Guilty As Stim: Chris Hayes Digs Up Devastating Video Of Paul Ryan Stimulus Hypocrisy
Source: Mediaite
Newly-minted vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan was already having a bad first week of running-matery when he told a reporter that he never asked for stimulus, only to be later confronted with letters in which he did exactly that, letters in which he extolled the job-creating virtues of stimulus funds. On Sunday mornings Up with Chris Hayes, host Chris Hayes dug Ryans shovel-ready hole a little deeper with some devastating archival videos that show Ryan arguing for stimulus more forcefully than any Democrat.
With the Romney/Ryan ticket already losing the fight they knew they were going to have, they needed this stimulus story like they needed a knife in their Grannys necks. When Ryan told an Ohio TV reporter that he never asked for stimulus, however, he opened a can of worms the size of Cleveland. Ryan also told that local reporter that he opposed the stimulus because it doesnt work.
As it turned out, Ryan had secured tens of millions of dollars in stimulus funds by writing letters praising the program. Ryans office explained that he was just trying to help some of his constituents out
with something that he says doesnt work.
Thats pretty bad, but a constituent made me do it is the kind of answer that might satisfy people, especially the Ryan-enthralled mainstream media. Enter Chris Hayes, who set the table with a 2010 clip of Ryan blasting borrow and spend policies as a failed experiment, followed by some Bush-era clips of Ryan forcefully advocating for those exact kinds of policies, while also acknowledging that unemployment often drags on in a recovery. The fact that Paul Ryan is making arguments in these clips that could serve as campaign ads for President Obama isnt the most surprising thing about these clips, though:
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Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/guilty-as-stim-chris-hayes-digs-up-devastating-video-of-paul-ryan-stimulus-hypocrisy/
Video at the link.
The 2002 video of Ryan also shows Ryan arguing for an extension of unemployment benefits and health insurance.
Ryan said then that even those concerned about the deficit should support the stimulus because the stimulus bill consisted of "time-tested, proven, bipartisan solutions" which will help the economy.
And after that speech on the floor of the House, Ryan returned to Wisconsin for a town hall where he told his constituents, "You have to spend a little to grow a little. What we're trying to do is stimulate that part of the economy that's on its back."
avebury
(10,952 posts)Lunabelle
(454 posts)Doesn't really surprise me.
KILL THE WISE ONE
(1,120 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)... Paul Ryan is a deceitful, lying weasel.
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)DUer Bravo11 coined it for Cantor but it fits Ryan so very well.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Also:
Deficits are good when a Repuke is in charge, bad when a Dem is in charge.
From last year:
"Reagan," Vice President Dick Cheney famously declared in 2002, "proved deficits don't matter." Unless, that is, a Democrat is in the White House. After all, while Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt and George W. Bush doubled it again, each Republican was rewarded with a second term in office. But as the Gallup polling data show, concern over the federal deficit hasn't been this high since Democratic budget balancer Bill Clinton was in office. All of which suggest the Republicans' born-again disdain for deficits ranks among the greatest - and most successful - political double-standards in recent memory.
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http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/reagan-proved-deficits-dont-matter
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)mopinko
(70,132 posts)they should just put this out as an ad.
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)Stuart G
(38,436 posts)cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)sound like Democrats, Blue Dogs, perhaps, but Democrats just the same. Amazing. They have both had to "change their stripes", some would say, sold their souls, for a shot at the big Presidential Prize. It's hard to be a political candidate in the age of file/archive video, instant Twitter, etc.
The Republicans must have lost their collective minds ... a Mormon and an Atheist ... neither they or families in any military service ... no foreign-policy experience, former left-centrists ... having to learn the "talking points" in public.
I predict a lot will just stay home...hopefully at least enough to offset the voter ID mess.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)The Nuns don't like him, certain of the Bishops have strongly nixed his plan and another mentioned he "started taking his children to Mass".
After watching tape of him on the House Floor advocating for human services such as unemployment and federal stimulus as a jobs program, etc., then his more current Ayn Rand video and actions, he's starting to look downright schizophrenic, as opposed to Mitt, the Flip-Flopper.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)They aren't pandering now. They were pandering then, and now we're hearing what they really think.
efhmc
(14,731 posts)highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)a photo of the Ryan video next to the first paragraph, but that one is just a photo.
efhmc
(14,731 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)More Thug, Bully and Bagger blah, blah, blah.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)the video results on her site ... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show ... are a stunning example of investigative journalism.
She's the new Molly Ivins...guts, grit, humor,and downright unabashed liberal/progressive. She, however, has a nationwide TW show and hope she keeps it for a long time.
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)already getting lame excuses..
"well... we had an economy still! so it would have worked! thats why!"
clearly he didnt even watch the video, cause Ryan admits we are already in a recession.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)cstanleytech
(26,298 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)the main reason people are elected to the house is to get as much as they can for their district. if they do`t they will be replaced by someone who will.
bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)The video is golden and needs to be used in a campaign ad outlining Ryan's HUGE flip flop.
ashling
(25,771 posts)vinny9698
(1,016 posts)Taking credit for it if it passed. You seen them do it with the stimulus bill, and other bills.
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)I'm buying dinner for the first reporter who asks that.
mwb970
(11,361 posts)And I'm used to this stuff! I watched in amazement as Ryan advanced every single (correct) argument for bush's stimulus, even getting sort of exercised and waving his hand about, etc.
Wow.
This is a stunning level of hypocrisy, even for a republican.