During an appearance on This Week, Ryan argued that President Obama “proposed the sequester” and hasn’t “put any details out there” to offset it. “We are here because the president back in the last session of Congress refused to cut spending in any place and therefore we wound up with the sequester,” Ryan insisted. But Ryan hasn’t always opposed the automatic cuts.
As Karl pointed out, when Congress was debating the Budget Control Act in August of 2011, Ryan supported the framework and urged his fellow Republicans to vote for the sequester:
KARL: Congressman, I’ve heard you Republicans for a long time. This was the president’s idea on and on and on but let’s look at your own words. What you said right after the law putting this in place was passed in August of 2011. These are your words. You said “what conservatives like me have been fighting for for years are statutory caps on spending, literally legal caps in law that says government agencies cannot spend over a set amount of money and if they breach that amount across the board sequester comes in to cut that spending. You can’t turn it out without a supermajority. We got that into law.” Now, it sounds to me there like if you weren’t taking credit for the idea of the sequester, you were certainly suggesting it was a good idea.First of all, the cuts in the sequester are what they are because the GOP went to the mat to kill any significant tax increases on the rich. It's why Boehner was proudly able to proclaim he got 98% of what he wanted in this arrangement. But now that a little bit of their massive corruption is being threatened, and the military industrial complex is about to take a hit, these scumbags are lying, suggesting we let 45,000 Americans per year die instead, and trying to blame the president for the deal they not only put together, but bragged about afterwords. What a bunch of tools..
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