Virginia lawmakers withhold stimulus money from unemployed

This is getting to be a trite story, like a hit song that gets too many radio spins. But it must be told again. (Sigh.)

The Virginia House of Delegates has now decided it wants to join Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in the Hall of Shame of right-wing ideologues who reject stimulus funds for the unemployed.

Today, the Republican-led Virginia House (on almost a straight party line vote) opted to reject $125,000,000 in federal stimulus funds that would have provided unemployment benefits for those who need it.

You know exactly what I'm going to say: If you're unemployed in Virginia, you won't get extra benefits now, all because the right-wing pricks in the Virginia House decided not to let you have it.

If that money was for, say, pseudoephedrine logs or funding right-wing private schools, I bet legislators would have accepted the money in a heartbeat.

If I had to draw an editorial cartoon for this story, it would depict Republicans in the Virginia House overseeing an emaciated and shivering public, as lawmakers shovel the finest foodstuffs into their gaping gizzards. There's no limit to their scumbaggery, is there?

(Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/08/AR2009040803800.html)