{"id":2527,"date":"2012-09-10T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2012-09-10T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:17:00","slug":"gop-nominee-ryan-i-didnt-vote-for-the-defense-cuts-i-voted-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/gop-nominee-ryan-i-didnt-vote-for-the-defense-cuts-i-voted-for\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Nominee Ryan: I Didnt Vote For The Defense Cuts I Voted For"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan has gotten in hot water before for criticizing President Obama for the\u00a0very same defense cuts<\/a>\u00a0that he voted for in 2011. When confronted with this incongruity today on Face The Nation, Ryan simply denied that he ever voted for the cuts, telling an incredulous Norah O\u2019Donnell that he didn\u2019t actually vote for the cuts he\u2019s on record as voting for:<\/p>\n

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O\u2019DONNELL: Now you\u2019re criticizing the President for those same defense cuts you\u2019re voting for and called a victory.<\/p>\n

RYAN: No, no \u2014 I have to correct on you this, Norah. I voted for a mechanism that says the sequester will occur if we don\u2019t cut $1.2 trillion in government. \u2026 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\u2019t agree with that, our budget rejected that, and then on top of that is another $500 billion in defense cuts in the sequester.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: Right. A trillion dollars in defense spending, and you voted for it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

RYAN: No, Norah. I voted for the Budget Control Act.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: That included defense spending!<\/p>\n

RYAN: Norah, you\u2019re mistaken.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Watch it:<\/p>\n

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