Bypassing Haley Barbour, Mississippi House votes to accept all recovery package funds.

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/05/barbour-state-house-stimulus/

Bypassing Haley Barbour, Mississippi House votes to accept all recovery package funds.

Last month, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) criticized “excess spending” in the federal recovery package, saying he (like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal) would reject $50 million in unemployment benefits for part-time workers. But yesterday, the state legislature passed a bill circumventing Barbour:

House Concurrent Resolution 64 certifies the state’s intent to request and use all of the money, even if Barbour rejects some of it. It cleared the full House after a three-hour partisan debate, with Democrats advocating the bill’s passage and Republicans arguing against it. The bill cleared the House with 69 lawmakers voting for it, and 52 voting against it. Senate Democrats have introduced a similar resolution that urges Barbour to accept all of the money.

Barbour is now pressing the state Senate to reject the House legislation. Curiously, he claimed that extending unemployment benefits would “would mean fewer jobs for our working people.”

[indepat]

1. Rarely a more deserving bunch to have a fuck-wad like Barbour as their duly-elected

governor. :P

[southern_dem]

2. Not all of us

voted for him. :(

[merh]

4. not all of us

:(

[indepat]

7. Realize that, just like not all of us voted for junior either time but sadly, enough did so the

elections could be stolen: I acutely feel your pain living just north of you and being part of the electorate which gave us two very 'pukey senators who most likely will try to obstruct every major administration initiative. :D

[merh]

8. hell, our blue dog dem congress critter

appears to be intent on obstruction - he just doesn't get it, all of his votes for the war and in support of gwb's "might makes right" policies are what have bankrupted our nation, now he complains about debt in the future.

[babylonsister]

3. Now, now, that's not fair. I live in TX and I certainly didn't vote for

any of the asshats here.

[Captain Hilts]

5. And 'they' say there's no good news anymore! nt

[Barney]

6. What a maroon, as Bugs Bunny might say

I think Barbour and lots of Repubs just repeat things they have heard. But sometimes they get twisted up.

How is it possible that extending unempoyment benefits for people who have lost their jobs would in any way lead to "fewer jobs for our working people?"

[rolltideroll]

9. Bob riley (R) (Asshat)

Our Brave gov turned down 66 million for the unemployed. The legislature took a dim view in the intrest of saving theirown skin, and looks like we are going to get it.

[underpants]

10. Barbour must have his jowl sweat in a lather about this

[Divine Discontent]

11. that made me imagine it - and I laughed... right now he's massaging the jowls of injustice

considering what other horrible ways he can refuse to do the goodwill of the people he was elected to work for...