even though republicans approved of every sing component of it in the past. it was turned down purely for politics. they didn t want to give the president a win. peter, i ll get you in. jonathan, to governor rendell s point bringing up the $787 billion stimulus, we ve got this new conflict from paul ryan. he says he fought tooth and nail against the stimulus but records show he asked for money for two different companies, funds for two different companies. so does that mean he supported the stimulus or not? how do you reconcile this? he voted against it. there is always attention with members of congress who vote against something. does that mean you want to keep your district from getting any money? i don t know the circumstances. it s almost like when a democrat votes against a tax cut and then take it. are they hypocritical for doing that? i see some similarities with that line of logic. specifically he says he did not ask for money. that is what he said. now records show he d
or even worse than pointless to spend money in this way to try to help the economy, it wasn t just a bad idea, it was an immediate evil that was going to make the country worse off than it already was. the president in tandem with democrats in congress have pushed through a $787 billion bill full of pork barrel spending, government waste, and massive borrowing cleverly called stimulus. government waste, cleverly called stimulus. republican congressman eric cantor of virginia there. that was a typical example of the kind of things they were saying. and whether or not you agree with congressman cantor s argument, it is an intellectually cogent stance if you think about it, right? i m voting no on this thing. i think it will be harmful. if this is done, it not only won t help anything, it will hurt the economy. so i m voting no. it has an internal logic. it makes sense. it makes sense unless you are the person making that case in public who is also writing this
against it. they also made a big public case that the stimulus bill was bad for the country. that it would do harm to the country. that it wasn t just a pointless or even worse than pointless to spend money in this way to try to help the economy, it wasn t just a bad idea, it was an immediate evil that was going to make the country worse off than it already was. the president in tandem with democrats in congress have pushed through a $787 billion bill full of pork barrel spending, government waste, and massive borrowing cleverly called stimulus. government waste, cleverly called stimulus. republican congressman eric cantor of virginia there. that was a typical example of the kind of things they were saying. and whether or not you agree with congressman cantor s argument, it is an intellectually cogent stance if you think about it, right? i m voting no on this thing. i think it will be harmful. if this is done, it not only won t help anything, it will hurt the economy. so i m voting
it was shown, along with c-span footage of the house vote on the recovery act, otherwise known as the stimulus bill, which no republican in the house voted for. one of the republicans who was at that retreat and voted against the recovery act, was paul ryan, of course. who, as the boston globe reports today, sought stimulus funds while decrying stimulus. the globe reports, in 2009, as representative paul ryan was rail against president obama s $787 billion stimulus package as a wasteful spending spree, he wrote at least four letters to president obama s secretary of energy, asking that millions of dollars from the program be granted to a pair of wisconsin conservatives groups. here is a portion of the letter paul ryan wrote in december of 2009 to energy secretary steven
general patton, talking about what he would do to hitler s army. it was shown, along with c-span footage of the house vote on the recovery act, otherwise known as the stimulus bill, which no republican in the house voted for. one of the republicans who was at that retreat and voted against the recovery act, was paul ryan, of course. who, as the boston globe reports today, sought stimulus funds while decrying stimulus. the globe reports, in 2009, as representative paul ryan was rail against president obama s $787 billion stimulus package as a wasteful spending spree, he wrote at least four letters to president obama s secretary of energy, asking that millions of dollars from the program be granted to a pair of wisconsin conservatives groups. here is a portion of the letter paul ryan wrote in december of