Personal Responsibility and States’ Rights
Noted GOP hypocrite and closet case Lindsey Graham has a sad:
Not all Republicans were celebrating Tuesday about the fine print of the $38.5 billion in cuts House Republicans managed to wrangle in last week’s 11th-hour budget showdown. Tea Party loyalists who wanted tens of billions more cut from this year’s spending were shaking their heads, and at least one senator was lamenting a budget omission he said would hit his state’s economy hard.
In fact, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was down right incensed over the decision not to include a mere $50,000 for an Army Corps of Engineers study on deepening the Port of Charleston in his home state and vowed to “tie the Senate in knots” by holding up Obama administration nominations.
Yup: one of those GOP bobbleheads that’s always yapping about out-of-control-spending, the need to rein in the deficit during a recession, how cuts-don’t-destroy-jobs-they-create-them, how awful earmarks are, and of course how we can’t afford to do anything all of a sudden wants spending in a time of recession on his personal pet earmark because the cuts will cost jobs in South Carolina by sending shipping traffic to Savannah Georgia instead.
Interestingly, he didn’t say anything about how South Carolina doesn’t like federal spending. Or anything about personal responsibility. Or living within one’s means, or any of the other bullshit slogans that drop from Lindsey’s mouth like turds from a cat’s anus.
But here’s where I stand, and what I told my senators: South Carolina’s port (and the jobs that go with it) are not Pennsylvania’s responsibility and shouldn’t be the federal government’s responsibility either. Not one federal penny should go to that study. South Carolina has long been a Republican stronghold that claims to stand for all the things Lindsey Graham pretends to support: let THEM come up with the funding for the study. It’s their PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. If they can’t afford it, let them LIVE WITHIN THEIR MEANS. The feds shouldn’t be doling out EARMARKS for pet projects that don’t have benefits for Pennsylvanians. What the fuck do Pennsylvanians care if goods are unloaded in Georgia or South Carolina?
Lindsey Graham can suck a bag of dicks (which incidentally, he’s rumored to be quite fond of doing).
