Jindal Implodes
First we learned that Jindal’s I was one of Katrina’s heros story was a sham, and now there’s this.
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s transportation department plans to request federal dollars for a New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger rail service from the same pot of railroad money in the president’s economic stimulus package that Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized as unnecessary pork on national television Tuesday night…
… Jindal on Tuesday delivered the official Republican Party response to President Barack Obama’s address to Congress. He criticized the stimulus package passed by the Democratic-majority in Congress and the president and noted examples of projects that he found objectionable.
“While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending,” Jindal said. “It includes … $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a ‘magnetic levitation’ line from Las Vegas to Disneyland.”
Louisiana’s transportation department plans to request federal dollars for a New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger rail service.
Wait a second… I thought high-speed rail was pork. At least this is what Republicans and Jindal kept telling me again and again and again and again.
Asked for comment Friday about the Jindal stance on the federal rail money, the governor’s Chief of Staff Timmy Teepell said he does not think the Las Vegas to Anaheim line is a good use of taxpayer money. He did not address the Louisiana proposal.
Never mind. I forgot. It’s only pork when it’s a Democrat idea. On the plus side, Jindal is supplying the fix for Palin withdrawal.
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Louisiana has also accepted $130B for Katrina rebuilding. It just proves my cynical proposition that’s it only pork when it’s other people’s constituents.
Gail Collins had this to say about this bit of two-facedness:
How is it that the stars of the Republican austerity movement come from the states that suck up the most federal money? Taxpayers in New York send way more to Washington than they get back so more can go to places like Alaska and Louisiana. Which is fine, as long as we don’t have to hear their governors bragging about how the folks who elected them want to keep their tax money to themselves. Of course they do! That’s because they’re living off ours.
These guys need to stop having on about the evils of Federal spending until they are ready to stop taking the money.
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Hasn’t Delaware sent more to the Feds than the State has ever gotten back for years
That’s correct Andy. Those government-money-hating conservative states are the ones that receive the most. Perhaps we should start taking them at their word? I’m sure Delaware would like the money right now.
Pork is not the answer but it is tasty to the losers in society.