Ryan's voting record: Big-spending conservatism

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Ryan's voting record: Big-spending conservatism

Paul Ryan rose to the top of the political ranks on his reputation as a conservative budget hawk. But his voting record shows him to be far from a pure fiscal conservative.

Ryan voted for the $700 billion bank bailout, the biggest Medicare expansion in U.S. history, a massive highway bill that included the “Bridge to Nowhere” and other big-ticket priorities when George W. Bush was president — going to bat for a high-spending GOP agenda that the tea party base now looks on with regret.

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Still, Ryan’s voting record shows that he was willing to vote for expensive government programs when some other fiscal conservative said no.

In the fall of 2008, Ryan voted for TARP. Later that year, he voted for loans to help rescue the auto industry, making him one of just 32 Republicans to do so — and his vote came after Romney wrote the New York Times op-ed titled “Let Detroit go bankrupt.”

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Don't piss of the tea party base!

 

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Paul Ryan lifetime American Conservative Union rating: 93 percent

OP fail.

But if it was 100%, a Libtard such as yourself would be starting threads complaining about him being too conservative.

 

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