GOP guvs may reject stimulus money

The legend for this blog ought to have a special icon for stories about the GOP brain trust putting ideology ahead of the interests of the public they're supposed to represent.

Several right-wing Republican governors are considering turning down money from the federal stimulus.

If you live in Alaska, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, or Texas, you might not see a dime from the stimulus - all because certain right-wing fools named Sarah Palin, Butch Otter, Bobby Jindal, Haley Barbour, Mark Sanford, or Rick Perry may decide not to let you or your state get any of this money.

We better hope a natural disaster doesn't hit any of these states. Sadly, there are few starker reminders of the need for the stimulus than a major disaster.

Granted, Republican states like these already receive more federal tax dollars than they pay out. But this money hasn't necessarily gone to projects that benefit average people. Even so, the 6 governors mentioned here will probably be begging for stimulus money once they realize they need it like all the other states. So their complaints today may amount to nothing but grandstanding for their copartisans.

(Also, notice that I didn't link to Yahoo!'s run of this story, because I haven't linked to Yahoo! since they started putting ads on their news articles again. That's what Yahoo! gets for ratting out journalists to authoritarian regimes.)

(Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g8-DEMtAE9q4i4ySQ0eV_qZefmRQD96EI3PG3)