethlehem died as a result of Herod’s plotting — only a tiny fraction of the number of infants that Planned Parenthood kills daily.
Noting Ryan’s excuse that funding for PP was “baked in” to the Omnibus spending by Boehner, Dornan said, “So Paul Ryan couldn’t be courageous and say, ‘I’m unbaking a few things here’” because “this issue is different.”
The Omnibus was “a gigantic gift, like a Pandora’s box wrapped in one package … a series of gifts, one after another,” Dornan said, while “the biggest evil demon coming out of that box was funding Planned Parenthood.”
Commenting that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defends PP’s “Herodian slaughter” every chance she gets, Dornan said that in 2016, “We are in for a fascinating year” in political campaigning.
The Wanderer asked another veteran critic of the Republican Party establishment, Rob Haney, for his reaction to the Omnibus spending deal. Haney is retired chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Party, based in Phoenix, and a longtime foe of GOP Arizona “maverick” John McCain.
“With the GOP majority in Congress surrendering to the Democrat minority on the Omnibus budget bill, the Republicans have taken the escalator down, descending from the RINO floor to the Republican platform heretic floor,” Haney said, adding:
“While knowing Rep. Ryan’s establishment voting record, even Tea Party conservatives voted for Rep. Ryan for speaker. This was after resigned Speaker Boehner delayed his replacement election, shanghaiing the process, in order to allow time to build support for Ryan.
“My sense is that the Republican base believes it is payback time for all the acts of treachery that the Republican hierarchy has committed in order to defeat conservative politicians and policies,” Haney continued. “They recognize with visceral antipathy that once more they have been played for fools by the Republican establishment. It has reached the point where the Republican base believes that they have nothing to lose, and will even vote for a Democrat in order to get rid of a heretic Republican.”
Haney speculated that McCain may suffer such defeat in his 2016 Senate re-election bid, and suggested that if Catholics were given similar voting authority in the Church, religious liberals in the hierarchy would be in danger of rejection.
“If Catholic pew-sitters had a say in determining Catholic leadership, many heretics to Catholic dogma who serve as bishops and cardinals would be facing the same revolt as the GOP hierarchy,” the Catholic Haney said.