SHILLS: Selective Outrage: National Review Trashes Trump, Rallies Behind Ryan.
A little over three months ago, National Review endorsed Rep. Paul Ryan for Speaker of the House. In doing so, National Review helped place a man with a two-decade history of pushing open borders immigration policies in charge of the Republican Party’s entire legislative agenda.
Ten weeks after that endorsement helped Paul Ryan secure the Speakership, Ryan proceeded to swiftly pass an omnibus spending bill that funded and expanded President Obama’s immigration agenda.
Ryan’s bill provided funding for sanctuary cities, illegal alien resettlement, illegal alien tax credits, and visa issuances to nearly 300,000 (temporary and permanent) Muslim migrants over the next 12 months alone. The bill also funded an expansion of the highly controversial H-2B foreign worker program, which Sen. Tom Cotton said violated Ryan’s “promise not to bring major immigration legislation to the floor this year.”
The editors at National Review waited until the omnibus bill had passed before issuing a statement about it. They called it “disappointing.” The top Disqus comment on that statement called them out on not naming the “perpetraitors” responsible:
The only person named in this editorial is Trump, who had nothing to do with this behemoth. Why can’t you type the names of the perpetraitors Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell?
UPDATE
“EDITORS’ NOTE: This article has been updated since its initial publication.”
The pathetic editorial board of NRO added that last, naming names/finger pointing at Ryan and McConnell, sentence in the middle of the night.
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