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Anti-Stimulus Phony-Republicans now praise Obama’s Stimulus

Well it has happened. We knew the Republicans only opposesed the stimulus package as they thought it would help them politically. But now these fake conservatives concerned with out of control spending are now touting Obama’s stimulus back in their home districts:

“I applaud President Obama’s recognition that high-speed rail should be part of America’s future,” the Florida Republican beamed in a press release. - Rep. John Mica (R) (Yet Mica had just joined every other GOP House member in voting against the $787.2 billion economic recovery plan.)

But Mica wasn’t alone in touting what he saw as the bill’s virtues. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, also had nice things to say in a press release. Young boasted that he “won a victory for the Alaska Native contracting program and other Alaska small business owners last night in H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.”

American’s have caught onto the hijinks of these republican phonies in congress. In the next election congressional republicans who oppose the stimulus will take the shellacking they deserve. Finally, America can see through this self serving phony baloney good-time rock ’n’ roll republicans. With the passage of the stimulus truth, justice and the American way have triumphed over right-wing hate radio!

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who broke with his party to support President Obama’s stimulus package last week, said before the final vote Friday that more of his colleagues would have joined were they not afraid of the political consequences.

“When I came back to the cloak room after coming to the agreement a week ago today,” said Specter, “one of my colleagues said, ‘Arlen, I’m proud of you.’ My Republican colleague said, ‘Arlen, I’m proud of you.’ I said, ‘Are you going to vote with me?’ And he said, ‘No, I might have a primary.’ And I said, ‘Well, you know very well I’m going to have a primary.’” (READ MORE CLICK HERE)