the honor (from buzzflash) this week goes to.............

i talked about this very thing (repubs voting AGAINST the stimulus package yet SNATCHING THAT MONEY RIGHT UP) a few postings ago

For eagerly taking stimulus money after denouncing it, Lindsey Graham is the GOP Hypocrite of the Week

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

Talk about foreclosing on a bakery and then demanding a free cake. That's what most Republicans who voted against the "Main Street Job Creation Act" -- denouncing it as just short of Satanic -- are doing for the most part. They are now crowing about what all that "wasted" money will do to benefit their home states or districts.

Take Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. The Neo-Confederate U.S. Senator is wasting no time in boasting about bringing home the bacon when just a few short days ago, he was denouncing a jobs creation bill as pork.

As ThinkProgress.org observes:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has been one of Congress's most vocal opponents of the economic recovery package. In fact, he and several other Republicans -- including John McCain -- introduced an alternative bill, which focuses mostly on massive tax breaks for corporations....

However, when [Wolf] Blitzer asked him whether South Carolina should "take the money," Graham replied: "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."

In essence, Graham is saying he opposed the "Main Street Job Creation Act" even though it would be political suicide not to distribute the money to the voters of his state. He was joined in rabid obstruction of the bill by his fellow Republican, Senator Jim "Stonewall Jackson" DeMint.

As BuzzFlash Editor Mark Karlin proposed a couple of weeks back, the state of any senator who opposed the "Main Street Job Creation Act" should only receive half their allotted funds. If both senators opposed the bill, the state should receive no federal allotment from the legislation. ..........

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i HAD to post this buzzflash editorial

i read the original story a couple of days ago. i was going to post it but let it pass. i shouldn't have. the author of this piece is right. here we have the head of the arkansas gop saying a TERRORIST ATTACK ON AMERICA just like 9/11 will prove king george's policies are correct (actually it would do JUST THE OPPOSITE wouldn't it? if we had another attack that would mean we were NOT protecting ourselves, no???)

anyway, it's NOT so much what dennis milligan said at this point (yeah, it WAS f**ked up, i'm not denying that). it's how the 'media' DIDN'T react to what he said. does faux mews WANT another attack on us soil? does flush limburger?

if a democrat or someone else with a soul said something as idiotically insane as this, you KNOW the media would be ALL over that shite. what would happen if the democrats were in charge during katrina? and on and on and on. we KNOW what would happen.

this nonesense MUST STOP NOW. clear the dead wood out

p.s. i am NOT all too pleased with most of the pussy dems either. they're NOT doing the jobs WE ELECTED THEM TO DO (and i hope we all remember that come NEXT election time.)

A Republican State Party Chairman Wishes More Terrorist Attacks on U.S. to Prove George W. Bush "Right"

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 06/07/2007 - 7:48am. Editorials
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
There’s been a bit of commentary on the net about a statement by the Chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party in which he calls for terrorist attacks on the United States to prove that Bush’s anti-terrorism policies are necessary.
Okay, you don’t believe us? You think that this is BuzzFlash hyperbole?
Here’s the money quotation, right here:
"At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country," Milligan said.
Yes, Dennis Milligan, the head of the Arkansas GOP, said this just a few days ago, posted in a June 3 article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette........

......................A state Republican Party Chairman calls for terrorist attacks on the United States, and the GOP media megaphones (including FOX Republican Propaganda News and hedonist, drug user Rush Limbaugh) are attacking John Edwards’ haircut, but not one of their own, who wishes Osama accomplishes more missions!
Mr. Milligan represents a danger to our national security, as do so many Republicans, because he prefers to prove his party’s "leader" is "right" at the cost of American lives at home..........