Tea party Republicans have sought plenty of stimulus for their own districts

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/02/1031906/-Tea-party-Republicans-have-sought-plenty-of-stimulus-for-their-own%C2%A0districts?via=blog_1



One of the most irritating aspects of the Republican obsession with "wasteful spending" and claiming "the government can't create jobs" is that they clearly don't believe their own rhetoric themselves. It is purely a game, for them: something to tell audiences of gullible supporters who want to hear it. In actual practice, however, the rhetoric doesn't matter a bit. They know they're lying.

Newsweek put together a compilation of letters from tea party-friendly Republicans asking federal agencies for funds for their own districts. For example, Eric Cantor tried to get about $3 billion for a rail project in his state, while decrying rail projects in other states. Other letters are from Allen West, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, David Vitter and Ron Paul:

The stack of spending-request letters between these GOP members and federal agencies stands more than a foot tall, and disheartens some of the activists who sent Republicans to Washington in the last election.

“It’s pretty disturbing,” says Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, whe

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1. Teabagging liar says..

“It’s pretty disturbing,” says Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, when told about the stack of letters from members, many of whom he supported in 2010. “We sent many of these people there, and really, I wish some of our folks would get up and say, you know what, we have to cut the budget, and the budget is never going to get cut if all 535 members of Congress have their hands out all the time.”

Many of the letters seek to tap the stimulus, clean-energy loans, and innovation grants—programs the same Republicans have accused Obama and the Democrats of using to bloat government and jeopardize America’s future. And these fiscal conservatives often used in their private letters the same arguments they pan in public.

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2. This is just dandy....

These ass hats must hold their "base" in utter contempt

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3. But...

their base loves them and they want more of it..