White House calls out Texas Republicans on stimulus stance

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The White House packet, under the headline "Stimulating Hypocrisy," also called out Barton as one of many GOP lawmakers who have associated themselves with stimulus projects after opposing the stimulus package. It cited a Dallas Morning News story from mid-August about a health clinic groundbreaking he attended.

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-texwatch_03nat.ART.State.Edition1.33d0693.html

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1. John Kelso did the same thing to Perry

John Kelso commentary AAS 10/2/10
Perry speaks out of both sides of mouth when it comes to federal funds

Now here's something that strikes me as deserving of putting Texas Gov. Rick Perry's bust in the lobby of the American Hypocrisy Museum, with Rick Perry coffee mugs available in the museum gift shop.

About half of that $22 million to be used to restore the Governor's Mansion? It came from the feds in a roundabout sort of way.

Perry, who is constantly yapping about the evils of Washington control and has even turned away hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money for education, is allowing bucks from Washington to help fix up the mansion in downtown Austin he'll most likely be moving into when the job is completed a couple years down the road.

Thanks to the kind of money shuffling that bureaucrats do best, about half of the money for the mansion project originated as money that the feds provided to Texas to reimburse the state for its upfront emergency expenses for Hurricane Ike. Follow the money: $11 million from the feds was shuffled from the Department of Public Safety to the State Preservation Board to help pay for the $22 million mansion remodel.

Because state bean counters still classify that $11 million as federal money, the project was able to escape the kinds of budget cuts that state-funded agencies are facing.

Another case of Stimulating Hypocrisy!

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