Tea Party Pork Binge

[mucifer]

By Daniel Stone

The Tea Party Pork Binge
Oct 30, 2011 10:00 AM EDT
They brought the nation to the brink of default over spending, but a Newsweek investigation shows Tea Party lawmakers grabbing billions from the government trough. Plus, view the letters submitted by the 'Dirty Dozen.'

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Republican leadership’s tether to the Tea Party, flutters the hearts of the government-bashing, budget-slicing faithful with his relentless attacks on runaway federal spending. To Cantor, an $8 billion high-speed rail connecting Las Vegas to Disneyland is wasteful “pork-barrel spending.” The Virginia Republican set up the “You Cut” Web site to demonstrate how easy it is to slash government programs. And he made the Department of Housing and Urban Development the poster child for waste when he disclosed that the agency was paying for housing for Ph.D.s.

But away from the cameras, Cantor sometimes pulls right up to the spending trough, including the very stimulus law he panned in public. Letters obtained by Newsweek show him pressing the Transportation Department to spend nearly $3 billion in stimulus money on a high-speed-rail project

More at http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/30/conseratives-brought-nation-to-default-ask-for-govt-handouts.html

[IndyPragmatist]

1. Not surprising...people took advantage of the Tea Party movement to get elected

Hell, even Richard Lugar (my senator) is claiming he is a Tea Party member.

People in the Republican party saw an opportunity to get some power by pretending to sympathize with the Tea Party. Once they got in, they still pretended to be with them on camera, but went about their normal ways behind the scenes.

Honestly, I expect this to happen with OWS. There will be candidates that act like they support the movement and agree with everything OWS says. Then, once elected, they will turn their back on them and go back to their normal corporatist ways.

[SkyDaddy7]

2. Richard Lugar said that?

Proof the entire Republican Party has gone NUTS!

[IndyPragmatist]

8. Yep, last year he was running ads saying...

"I've always fought for small government and lower taxes. We need experience to stand beside the new breed of Republican congressmen to bring our country back." Or something along those lines. He was basically trying to say that he always supported the beliefs of the Tea Party, even before it was popular. Which is not true one bit.

[Scuba]

3. Good thing this never happens in the Democratic Party.

sarcasm thingy

[mucifer]

4. The point of the article is republican hipocracy.

Tea partiers campaigned on no government pork projects. Lots of "pork projects" are really jobs bills. So they are taking government money for projects that bring jobs to their states and they continue to whine about government spending.

[Scuba]

5. Yeah, I got it. And Cantor is almost as big a hypocrite as Paul Ryan. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

6. Hipocrisy is a core Bagger & Republicon Family Value

as Americans see demonstrated over and over and over...

[The Doctor.]

7. Just to clarify;

"Hypocrisy" is the lack of integrity that conservatives wantonly display.

"Hypocracy" is our current form of government.

;)