Rethugs can't help wanting that stimulus cash

[Jennicut]

Stimulus foes see value in seeking cash
Pet projects irresistible to GOP lawmakers
By Jim McElhatton

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.

"It's not illegal to talk out of both sides of your mouth, but it does seem to be a level of dishonesty troubling to the American public," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/09/stimulus-foes-see-value-in-seeking-cash/

Hypocrites.

[liberal N proud]

1. The President even called them out on it when he spoke to them

at their party.

That neither stopped them from begging for more or obstructing the process.

[Kdillard]

2. Yeah but will the public punish them for it.

[nykym]

3. Hypocrites

which need to be exposed. If we continually let them get away with their hypocrisy they will continue to use it to gain advantage.

[Wapsie B]

4. In the mind of a republican they're merely getting back what they paid in.

I grew up with that mentality. To them they see no hypocrisy whatsoever taking as many government handouts as they can. As long as it's not labeled welfare or food stamps it's fair game.