Posted on 02/21/2010 11:01:22 AM PST by NormsRevenge
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday called Republican opponents of the $787 billion economic stimulus bill hypocritical if they then turn around and praise district projects created by that stimulus legislation.
Schwarzenegger, one of the few Republican governors who has consistently embraced the stimulus bill – which has been subject to a year’s worth of vilification by virtually all congressional Republicans – continued to distance himself from the position taken by his party’s national leaders on the year-old stimulus. And on Sunday he went a step further, joining the bandwagon of mostly Democrats who have been trying to paint dozens of Republicans as hypocrites for voting against the stimulus but then accepting credit for stimulus projects taking root in their states.
“I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around and pushing back on stimulus money and saying this doesn’t create any new jobs, and then they go out and do photo-ops and they’re posing with the big check and they say, ‘Isn’t this great! Look the kind of money I provide here for the state! And this is great money to create jobs, and this has created 10,000 new jobs, and this has created 20,000 new jobs,’” Schwarzenegger said on ABC’s "This Week." “It doesn’t match up.”
Asked by "This Week" host Terry Moran if that amounted to hypocrisy, Schwarzenegger responded: “Exactly.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat appearing alongside Schwarzenegger to discuss the stimulus bill, the economy and the current debate over a jobs bill, smiled as Schwarzenegger answered. Rendell then chimed in, “It’s hypocrisy of the highest level.”
Schwarzenegger didn’t defend those Republicans, but he offered an explanation.
“I don’t want to beat up on my Republican colleagues but I think it’s kind of politics rather than thinking about only one thing and this is, ‘How do we support the president… in order to go ahead and stimulate the economy?’ And think about the people rather than the politics,” Schwarzenegger said.
Schwarzenegger and Rendell also both said they disagreed with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), who said at this week’s Conservative Political Action Committee conference that the stimulus bill did not create “one net new job” in the private sector.
“Anyone that says this hasn’t created a job, they should talk to the 150,000 people that have been getting jobs in California, from the private sector and the public sector,” Schwarzenegger said. “In every category there are jobs that have been created in California.”
“[Romney] knows better,” said Rendell.
Austria gave us the Bloomin' Idiot.
Ahnuld has forfeited his credibility as a Republican along time ago.
Ahnuld... shut up! You’re terminated...
Okay. Who are they? Let's see 150,000 names/job titles.
If you steal money from me to fix a bridge, does that force me not to cross the river out of spite?
Pick a side, Arnold, you loser.
Arnold’s just sucking up to Zero. The moonbat state is going to be out of money by about April, and he’s placing his bets on it being too big to fail.
Nice to see Arnold getting his talking points from Rachel Madcow.
Not to mention all the jobs not crated due to the political misallocation of capital.
Hey Arnold... Why is this a problem that is limited to Republicans? Don’t Democrats denounce the deficit and then praise the spending?
Democrat Logic from Awnold.
You’re against a spending program.
We pass it anyway.
ONly Democrats get the benefit of the spending.
Democrat and media accepted illogic.
Well well, spouting Dum talking points.
Time to Terminate the Terminator. Is anyone else running for Gov against him?
I love how the Democrats and their useful idiots (like Schwarznegger) talk about the jobs “created or saved” by the stimulus. They always tout the 2 million jobs line. Well, $787 billion / 2 million jobs = $393,500 to create or save a single job. How do they justify that expense? Factor in that most of these jobs are temporary or government jobs and it stinks even worse. They could’ve just cut $50,000 checks to over 15 million people for $787 billion...ahh, government efficiency.
What a dope.
FU Ahhhhnold. RETIRE!
What the eff is he talking about? Seriously, did he not think he would be used as agitprop on ABC?
I suppose once you’ve made “Twins”, nothing else can embarrass you.
The R-I-N-O must go.....opps, my bad, he is already heading out the door....on his arse.
Now we need to get rid of the rest of them....
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