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(6,160 posts)Ryan supported stimulus for Bush!!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Time to hit the beach, malaise.
malaise
(268,664 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)I needed that chuckle this morning.
Thanks.
malaise
(268,664 posts)They're inseparable
LiberalFighter
(50,767 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)Those were the days of their lives
RandiFan1290
(6,221 posts)Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)Wow!
More after the break.
His base will have to look up "demagoguery."
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Will have to look up "urge"
malaise
(268,664 posts)Hilarious hypocrisy from 2002 - all Keynes
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)hint: I am not holding my breath...
malaise
(268,664 posts)Hahahahah
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)I wonder what rationalization he'll give, tho...
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)while Mika frowns and shakes her head.
Atman
(31,464 posts)Just "I'm president Onama and I approve this message" and roll that tape of Ryan. The man is absolutely shameless.
malaise
(268,664 posts)Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Send it to all of your friends.
Call the MSM to put it on their news.
Reporters must question him and make
him answer for this gross hypocisy.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)Such hypocrisy!
Enrique
(27,461 posts)perfectly said.
malaise
(268,664 posts)is more accurate.
Sedona
(3,769 posts)who didn't quite wake up in time
(or were watching Stephanie Cutter kicking ass on CNN)
what we missed?
Enrique
(27,461 posts)incredible video of Paul Ryan arguing for stimulus in 2002. Several minutes of him making arguments that are 100% incompatible with his hard line opposition to stimulus under Obama.
malaise
(268,664 posts)where the plotted to sabotage the Obama administration.
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)As this tape proves they will defeat measures that have helped the economy in the past only because it is Obama's plan. They voted against the country's interests.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Who else was there on Obama's inauguration night?
It's always party before country for these slimy traitors.
Treasonous fuckers.
malaise
(268,664 posts)<snip>
A detailed account of who was present at the dinner on that January 20 night and the plan they worked out to bring down Obama is provided by Robert Draper in 'Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the US House of Representatives', published this week.
In his book, Draper opens with the heady atmosphere in Washington on the days running up to the inauguration and the day itself, which attracted 1.8 million to the mall to witness Obama being sworn in as America's first black president.
Those numbers contributed to a growing sense of unease among Republicans as much the defeat in the White House race the previous November. The 15 Republicans were in a sombre mood as they gathered at the Caucus Room in Washington, an upscale restaurant where a New York strip steak costs $51.
Attending the dinner were House members Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and Pete Sessions. From the Senate were Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, John Ensign and Jon Kyl. Others present were former House Speaker and future and failed presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who organised the dinner and sent out the invitations.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)aaahhh....the usual suspects (most of whom should be behind bars).
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Thank you, Enrique. It's always nice to have some kind of frikkin clue of what people are so merrily & blankly splooging about...
avebury
(10,951 posts)VIDEO: Paul Ryan defended stimulus in 2002, when George W. Bush wanted it
http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.com/_news/2012/08/19/13361928-video-paul-ryan-defended-stimulus-in-2002-when-george-w-bush-wanted-it
Yooperman
(592 posts)I agree with previous posters... Obama just has to use this to show how republicans will only support republicans period and here he not only supports the stimulus but also tells of those in the opposition party braking ranks to support "bush's" stimulus plan.
Romney condemns Obama for reaching across party lines to use his (Romney's) plan for Healthcare reform and now we have Ryan condemning Obama for using the same strategies he (Ryan) supported when Bush was pResident. For the life of me I can't understand how people can consider voting republican anymore. What a pair of Hypocrites the have standing up for the self proclaimed "Family Values" party.
YM
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)important, how it is generally agreed that government stiimulus in a time of recession is NECESSARY to get the economy rolling again...a Democrat couldn't make a stronger case than he did in that tape! WOW...
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)said, "WHO WAS THAT GUY"? and "SHOCKING!"
Ryan = Hypocrisy on steroids
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Speech on the House floor fervently for the Bush stimulus plan.
How can he possibly Etch-A -Sketch this away?
Good when Bush proposes it but awful when Obama does?
This must go viral.
spanone
(135,781 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)They can't
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/19/paul-ryan-bush-stimulus_n_1803761.html?utm_hp_ref=mitt-romney
<snip>
When Congressman Paul Ryan has been asked the past few years about the value of stimulus to the sagging economy and the nation's jobless, the Wisconsin Republican has dismissed it as meaningless, and dubbed it "sugar-high economics."
But that's when President Obama is pushing for the spending. When it was President George W. Bush arguing for more stimulus to boost a slow economy in the early 2000s, Ryan's economic analysis was entirely different.
"What we're trying to accomplish today with the passage of this third stimulus package is to create jobs and help the unemployed," Ryan said, in comments unearthed by MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" and provided to HuffPost. "What we're trying to accomplish is to pass the kinds of legislation that when they've passed in the past have grown the economy and gotten people back to work."
Video of the comments will be aired at 8:00 a.m. Sunday on MSNBC.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)also exposed begging for stimulus money.
what an asshole.
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)I wrote that down. I am SO going to use it, perhaps in a LTTE...
avebury
(10,951 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)CTyankee
(63,883 posts)Best thing I've seen on the teevee machine in a while!
malaise
(268,664 posts)Lochloosa
(16,057 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)Thanks
BumRushDaShow
(128,379 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)democrat_patriot
(2,774 posts)Good for him. Welcome back. You asshat.
lightcameron
(224 posts)If this doesn't come up in the VP debate, something is really wrong with our system.
renate
(13,776 posts)One of the people who found the video, or malaise, should do it. I would but I don't want to seem to take credit for doing the finding.
I don't think any DUer would want to miss seeing that.
Thanks, all of you who found this for us!
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)These hosts on MSNBC all have behind-the-scenes staffs that do the research and pore over the obscure but relevant stuff like voting records and speeches on the floor.
Maddow, O'Donnell, Chris Hayes et al get to present it on the air. I just want to give some credit to those who do the grunt work.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)Paul Ryan Defended Stimulus -- When George W. Bush Wanted It In 2002 (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/19/paul-ryan-bush-stimulus_n_1803761.html?utm_hp_ref=politics