Exclusive: Paul Ryan Quietly Requested Obamacare Cash

[Chico Man]

Source: The Nation

Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan is barnstorming the country, promising to repeal every provision of the Affordable Care Act if the Romney-Ryan ticket is elected. But a letter he wrote to the Obama administration may undermine this message.

On December 10, 2010, Ryan penned a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services to recommend a grant application for the Kenosha Community Health Center, Inc to develop a new facility in Racine, Wisconsin, an area within Ryan's district. "The proposed new facility, the Belle City Neighborhood Health Center, will serve both the preventative and comprehensive primary health care needs of thousands of new patients of all ages who are currently without health care," Ryan wrote.


Read more: http://www.thenation.com/blog/169757/exclusive-paul-ryan-quietly-requested-obamacare-cash

[klook]

1. Ryan was for Obamacare before he was against it. (n/t)

[mindwalker_i]

19. Why does anybody believe anything from Coupon Candidate?

He's a proven liar (even about frickin' jogging), and he's running with Romney - whose demonstrated ability to change positions more than Traci Lords is legendary.

Paul "coupon" Ryan, talking out of his ass like it was a three-hour marathon.

[LibGranny]

2. Lyin Ryan talks out of both sides of his mouth and hopes

he doesn't get caught! He's just counter with another lie!

[PearliePoo2]

3. Seems like this little "Slime" always has his hand out behind his back.

No end to the cashola he'd like from the big bad fed that he loves to trash-talk.
Keep exposing this liar for the fraud he is.

[lastlib]

7. This comment is highly offensive to members of the Mustelidae family!!

No self-respecting weasel would allow himself to be compared to Ryan. However, comparing him to slime-worms and slugs is acceptable.

[PearliePoo2]

11. You are right...ferret-face maybe?..naw..ok

slime it is!
apologies to weasels!

[Judi Lynn]

4. That's o.k. The corporate media tell us he has the "looks" of a movie star! Dazzling blue eyes!

Not too much body fat! Wow!

[CrispyQ]

12. Erin Burnett, gushing all over him, after his pack of lies at the RNC.

His falsehoods didn't matter cuz he was "passionate" or some such bullshit.



The media.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. "THE ABS! LOOK AT THE ABS.... QUICK!!!" nt

[calimary]

20. "Looks?" What "looks"? Hey, I'm a connoisseur of male pulchritude. He's a ZERO.

Can't get past the widow's peak with that guy. Then I trip over the ears. Still looking for that handsome hunky thing. Sure isn't on THAT guy.

Besides, behind that physical sheath of skin and blue eyes (meh) and widow's peak, I see nothing but a cold, hard "heart" and a mean, selfish "spirit." Ugly is as ugly does. I don't care if he looks like Hugh Jackman on the outside. Lyin' ryan's ideas - and his flagrant, DELIBERATELY-CALCULATED and message-massaged deceit - make him ugly as sin, to this beholder.

[AzDar]

26. Oh, god... what you said! I do NOT understand how he can be considered "hot".

He's a clay-faced, jawline-challenged, thin-lipped shack of shit packaged in an oversized Eddie Munster costume. The squirrelly voice and penchant for lies are not helpful, either.

[cosmicone]

5. Ryan has only two moving parts

... mouth and anus ....

and they are interchangeable

[The Wizard]

27. The two parts of the body

that emit sound are at either end of the digestive system. Methinks Lyin' Ryan stuffs his poop chute and craps out his mouth. With apologies to South Park.

[Chico Man]

6. If he didn't have Obamacare...

I'm sure God would have flown down from the sky and built the facility.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/01/paul-ryan-repeal-health-law-because-rights-come-from-god/

[SoapBox]

8. Whaaaat?

SUCH a hypocrite? Hates government...but asks for stuff from government.

Guess he just couldn't help himself after *13* years in the House.

And will ABC, etc. cover this?

ya, right.

[Journeyman]

9. "Shocked! Shocked I say to see there is gambling in this establishment!"

(a croupier hands Renault a pile of money)

Croupier: "Your winnings, sir."

Captain Renault: (sotto voce) "Oh, thank you very much."

Captain Renault: (aloud) "Everybody out at once!"

[Solly Mack]

10. Typical

[onenote]

13. That autopen is in big trouble now.

[yends21012]

14. Lyin Ryan is disingenuous about rights

In the interview video where Ryan made his statement about rights being from nature and God, he said it was what was stated in the Declaration of Independence. If he read the Declaration of Independence past the first paragraph, he would see that in the second paragraph it said, "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."

Actually, he didn't even get it correct about rights and nature and God. The Declaration of Independence states "...the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..." meaning of course that regardless of station in life, money, or politics, we should all be treated equally as human beings.

Ryan is a putz.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. hope DNC is getting some commercials ready that highlight this

[jsr]

17. Just the tip of the iceberg

of all the stuff he's been doing in Congress.

[Chico Man]

21. It is funny

That he is actually doing the right thing. A good example of a "Do Something" Congress enabled by Obamacare!

[Berlum]

18. You just can't trust these Republicans at all

Republicans are Freaking Grifters & Liars....

[hue]

22. Lee Fang=one of the best political investigators!! K&R!

[TahitiNut]

23. The Belle City Neighborhood Health Center probably merits support.

Ryan does not.

[defacto7]

24. It's a great lesson for Democratic politicians ...

Speak the truth, do what you say, and say what you do.

because it WILL come back, and eventually it will make you or break you.

Call it. Paul's law.

[mojo2012]

25. It's my Staffers Fault!

Just like when he requested $$ from the stimulus that he voted AGAINST. He claimed his staffers wrote the letters and he just didn't read them closely.

Lying' Ryan strikes AGAIN!

[tanyev]

28. I think Don Henley should make an exception and let the GOP use one of his songs.

There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes

[D23MIURG23]

29. I guess he didn't do it quitely enough.

fucking hypocrite.

[Scairp]

30. Could he possibly be more of a dick?

I think not. He's reached the pinnacle of dickheadedness.

[Delphinus]

31. This should be out in front of everyone's eyes.

What a liar.

[cascadiance]

32. I wonder how this might be tied in with his working with Wyden that happened about the same time...

Interesting that only six days after this letter was sent, Oregon senator Ron Wyden released a statement that he was going in for surgery for prostate cancer not long after he was reelected.

http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-wyden-to-undergo-surgery-for-early-stage-prostate-cancer

And that same month Wyden and Ryan worked together to "reform medicare".

http://crosscut.com/2012/08/20/politics-government/110095/odd-bedfellows-sen-ron-wyden-and-paul-ryan/

I wonder if this newly released news is connected with those events. Some "creative" horse trading that perhaps we don't know the extent of yet?

Don't have a Nation account, or I'd have posted a comment on that article, but perhaps they should be looking in to this angle as to how these might be linked. Each of these stories kind of stands out as to how they all have more information that we should know about that is probably "behind the scenes".

[Denise21]

33. Paul Ryan does not believe in giving anything then why is he working for government

Paul Ryan get out of government if you hate it so much we don't want you at all get a job. See if you can Ryan get a regular job. Why are you working for government we don't want you there representing us we hate you.