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Thursday, August 16, 2012

2012 Welfare Queen Paul Ryan Demanded Stimulus Money, Then Lied About Demanding Stimulus Money

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:13 AM

Well, well, well! Looks like the porkulus wasn't quite so evil when Paul Ryan's home district needed some money. The Boston Globe has a nice scoop about Ryan's blatant two-facedness:

After seeking millions of dollars from a federal stimulus program he opposed on grounds it would not help the economy, Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan then appeared on a Boston talk radio program and denied he lobbied the Obama administration for the home state aid.

On October 28, 2010, after the Wisconsin Republican penned at least five letters to two federal departments seeking grants under the Obama administration’s economic recovery package, Ryan responded to a caller on WBZ’s Nightside with Dan Rea who asked if he sought any of the money. Ryan said that he would not vote against something “then write to the government to ask them to send us money.”

Ryan was one of the highest-profile anti-stimulus Republicans. He's also a bold-faced liar.

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*bald-faced.

Posted by doceb on August 16, 2012 at 10:17 AM

When Republicans call him "the brains" of the party, they fail to mention he's schizoid and a pathological liar.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on August 16, 2012 at 10:18 AM

Have you ever met an italics-faced liar?

Or even a sans serif one...

Yes, hypocrisy...everywhere. Even in SROTU's den.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on August 16, 2012 at 10:19 AM

What @1 said. Really.

Or was it a {\bf I WANT STIMULUS} kind of thing?

Posted by Asparagus! on August 16, 2012 at 10:26 AM

No, Paul Constant has made that error like 10,000 times and shows no sign of ever letting up.

Posted by rejemy on August 16, 2012 at 10:27 AM

Bad liars get caught, that's why I prefer good liars.

Posted by dnt trust me on August 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM

Whatever. He also voted for Medicare-D, TARP, the 2008 stimulus, and supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're talking several trillion dollars in unfunded entitlements and government handouts here, what's another few million gonna hurt?

Posted by blip on August 16, 2012 at 11:01 AM

He'll even it all out by defunding Planned Parenthood, NPR, and Amtrak.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on August 16, 2012 at 11:04 AM

if i was the kind of independent flibberdigibbet who hadn't made up my mind between obama & rmoney yet, this is exactly the kind of information i would never be able to understand.

Posted by Max Solomon on August 16, 2012 at 11:08 AM

It's like he doesn't realize everything he ever said that was on a radio or a TV or in public where people have cell phones already exists on the Net.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 16, 2012 at 11:18 AM

@9 Welcome to "Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes" politicking.

@10 He is aiming at the hearts and guts of conservative voters, no facts (or brains) required. See fox news, wallstreet journal etc, you know, the people that keeps branding him as a 'serious thinker'.

Posted by Large Hardon Colluder on August 16, 2012 at 11:50 AM

@10:
No. It's more like he doesn't care.

Posted by Keekee on August 16, 2012 at 11:58 AM

Have you ever seen an honest Republican run for President?

Posted by very bad homo on August 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM

@13: i've never seen it because i'm not elderly, but i'm told that Eisenhower was honest. and Lincoln i guess, Honest Abe and all that.

Posted by Max Solomon on August 16, 2012 at 12:30 PM

@14 - By today's standards, Eisenhower was a Pinko-Commie who never would've been elected. All that talk of bewaring the military-industrial complex:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

A bankrupted economy, defense budget that is higher than the next twenty countries combined, and half a dozen wars later...

Posted by johnjjeeves on August 16, 2012 at 12:54 PM

"Ryan was one of the highest-profile anti-stimulus Republicans. He's also a bold-faced liar."

Now surely he's not the only Republican you've ever encountered.

Posted by Daddy Love on August 16, 2012 at 3:26 PM

@14
Eisenhower was not honest, he just didn't have a far-right agenda. He got into office on his military WWII creds (like Grant), avoided scandal (even though he had a decades-long affair), and built the Interstate Highway System for the military, for the then-astronomical cost of $110 billion and wedded us to auto instead of rail transportation at the behest of GM forever.

Posted by Daddy Love on August 16, 2012 at 3:29 PM