Bobby Jindal's Stimulus Lies (MoJo)

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By Nick Baumann | Tue February 24, 2009 7:41 PM PST


Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, gave the GOP response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress Tuesday night. I'll leave the analysis of how Jindal did to David Corn, but it's important to note that Jindal repeated two fairly common Republican lies about the stimulus package. Here's the relevant portion:

<The stimulus includes> $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a magnetic levitation line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called "volcano monitoring".

The truth is that the stimulus bill does not allocate any high speed rail money for specific projects. In fact, any stimulus money for high speed rail would be allocated by Obama transportation secretary Ray Lahood—a Republican ...

But, of course, Bobby Jindal is the person who just tried to tell the nation that the problem with the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was that bureaucrats demanded that people have proof of insurance and registration. It wasn't.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/02/bobby-jindals-stimulus-lies