Rep. Paul Ryan
WASHINGTON -- In recent years, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) has increasingly held himself to a higher standard than the rest of Congress when it comes to what he considered wasteful federal spending.
Ryan emerged as one of the harshest critics of President Obama's stimulus bill. He rose to greater prominence for his forceful stances against earmarks -- imposing a moratorium, pushing for transparency, and urging higher ethical standards.The anti-earmark stance was not without risk: It led him to link up with his then-liberal counterpart in the Senate, Sen. Russ Feingold, in proposing legislation for a presidential line-item veto that would target "bridge-to-nowhere" style earmarks in 2007."We have to drain the earmark swamp," Ryan was quoted as saying in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinelstory. By the end of that year, Ryan had signed a pledge that would sever links between campaign donations and earmarks.It's a tough standard to live up to. And one that not even Ryan could maintain.
it appears we are finding more about Ryan on a daily basis then we have Romney, and it's just as suspect as Romney's. how are they going to run on stuff they have either supported or railed agaist, with only notice of change was like "yesterday" "who's zoomin' who?". looks like we know now who let the frauds out.
Ryan's spokesman said the newly minted vice presidential nominee has done nothing improper. "The folks who have contributed to Congressman Ryan over the years have done so because they support his vision and agenda, not the other way around," Brendan Buck, Ryan's spokesman, said via email.
of course he and Romney have done nothig illegal, because they rewrote the laws to make their transgressions neol-egal recognize
