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(CBS News) As a congressman in a comfortably safe Wisconsin district, Rep. Paul Ryan voted for some expensive initiatives while building a reputation as a serious conservative. But now that he is Mitt Romney's running mate, some of his ideological inconsistencies are now coming under the microscope.Ryan came under fire this week after reports surfaced thatRyan requested stimulus funds for Wisconsin businesses even as he lambasted President Obama's $787 billion initiative as a waste of money. The congressman initially denied requesting the funds, but later Thursday evening said his office did make make the requests on behalf of the businesses. His office mistakenly treated the issue like any other "constituent service" request, he said, and "should have been handled differently."The Obama campaign on Thursday seized on the issue, sending out an official press release with the reports of Ryan's initial denials.The Obama campaign also this week cast Ryan as a flip-flopper after the Republican congressman said, "Mitt Romney and I are going to crack down on China cheating. And we're going to make sure that trade works for Americans." Danny Kanner, a spokesman for the president's re-election team, noted that Ryan voted against a bill in September 2010 authorizing the Commerce Department to impose duties on imports from countries with undervalued currencies such as China. "Just a few days after being picked as Romney's vice presidential candidate because of his 'ideas,' it's unfortunate and troubling that he so quickly abandons them," Kanner said.
if their base were not so gung ho gullible we may not have to go along for the ride they look forward to, devoid of factual truths, not right wing truths sorry that's an oxymoron.
While Ryan saw little negative advertising in his comfortable district, the League of Conservation Voters did in 2011 attack him for supporting "big oil" and accused him of supporting the industry to line his own pockets. The ad opens with Ryan agreeing with a constituent that oil subsidies need to stop before voting to support them.
Now that the Obama campaign has set its sights on Ryan's policies, there are plenty of other votes they can target: Ryan in his 14 years in Congress has voted for pricey intiatives, as Politico notes, like the Bush-era tax cuts, the $700 billion bank bailout, the expansion of Medicare and the highway bill that included the notorious "Bridge to Nowhere."
In 2003, Ryan broke with other conservatives to back the Medicare Modernization Act, which gave seniors prescription drug benefits at a cost initially estimated at $400 billion over 10 years. Uwe Reinhardt, a health care economist at Princeton University, noted to CBS News this week that Ryan voted for a program "which gave the elderly a huge new entitlement and put it all on the tab from here to kingdom come." Reinhardt argues that Ryan's current plan for overhauling Medicare won't control health care costs.
the right accusing one of it's own of lining their pockets with big oil money?????? wow he just never passed anything that shows his non existent empathy for his fellow Americans, especially the elderly, now he drags his Mom out to tout his "i care" bonafides? does she know she's being used? it's true those who fall for this latest mama strategy will fall for anything and they know it, right wing voters break out the picnic table, you're about to be served.
