More Stimulus Hypocrites

9:03 am EST February 22nd, 2010 | Republicans | 6 Comments

More Republican principles on display

Alabama Republicans Jo Bonner and Robert Aderholt took to the U.S. House floor in July, denouncing the Obama administration’s stimulus plan for failing to boost employment. ‘Where are the jobs?’ each of them asked.

Over the next three months, Bonner and Aderholt tried at least five times to steer stimulus-funded transportation grants to Alabama on grounds that the projects would help create thousands of jobs.

They joined more than 100 congressional Republicans and several Democrats who, after voting against the stimulus bill, wrote Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood seeking money from $1.5 billion the plan set aside for local road, bridge, rail and transit grants. The $862 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year with no Republican votes in the House and three in the Senate.

Time to call them out.

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6 Responses to “More Stimulus Hypocrites”

  1. Buzz Killington says:
    February 22, 2010 at 10:56 am

    It’s understandable to see such actions as hypocritical at first glance, but that impression is flawed. They tried to say it was a bad idea, but the bill passed. It would be hypocritical if they turned around and tried to pass another stimulus bill.

    That is not the case. Now, somebody is going to get those funds; letting it go elsewhere would just hurt Alabama and accomplish nothing positive for anyone (except whoever might get the funds instead I suppose). That’s not hypocrisy, that’s making lemonade.

  2. Jaim says:
    February 22, 2010 at 12:10 pm

    No, that’s hypocrisy. The very definition of.

  3. mambochicken23 says:
    February 22, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    July: “Where are the jobs? The stimulus bill won’t create jobs!”

    Post-July: “The stimulus money will create jobs! We need jobs!”

    Nope. No hypocrisy there. Move along people, nothing to see…

  4. jr says:
    February 22, 2010 at 12:30 pm

    “IT’S LIKE ME BEING A REPUBLICAN WHEN THEY DON’T WANT ME TO GET MARRIED OR SERVE OPENLY IN THE MILITARY”-Matt Drudge

  5. Buzz Killington says:
    February 22, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    I see, I misread what the article was saying. I thought it was comparing their criticism before the stimulus bill was passed, to what they said/did after it had passed.

    That said, in the correct light, the article implies that they had been requesting funds to create jobs, unsuccessfully, after complaining that the stimulus was not effectively creating jobs. With that understood, where is the hypocrisy?

  6. Buzz Killington SAY WHAT says:
    February 22, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    Okay, Those who voted against the Stimulus bill, did so for one specific reason. It would not help to save or create jobs. ( see cspan.com for Senate and House debates,)
    Taking money for projects in there States as well as credit for the jobs created by those Stimulus funds, IS HYPOCRACY. as well as an admission to voting against the best interest of there constituents.
    After all, how could not taking funds hurt Alabama if the funds wouldn’t work to create jobs? Or maybe they just like to waste our tax dollars. BUSTED