Paul Ryan Lists His New Year’s Resolutions, But Has Already Broken All Of Them

Republican House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has released his New Year’s resolutions for 2016, which include advancing a conservative agenda and building on the success that he claims he has had since he was elected Speaker in October.

Ryan claims that in 2016 he will promote:

1. Conservative Agenda

2. Unity

3. Decentralized Power

4. Transparency and Regular Order

5. Culture Change

6. Next-Generation Platform

7. Building on Progress

But, in his first two months as Speaker—and his history before that—Ryan has veered away from every single one of these. That suggests it’s highly unlikely Ryan will ever, as Speaker—because of his record—actually do anything productive, despite his claims that he has and that he will. His $1.1 trillion, two-thousand-plus page long omnibus spending bill alone broke most of these promises.

Despite Ryan’s defensive claims in establishment-right media—he’s appeared on Bill Bennett’s and Hugh Hewitt’s radio programs, but refuses to do interviews with actual conservatives like Breitbart News, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, or Rush Limbaugh to defend himself—the omnibus spending bill, as Breitbart News has detailed, was an absolute disaster for conservatives. It funded pretty much every single progressive objective of President Barack Obama’s efforts to fundamentally change America, and it even surrendered some of the previous small victories that Ryan’s predecessor,Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), was able to secure, such as a school choice voucher program in Washington, D.C.

Ryan abandoned efforts to promote a “conservative agenda” years ago. Instead, Ryan has been one of the central advocates in the Republican Party for amnesty for illegal aliens and wide open borders with massively increased immigration to America. Ryan, of course, built a giant fence around his mansion in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin, but in his omnibus spending bill, he didn’t provide funding for a fence on the United States border with Mexico—a fence that has been provided for in federal law for years but has yet to be built.

Many people break their New Year’s resolutions, but it is unlikely that their broken promises have the far reaching implications that Ryan’s broken promises will. If he’s not careful, Ryan will have to answer to much more than personal guilt should he not accomplish his 2016 goals.

Source: Breitbart