All things considered, you'd think these guys could manage to get something right, but these days the Republican National Committee can't even send out an e-mail blast without screwing things up - the latest, based on a USA Today article about stimulus money being "spent in the districts of well-connected lawmakers":
The RNC document cited the piece to argue that the stimulus cash is nothing but pork and isn’t going where it’s needed. "Where Are The Jobs?" the document demanded. "Where Is The Money? Why All The Pork?"
But there’s only one problem: If you click through the link provided by the RNC to the article itself, you find that it actually targets a Republican Senator, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, as a primary recipient of this pork.
The article actually has a picture of Cochran as its lead photograph. And in the piece (though this passage isn’t in the RNC’s document), it notes that Cochran is the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which oversees disbursement of this money. The piece also says that Cochran’s state of Mississippi will receive $212.8 million of this stimulus cash, more than any other state except California.
Oops.