{"id":7694,"date":"2012-08-17T17:48:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T21:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2012-08-18T03:46:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T07:46:31","slug":"paul-ryan-stimulus-lies-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/08\/17\/paul-ryan-stimulus-lies-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan&#8217;s Stimulus Flimflam (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one fell swoop, Paul Ryan&#8217;s been caught in a web of <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/08\/presented-with-letters-ryan-admits-requesting-stimulus-cash\/\">hypocrisy and lies over Obama&#8217;s stimulus package<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After repeated denials, Paul Ryan has admitted he requested stimulus cash even after sharply criticizing the program.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan had denied doing so as recently as Wednesday, when he spoke to ABC\u2019s Cincinnati affiliate, WCPO, in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never asked for stimulus,\u201d Mitt Romney\u2019s new running mate said. \u201cI don\u2019t recall\u2026 so I really can\u2019t comment on it. I opposed the stimulus because it doesn\u2019t work, it didn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, during an interview on WBZ\u2019s NewsRadio he was asked by a caller if he \u201caccepted any money\u201d into his district. Ryan said he did not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not one [of those] people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money,\u201d the congressman answered.<\/p>\n<p>But as we\u2019ve now learned, Ryan did write letters. He did request stimulus funds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul Ryan&#8217;s Stimulus Flimflam (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Paul Ryan&#8217;s been caught in a lie<br \/>\nAnd hypocrisy too &#8212; what a guy!<br \/>\nTo the stim he said, &#8220;No!&#8221;<br \/>\nYet he asked for stim dough,<br \/>\nThen denied that he did it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/287750.html\">Pork pie<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one fell swoop, Paul Ryan&#8217;s been caught in a web of hypocrisy and lies over Obama&#8217;s stimulus package: After repeated denials, Paul Ryan has admitted he requested stimulus cash even after sharply criticizing the program. Ryan had denied doing so as recently as Wednesday, when he spoke to ABC\u2019s Cincinnati affiliate, WCPO, in Ohio. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,44,21,114,20,126,1481,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[2792,2786,454,2764,1250,2891,1893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7694"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7712,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions\/7712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}