John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson, along with nineteen Texas House Republicans and seven Democrats all signed a letter requesting $3 billion dollars of stimulus money for NASA on Monday.
Pete Olson himself, penned and signed the letter (I'm assuming he remembers it's called Johnson Space Center this time). These Republicans are rightfully trying to bring money into a district that will create jobs and innovate for our future. You'd be hard pressed to find a Houstonian that would oppose this.
Here's the problem.
Every single Republican that signed this letter voted 'NO' on the stimulus bill. Every last one. Kay Bailey Hutchinson published an editorial titled, "Why I Vote No on the Stimulus" where she claimed that the ". . ."stimulus" spending would only add to our debt burden rather than help the economy."
John Cornyn said, "This is not an economic document. . . this is a political document." He goes on to say, "In the longer term . . . it could hurt the economy. I certainly don't have any confidence [that it will work] to spend money we don't have for things we don't need."
I won't go on and on with quotes showing each and every one of these Republicans grandstanding on how the stimulus package didn't work, the New Deal prolonged the great depression, and that the Democrats were not bi-partisan enough - because they seemed to all be reading from the same talking point memo and it would get repetitive. I'll close with my favorite quote and reason for this blog:
"With the stimulus money that has already been spent clearly not working, it is my hope that the administration will use a portion of the remaining, authorized, unspent stimulus dollars to safeguard our nation's space program." Guess who said that?
John Cornyn.
Somehow, Cornyn was able to ask for stimulus money while assuring conservatives that "the stimulus money is clearly not working" but that we needed it to, as Pete Olson later said, "secure jobs and stabilize our economy" after voting against the bill that he's now for taking money from. So he's against it, but he wants some, even though it doesnt work, because it will work.
That's a political pretzel even Bill Clinton couldn't talk himself out of.
Ooops...that should have read "honkin' huge SIGN....."
OK, Pete Olson was AGAINST the stimulus money before he was FOR it.
What an idiot. I mean, was he dropped on his head at birth or something?
And how the hell did he get elected from this area anyway? He didn't live here until JUST before he ran for office. No one ever even HEARD of him! WTF is wrong with this picture? He lived in VIRGINIA!!
I am *so* tempted to put up a honkin' huge in my office, with bright blue lettering, that says, "LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WORKS HERE". And hope he has to come in here one day.
These people simply have no integrity and, obviously, no shame. Vote against the money and then demand some of it for their constituents. But they are in office only because we put them there, again and again.
Hypocrites in action. Throw in some moronic tendancies, a large splash of blatant ignorance, and a healthy dose of complete arrogance and you have the leadership of Texas. God help us.
sounds like palin being "for the bridge to nowhere" before she was against it. when will dems wake up and understand that republicans are riding on their coattails? they sit back while we make difficult, often critical funding decisions, roll out their opposition bs youtubes, then cash it in for as much as they can milk to their PAC's from their glazed over sheeple who are busy with their fwd fwd emailing. then they say "the money's there" so we want our fair share and spin it like they're going to bat for texas! example, growing number of these gomer, small town hick doctors who've managed to get elected to congress. they claim to keep "thriving, active practices and be 100% devoted to their patients", while selling their souls to the insurance lobby and big pharma. we need to get some investigative reporting on these quacks.
Cornyn is a freakin' idiot! Why does he keep getting re-elected?
But the bad john reserves the right to criticize it later on. Thats after NASA gets the money.
How do you define hypocrisy ? For starters lets list the Republican Congress critters of Texas.