| It turns out that Rep. Ken Calvert likes having it both ways. He voted against the spending bill yet added 34 earmarks totaling more than $42 million to it.
When asked about adding those earmarks to the bill, Calvert said, "That doesn't obligate me to vote for the spending."
Calvert also voted against the Stimulus Bill and then came home for a series of town hall meetings where he touted the new projects and jobs the bill would bring.
"House Republicans are saying one thing in Washington and then something completely different in California. It's the height of hypocrisy," said Andy Stone, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
I'm getting tired of hearing Mr. Calvert complain about spending after he voted to bailout banks and corporate CEOs to the tune of $700 billion with no oversight, and who repeatedly voted to spend a budget-busting trillion dollars in Iraq.
The argument is ridiculous - eight years of out of control spending by the Republicans and suddenly they are the party of fiscal responsibility? Do they honestly believe we will fall for that? |