PAUL RYAN: Voted yes on fat federal subsidies to oil companies just before he told voters he was ag

[iwishiwas]

I can not believe people keep voting this fool into office!!


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PAUL RYAN: Voted yes on fat federal subsidies to oil companies just before he told voters he was against them
Fri, 04/29/2011 - 6:16pm |

Paul Ryan: Ryan's road showPaul Ryan: Ryan's road showMaybe this is progress, of a strange sort.

Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican House budget chairman, responding to citizens at a couple more of the contentious town hall meetings he's held, said he favors dropping federal subsidies to oil companies, which are ringing up record profits. The lead of a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story:

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan may not agree with President Barack Obama on a lot of things, but he indicated Thursday during town hall meetings and in Watertown that he agrees oil subsidies should end.

Ryan, a Janesville Republican, responded to questions about oil company subsidies in the context of his support for ending "corporate welfare."

"We're talking about reforming the safety net, the welfare system; we also want to get rid of corporate welfare," Ryan had said in both Oak Creek and Waterford.

Oh, do we really, now? The record actually shows that just in this short year alone, Ryan voted the other way, and more than once. As the progressive web site ThinkProgress.org noted, "Ryan voted twice this year to actually extend subsidies to oil companies, once on a motion to recommit on a shorter-term continuing resolution and again when he supported an amendment to the initial House CR. The Ryan budget, meanwhile, doesn’t specifically target oil subsidies, but only generally promises to end “corporate welfare.”

In a followup, ThinkProgress added:..........................................

[Scuba]

1. Paul Ryan is a lying POS. The people of Wisconsin need to send him and his grandma-killing bill...

...back to Janesville.

[Oceansaway]

2. Rob Zerban is running against him...

donate to Rob at Act Blue.....

[OHdem10]

3. You of course realize, the establishment Republicans are planning

to have Ryan run for President if Mitch Daniels, Ind, decides
NOT to jump into the race.

Three nightly news stories on Fox have pointed this out.