GOP lawmakers tout projects in the stimulus bill they opposed

[Fleshdancer]

:wtf:

New Rule: If you don't have the courage to vote for something you know will be good for your constituents, then you don't get to brag about it.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/62181.html

WASHINGTON — Rep. John Mica was gushing after the House of Representatives voted Friday to pass the big stimulus plan.

"I applaud President Obama's recognition that high-speed rail should be part of America's future," the Florida Republican beamed in a press release.

Yet Mica had just joined every other GOP House member in voting against the $787.2 billion economic recovery plan.

Republicans echoed their party line over and over during the debate: "This bill is loaded with wasteful deficit spending on the majority's favorite government programs," as Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., put it.

But Mica wasn't alone in touting what he saw as the bill's virtues. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, also had nice things to say in a press release.

Young boasted that he "won a victory for the Alaska Native contracting program and other Alaska small business owners last night in H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."

[pinto]

1. These guys are amazing.

:banghead:

[Kber]

2. Wow.

Just wow.

I don't even know what to say.

[gratuitous]

3. There's only one thing to say

Never, ever, characterize these motherfuckers' antics with a statement like "That's the most hypocritical (or cynical or stupidest or . . . well, you get the idea) thing I've ever seen!" They take it as a personal challenge, and will do something like this just to prove that yes, indeed, they can do something even more hypocritical. Or cynical. Or stupid.

[Fleshdancer]

4. I agree

The Bush administration cured me of that habit real quick. I did expect the level of stupid to go down more than it has though.