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Dems say over half of GOP on highway to hypocrisy on stimulus
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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."
The video takes aim at senior members of the House and Senate Republican leadership, too, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.).
Those leaders, say Democrats, have joined in hypocrisy on the Recovery Act.
For their part, Republicans have openly disputed the facts Democrats have cited in their hypocrisy allegations. McConnell's office, for instance, said the quote cited by the DNC as evidence of hypocrisy — which is featured prominently in the new Web ad — was actually in reference to a longstanding Kentucky project, which McConnell said he had been praising separately from the $5 million in stimulus funds that had flowed to the Army base where the project was located.
Democrats have challenged McConnell to condemn those funds.
Check out the new video below:
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.
The video takes aim at senior members of the House and Senate Republican leadership, too, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.).
Those leaders, say Democrats, have joined in hypocrisy on the Recovery Act.
For their part, Republicans have openly disputed the facts Democrats have cited in their hypocrisy allegations. McConnell's office, for instance, said the quote cited by the DNC as evidence of hypocrisy — which is featured prominently in the new Web ad — was actually in reference to a longstanding Kentucky project, which McConnell said he had been praising separately from the $5 million in stimulus funds that had flowed to the Army base where the project was located.
Democrats have challenged McConnell to condemn those funds.
Check out the new video below:
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