Stimulus hypocrite Barton attends groundbreaking for health clinic funded by stimulus.

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Stimulus hypocrite Barton attends groundbreaking for health clinic funded by stimulus.

Last year, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) — the same Joe Barton who felt the need to apologize to BP after the oil giant caused an environmental catastrophe — requested stimulus funds for NASA despite having voted against the stimulus. Last week, Barton was at it again, attending a groundbreaking “for an expansion of an Ellis County clinic” that received $250,000 in stimulus money:

“As I told the crowd at the groundbreaking, I was opposed to the stimulus bill and voted against it. It has been largely wasteful and failed to produce the jobs that were promised,” Barton, R-Arlington, said in a written statement. “However, expansion of the Hope Clinic is a worthy project that deserves our support.”

The construction grant “comes in addition to more than $1.4 million the clinic has received in stimulus funds, which clinic staff said was secured with the help of Barton’s office.” Barton has previously called the stimulus a “boondoggle,” “a lesson in how to waste a lot of money in a hurry,” and the “most anti-competitive, anti-consumer, anti-free market piece of legislation I’ve ever seen on the House floor.” As The Wonk Room noted, Barton is actually doubling down on the hypocrisy, as the clinic will also receive money from the Affordable Care Act, which Barton also voted against.

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1. Tragically, the media lets Republicans get away with this hypocrisy.

The Republicans really know how to work the media--particularly to get their divisive wedge issues front and center.

[KeepItReal]

2. That SOB votes *AGAINST* the money and they let his ass go to the groundbreaking?

Obama's Stimulus Bill Passes the House With No GOP Support

"No Republicans Voted for the Bill -- and Some Democrats Voted Against It

In the end, despite visiting Republicans in Congress Tuesday, stripping out two provisions the GOP objected to, and inviting several Republicans for drinks at the White House this evening, Obama did not get a single Republican to vote for the bill. "

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/President44/story?id=6748037&page=1

Does Obama's team know how to count votes? They take stuff out of the bills to appease the GOP, who still votes against the bill.

Who is doing these negotiations?

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3. Yes, they are hypocrites.

The bill did garner three Republican votes in the Senate.

[Doctor_J]

4. He is even more of a clueless appeaser than Clinton

and he just keeps giving in to them (c.f. yesterday's backtrack)

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5. Actually, some of the mess he's cleaning up is Clinton's. n/t