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Obama's Man--RYNO Ryan

Ryan Belching O’s Kool-Aid in America’s face



‘RYNO’ Paul Ryan is swilling President Barack Obama’s Free Trade Kool-Aid. In fact the second act on Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential ticket is not only swilling the O-flavoured Kool-Aid, he’s belching it in America’s face. “Before they were allies, they were campaign-trail foes,” writes Lauren Fox of Obama and Ryan on her National Journal story yesterday.
But were Obama and Ryan ever really campaign foes as much as they were deceivers under the skin? Makes you wonder when Ryan jumped so quickly into the sack with the man who has so radically “fundamentally transformed” America. The Trans-Pacific Partnership secret negotiations have been going on behind the backs of We the People for six long years--or not long after Obama came into power. We all know how long Obama has been working behind the backs of main-street Americans to render the U.S. into a Marxist state. The question Ryan’s voters should be asking is: “How long has Paul Ryan been working in the dark to sell out America?” “President Obama's GOP salesmen are telling fellow House members that fast-track trade promotion authority (TPA) will "constrain the president" to do what Congress wants when he negotiates the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (National Journal, June 9, 2015)

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“Sounds reassuring, but there's one problem: It's just not true. “Pointing to the negotiating objectives the Senate-approved bill lays out, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) says that "TPA makes the president follow dozens of strict objectives in his negotiations so that your priorities come first — not his." “First, let's be clear: The Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations have been underway for six years. According to the U.S. trade representative, they are in the "end game" and will be wrapped up once TPA is approved. Scalise and company are a little late setting objectives for negotiations that have already taken place.”
In the bitter disappointment about the Republicans throwing in with Obama and the Democrats straight after being handed a majority mandate by voters in the last election, it is easy to see House Speaker John Boehner. He’s goofy, weak and weeps in public, giving in to feelings rather than commonsense. But Ryan, who offered himself as America’s vice president, is a much more covert snake in the grass. This is how the National Journal describes his place in the current power structure in an America with no real political opposition:
“Yet, since taking the gavel of the influential Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Paul Ryan has emerged as President Obama's most convincing messenger on Capitol Hill on behalf of a free-trade agreement that would be a big boost to the president's legislative legacy. “The House could vote on Trade Promotion Authority, also known as "fast track," as early as this week. The legislation would limit Congress to an up-or-down vote on future trade deals negotiated by the president. If it passes, it will be a kind of graduation moment for Ryan, the first major legislative accomplishment since he left the Budget Committee. Unlike his visionary budget documents that made him a sensation in conservative circles, however, trade puts Ryan on the same side as a president conservatives distrust and tests the relationships he has carefully built with those in the far right of his party. “Since taking over the House Ways and Means Committee six months ago, Ryan has been engaged in mapping out the way forward on a trade bill that is a key priority for Obama. But Ryan's calculation, and the message he gives to Republicans, is that it is just as important to the GOP's own economic and electoral success.”
Try being a stand-up conservative that puts America and its people first, Mr. Ryan! This is the covert Ryan’s soft-sell schtick:
"If Republicans derail trade, we add to the narrative that America is on decline, which is now uniquely tied to Obama's policies—policies we disagree with profoundly as Republicans," Ryan told National Journal.  “Even before Republican leaders began whipping the bill weeks ago, Ryan was undertaking his own member-tracking operation. He held dozens of education seminars. He invited conservatives to meet with him privately. He listened to concerns and made his pitch that trade was an essential part of growing the economy. This week alone, Ryan has met with 20 members of his party in one-on-one meetings. While he acknowledges he's working on the same side as the president, Ryan underscores that the trade bill he is pushing will outlast this president, and that trade deals are fundamentally conservative. "If the name Obama was nowhere to be seen in this, it would be fine for most people," Ryan says. "We believe in free trade. That is one of our party's primary principles." “As the vote on TPA approaches, there is increasing pressure on Ryan and Republican leadership to deliver votes from conservatives who are skeptical of supporting anything that boosts Obama. While the White House has its own whip operation, it's been difficult for administration officials to garner the 25 to 30 Democratic votes they will need to deliver. Several GOP aides have expressed frustration that the administration isn't holding up its side of the bargain. Many have blamed the administration for leaning on members it had—up to this point—failed to build relationships with. And to make things more difficult, trade unions have stepped up their lobbying efforts and Democratic leaders are staying on the sidelines. “But those within the Republican whip operation say all of the turmoil on the Democratic side has hardly distracted Ryan. Instead, it has emboldened him to double down on his engagement strategy. Republicans say the strategy has been far more involved than the typical whip operation, as leaders reach out to state movers and shakers in agriculture, business, and manufacturing to influence wavering members. Business Roundtable spokesman Kevin Madden said his group has spent in the "seven figures" on advertising in 160 districts. "Each pitch has been tailored to each individual," says Rep. Tom Cole, who is on the whip team and is supporting TPA. "We are trying to move people on a one-on-one basis. This is very unusual that we are going to this kind of effort." “But Cole says Ryan continues to be the single most convincing member on the issue.”
It should come as no surprise that one of Ryan’s top enablers as Obama’s chief Repub flight lieutenant is the cunning Grover Norquist. “Americans for Tax Reform founder and president Grover Norquist, who supports TPA, said he's been impressed to see Ryan's intensive reach-out operation. (National Journal) "Ryan spends more face time with more members than any other Republican," Norquist says. Norquist is doing his own outreach as well on Capitol Hill, and ATR is making calls in 40 districts to encourage voters to contact their members of Congress. Guess Obama’s latest puppet could care less that he is being supported by at least two TPA advocates who have suspected ties to terrorists, Obama and Norquist. Guess The Man Who Would Be Veep does not watch Glenn Beck TV.


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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