Hypocrisy Alert: Republicans take credit for the stimulus plan after they voted against it.
There should also be a law passed that states if Republicans obstruct a bill they may not be allowed to take credit for it if it passes. I knew this was coming, didn't you?
Last week, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) slammed President Obama’s recovery and reinvestment plan. “Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby the Democrats will be poised to spend as much as $3 trillion in your tax dollars,” Bond said. “Unfortunately, this bill stimulates the debt, it stimulates the growth of government, but it doesn’t stimulate jobs,” Bond insisted.
However, today Bond is touring Missouri to tout the very stimulus plan he railed against. In a press release, Bond boasted about an amendment he included in the bill to provide more funding for affordable housing — and that will create jobs:
Last week, Bond led a bipartisan group of Senators in introducing an amendment to help provide needy families affordable housing. Bond’s amendment provides $2 billion to fund low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) projects that have been stalled by the financial credit crisis. As part of the Democrats’ spending bill now signed into law, the Senate unanimously accepted Bond’s provision. […]
This provision will have a real impact in Missouri, especially for low-income, working families in need of safe and affordable housing. … Bond’s amendment will save more than 700 housing units and create 3,000 new jobs in Missouri.
“This is the type of emergency stimulus spending we should be supporting — programs that will create jobs now and help families,” Bond said.
I love the fact that Goober Graham is gladly taking the money:
– Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who also campaigned ardently against the bill, said he would nevertheless gladly accept its funds for his state. “You don’t want to be crazy here,” he said.
And Digby finds this nugget about the psycho right wing Govenors that may want to refuse some of the money. Stupidly, Clyburn , inserted a clause in the bill that says legislator's can override the Governor and accept the money. I know he was just looking out for the people in the states where Republicans are more interested in playing politics than helping their constituents.
In fact, governors who reject some of the stimulus aid may find themselves overridden by their own legislatures because of language Clyburn included in the bill that allows lawmakers to accept the federal money even if their governors object.He inserted the provision based on the early and vocal opposition to the stimulus plan by South Carolina's Republican governor, Mark Sanford. But it also means governors like Sanford and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal — a GOP up-and-comer often mentioned as a potential 2012 presidential candidate — can burnish their conservative credentials, knowing all the while that their legislatures can accept the money anyway.
I guess these people are placing their political bets on the economy not being so bad that they get blamed, but still bad enough that they can blame Obama. It's quite tight rope they're walking.
If the Democrats were as ruthless and reckless with other people's lives as the Republicans are, they wouldn't have put that clause in the legislation and would have let the Republicans pay the price for this nonsense. You know if the shoe were on the other foot, the GOP kamikazees would have forced the Dems to bear the brunt of such a decision. But then, that's the reason why the country is in this catastrophic mess in the first place isn't it? The Republicans just don't give a damn about the people they are supposed to be representing.
Amen.
Bring your hip waders if you're planning to tour repuglican hypocrisy.
saying "repuglican hypocrisy" is redundant... save your wrists, they are synonymous.
I try to keep my brain from turning to mush from following the logic of "republican leadership" (oxymoron alert)
and a shower cap?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Perhaps a hazmat suit would be better
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
like Antigua. Ooops. Is that Senator John "Unidentifed Companion" Cornyn I see over there finding facts?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
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I am from Missouri. If it was me, I wouldn't let one penny
of stimulus money into any red district....well at least threaten
it. Akins and Emerson two full blown redneck, rubber stamp,
racist, "christian" cocksuckers would have killed their own kids
to keep the stimulus bill down.. I say FINE, you get nothing.
Turns those RED districts BLUE in a heartbeat.
He is less than useless. He's a bible-thumping, yes-man with no discernible backbone. Between him and Bond, my blood pressure is up about 30 points in the last few weeks. Akin gets re-elected because he has such heavy following in St.Charles County. Let's see how many of his very middle-class homoeowners out there are happy with his performance in all of this mess. They are hurting and afraid. They might actually turn on the turd.
“You don’t want to be crazy here,” - Republican Senator Lindsay Graham
Oh...it's far too late for that, Lindsay.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I always picture Lindsay Graham having some kind of weird diaper wearing sissy boy fetish.
cuckold fetish I'm sure...and he's NOT the bull.
On a related note: every time I hear a right-wing commenter point out how racially inclusive the U.S. is in comparison with the rest of the world and how nowhere else would you see a mostly white population elect a black president... it makes me wanna puke. They have no right to take credit for that after bombarding Obama with racially suggestive slander during the campaign.
to take credit for other people's hard work.
But that is not an exclusive area of the right wing nuttery.
After Obama was elected, in MSNBC I think, one of the commentators was fawning over the fact that only America could have done this. And gave the example of Germany, and he basically asked "Can you imagine Germany doing something similar. I mean they talk a lot over there in Europe about being liberal and progressive. But it is always America who has to lead the path" blah blah blah...
Completely ignoring the fact that Germany has had a female Chancellor for a while, and a divorcee to boot. Can you imagine a female agnostic divorce being elected president of the US of A?
Neither can I.
When people have to resort to take credit for other people's achievements, or try to diminish other people's achievement to heighten theirs... that usually it wasn't much of an achievement from their part to begin with.
Seems to me the republicans are going all in right now and praying to god that no one notices how fu*king foolish they look.
Yeah, let's all vote against the stimulus package and then we can take credit for being smart and knowing it would fail, but while we're at it, we'll take as much money as we can from it while we are hoping it won't do any good. I don't think the voters will notice that we voted against them and fought this package every step of the way.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
What are these repugs up to?
My tinfoil hat tells me not to trust these pricks.
it also mentions they're not stupid, but very cunning.
I smell deception.
your instincts are very good and right on target... you can't trust these ba$tards... they're in it for themselves only. They'd sell their entire family up the river if they thought they could make a buck off of it. Lying, avaricious, greedy, sexually-frustrated, hypocrites and most of them racist mofos to boot... did I miss anything?!
nope...wait...there it is...ya did miss something...
traitors, treasonous rat bastards, fascist fucks....there...I think that covers it.
The obstructionist, cowardly, Reslug bastards should not be allowed any of the stimulus because they voted NO.
Lindsey is like all the characters in The Little Red Hen. He didn't want to help bake the bread but now that it's baked he wants his slices.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
the crumbs dribbling off his ample jowls as he speaks with his masticating mouth full.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Oh wow, didn't need that mental image. Now I'm gonna have to wash my brain with something strong.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I like the Little Red Hen and slices of bread. And you, of course.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
"....if Republicans obstruct a bill they may not be allowed to take credit for it if it passes." Does this apply to DemocRATS as well?
Intense use of mixed case!
Fair?
Remember...Republicans are two year olds...and they are taught in that manner.
Typical Republican Talking Points
Taxes - Bad
Tax Cuts - Good
Democrats - Bad
Liberals - VERY Bad
Religious extremism - Good
Sex scandals - For Democrats - Bad...For Republicans - Bad, but only if you get caught...then...you blame Hollywood, straying from God...and need forgiveness...and then all is forgiven...and move on.
Unions - Bad
Management - Good
You get the picture.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Homosexuals - TERRIFYINGLY Bad - Be sure to hide in closet until Uncle Larry leaves or is elected to the Senate.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
y'all pretty much summed up the GOP mindset quite nicely.
Highlighting the "rat" in Democrats.
Go away, Repug troll. And close your mouth and pick up your knuckles while you're doing it.
you've got me laughing out loud!!!! Thanks... I knew I smelled a troll!
Its ironic that anyone who disagrees with the views on this site is subject to the usual strawman argument and name calling that always highlights the C&L readers.
I won't go away. Unlike you, I enjoy reading the oposite point of view on a daily basis. It helps me get a handle on both sides of a problem.
If a Dem stood against this bill, and it succeeds. He/she is damned. If it fails. Well, then they were right.
Same applies to the GOP.
The thing is, we'll call out our own. We'll question their motives. The GOP, not so much.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"The thing is, we'll call out our own. We'll question their motives"
Funny, you don't read anything on this site about the Democratic scandles. Heres a good link to remind you guys: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090219/ap_on_go_...
Obama and the DemocRATS do things that made your thongs bunch up in your crack when the Repubs did them during the Bush administration, but you and the C&L staff convienently forget your principles when the the shoe is on the other foot. How long will you keep spinning? A rats a rat, and a crooks a crook no matter what the party affiliation.
Have the balls to call it like it is.
If he voted against the bill, he voted against his own amendment. and is bragging about it.
Facts? We don't need no stinking facts.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Conservatives don't care about reality, since they can just make up their own.
Yeah, he's a regular riot isn't he?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
"U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the No. 3 House Democrat, said the governors — some of whom are said to be eyeing White House bids in 2012 — are putting their own interests first."
"He inserted the provision based on the early and vocal opposition to the stimulus plan by South Carolina's Republican governor, Mark Sanford."
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Study the symptoms not the virus...
Someone start a new tv show and name it Republicans Gone Wild. There is plenty of material out there for at least the first 13 shows and they add more daily.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
You got a thing for saggy white man boobies, POP?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Umm, nope just saggy white men who act like boobs and become ridiculous with every action the take. But they must keep all their clothes on at all times.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
white middle age men screaming "No?" at the top of their lungs?
You have more than returned my unpleasant image favor. Actually, you have not just returned it, not merely topped it, you have toppled it.
Congrats.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
My pleasure! :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Did some gamma ray strike them from outer space and turn them into the sick and twisted beings that they are?
What happened?
they've been like this forever.
Look at the conservative record on voting rights, civil rights, unemployment insurance, social programs, social security.
I'm sure conservative cavemen saw the creation of fire as somehow undermining the caveman way of life.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
It did, didn't it?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I sure hope so and vote accordingly come next year when some of them are up for re election
Hell hath frozen solid!!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
35% Governor Rick Perry is going to play obstructionists and reject the stimulus plan. What a fight we're about to have here.
stimulus $$ over the last eight years anyway?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
have drawn business to Texas likes flies to honey. Business move to Texas to avoid lawsuites like investors are move off shore to avoid taxes
How else are we going to replace Enron and Halliburton and Sir Allen Stanford and all those other industries that either went under, over, or missing?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
nothing new here. (R) playing both sides. they agreed to some of the stimulus/recovery package but when it came time to support the bill they vote against it. this puts them in the position they love. they NOW will be able to bitch/complain about and say i told you so regarding issues/situations that will come up short from the stimulus. obama is damned if he does or doesn't. he decided to be doer because time is the most important factor. the magnitude of this crisis is poorly understood by so-called experts. this will be an ongoing situation. this is very serious and the (R) know it but they have decided to play politics for the sake of their identity.
nothing new here. (R) playing both sides. they agreed to some of the stimulus/recovery package but when it came time to support the bill they vote against it. this puts them in the position they love. they NOW will be able to bitch/complain about and say i told you so regarding issues/situations that will come up short from the stimulus. obama is damned if he does or doesn't. he decided to be doer because time is the most important factor. the magnitude of this crisis is poorly understood by so-called experts. this will be an ongoing situation. this is very serious and the (R) know it but they have decided to play politics for the sake of their identity.
I laughed so hard that I had to run for the bathroom, after hearing what the Reslugs are lying about now.
This has been going on all week: Party Before Country At It's Worst
"There should also be a law passed that states if Republicans obstruct a bill they may not be allowed to take credit for it if it passes."
We don't actually believe that any law would stop them, do we? It hasn't stopped them for the past eight years, I can't imagine that it would now.
... they were against the Stimulus before they were for it.
Here comes Lindsey Cottontail
Hoppin' down the ol' GOP Trail
Flippity-floppin, happy with his ways ...
the hypocracy from the gop and reichwingnuts
just makes you doubt everything you were ever
taught about morals and decency.
i don't own a gun, but they are pushing me
to a gun shop just so i can protect myself
from the impending lunacy the gop supports.
These guys are pure weasels, no two ways about it. A song in their honor is here.
It's not fair to the rest of the weasels.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Oh dammitt!! you stole my line.
Weasels are our friends, they are small predators that control vermin by eating rats and mice.
Let's see what happens when one is presented to a repug who opposed the stimulis.
BTW, I am a virgin poster
RJ
Pants him!!!!
me-oww!
DOH!
I can't see. But I think I'm doin ok with mye typing
What is your conceptual, continuity?
They were aginit, before they were forit?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
When it fails, they will get the blame then. Teflon Obama will once again slide off into the next one.
Simple equation, elegant solution!
If they banned or outlawed the GOP, I'd party like its 1999!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
on this one, I'm afraid. And let it be a real lesson, too.
Give these bloodsuckers an inch, and they'll wrangle billions of dollars of aid from you, and still not vote for your damn bill. And, yes, when the voting's over, they can go back home and say "I slicked those elitist motherf#@kers! I saved your jobs, and I didn't even vote for their stupid bill!"
This is supposed to be some grand example of GOP hypocrisy? Well, it is, a bit. Although anyone surprised by this should really pay more attention. But what its a much more grand example of is that Democrats are still the kings of letting themselves get played.
Yet I'm not surprised in the least.
It's so goddamn blatant and two-faced, how can anybody fall for these lies? I hope no body does, but how long have republicans pulled this kind of bs and gotten away with it? What? Twenty, thirty years? Longer?
I applaud President Obama trying to reach across the aisle, it's respectable and generous, but HE WON. We voted him and the democratic party into a majority so they can at least stop the mess from getting bigger. They need to do something decisive with that mandate, even if it means relegating the republicans to limbo so they can't damage our country more than they already have.
Obama can't--and we can't--continue to let the republicans run rough-shod over him and this country with their deceit and destructiveness. They will keep on with this bullshit for as long as we let them get away with it.
I am fed up!
He probably doesn't remember voting against it. Thank God he's not running again. His time is up in 2010. He can drink full time then.
Are their constituents actually that stupid?
They're just so cute! And irrelevant!
NOBODY 2012
This one blows me away, hypocrisy on steroids straight from the Chicago trading floor. Rick Santelli throws a fit over Obama's fix housing plan. He gets mad about Americans who pay for their mortgages now having to flip the bill for people’s homes pay for them in risk of foreclosure.
While I understand the perspective, the inescapable lunacy of the revolt emanating from the uber-glasshouse Chicago trading floor where so many firms are sucking on Uncle Sam’s tit right now at our tax payer expanse absolutely made my neck snap in a double take. WTF!?!?!?!? It warrants the following:
TRADERS REVOLT: CNBC HOST CALLS FOR NEW 'TEA PARTY'; CHICAGO FLOOR MOCKS OBAMA PLAN
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853
He might as well been reporting from Satan's lair. The Devil complaining about someones sin, the thief bitching about the crime they committed.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Once again our lame and inept democratic representative miss another huge PR opportunity to shove shit back in the republicans’ faces. Dems should be in front of every camera letting the American people know what vile laughable hypocrites the repubs are. Dare them not to take the money. How about saying how can someone who was so strongly opposed to the stim now be willing to take the money they derided a week ago. But as usual the Dems let a terrific opportunity pass them by. Like always they would rather get beaten up by the playground bully then ever fight back.
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