Subject: [big campaign] AUDIO: Rep. Paul Ryan calls out GOP Leadership on hypocrisy
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:52:38 -0400
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Peeved Paul Ryan Cryin' about GOP Hypocrisy
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  The Daily Beast reported Monday that 'Young Gun' Paul
Ryan<http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-26/why-paul-ryan-skipped-the-gop/?cid=topic:featured3>thinks
GOP House leadership has misfired by not embracing his plan to cut
taxes for the rich at the expensive of the middle class, instead embracing
its own plan to cut taxes for the rich at the expense of the middle class.

Ryan, 40, is supposed to be the bullet-proof numbers guy, ranking on the
House Budget Committee, who is eager to take the chairmanship in the new
Congress following the promised wave election; he is supposed to be the
gifted ingénue who spent these last years in the minority bent over his
spread sheets while he tweaked his grindingly wonkish genius of 2008, "A
Roadmap for America's Future."

Instead, the Paul Ryan talked about these days on the Hill is withdrawn,
conflicted, chagrined, and unavailable. And most importantly, he was missing
in action last week at the ballyhooed Republican roll-out of "The Pledge to
America" in a Virginia hardware store.

Well, not completely unavailable and not completely withdrawn it seems.
According to audio obtained by One Wisconsin Now, Ryan has taken his pout
fest on the Wisconsin campaign trail.

Ryan, appearing at a fundraiser Monday morning in Monroe for Republican Dan
Henke, who is trying to succeed Kleefisch Kasualty, Brett Davis, in the
state Assembly had this to say about "Republicans":

So, the mistake we made -- the Republicans -- was we committed the greatest
sin in politics: the sin of hypocrisy. When you run as fiscal conservatives,
when you run on the principles of economic liberty and you don't govern that
way, that's hypocrisy. That's what happened to the republicans. Republicans,
a lot of us, fought the earmark culture and all those other things, but we
lost. Because, the more senior, you know, uh, power guys, they kind of had
this belief: we can take this Democratic machine and make it a Republican
machine. And what happened was our principles atrophied. We've got to get
that back.

Pretty damning stuff. To hear it for yourself, listen here: Paul
Ryan.mp3<http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/images/Paul%20Ryan.mp3>

He's right, though. The hypocrisy of Republicans is particularly galling
this year.

Actually, it raises the question: What is hypocrisy about hypocrisy called?

After all, the presently-parsimonious Paul Ryan spent the lights out for
eight years while Tom DeLay and Company ruled the House of Representatives.

Consider, the spending packed into the Young Gun's holster:

   - Ryan voted for eight straight GOP budgets which hiked spending by $1
   trillion - all told, Ryan voted for $20 trillion in budget spending alone.
   - Ryan helped finance two wars of the budget books
   - Ryan voted for the Medicare Part D plan, which former GAO head David
   Walker called an $8 trillion unfunded mandate.

Indeed, Paul, hypocrisy is an unseemly trait.

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