Republicans vote against stimulus and then ask Obama for help

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Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Alabama Republicans Jo Bonner and Robert Aderholt took to the U.S. House floor in July, denouncing the Obama administration’s stimulus plan for failing to boost employment. “Where are the jobs?” each of them asked.

Over the next three months, Bonner and Aderholt tried at least five times to steer stimulus-funded transportation grants to Alabama on grounds that the projects would help create thousands of jobs.

They joined more than 100 congressional Republicans and several Democrats who, after voting against the stimulus bill, wrote Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood seeking money from $1.5 billion the plan set aside for local road, bridge, rail and transit grants. The $862 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year with no Republican votes in the House and three in the Senate.

Bonner said opposing the stimulus doesn’t mean he shouldn’t help Alabama projects compete for grants. “It is my role to ensure that their request is considered by the federal agency,” he said in an e-mail.

Alan Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming named by President Barack Obama as co-chairman of a new deficit- reduction commission, said about-faces on government funding aren’t surprising.

“It’s the original sin of Washington -- it’s hypocrisy,” Simpson said. “You can’t do that then say you go out and cut the other stuff.”


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[Uben]

1. Don't give em a dime!

In fact, Obama should increase the charges on everyone in their states to cover the states that agreed to the stimulus. There must be consequences for the party of no!

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4. Why will our leadership NOT hold their feet to the fire?

They still insist upon playing nice with these assholes

[City Lights]

2. Hold a bake sale if you need money, Bonner and Aderholt!

You had your chance and you said, "NO!"

[old mark]

3. We must make this known over and over again, till even the MSM has to

pick it up - people have to understand the lies the GOP is telling them. I don't favor punishing the citizens of the GOP states, but they have been electing these trash for generations and have to understand that their actions have consequences.

The GOP regimes over the last few decades have terribly damaged our country, yet have been successful in blaming us for their own mess.

mark

[ChoppinBroccoli]

5. They're All About Personal Responsibility, Aren't They?

Well, since I'm all about making people take personal responsibility for their own beliefs, I think we ought to do something along these lines: When Stimulus money is to be doled out, the districts who have Representatives who voted No on it...........don't get any money. And if there's another Stimulus Bill, once again, vote No and your district gets no money. I'd write that language right into the bill.

If they want to trumpet "personal responsibility," I say we make THEM take personal responsibility for all their whacko beliefs, as well as for all the A-Holes they send to Congress. I'd be willing to bet that if you GAVE the districts everything their Representatives voted for (or denied them everything their Reps voted against), you'd start seeing fewer and fewer Republicans getting elected, even in the Deep South. Either that or you'd see a drastic reversal of "policy beliefs" amongst the entire Republican Party.