Paul Ryan: We Learned from the Bush Years that Stimulus 'Didn't Work'

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes posts a video of Paul Ryan expressing support for a stimulus package in 2002. The video of Ryan endorsing a $42 billion stimulus bill when Bush was president is supposed to be evidence that Ryan is a hypocrite because he opposed an $862 billion stimulus package when Obama was president.

Liberal blogger Suzy Khimm of the Washington Post argues that Ryan is not a hypocrite because “most of the 2002 stimulus that Ryan supported, in fact, is largely in line with [Republican] ideology today. The Bush stimulus was distinct from Obama’s not only because it was far smaller, but also because it focused predominantly on tax cuts for businesses….”