Sunday, February 21, 2010

Gov. Schwarzenegger Confirms: Republicans Hypocites on Stimulus.

After the media reported that the Democrats had a good week exposing the hypocrisy of Republican lawmakers bashing the stimulus, while touting job creating stimulus checks in their districts, it looks like that week might become two weeks. This is the view of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on ABC, as reported by the Washington Post:

Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came out swinging Sunday morning on the stimulus bill -- but against members of his own party.

Speaking to host Terry Moran on ABCs "This Week" program, Schwarzenegger accused Republicans of being hypocrites for bad-mouthing the Recovery Act championed by President Obama while also eagerly accepting stimulus money for projects in their states.

"Well, you know, to me I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around and pushing back on the stimulus money and saying this doesn't create any new jobs, and then they go out and they do the photo ops and they are posing with the big check and they say, isn't this great?" he said. "Look what the kind of -- the kind of money I provide here for the state, and this is great money to create jobs, and this has created 10,000 new jobs and this has created 20,000 new jobs. And all of these kind of things. It doesn't match up."

That is exactly the argument the White House has been making for more than a week, as the one-year anniversary of the Recovery Act passage sparked a fresh debate about its effectiveness.

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