A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice. Craig Brown, critic
Rumors of Ryan going for “the look”
It’s one way to look at it, and to an extent, exonerate ourselves from the disaster unfolding before us: It is accurate, in our opinion, to charge that Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are two of the most dishonest people in Congress today. But what does that say? They have so much company in that category, on both sides of the aisle, that that assertion is not at all informative.
It is true that when they are seeking support to put them in a position of power, they will promise to do much that the American people want done, especially when it comes to spending and national security and respect for the Constitution. It is also true that even as they are making those promises, 
they have no intention of carrying them out. This they have proven.
But are they the only ones who bear the blame for the disastrous future that is America’s?
We have Congresspersons and Senators in our home districts and states that we have voted into office over and over who have promised just what McConnell and Ryan have. And over and over, when it comes down to it and it’s time for them to deliver to their voters, they have ditched those commitments, supported those two guys and come back to us whining that they really had no choice…and if we would only give them more power…
Fool us once, shame on you congressman/ Senator; fool us twice, shame on us; fool us over and over, shame on everyone! From Breitbart News, excerpts (bold emphasis ours):
“It’s going to be jammed through,” Sessions told host and Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Thursday morning on the show, which airs on SiriusXM the Patriot Channel 125. “Members of the Senate are very frustrated. We have no idea what the contested issues are [in a forthcoming omnibus spending bill] and how they’re going to be decided and who’s deciding.”
It’s now in one piece of legislation. . . . If you don’t vote for it, you shut the government down and you’re a bad guy. And that’s the way it’s been year after year after year.
Sessions has been sounding the alarm about Ryan’s and McConnell’s plans to enable Obama’s efforts to bring Syrian refugees to America and resettle them in cities and towns nationwide. On Sean Hannity’s radio program on Monday, Sessions warned that unless Congress does something—Ryan’s and McConnell’s planned surrender aside—Obama could run roughshod over Americans with this program putting them in even more danger than they’re currently in. . . .
“We do have the power of the purse,” Sessions said.
We don’t have to fund an unlimited number of refugees to come to America because the president said that’s what he wants to do. For Heaven’s sake, Congress is elected by the American people. We have a duty to put money on projects that we think are good for America and not spend money that we think are bad for America. And I think it’s time to say no to the president.
DLH
