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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090219/ap_on_bi_ge/bucking_the_stimulus

Yes, there are some neocon repuglican governors who are saying they
want to turn down the economic stimulus package provisions.  Let them
do so - that will only shorten the amount of time that they will be in
office or any other Repuglicans taking their offices.  There are 2
reasons their constituents won't like it - 1) they realize it is
posturing on the part of those evil neocons and 2) it will be taking
money away from the economic recovery of those states which have
fallen into economic disrepair due to the policies of the neocons.
GWBush, we all saw, promised balanced budgets when he was elected to
office, but the federal debt went from $5.7Trillion to over
$10.3Trillion in just the 8 years of his presidency.  That is quo quid
pro for Republicans -

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U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the No. 3 House Democrat, said the
governors — some of whom are said to be eyeing White House bids in
2012 — are putting their own interests first.

"No community or constituent should be denied recovery assistance due
to their governor's political ideology or political aspirations,"
Clyburn said Wednesday.

In fact, governors who reject some of the stimulus aid may find
themselves overridden by their own legislatures because of language
Clyburn included in the bill that allows lawmakers to accept the
federal money even if their governors object.

He inserted the provision based on the early and vocal opposition to
the stimulus plan by South Carolina's Republican governor, Mark
Sanford. But it also means governors like Sanford and Louisiana's
Bobby Jindal — a GOP up-and-comer often mentioned as a potential 2012
presidential candidate — can burnish their conservative credentials,
knowing all the while that their legislatures can accept the money
anyway.

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And in my book that also means that James Clyburn is grandstanding
just as much as the repuglicons, and, as a result, Clyburn will need
to be defeated at the polls just as those nasty nazi/commie/fascist
neocons will be defeated the next time they rear their heads for
reelection.  Clyburn just should have stayed out of it, let the chips
fall where they may, let the repuglicons who wanted to keep the money
out of their states do so, and let the other states in America take in
a windfall at the expense of those posturing nasty neocons.

Those enemies listed in the article, in addition to the evil and
sinning Democrat Clyburn include the rump ranger republicons listed
below:
"

 AP – BATON ROUGE, La. – A handful of Republican governors are
considering turning down some money from the federal stimulus package,
a move opponents say puts conservative ideology ahead of the needs of
constituents struggling with record foreclosures and soaring
unemployment.

Though none has outright rejected the money available for education,
health care and infrastructure, the governors of Texas, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Alaska, South Carolina and Idaho have all questioned
whether the $787 billion bill signed into law this week will even help
the economy.


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