Paul Ryan: “This is Pat Toomey, President of Club for Growth, a conservative advocacy group. He was one of the most conservative…”

“This is Pat Toomey, President of Club for Growth, a conservative advocacy group. He was one of the most conservative Members of Congress for many years here, I believe, all through the nineties. Here is Pat Toomey in the Philadelphia Inquirer last Monday: ``Republicans have abandoned the principles of limited government and fiscal discipline that historically have united Republicans and energized the Republican base. Too many Republicans have gotten too comfortable in office.'' That is Pat Toomey. That is not Tim Ryan. That is not Kendrick Meek. Mr. Toomey went on to say: ``There is a very high level of frustration and disappointment among rank-and-file Republicans when they see a Republican-controlled Congress engaging in an obscene level of wasteful spending.'' We see it day in and day out: $9 billion in Iraq, nobody knows where it is; $16.3 billion, corporate subsidies to the oil companies; $16.3 billion of public tax money that hardworking citizens sent down here, the Republican Congress took that money and gave $16.3 billion of it to the energy companies. Wasteful spending, corporate welfare, time and time and time and time again. The family budget would not allow for money just to be spent. You ask yourselves, where did it go? Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, another third-party validator, talking about the Republicans. This was at the end of March: ``They are seen by the country as being in charge of a government that can't function.'' That is not me.…”