Up next is Jindal's fellow Governor, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, previously mentioned below. Sanford, who actually wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Don't Bail out My State, has done the loudest hemming and the loudest hawing over the stimulus package, once threatening to not take a single dollar, nickel, nor penny of the stimulus money. Now he's finally up for taking the money, but not all of it. Seems he wants part of the package, but not the part of the package that includes unemployment benefits and the building of green buildings, thus achieving the rare trifecta of asshattery by being anti-poor, anti-jobs, and anti-environment.
South Carolina, by the way, has given us two other candidates for the Wall, Senator Lindsey Graham, the guy who recently threw a hissy fit about the "lack of bipartisanship" shown by Obama unlike him who was one of the House Leaders of the Clinton Blow Job Impeachment, and Jim DeMint who's said all sorts of intelligent things about the package, including that it was bad for Jesus Lovers and a mugging. DeMint is such a die-hard that is proposed economic bail out plan consisted of nothing but tax breaks, tax cuts, and tax hacking and said this about the bill:
"Not since the passage in 1909 of the 16th Amendment — which cleared the way for a federal income tax — has the United States seriously entertained a policy so comprehensively hostile to economic freedom, nor so arrogantly indifferent to economic reality."
Ummmm, yeah.
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