Paul Ryan, "I did not vote, for the vote, that I voted for!"

Courtesy of Think Progress:

O’DONNELL: Now you’re criticizing the President for those same defense cuts you’re voting for and called a victory. 

RYAN: No, no — I have to correct on you this, Norah. I voted for a mechanism that says the sequester will occur if we don’t cut $1.2 trillion in government. … We can get into this nomenclature; I voted for the Budget Control Act. But the Obama Administration proposed $478 billion in defense cuts. We don’t agree with that, our budget rejected that, and then on top of that is another $500 billion in defense cuts in the sequester. 

O’DONNELL: Right. A trillion dollars in defense spending, and you voted for it! 

RYAN: No, Norah. I voted for the Budget Control Act. 

O’DONNELL: That included defense spending! 

RYAN: Norah, you’re mistaken. 

O’Donnell is, in fact, not mistaken. The Budget Control Act, as passed, included both the roughly $600 billion in “sequestration” cuts that will happen if there’s no compromise on the budget by December as well as the $487 billion of military-supported cuts that will take place regardless. The fact that Ryan may have wished that the bill didn’t contain said defense cuts does not absolve him of the fact that he and 201 other Republicans voted for the bill as-passed. 

Moreover, Ryan’s statement after voting for the bill contained not a single word of criticism about the defense cuts. As O’Donnell correctly noted, Ryan said the bill “represents a victory for those committed to controlling government spending and growing our economy” and that “The agreement – while far from perfect – underscores the extent to which the new House majority has successfully changed Washington’s culture of spending.” It’s at best misleading, and at worst an outright lie, for Ryan to assert that voting for the Budget Control Act did not mean voting for defense cuts.

You know I have often used Sarah Palin as the barometer for determining just how big of a liar somebody is, but I have to say that Paul Ryan may have surpassed her in outright bullshit.

And at it turns out NEITHER of them can hold a candle to Mitt the Twit who has managed to tell 616 lies in 33 weeks.

If the team of Romney and Ryan were actually able to win this election it would literally mean that honesty was no longer of ANY importance in choosing our leaders, and that the only thing that mattered was how much money they had to finance their campaign, and how many lies they could jam down the throats of the American people.

And wouldn't THAT suck for the future of our democracy?