SgtMeowenstein
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nothing new here. Just more hypocrisy from the GOP.
Read more at link.Republican Governors Quietly Accept Federal Dollars -- While Attacking Federal Spending | TPMDC
Republican governors stormed into state houses this January after campaigning against federal spending, and various so-called state bailouts. They won in part by painting a slanted picture of fiscal mismanagement by their Democratic predecessors.
That rhetoric -- and the rhetoric of their more senior Republican peers -- continues to this day, and occasionally translates into genuinely puzzling acts of malgovernance. Florida Governor Rick Scott, for example, turned down $2.4 billion in federal funds to build a high-speed rail line from Orlando to Tampa