Hate the stimulus? You lie!
Congressman Joe Wilson hates the stimulus package. So does Kit Bond. They think it’s wasteful, wasteful, wasteful good, gooooood…
Sen. Christopher S. Bond regularly railed against President Obama’s economic stimulus plan as irresponsible spending that would drive up the national debt. But behind the scenes, the Missouri Republican quietly sought more than $50 million from a federal agency for two projects in his state.
Mr. Bond was not alone. More than a dozen Republican lawmakers, while denouncing the stimulus to the media and their constituents, privately sent letters to just one of the federal government’s many agencies seeking stimulus money for home-state pork projects.
The letters to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, expose the gulf between lawmakers’ public criticism of the overall stimulus package and their private lobbying for projects close to home.
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For David Gregory, there’s only Joe Wilson
David Gregory is infamous in my circles for his eight-year bromance with George W. Bush (George used to call him “Stretch.” … Gregory demurred on asking tough questions about invading Iraq or spying on American citizens. No verification on whether they ever actually kissed.) Now, as Gregory continues his mission to completely tank “Meet the Press,” today he came up with a new way to smooch the GOP: pretending that aw shucks, South Carolina clodhopper Addison “Joe” Wilson has no opponent in 2010.
Gregory today, bantering with his fellow GOP back-scratcher, Chuck Todd:
MR. GREGORY: Well, let’s–you’re talking about organizing Democrats or rallying Democrats. What about the Republicans here? Because one of the big headlines out of all this was Congressman Joe Wilson calling the president a liar. He did apologize once the leadership made him do it. And yet he released this Web video in, in concert with the fact that he’s raised a million bucks for his campaign. … Read more
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