Harvey Dent Returns!

Paul Ryan (R- Wall St.) channels Harvey Dent once again!   This time he channeled the clean cut, yet psychotic Batman villian who lives by the flip of a coin, all before most people had their first cup of coffee(and on the same show even).

1.  Here is Paul Ryan on "Fox News Sunday"(emphasis mine):

 “We've had some missteps," said Ryan, also noting many conservatives' concerns that the campaign is failing to project a clear message to voters. "But at the end of the day, the choice is really clear, and we're giving people a very clear choice."

Watch some more and this is what you would have seen:

 WALLACE:  But I have to point out, you haven’t  given me the math. 

RYAN: No, but, well… I don't have the time…  it would take me too long to go through all the math,....

Yes Paul, it is very clear if you went into specifics, of what you planned on doing to our country you would get voted off the island!   Ann Romney was wrong, when she said all we have to worry about is Mitt's "mental health" , it looks like we have to worry even more about his running mate's!  

OOPS maybe I Did Ask for Millions....

The sideshow circus that is Paul ryan keeps on rolling.....

Yesterday audio was released of Paul ryan (R-ayn rand) stating unequivocally that he would NEVER ask for stimulus money.

Ryan said that he would not vote against something “then write to the government to ask them to send us money.”

“I did not request any stimulus money,” he continued.

The problem with that of course, is that we have his letters that he sent and signed.  Now being caught in his blatant lie, he reversed his lie and says  he forgot he asked for millions of stimulus dollars and praised the program.  

The Wisconsin congressman said he had forgotten that his office sent letters — with his signature — to the Energy and Labor departments asking for money from the stimulus program on behalf of two companies in his home state.

 The best part of his sorry excuse for his blatant lies is this:

 "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."

You can not blame the Congressman since they treated them like "constituent Services" and in time time he has been in Congress, he can't remember ever partaking in constituent services, so how could he remember this.   It must have been a rogue staff member that actually tried to help the 1st Congressional District.

No answer yet if that staff member has been found and disciplined.

Even during his explanation, Paul "Harvey Dent" rAYN (R- $350 bottles of wine), contradicted himself.

"That stimulus didn't work," Romney said at an Ohio speech in June. "That stimulus didn't put more private-sector people to work."
Yet in Ryan's letter to the Labor Department in October 2009, he backed the Energy Center of Wisconsin's grant application for stimulus money "to develop an industry-driven training and placement agenda that intends to place 1,000 workers in green jobs." The company did not win the Labor Department grant, federal records show.
Despite the letter, Ryan echoed Romney's position on Thursday.
"Regardless, it's clear that the Obama stimulus did nothing to stimulate the economy, and now the president is asking to do it all over again," he said.

When you stand for nothing, you will say anything!  To be fair though, maybe pink slip paulie is just upset that his favorite band penned in Op-Ed stating

'Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against'

 

Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

Ryan claims that he likes Rage's sound, but not the lyrics. Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage.

I wonder what Ryan's favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of "Fuck the Police"? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!

Don't mistake me, I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta "rage" in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he's not raging against is the privileged elite he's groveling in front of for campaign contributions.

This just in...paul ryan picked his new campaign song!!

Paul Ryan as Harvey Dent!

H/t Boston Globe: 

In 2009, as Rep. Paul D. Ryan was railing against President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package as a “wasteful spending spree,” he wrote at least four letters to Obama’s secretary of energy asking that millions of dollars from the program be granted to a pair of Wisconsin conservation groups, according to documents obtained by the Globe.

 The documents show that Ryan’s attempts to take advantage of the stimulus funds even after he voted against them was more expansive than previously reported. Ryan was criticized by some House Democrats in 2010 after the Wall Street Journal reported that he was among several Republicans lawmakers who sought the stimulus money for their constituents by, in his case, writing a letter in 2010 to the Department of Labor.

 The additional letters include his praise for the energy program’s aims, and clash with his own budget priorities, which call for curtailing many of the same Department of Energy investments that are designed to spur the growth of green technologies and reduce reliance on fossil fuels..

How so very fiscally conservative of him..... How so very " tea party" of him.  yet as we like to say here @ Cog Dis...but wait there is more.   It turns out that Paul Ryan (R- Wall St.) has more in common with Harvey Dent than one would think! 

This trillion dollar spending bill misses the mark on all counts,” said Ryan in a statement from his office. “This is not a crisis we can spend and borrow our way out of – that is how we got here in the first place.”   Heads! 

 It turns out that one of the biggest "spending interests" out there is Paul Ryan.

 But the biggest payoff came for the Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation. Ryan predicted the $20 million grant would be able to “create or retain approximately 7,600 new jobs over the three-year grant period and the subsequent three years.” Tails

 “All this temporary booster shot stimulus didn’t work in the stimulus package, didn’t work when the last administration tried these things, so we don’t want to go with ideas that have proven to fail, we want ideas that have proven to succeed,” he said in an interview on MSNBC in September 2011. “I think tax reform is the key.”  Heads

 “I was pleased that the primary objectives of their project will allow residents and businesess in the partner cities to reduce their energy costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and stimulate the local economy by creating new jobs,” Ryan wrote to Energy Secretary Steven Chu on December 18, 2009, on behalf of the Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation.  Tails

Paul ryan is a fiscal conservative -  Heads 

Paul ryan's voting record is no where near fiscally conservative.   Other departures from small-government orthodoxy by Ryan include his support of President George W. Bush’s Medicare prescription drug program, the TARP bailout of Wall Street, and the auto bailout.   Tails!