Remember, Speaker Ryan?

[bigtree]

Paul Ryan @SpeakerRyan
Let's do this. #SpeakerRyan



Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29 (cannabis law blogger at @bitterlawyer, former legislative director with the City of Long Beach)
Remember that time you walked into a soup kitchen (without an invitation) and washed *clean* dishes for a photo op? @SpeakerRyan

Michael Curry ?@mcurryfelidae07 Oct 29
@Stefan_BC And that the soup kitchen was harassed afterwards & lost donations b/c of your photo op? @SpeakerRyan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/soup-kitchen-paul-ryan-photo-donor_n_1980541.html …

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you asked for paternity leave as a condition of becoming speaker after nuking paid leave for other fed workers @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you voted to privatize and cut social security despite using SS Death Benefits from your dad to go to college? @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you killed alternative energy funding & gave massive subsidies to the oil industry (despite their record profits) @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you spent $700 of lobbyist money on wine in the same session you voted to cut WIC and food stamps? @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you banned your staff from accepting private travel but kept flying private jets courtesy of Pfizer? @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you bragged about your workouts while listening to RATM before @tmorello dunked on you @SpeakerRyan?



Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you forced your staff to read Ayn Rand, the ardent defender of capitalism & child murders @SpeakerRyan http://www.rawstory.com/2015/01/how-ayn-rand-became-a-big-admirer-of-serial-killer-william-hickman/ …

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you supported a law requiring kids to have the consent of their parents for an abortion, even in cases of incest? @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you voted to ban stem cell research despite a direct plea from Nancy Reagan as she cared for her dying husband? @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you killed a food safety bill the same year that 500 million eggs were recalled after giving 2k people salmonella @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you voted to give resturaunts legal immunity from suits if they sold meat that gave a customer mad cow disease? @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you doubled the interest rates on student loans after making them non-dishargable in bankruptcy? @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when lied about running a several sub 3 hour marathons and blamed the reporter at Runners World when you got caught? @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you tried to excluded LGBT, Indians, & Immigrants from the protections afforded by the violence against women act @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you voted to allow the FBI to seize library records of individuals without a warrant? @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you voted with @HillaryClinton for a Constitutional Amendment to criminalize the burning of the American Flag @SpeakerRyan?

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when tried to stop the FDA from regulating Tobacco despite your own father dying from a smoking related heart attack @SpeakerRyan

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you prayed to "your friend" @GabbyGiffords after she was shot & then voted against background checks for guns @SpeakerRyan

[malaise]

1. One more to add any day now

Remember when you pulled up the carpet in the speaker's office at tax payer expense because former ReTHUG speaker Boehner smoked in there???

[bigtree]

2. +1

[MH1]

4. Well ... I sympathize with him on that one

(if all parts of it are true - somehow I never knew Boehner smoked, maybe because that factoid wasn't relevant in the larger picture)

Maybe he should offer to offset the cost from campaign funds (if that's legal) or just use a different (smoke free) office instead of Boehner's old office.

I don't know if it's even possible to remove the stench of smoking from carpet. I've been in many supposedly "non-smoker" hotel and motel rooms where the owners had failed miserably.

[Human101948]

10. Febreze is your friend!

http://febreze.com/en-us/products/car-air-fresheners-smoke-odor-eliminator

Helpful Hints from Heloise

Getting rid of the smell can be difficult. My mother's homespun remedy: Set out bowls of white vinegar or ammonia (keep out of reach of children and pets). The two biggest areas that absorb odors are walls and flooring. Clean the walls -- if they can be wet-washed -- with a nonabrasive, all-purpose cleaner. No luck? You (or your building manager) may have to repaint. Be sure to brush on a sealant, available where paint is sold, first.

For carpeting, try a dry carpet cleaner with granules, which is spread on, left for a while, then vacuumed up, or a deodorizer, which you sprinkle on before running the vacuum. Beyond that, you may need a machine: a heavy-duty cleaner that sprays a detergent-and-water solution, or a shampooer. Last resort: Call in the carpet-care professionals.

[malaise]

11. I have no sympathy for folks who have no sympathy for others

[SoapBox]

15. Now THAT sends a message!

Of course PukeBaggers and Other assorted creeps could care less.

[valerief]

27. I'm 100% behind you on that. I have no sympathy for these evil motherfuckers.

BTW, that's a great clip.

[malaise]

28. One of the best Democratic Party ads ever

Fugg Ryan!

[cui bono]

47. Wow!

Hadn't seen that before! Thanks!

[malaise]

54. This one is bookmarked

Ryan must never be allowed to forget his position on serious matters

[humbled_opinion]

22. Never knww?

His finger tips were yellow and he had a terrible tint to his skin....

[daleanime]

33. Well, to be honest I thought that was because.....

he's full of shit.

[left on green only]

52. Boner Is So Addicted To Cigarattes That

....he doesn't smell like one, he *is* one. But not to worry because Ryan, one of the infamous repuke "Young Guns," will absorb the 2nd hand smoke into his lungs just like a Party champ. And I even have some good news for him: It's not just in the carpet. I can guarantee him that the *entire* office, along with every piece of furniture within it, is saturated and permeated with poisonous nicotine, just like the carpet is.

Here's wishing him a very healthy life, while he spends his precious energies making life to live for the 99% of us, as difficult as he possibly can.

[MH1]

9. Just saw this post - Congress is exempt from smoking rules

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7308583

The issue is with Boehner smoking, and Congress exempting itself from healthy workplace standards, not with an individual trying to clean up the resulting mess. (Not that I have any love for Ryan but this one isn't his fault.)

If we don't want taxpayer dollars used stupidly we should vote for better representatives. Any predictions on what voter turnout will be for Tuesday's election? Not that Congress is on the ballot this year, but local reps are important, too.

[TNNurse]

18. That is probably the only thing on which we agree. The smell would stay.

[passiveporcupine]

34. Why should he have to work in an environment that reeks of cigarette smoke?

The smell is totally obnoxious. I don't see why that expense should be on him. It's a health issue and a responsible thing to do for other people who visit him in that office.

I don't think it should even be legal to smoke in government buildings. Take your damn cigarette break outside like most working people have to do.

Edited to add:
I love that Ryan clip, but I still say, it's not just him who has to live with the smell. He gets to pull the carpet. But I hope that clip goes viral.

[jmowreader]

45. Too bad they can't send the bill to Boehner's retirement account

[cui bono]

48. That's not Ryan's fault though. Boehner should be footing the bill for that.

He stunk up the joint. In more ways than one.

[Enthusiast]

3. Kicked and recommended! I couldn't think any less of this asshole.

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[Omaha Steve]

5. Great post

K&R!

OS

[chervilant]

6. The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one... n/t

[midnight]

53. Some thoughts from cognidissidence:

"I don't think people asked me to be speaker so I can take more money from hardworking taxpayers to create some new federal entitlement. But I think people want to have members of Congress that represent them, that are like them," Ryan said. "Don't you want your member of Congress to be a citizen legislator who lives with you, among you, who has your own kinds of concerns, who wants to spend time with his children on Saturdays and Sundays?

Yes, we do and what is a concern is when someone in our family gets sick and we are living paycheck to paycheck and trying to figure out a way to take care of them and not lose our house.

Do you really think, if a member of Paul Ryans family was sick, he would come home and help take care of them BUT forfeit his pay while he was doing so?

Then there is also this gem,

"I live in Janesville, Wisconsin. I commute back and forth every week. I just work here. I don’t live here," he said, per Politico. "I get up very early in the morning. I work out. I work until about 11:30 at night. I go to bed, and I do the same thing the next day. It actually makes me more efficient. I can actually get more work done by sleeping on a cot in my office, and I’m going to keep doing it."
We were able to get a picture of Paul Ryan hard at work until 11:30 before he turned in on his cot.

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com

[mgardener]

7. How many women

Will be having babies this year with no paid leave?
Yet this thug demands for himself what he denies others?
He is getting paid to be speaker of the house. If he does not want to do the full job, he should not be paid his full salary.

[passiveporcupine]

35. Agreed n/t

[rurallib]

8. thanks for compiling this

I am sure it will come in handy to may here

[Augiedog]

12. Let's not forget he willingly tied himself to the rooftop of Mitt "the shits" presidential campaign

klown car. As the Chinese curse so aptly pleads, "may you have an interesting day". Hopefully this king of hypocrisy will have an interesting term as leader of the wakadoodles.

[gregcrawford]

13. TOON: Introducing Speaker Ryan

"Introducing Speaker Ryan." Editorial cartoon by Gregory Crawford. © 2015 World News Trust.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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[AlbertCat]

23. No one over 14 years of age...

..... should think that Ayn Rand has anything to contribute.

[passiveporcupine]

36. Is now second in line for Presidency

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Oh shit! I forgot about that part. I did wonder why they would vote in a tea partier for speaker...who the hell is behind these guys (tea partiers)?

I know it was orignially started by the Koch Bros, but are they still funding these guys? Probably the ones in congress, or anyone running for any republican office.

I guess the part I don't understand, is haven't people had enough of these clowns?

[gregcrawford]

38. The Koch brothers and few other rich sociopaths...

... funded the original "astroturf" organization through numerous cardboard nonprofit cutouts. A bunch of low-wattage intellects screeched about the Constitution without ever actually reading it in order to give a thin patina of legitimacy to the semi-literate trailer trash they conned into protesting, and self-aggrandizing clowns like Glen Beck gave them their Pox News talking points. They still had a hard time with spelling on their signs, though.

The weasels took over Toad Hall, busted up the furniture, and now they don't know what the hell to do with it.

[Jester Messiah]

14. He's a Republican. Quelle surprise.

What were we expecting, enlightened leadership? Forethought? Intelligence?

[gratuitous]

16. Speaker Ryan probably remembers all of it

The larger question will be, "Why doesn't the popular media remember any of this?"

[olegramps]

17. His adoration of Ayn Rand clearly explains why he is an evil bastard.

He claims to be a Christian, just like so many other Republicans, yet takes delight is starving children and anyone in need. He is rotten to the very core of his being, just like the majority of today's Republican politicians.

[dpatbrown]

20. Upsetting

This is my biggest complaint regarding the Republicans, the hypocrisy. They love to refer to themselves as Christians, but that's just a lie. Lawrence Yep (author of several children's books), referred to these folks as nothing but "Sunday Christians".
I totally agree with you, "rotten to the very core", and proud of it. He has no shame.

[Xyzse]

19. Y'Ouch. Brutal, but well deserved.

[bbgrunt]

21. it's all there for everyone to see--even the blind folks in WI.

[ffr]

24. K&R

Well done!

[jtuck004]

25. This one should be written somewhere in public so that he and others can enjoy it each day.

Stefan BC ?@Stefan_BC Oct 29
Remember when you doubled the interest rates on student loans after making them non-dischargeable in bankruptcy? @SpeakerRyan

[Faux pas]

26. K N R

[niyad]

29. such a depressing list.

[Myrina]

30. If any one of us had a performance review like this ...

.... we'd be fired. Yet somehow this douche gets re-elected AND "promoted"?

[libodem]

31. Astute Observation

[Poeradley]

32. Remember remember the 5th of november

and all other 364 days. We won't forget Speaker Ryan.

[Rex]

37. Remember when you were an honest and decent human being?

Don't worry, none of us do either!

[IcyPeas]

39. great list. this should be pinned somewhere lest we forget. nt

[Angry Dragon]

40. hippo-crit

[Blue Owl]

41. Look forward to the 3-hour marathon sessions

[rocktivity]

42. And remember when I made this video insprired by DU-er Scuba?

http://vimeo.com/48781343


rocktivity

[Iwillnevergiveup]

43. bigtree

YOU DID GOOD! Ryan - Speaker of the Hypocrites.

[Dont call me Shirley]

44. K R & BOOKMARKED! Excellent list, big tree!

[3catwoman3]

46. Thom Hartmann quoted this...

...list on his show his morning. Pretty damning summary.

[sheshe2]

49. Hell yes!

Kick and Rec!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[L. Coyote]

50. had to rec this above the big lie of the day

that made it to greatest thread

[smirkymonkey]

51. SO. EFFING. HATE. THIS. GUY!