Paul Ryan (R-WI)-- Says Republicans Don't Embellish... Let's Take A Look

The tweet above is from the duplicitous Wisconsin congressman who is hopping up and down holding his wiener and hoping that his party's wise old men-- if there are any left-- or at least the rich guys in the board rooms who write the checks-- decide he's the GOP's "great white hope," the way Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) has. Ryan has taken more money from corporate interests-- from Big Insurance, from Wall Street, from the Medical-Industrial Complex-- than any other member of the Wisconsin congressional delegation... and more than any other politician in the history of Wisconsin. He is, by far, the most bought-off and owned member of Congress from a state where financial ethics is actually a big deal, more so than in most states.

In his tweet he refers to a WISN-TV report that highlights his own obfuscations, name calling and lies. The interview barely touches on Democrats' explanations of why and how health care reform can be achieved for the ordinary American working families that don't ever figure into Ryan's political calculus-- beyond his strategy of deceit. He starts off claiming that the astroturffed teabaggers are a spontaneous grassroots phenomena... and goes downhill from there, rolling out focus group-tested lie after lie. Trying to distance himself from the Republican Party's worst psychopaths and extremists-- the Sarah Palins, Mike Pences, Todd Akins and, of course, Michele Bachmann, Ryan carefully admits they're lying about death panels, denies even knowing about some of the other RNC lies and then goes on to subtly validate all the lies anyway: "The facts of this bill speak for themselves and we don't need to embellish them to make our case."

As for Republicans not embellishing... that's the joke of the summer. Along with using their typical fear and smear tactics, the only role the Republicans have played in the health care reform debate is embellishing. Let's take a colleague of Congressman Ryan's for example, the Honorable Pete Olson (R-TX), who did Congress the favor of ending the disgraceful career of Blue Dog Nick Lampson last year. It's the only positive thing Olson has done, but Sunday's town hall forum embellishment moment really takes the cake. Teabaggers and Republicans have continuously made an effort to confuse the hateful insurance companies and their death policies with what the Democrats are trying to do to remedy those same hateful conditions. If Olson could get caught and called out by constituents in a district like his-- despite the hissing from the Glenn Beck disciples-- then this battle can be won everywhere in America. Watch the short clip of Olson trying to use a sick child to make his point:



We don't have a specific mechanism set up yet for how to fight back against garden variety Republican embellishers and liars like Pete Olson-- we will-- but we do have one for on of the string-pullers behind the Olsons-- Paul Ryan. Help us Stop Paul Ryan now, before we have to face him on even tougher grounds.