{"id":29878,"date":"2012-08-17T06:14:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/17\/he-was-for-the-stimulus-before-he-was-against-it.html"},"modified":"2012-08-17T06:14:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:14:02","slug":"he-was-for-the-stimulus-before-he-was-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/17\/he-was-for-the-stimulus-before-he-was-against-it.html","title":{"rendered":"He was for the stimulus before he was against it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, Paul Ryan\u00a0was against it, then for it (insofar as requesting funds from it) even while he was against it, then fully against it (to the extent of denying he'd ever been for it), until forced to admit yesterday he'd been for it, even though actually against it.<\/p>\n

Ryan's not the only GOP pol to have been pontificating over the wastefulness and futility of the stimulus, even while writing glowing applications for local businesses and groups to get money from it (assuring the feds\u00a0that it would bring in business and jobs to Wisconsin, even as he was publicly railing that the stimulus would do nothing for the employment situation). \u00a0<\/p>\n

But he is, of course, the poster boy for "fiscal responsibility". \u00a0And the VP candidate. \u00a0And that he's been so absent-minded<\/i> in his denial that ever did any such thing doesn't lend any sense of credibility to the matter.<\/p>\n

\n

Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn 2010, Paul Ryan denied appealing for stimulus funds<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter seeking millions of dollars from a federal stimulus program he opposed, Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan then appeared on a Boston talk radio program and denied he lobbied t…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Google+:<\/strong> View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actually, Paul Ryan\u00a0was against it, then for it (insofar as requesting funds from it) even while he was against it, then fully against it (to the extent of denying he'd ever been for it), until forced to admit yesterday he'd been for it, even though actually against it. Ryan's not the only GOP pol to … Continue reading “He was for the stimulus before he was against it”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32930,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/27\/the-stimulus-of-caffeine-is-in.html","url_meta":{"origin":29878,"position":0},"title":"The Stimulus of Caffeine is in…","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Mar-13 5:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stimulus of Caffeine is insignificant compared to the Power of an Overheated Office to put me to sleep.","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29837,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/wasteful-stimulus-for-clean-energy-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html","url_meta":{"origin":29878,"position":1},"title":"Wasteful stimulus for clean energy for me, but not for thee","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Aug-12 7:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Ryan was, of course, vehement that all those stimulus dollars were evil, ineffective, wasteful, and a DOOOOOM up the nation.Except he was glad to endorse Wisconsin groups applying for stimulus funds.And, of course, we all know that federal funding of clean energy research and the like are a bunch\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2FPaulRyan-300x221.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":30783,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/romney-government-stimulus-bad-but-it-makes-for-a-nice-speaking-venue.html","url_meta":{"origin":29878,"position":2},"title":"Romney: Government Stimulus = Bad (but it makes for a nice speaking venue)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Oct-12 2:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Romney: Government Stimulus = Bad (but it makes for a nice speaking venue)Mentioned only for (a) the mild irony and (b) it's a local landmark. Embedded Link After Bashing Government Spending, Romney Campaigns At National Landmark Built By The New Deal On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney and his campaign\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1616,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/03\/stimulus.html","url_meta":{"origin":29878,"position":3},"title":"Stimulus","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Dec-01 8:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"PunditWatch's Quote of the Week \"In Europe they call it socialism, here we call it a stimulus package.\" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0--David Brooks...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30565,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/12\/the-election-as-stimulus.html","url_meta":{"origin":29878,"position":4},"title":"The Election as Stimulus!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Oct-12 8:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This segment was awesome. And I, for one, look forward to seeing Chelsea Clinton running vs. Donald Trump.Reshared post from +The Daily Show\"The problem isn't that there's too much money in elections. It's that there are not enough elections in the first place. \" - John Oliver http:\/\/on.cc.com\/X0Z8Zw Google+: View\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13652,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/obama_on_infrastructure.html","url_meta":{"origin":29878,"position":5},"title":"Obama on Infrastructure","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Oct-08 1:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This article has\u00a0a video from the New America Foundation on how investing in infrastructure is not only desperately needed, but is the sort of economic stimulus we pretty badly need....","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}