primitives being silly

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7685196

Oh my.

FourScore  (1000+ posts)         Wed Feb-10-10 12:29 PM
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McCaskill to GOP: If You Hate the Stimulus, Give it Back  

Sweeeet

It's not always easy being a Democratic politician from Missouri. The Republican-controlled state government there pulls no punches attacking Democrats in Washington--and by extension Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO)--for reckless spending, even as Missouri itself, bruised by recession, benefits from that spending. Well, now she's hitting back.

McCaskill has written a sharply-worded letter to two particularly critical Missouri state legislators. The letter, dated February 9, takes the lawmakers to task for blasting the stimulus while using the funds to help bridge the state's budget gap. She writes, "I have noticed that you and many of your colleagues have been highly critical of some of the emergency spending that has gone on since the financial meltdown in September 2008."

McCaskill also asks the legislators--State Sen. Rob Mayer, who chairs the Appropriations Committee, and State Rep. Allen Icet, who chairs the Budget Committee--what they did with the $1.5 billion in stimulus funds they will have spent by July.

"How was that money allocated?" McCaskill asks. "Did it go to education, economic development, corrections or other needs of the state?"

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/give-it-back...

blondeatlast  (1000+ posts)        Wed Feb-10-10 12:32 PM
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1. Put 'em on the defensive; I like it! Love the specifics, too.

Very nicely done.

Jefferson23  (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-10-10 12:35 PM
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4. Exactly, fight back and corner those schmucks. Good for her!

spanone  (1000+ posts)       Wed Feb-10-10 12:34 PM
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2. anyone see rachel last night when she called out one congressman after another how they trashed and voted against the stimulus, then went around their states handing out oversize checks, as if this money came from them....

AND praising the money

Atman  (1000+ posts)        Wed Feb-10-10 12:35 PM
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3. I love Claire. She always seems to be one of the few level-headed players out there.

She knows her stuff, she pulls no punches. She could go on to much bigger things some day!

gratefultobelib  (1000+ posts)       Wed Feb-10-10 12:41 PM
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8. Hopefully she will have Robin Carnahan as our 2nd Dem senator from Missouri.

Oh, I dunno.

There's a problem here.

Those who don't want the stimulus money shouldn't have to pay for it.

But since they have to pay for it anyway, they might as well take what they can get.

[Happy Fun Ball]

Tell that to the banks that were forced to accept the bailout money.

[The Village Idiot]

If we don't want stimulus, give it back (to the taxpayers who have to pay for it)

[MrsSmith]

Those that tried to avoid taking it were threatened with lawsuits by their Dim citizens, as I recall.  Now it's their fault for taking the money they had to take.  OK...   

[miskie]

If we don't want stimulus, give it back (to the taxpayers who have to pay for it)

That would be the ultimate slap in the face -

Get the stimulus money - then cut it into checks for everyone who paid taxes in 2008 or their descendants. - Real economic stimulation, while "giving it back"