End of year omnibus deal a "cake already baked."

This is an infuriating interview with Paul Ryan defending the massive spending deal covered on the Washington Times. 

Paul Ryan said the cake was already baked when he took over and he made the best of it and seized key GOP wins.

I know of one omnibus win that is no win at all, crude oil on the global market. It's never explained how that is considered a win. America, capitalism exemplar supposedly, and yet its own crude is not available on the global market until now. Somehow attaining that is a win for Ryan's conservative base of voters expressing their deep concern about federal budget.  And the cake analogy is rejected. It's offensive. We know how to get rid of cakes we don't like. You drop them on the floor and say, "There's your cake." You ruin the party shut off the lights send everyone home unhappy. Comparing expenditures of United States government to party bakery product is rejected. We are not talking about a cake.  

"In divided government, you don’t get everything you want"

But Democrats did get everything they what and more. Democrats are lauding Ryan on process. Ryan respects process, they say. They are saying this to assuage Republican base that has seen process abused against them for seven years by an administration that foils process wherever required, using  their money to do it, beginning with the beginning and persisting throughout and not yet ending. So process might be a good argument for Eagle scouts another time but not for Republicans and not now. Screw process. That is the present mood. 

Bless Ryan's heart for following good solid Roger's Rules of Order process. We've all had so much of that lately. And nice now to settle down to reliable law. Only Republicans straight laced conservative boy scouts do that anymore. This is the age of community activism by the highest offices. Having t others doing the dirty work for them of shutting things down. Ryan failed, and Ryan failed for process. The same people who laud Ryan for excellent process also mock Ryan for being a pushover. 

The interview is painful all the way through. It is impossible to resist Fisking Ryan line for line as you read slowing it down considerably as he repeats the same things we heard all week as if they are fresh and his dismissiveness is intolerable. 

He first states the crude oil thing. Ding. 

We fought for as much as we could get. 

No, he did not. No fight at all. Nothing. Nothing whatsoever far less newsworthy. He will say things were in committee being fought there out of sight as they should, but that's for their recommendations, not for them to gather with their lobbyists and list their demands as legislation as they have. That is not proper process. Because we are watching closely and it went like this: nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, omnibus, vote. 

And that is why efforts to primary Paul Ryan are being stepped up. All I saw were a few Facebook posts and we'll see how far they get but the point is they're having Ryan know they are not pleased with him and his answer about a brighter 2016 doesn't cut it. 

Apparently it's conservative's fate to be ever disappointed and betrayed. Put to his first real test of consequence and Ryan failed his constituency in the same way John Roberts Failed conservatives his first serious test. As if it is Washington itself that wrecks people. The miasma irresistible. Once saturated in other people's money the permeation of fiat currency means nothing more substantial than air being breathed. 

Republicans lawmakers ditched the Planned Parenthood problem that their base presented them by stuffing it into an Obamacare repeal bill that will be reliably vetoed by Obama. They imagine their base will not notice, that they will forget, that the issue will soften. So, that means Republicans must do Democrats do naturally, push with tremendous enthusiasm, double the effort, take the signal to be activated, increase the heat, turn up the pressure, crank up the noise, repeat the catchphrases, slap on the bumper stickers, produce the satires, draw up holiday talking points, destroy careers and lives, make sure everybody is upset.

"We advanced our priorities and principles. Not every single one of them, but many of them. And then we’re going to pick up next year and pick up where we left off and keep going for more.”

More debt, and the principles of open market for crude oil and mere parliamentary procedure. He didn't hold any meetings behind locked doors and make deals without any Democrats present as did happen with Affordable Health Care. That sort of holding to procedure.  He didn't buy off any Senators as did happen with Affordable Health Care.  He didn't switch terms in the final stretch from fee to tax contrary every single discussion.  Didn't use any of the power available and vested to apply pressure but still insists that he fought. Didn't allow the president to shut down government and have Republicans absorb blame/credit for being ideologic and uncooperative.

Ryan finishes by saying the people who put him into position know he is conservative with an eye to actually achieving success. Doubly, as  Longfellow does, they know I come from a conservative movement and that I'm a movement conservative with an eye on the prize and that prize is achieving success.

Actual success, not fake success like access to markets that were closed artificially.  

The success of making Democrats happy and conservatives of all strips quite lastingly cross. 

Democrats must be wondering why they didn't demand more of everyone else's money.