The Republican leadership and Conservative talking heads never cease to amaze me. They want to talk about the "wasteful spending" in the stimulus package. The want to rail incessantly about how it was rushed through the Congress, and the American people where not allowed to read it first. They want to talk about "earmarks and pork".
Mitch McConnell, whose re-election has only served to widen the gulf between himself and reality tried to sound like the guardian warrior for responsibility:
"This week, Congressional Democrats are handing taxpayers a bill for $1.2 trillion. Soon, they’ll spend $400 billion to finish up spending from last year. We’re being told to get ready for untold hundreds of billions for the financial industry.
http://mcconnell.senate.gov/...
Has he completely forgotten that he fought for that $400 billion last year when only Wall St., the bankers, and his rich buddies would profit??
As if that weren't insulting enough to Americans he has to continue:
"Since taking over Congress and the White House, Democrats have been making up for lost time with a government spending spree on the taxpayer credit card. Even without this massive spending bill, the deficit continues to grow.
"Yesterday, Treasury reported that in the first four months of the current fiscal year the deficit rose to $569 billion— nearly $500 billion more than the same period the previous year.
"Let me repeat that: according to Treasury, we ran a deficit in the first quarter of this fiscal year that’s nearly $500 billion more than the same period last year.
He fails to mention that almost all of that debt was run up while he was rubber-stamping his hero, George W. Bush. Yes, all this debt and the need for a stimulus was created by the partnership of McConnell and the Republicans with Bush to crash our economy by hoarding all the money to the greediest, and least patriotic among us. Where it not for his "guarding" of the "taxpayers" we would not need to stimulate the economy one bit.
Where was the concern Mitch McConnell when all that money was disappearing in Iraq and being fleeced from the middle-class for the last eight years?? There was none. Only a rubber-stamp.
His buddy Ed Whitfield in Kentucky's First Congressional District was equally as hypocritical:
Tax relief, which most economists agree is the most effective way to stimulate the economy and create jobs, only accounts for 26% of the spending in the package. If this new level of spending is carried forward into future years, non-defense spending would continue to grow by at least 42% annually.
http://whitfield.house.gov/...
This is Republican code to say that their rich buddies aren't getting all the money, and all of us working folks who are getting something for once need to learn our place.
He fails to mention that he voted for every failed Bush policy that crashed our economy in the "Contract" Congress that miserably failed and was voted out en masse.
Then we have Jim Bunning,Detroit Hall of Shame pitcher.
He retorted with this hypocritical spewing:
"This is a trillion dollar bill that we are dealing with here and yet Members of Congress were given less than 24 hours to review it before we started voting. It is a bill that was crafted behind closed doors in a completely partisan manner. That is not good government. America cannot afford to waste a trillion dollars.
http://bunning.senate.gov/...
But where was his concern when the Patriot Act was being crammed down the Americans throats when they weren't given enough time to read it, and almost every member of Congress and the Senate DIDN'T READ it.
Jim Bunning was rubber-stamping the most wasteful and irresponsible President in American History.
It seems to me that Republicans in general are pretty hypocritical and have very short memories. The Kentucky delegation demonstrates this nicely.
Its never too early to fight for a Democratic Senator from Kentucky.