Tea Partiers Against Deal Gain From District Spending

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-29/tea-party-lawmakers-against-debt-deal-gain-from-big-spending-in-districts.html

Sixty House members backed by the Tea Party, whose opposition to federal spending helped bring on an impasse over raising the U.S. debt ceiling, represent districts that last year received $43 billion in government contracts.

In 16 of those constituencies, spending exceeded $1 billion each -- more than twice the median amount for all House districts, Bloomberg Government reported today.

“People don’t like federal spending in the aggregate, but when it’s back home where you’re spending the money, that’s a different story,” said Charles J. Finocchiaro, a political scientist at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, in an interview. The state is home to two House Tea Party Caucus members and Republican Governor Nikki Haley, elected last November with the movement’s support.

The strictest Tea Party adherents had opposed House Speaker John Boehner’s plan for a debt-limit increase before the Aug. 2 deadline. The House passed the plan 218-210, about 24 hours after Boehner postponed an initial vote to line up more supporters. Twenty-two Republicans joined 188 Democrats in opposition.

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1. Highly Recommended.

This crowd finds it so easy to compartmentalize. Or maybe it is just a matter of "I've got mine, FUCK YOU/"

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2. kick

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3. Rec

This post needs to be seen by everyone.

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4. Well, at least we know where to start when the mandatory cuts

are negotiated.

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5. Yep. What hypocrites!

In this morning's paper, there was an article describing South Carolina's redistricting. The current plan has the the counties in which the Savannah River Site resides all in one district, rather than the current two. Some of the local "less government" repugs were pitching a fit over the fact that the SRS is only going to be represented by one Congressman now. In other words, fewer people to defend the amount of federal dollars that are coming into this shithole state. Goddamn hypocrites.