Ethics

Now This Is Political Chutzpah

By Ed Brayton

Vote against the stimulus bill because it was loaded with pork barrel spending AND put out a press release taking credit for those provisions in the bill that benefit your own state. No, seriously.

Rep. John Mica was gushing after the House of Representatives voted Friday to pass the big stimulus plan.

"I applaud President Obama's recognition that high-speed rail should be part of America's future," the Florida Republican beamed in a press release.

Yet Mica had just joined every other GOP House member in voting against the $787.2 billion economic recovery plan.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).