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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaul Ryan Claims He Didn’t Know He Signed Letters Asking For Stimulus Funds
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But the letters at least five in total are all signed by Ryan in different ways, suggesting that he or an aide hand-signed the documents. Recovery Act is also prominently written in the very first line:
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/18/710751/paul-ryan-tells-fox-i-didnt-know-about-the-letters-i-signed-asking-for-stimulus-funds/
What a liar!
Paul Ryan is not the only Republican who publicly trashed the Stimulus as being bad for the economy but went back to their districts and begged for the money and said how good the stimulus would be for the economy. Republican double speak.
Watch this clip: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#48697119
I also found it on youtube slightly shorter in length
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Fits in well with Rmoney signing tax returns that he doesn't know anything about. Its his blind trust, tax attorneys, accountants fault if anything is amiss (like residency). You know - "the staff".
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)when their excuses for anything they don't want to be accountable for are regular statements of shockingly careless, inadequate, and derelict stewardship of their state offices or personal affairs.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Though I don't think they have invented the word yet that accurately conveys the dissonance around this level of hubris that also accounts for the level of sheer stupidity that falls for it.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)any candidate who would blindly sign something with running the country? That's his excuse? That hurts him worse than just being honest IMO, it looks like he doesn't pay enough attention to detail to be trusted to run the country.
appleannie1
(5,070 posts)very intelligent. So, is he claiming he is too stupid to be VP or that he could unknowingly sign away the country because of bad business practices on his part?
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Not only that he wanted green things with the stimulus money and Republican voters don't like green things.
Can't play it both ways, Mr. Ryan
lunatica
(53,410 posts)And RandRyan isn't one of them.
maxrandb
(15,360 posts)Let's send tax return disclosure letters to Romney, put them in with a bunch of Thank You letters to the millionaire backers and XMAS cards...get him to sign them, and voilla...we'll have his tax returns.
You'd have to be a frickin' masochist to work as a Repuke staffer. Not only do you get thrown under the bus, but the back wheels run over you and you get a blast of diesel from the exhaust.
I would like my President to not "accidentally" sign a mission order to send Seals into Pakistan, and then claim that a "staffer" must of just got him to sign it.
Who the fuck was Ryan's staffer? Radar O'Reily?
BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)No, it was Corporal Klinger!
Or maybe Barney Fife.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)If not, there's still time. I'm sure the federal government would accept a refund and his conservative constituents wouldn't mind.
kevinbgoode1
(153 posts)You can bet that money is never going to be refunded.
BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)hmmm.... How about this - someone robo-signed them! Yeah, that's the ticket!
He can join his fellow repuke Lovitz playing "Tommy Flanagan" at Pathological Liars Anonymous.