{"id":6250,"date":"2011-11-01T00:23:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T07:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/republicans-on-pork-street\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T00:23:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T07:23:29","slug":"republicans-on-pork-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/republicans-on-pork-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Pork Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility, and all have pledged to take no pork.  If you believe them, come see me about my wonderful mountain ski resort for sale in Kansas.  When it comes to pork, Republican Politicians are liars and hypocrites, saying one thing, but doing the exact opposite.  Republicans live on Pork Street.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1GOP-Pork\"<\/a>House Majority Leader Eric Cantor<\/a>, the Republican leadership\u2019s tether to the Tea Party, flutters the hearts of the government-bashing, budget-slicing faithful with his relentless attacks on runaway federal spending. To Cantor, an $8 billion high-speed rail<\/font> connecting Las Vegas to Disneyland is wasteful \u201cpork-barrel spending.\u201d<\/strong> The Virginia Republican set up the \u201cYou Cut\u201d Web site to demonstrate how easy it is to slash government programs. And he made the Department of Housing and Urban Development the poster child for waste when he disclosed that the agency was paying for housing for Ph.D.s.<\/p>\n

But away from the cameras, Cantor sometimes pulls right up to the spending trough, including the very stimulus law he panned in public. Letters obtained by Newsweek<\/a> show him pressing the Transportation Department to spend nearly $3 billion in stimulus money on a high-speed-rail<\/font> project\u2014not the one he derided in Nevada, but another in his home state. \u201cVirginia … will demonstrate that this historic investment in rail will create jobs, reduce congestion, spur economic growth and improve our environment,\u201d says a letter he signed<\/strong> with other Virginia members in October 2009, cribbing President Obama\u2019s own argument for the stimulus.<\/p>\n

Cantor signed several such letters, including an earlier one seeking rail funds a month after he went on national television attacking the Vegas project<\/strong>. He also signed a letter in October 2009 seeking $60 million to build commercial ships, some likely along Virginia\u2019s coastline. As for his bashing of HUD, until last year he owned as much as $50,000 in preferred stock in a real-estate company that receives federal housing assistance from the department<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As the government showdown over debt continues\u2014the so-called congressional supercommittee negotiating cuts has been floundering for weeks\u2014Newsweek found about five dozen of the most fiscally conservative Republicans, from Tea Party freshmen like Allen West<\/a> to anti-spending presidential candidates like Rick Perry<\/a> and Ron Paul<\/a>, trying to gobble up the very largesse they publicly disown, in the time-honored, budget-busting tradition of bringing home the bacon for local constituents<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Newsweek<\/a>><\/p>\n

Now this is a small part of an extensive article, and I encourage you to click through for the rest of it.  It demonstrates without doubt that Republicans are lying to their constituents, taking credit for bringing home the same projects they opposed.<\/font><\/p>\n

In my opinion, if a state\u2019s\/district\u2019s Senator\u2019s\/Representatives oppose spending on legislation, that area should receive none of the funding from it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility, and all have pledged to take no pork.  If you believe them, come see me about my wonderful mountain ski resort for sale in Kansas.  When it comes to pork, Republican Politicians are liars and hypocrites, saying one thing, but doing the exact opposite.  Republicans live […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}