Dems say over half of GOP on highway to hypocrisy on stimulus

[babylonsister]

Dems say over half of GOP on highway to hypocrisy on stimulus
By Michael O'Brien - 03/01/10 01:17 PM ET


More than half of the Republicans in Congress are on the highway to hypocrisy when it comes to the stimulus, Democrats charged in a new video Monday.

A new Web video from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) claimed more than half of the GOP lawmakers in Congress, including prominent members of leadership, were guilty of railing against the $787 billion stimulus act in the past year, only to have touted projects in their home states or districts as having created jobs.

The video says that 116 Republicans in Congress are guilty of "hypocrisy," a charge leveled by the DNC in recent weeks in defense of the year-old stimulus bill.

"These Republican highway hypocrites voted against the Recovery Act, have said it wouldn't work," the ad reads, "but then asked for funds for their states or districts, attended ribbon-cuttings or bragged about jobs the Recovery Act created in their own backyards."

more...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/84241-dems-say-over-half-of-gop-on-highway-to-hypocrisy-on-stimulus

Video here (can't post it for some reason/error msg):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7JZGF2q2wA&feature=player_embedded

[NoNothing]

1. Silly

This is not a good example of hypocrisy. True, they were against the stimulus bail. However, the failed to prevent it from passing. *Having failed,* the best thing they could do for their constituents is to get the most benefits from the bill that they could. It's not hypcritical because it is perfectly logical to believe that the stimulus bill was a bad idea overall while also believing that once passed, taking advanatage of it is better than not taking advantage of it. Right? It's not like declining stimulus funds is going to un-pass the bill.

[babylonsister]

2. Huh? It's totally hypocritical to bad mouth the stim funds out of one

side of their mouth while accepting the funds and credit for what they've done/are doing out of the other.

[Winterblues]

3. Your name says it all once again

Do you know the meaning of hypocrisy?

[NoNothing]

4. Yes I do

And this is not a good example. Hypocrisy is the act of preaching one thing but doing another. It is inconsistency between word and deed on the same issue. But the example here is word and deed on two different issues.

Issue 1: Stimulus bill, yes or no?

Issue 2: Stimulus funds, yes or no?

While the issues are related in that the second requires a yes answer to the first, it is not logically inconsistent to hold different positions on different issues. Imagine a similar example:

Issue 1: Pizza or subs?

Issue 2: Pizza, yes or no?

I'm saying it would not be hypocritical to voice a strong preference for subs, but failing that, still want to eat some pizza if the choice is to be pizza.

[Winterblues]

8. When you rail against something and declare it completely ineffective

and then after it has passed you go to events with huge checks and declare how effective it is for your district, that is hypocrisy in the full definition of the word..That is exactly what more than eighty Republicans did.

[ashling]

5. They are continuing to hold both positions simultaneously

They did not say this was a bad idea solely on the basis of it being an unwise use of money compared to another use of the money, they claimed that this would not create jobs, they then sought the money saying that it would certainly create jobs, and yet they continue to go on talk shows and say that the stimulus did not and will not create jobs. There is a serious disconnect there.

[GreenTea]

6. Thanks Rachel Maddow....

She's the best!

[ashling]

7. Actually, you are simply wrong

My lovely wife is the best . . . Rachel runs a close second

:rofl:

[upi402]

9. BREAKING: rain is wet

:spray:
Good to hear this stuff is getting pointed out. The media is silent on it of course.