Happy stimulus hypocrisy day!
Republicans like Bill Shuster of PA said: 'show me the dirty, awful money!'
One year ago today, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the “stimulus bill.” Republicans hated it. I mean they really hated it (wink) … and every single one of them voted against it … of course, soon afterward, the Republican members immediately started begging for some of the money. And before long, these solid opponents of the stimulus were rushing out to ribbon cuttings to take credit for bringing home the bacon they voted against, because of course, the stimulus doesn’t create jobs, except for the jobs in their districts that it will create if they could just please get some of it. Funny how that works … Rachel Maddow did a great job clobbering the party of “no, but” this week on her show, but on February 17th, we should all pour a little out for the GOPers who hate pork, except when it’s on their plate. Read more
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.
As to Mr. Wilson: Read more
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