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Yessiree!!! Politics at it`s finest...oh the hipocrisy....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100228/pl_mcclatchy/3437744
WASHINGTON Democrats dubbed them "highway hypocrites," the mostly Republican lawmakers who voted against last year's $862 billion economic stimulus bill but tried to get money from it for projects in their home states.
Idaho's three Republicans and sole Democrat all voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, for example, yet they also championed projects that were paid for with stimulus money.
The bipartisan foursome joined to write letters that supported the work of several Idaho communities that were trying to land a piece of a highly competitive $1.5 billion transportation grant program created by the recovery act. None of the Idaho projects got any money.
However, the state did get $468 million for nuclear waste cleanup at the Idaho National Laboratory , an award that the entire delegation praised and that pushed the state, population 1.5 million, to the top tier of per-capita stimulus funding.
"I'm not one who says there were no jobs created by it, or no jobs saved by it," said Republican Rep. Mike Simpson , whose district includes the nuclear lab. "I mean, obviously there were, whether it was in transportation or other areas."
However, Simpson said, "Once it's passed, my constituents are going to pay the taxes just like everybody else. And it would be silly for a state or a congressman to say, 'Well, we're going to pay the taxes to pay off that debt, but we're not going to take any of the benefits of it.' "
That kind of reasoning has prompted the White House and Democrats to say, "I told you so" to Republicans who've continued to charge that the massive spending plan was wasteful but have lobbied for stimulus
there is more....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100228/pl_mcclatchy/3437744
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100228/pl_mcclatchy/3437744
WASHINGTON Democrats dubbed them "highway hypocrites," the mostly Republican lawmakers who voted against last year's $862 billion economic stimulus bill but tried to get money from it for projects in their home states.
Idaho's three Republicans and sole Democrat all voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, for example, yet they also championed projects that were paid for with stimulus money.
The bipartisan foursome joined to write letters that supported the work of several Idaho communities that were trying to land a piece of a highly competitive $1.5 billion transportation grant program created by the recovery act. None of the Idaho projects got any money.
However, the state did get $468 million for nuclear waste cleanup at the Idaho National Laboratory , an award that the entire delegation praised and that pushed the state, population 1.5 million, to the top tier of per-capita stimulus funding.
"I'm not one who says there were no jobs created by it, or no jobs saved by it," said Republican Rep. Mike Simpson , whose district includes the nuclear lab. "I mean, obviously there were, whether it was in transportation or other areas."
However, Simpson said, "Once it's passed, my constituents are going to pay the taxes just like everybody else. And it would be silly for a state or a congressman to say, 'Well, we're going to pay the taxes to pay off that debt, but we're not going to take any of the benefits of it.' "
That kind of reasoning has prompted the White House and Democrats to say, "I told you so" to Republicans who've continued to charge that the massive spending plan was wasteful but have lobbied for stimulus
there is more....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100228/pl_mcclatchy/3437744
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