Update: 10-2-13

Oh gee – we found him!
He’s been busy working on amnesty! ~

While Americans are distracted once again by a government shut down and while they are valiantly fighting off Obama while he tries to force himself on America collectively with Obamacare, Paul Ryan has been quietly working away at passing Amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants.

Original post: 9-30-13

I have to confess to forgetting about Rep. Paul Ryan completely, until I ran across this headline the other day: Where Has Paul Ryan Been During the Latest Shutdown Debate?

Rep. Paul D. Ryan, the House Budget chairman and the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential candidate, has been a trusted, go-to source on budget and fiscal issues in the party for years. Yet the Wisconsin Republican has not, seemingly, been at the forefront of the most recent fight over a stopgap spending bill, nor has he been a loud voice on the debt limit.

 
Indeed. There’s certainly been no sign of THIS GUY since November 2012. What’s up with that?

 
According to Matt Fuller at Roll Call, many of Ryan’s fellow House Republicans weren’t even sure what he’d been doing ~

“It’s a legitimate question. I have no idea,” Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah said in response to a question about why Ryan hasn’t been more vocal.
 
“I don’t know that I can really answer that question,” said House Agriculture Chairman Frank D. Lucas of Oklahoma. “Maybe he’s got a lot of things going on. I just don’t know.”

 
A quick web search didn’t turn up much more on Ryan, although he has gotten some coverage in his local Milwaukee papers.
 
He definitely wasn’t supportive of Ted Cruz and Mike Lee’s effort to defund Obamacare ~

“We are trying to make a case to the guys in the Senate and White House that it is not in their interest to roll out a law that is not ready to be rolled out. So let’s delay this thing,” the Janesville Republican said in a speech to the Waukesha County Business Alliance (on September 13th).
 
Those people who want Republicans in the House to defund Obamacare or shut down the government don’t understand how federal funding works, Ryan explained. If the federal government were shut down, Obamacare would continue to operate because it is an entitlement program just like Social Security and Medicare, he said.

Hmmmm….
So other than siding with the RINOs, it seems he’s been pretty busy working on – well… himself: Paul Ryan cashes in on White House run ~

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan may have lost his bid to become vice president. But the Janesville Republican has hit the political jackpot.
 
New records show Ryan has raised $1.7million in the first six months of the year, putting him on pace to blow past his old fundraising records.

 
Yep. Sadly, for all that initial promise, Paul Ryan has turned out to be just another self-interested politician (keep your head down and your coffers full). One more French Republican.

 

“All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.”
 
~ George Washington, letter to Catherine MacAuly Graham, 1790 ~