If it was the staff's fault, then why did Paul Ryan sign the letters?

[ProSense]

If it was the staff's fault, then why did Paul Ryan sign the letters?

by Jed Lewison

Paul Ryan gets caught lying and then blames the staff:

After initially denying he had requested stimulus funds, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has acknowledged that his office had sought the money for his Wisconsin congressional district and took responsibility for it.

“After having these letters called to my attention I checked into them, and they were treated as constituent service requests in the same way matters involving Social Security or Veterans Affairs are handled,” Ryan said in a statement late Thursday. “This is why I didn't recall the letters earlier.”

But if the staff is really to blame, then why is Ryan's personal signature on each letter? This isn't the work of an auto pen:



Unless Ryan's staff is forging his signature, he's being a real jerk by blaming them.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/17/1121336/-If-it-was-the-staff-s-fault-then-why-did-Paul-Ryan-sign-the-letters

Paul Ryan questioned over apparent shifts on issues
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021149046

Paul Ryan did request stimulus funds, but says retroactively he would not have done that (updated)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021146616

[randr]

1. He is a Republican

Lying is in their genes.

[madrchsod]

4. he`s a neoconteaparty republican....

the republicans of my youth were never this bad....

[The Magistrate]

2. He is Just a Signing Machine, Ma'am, Signs Anything Put in Front Of Him....

You do not expect such an exalted policy wonk and serious-minded numbers guy to actually read sopmething he siogns, do you? It would cut into valuable posturing time....

"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."

"Ryan loves America like Manson loved the Beatles."

[ProSense]

3. Really, he wants

people to believe his staff requested stimulus money without his knowledge.

Also added to the OP another dimension to his lies.

[The Magistrate]

5. And, ma'am, If He Had Known It was Stimulus Money, He Would Not Have Signed

Cause that bad, mean stimulus money he does not want in his district, no sir, because it only ruins America!

Regular Federal money, in amounts in excess of Federal revenues, that is the only kind of job-creating money he wants to wrangle for his constituents....