Last week, Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan joined in the AIG bashing by voting for the punitive bonus tax.
This week, never mind:
A top Republican now has buyer’s remorse about his vote last week in favor of a punitive tax increase on AIG employees.
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the top Republican on the budget committee, said Thursday he would have voted against the 90 percent tax increase if he had known that legal scholars would deem it unconstitutional.
“Now, that I know — which I didn’t at the time — that this is unconstitutional, I wouldn’t have voted the same way,” Ryan said during a taping of C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” on Thursday — the show is set to air on Sunday. POLITICO was one of the participants in the Ryan interview.
Ryan blames confusion about the constitutionality of the plan on Democrats for rushing the bill through the House.
“You rush this thing to the floor. Nobody had time to review it,” Ryan said on the C-SPAN program, adding that lawmakers “got conflicting advice on it” before the vote.
Perhaps you should’ve thought about that before you voted “yes” Congressman.
Besides, you’re not nearly as good as Gilda:
