New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie apparently wants to join his party's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
Transcript:
HANNITY: What do you think of some of these governors who aren’t taking some stimulus money? Governor Palin, Sanford, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry. What do you think of that?
CHRISTIE: I think it makes sense. If they’re going to put strings on that money, then they’re going to tie your hands and make you expand programs. And not be able to have the freedom of choice that people elected you for. Then you shouldn't take the money.
Jed (who pulled together this clip, natch) observed that it seems as though Christie isn't just defending the governors who've made noise about rejecting stimulus money. Rather, he's making it sound like if he doesn't have complete disrection to spend the funds however he wants, he'd reject the stimulus cash outright himself. That's $2 billion he'd be spurning, including $60 million in law enforcement funds. Christie, by the way, is a former US Attorney.
(Hat-tip: Reader mariah10)