Remember when Paul Ryan said he'd never asked for stimulus money even though he had? The Republican vice presidential candidate is now facing more claims of stimulus-related hypocrisy, with newly released footage showing he advocated a stimulus when George W. Bush proposed it in the early 2000s.

World's fittest man Paul Ryan is in a bit of ideological trouble today after it was revealed that the congressman lied about requesting a stimulus package. Just yesterday Ryan told ABC's Cincinatti affiliate:

Like all real Americans, Texas' Republican Gov. Rick Perry hates government bailouts. He even started a petition called "No Government Bailouts"! So it's awkward that his state balanced its budget almost entirely thanks to the federal government's stimulus program.

A new report says that 72,000 stimulus checks went to dead people. Outrage! And if they're dead, it proves they were just going to spend their $250 on cigarettes, alcohol and guns. (How else did they die?) Double-outrage!

What's the controversial new government spending measure today? According to Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn, it's that the Obama administration is using tax dollars to give monkeys cocaine. Wacky! But perhaps this is a skewed take, one needing context?

Rahm Emanuel, the President's Chief of Staff, is either the only reasonable man in the White House or he is a compromise monster who is killing Hope. The New York Times Magazine says "both, kinda."

As we learned during the Bush administration, the only legitimate role the federal government can play in stimulating the economy is sending everyone in America a check. That's always fiscally responsible, too. So why do Democrats hate simple economics?

Matt Drudge is pointing out that the stimulus package actually went to purchase pork and other crazy things like food by linking to some contracts on the Recovery.gov web site. We spent $5.7 million on "process cheese"? Crazy! Why?

Texas Governor Rick Perry is furious that Texas is losing its sovereignty, because of the Stimulus Bill, and so he is striking back with strongly worded statements about how much he hates the feds.

The Stimulus Bill is really long! And it's full of "numbers" and stuff! This is why no one is going to vote for it.

Now we get the "Obama won and is back on top" pieces, right? Because the stimulus looks like it'll sail through the joint committee. But the bill is—oh no!—smaller.

Barack Obama is going to cost the TV networks literally millions of dollars, because he has to appear on prime time TV three times this month to sell his stimulus bill that no one likes.

Barack Obama is in Elkhart, Indiana, one of those towns where there aren't any jobs left, to shame the Senate into passing his damn stimulus bill already.

The Senate votes today on the economic stimulus package which will (temporarily?) stave off utter doom. If it doesn't pass by a huge margin, Obama's "work together" agenda is a total failure! Time to panic!

Oh boy, the stimulus won't pass the Senate because it doesn't have that magic 60 votes! We're all screwed, because of imaginary filibusters!

When did the stimulus debate become about Rush Limbaugh? Seriously? This is a failure on everyone's part.

Washington views life as a zero-sum game: If you win, then I lose. Our leaders, in pursuing partisan passions, forget that the whole point of economic stimulus is to make the pie larger.