Paul Ryan Finally Tells the Truth

Ryan's unfortunate slip

By Steve Benen

-

Tue Mar 12, 2013

Jed Lewison catches House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) delivering a line today he probably wishes he could take back.





For those who can't watch clips online, Ryan said, in reference to his plans for health care:

"This to us is something that we're not going to give up on, because we're not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people."

Coming soon to a campaign ad near you.

Incidentally, if you saw any of Ryan's remarks, you might have noticed that, immediately behind the congressman, there were two women from the House GOP caucus. That wouldn't be especially noteworthy, except there were a total of 16 House Republicans, including Ryan, standing in front of reporters in the House Radio & TV Gallery to introduce the budget plan -- 14 of them were white guys.

As Kaili Joy Gray noted, by some remarkable coincidence, the two women on hand for the event just happened to be standing immediately to Ryan's left and right, positioned perfectly for the cameras.


http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/12/17286141-ryans-unfortunate-slip?lite

Paul Ryan Mocked By Fox News (VIDEO)

March 11, 2013 |Posted by: Samuel Warde

 

Here’s a great one from our WTF file: Paul Ryan was defending his budget plan this Sunday on Fox News and admitted that the entire plan is contingent on the repeal of Obamacare.
A stunned Chris Wallace of Fox News, had to ask for a clarification and immediately dismissed the idea:

CHRIS WALLACE: I’m going to pick up on this because I must say I didn’t understand it. Are you saying that as part of your budget, you would repeal, you assume the repeal of Obamacare?
REP. PAUL RYAN: Yes.
WALLACE: Well, that’s not going to happen.
 

http://samuel-warde.com/2013/03/paul-ryan-mocked-by-fox-news-video/