eventually blew over for a while. now paul ryan is not just a back bench congressman from wisconsin. now he s about to be the vice presidential nominee of the republican party. so now his record is getting a little renewed attention. the associated press and the boston globe this week dug up further evidence despite what paul ryan told joe from stoten, the congressman had, in fact, requested stimulus money while he was saying publicly that it was a horrible, awful thing that would hurt the economy. which means he was lying in that local radio interview in 2010. he lied to good old joe from stoten. now that it is the national media, though, that is nailing him for having been a hypocrite on the stimulus and not just being a hypocrite, but lying about it, i mean, saying in public it would be horrible for the economy and saying in private that it would be great for the economy. saying publicly that it was a disaster and privately that he would please like some of it because it looked
boston globe this week dug up further evidence despite what paul ryan told joe from stoten, the congressman had, in fact, requested stimulus money while he was saying publicly that it was a horrible, awful thing that would hurt the economy. which means he was lying in that local radio interview in 2010. he lied to good old joe from stoten. now that it is the national media, though, that is nailing him for having been a hypocrite on the stimulus and not just being a hypocrite, but lying about it, i mean, saying in public it would be horrible for the economy and saying in private that it would be great for the economy. saying publicly that it was a disaster and privately that he would please like some of it because it looked great. now that he s getting nailed for that publicly, he s not just lying to joe from stoten, now he is lying to the entire country that is trying to vet him as to whether or not he s qualified to be vice president. a report came out again today in the ap. it
this company he s writing on their behalf here actually got $20 million thanks in part to paul ryan s fulsome praise of how much stimulus money for that company would create jobs in his district. $20 million of that wasteful pointless money that would do nothing to create jobs, but you nevertheless begged for it because of your private argument about how much good it would do. your private argument that apparently you thought you would never have to answer for on the national stage. a report came out again today in the ap. it was a repeat of that wall street journal article from a couple of years ago where you had asked for stimulus money for your district. is that accurate? is that report accurate? i never asked for stimulus. i don t recall. i never asked for stimulus. so that was today. it s one thing to not answer for it, to joe from stoten,right, on a local radio show that you re pretty sure nobody in your home district yet alone national political circles was expected to
$20 million thanks in part to paul ryan s fulsome praise of how much stimulus money for that company would create jobs in his district. $20 million of that wasteful pointless money that would do nothing to create jobs, but you nevertheless begged for it because of your private argument about how much good it would do. your private argument that apparently you thought you would never have to answer for on the national stage. a report came out again today in the ap. it was a repeat of that wall street journal article from a couple of years ago where you had asked for stimulus money for your district. is that accurate? is that report accurate? i never asked for stimulus. i don t recall. i never asked for stimulus. so that was today. it s one thing to not answer for it, to joe from stoten, right, on a local radio show that you re pretty sure nobody in your home district yet alone national political circles was expected to have archived no matter how great the dan ray show is on w
castle of delaware trashed the stimulus, voted no on the stimulus and went back to delaware and handed out giant stimulus checks in his district talking about how good it was going to be for job growth. it was so embarrassing, right? one of the republican congressmen who was making that same public case at the time was a republican congressman named paul ryan. from wisconsin. we can do better than this. this bill, this economic stimulus package, is unworthy of our new president s signature. this is just a long spending wish list from every spending interest group that s out there. if you re going to go out and borrow $825 billion so recraft it for me, congressman. this is not going to work. that s what our concern is. this is unworthy of our new president s signature, this is a giveaway to special interests, this is not going to work, not going to work, he says. a year after the stimulus passed, paul ryan went on a local radio show in massachusetts where a guy named joe from