Of course he will!
...and so will every other Member of Congress opposing the stimulus plan. If they vote against it, their district or state shouldn't get a dime of the stimulus funding and then let them really answer to their constituents.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what will happen here in the 5th District of New Jersey. Congressman Garrett will vote 'NO' (Does he ever vote 'YES'?), but of course he will accept the money like he just won the grand prize in the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes. I'm thankful that New Jersey has two US Senators that are willing to stand up and support this stimulus plan for all of New Jersey - THANK YOU Senators Lautenberg and Menendez!
by Jason Linkins
The Huffington Post
Thursday, February 12, 2009, 03:05 PM
Oh, Lindsey Graham, he is one of our favorites! The South Carolina Senator has, for weeks, cast himself as one of the stimulus package's most fervent opponents. This time last week, he and John McCain were in the well of the Senate, performing a grand duetto buffo di due gatti against the stimulus, and when the media metanarrative required that someone take a ream of paper and wave it around in the air with dramatic flair, Graham was only too happy to accommodate.
Ah, but now the bill's passage draws nigh, and lest you think he was going to school us all by allowing South Carolina to become a laboratory for whatever the hell economic plan he thought would work better, guess again. Graham will take the dollars, thank you, even if he's not convinced it will be of any good! Or so he told Wolf Blitzer:
Shucks, Lindsey, if you don't think it'll do South Carolina any good, by all means, don't take it!
by Jason Linkins
The Huffington Post
Thursday, February 12, 2009, 03:05 PM
Oh, Lindsey Graham, he is one of our favorites! The South Carolina Senator has, for weeks, cast himself as one of the stimulus package's most fervent opponents. This time last week, he and John McCain were in the well of the Senate, performing a grand duetto buffo di due gatti against the stimulus, and when the media metanarrative required that someone take a ream of paper and wave it around in the air with dramatic flair, Graham was only too happy to accommodate.
Ah, but now the bill's passage draws nigh, and lest you think he was going to school us all by allowing South Carolina to become a laboratory for whatever the hell economic plan he thought would work better, guess again. Graham will take the dollars, thank you, even if he's not convinced it will be of any good! Or so he told Wolf Blitzer:
BLITZER: South Carolina will get money out of this bill.
GRAHAM: Yes.
BLITZER: Should South Carolina take the money?
GRAHAM: I think that, yes, from my point of view, I -- you don't want to be crazy here. I mean, if there's going to be money on the table that will help my state, but I've got a job to do up here, and that is to try to help people and not damn the next generation. We had a $415 billion package to help people who have lost their jobs, that cut taxes, that create new jobs. We've got a spending bill, not a job creation bill. And we're being all things to all people.
Shucks, Lindsey, if you don't think it'll do South Carolina any good, by all means, don't take it!
posted by Harry Zikas, Jr. @ 12:53 PM
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