Posted on 07/14/2009 7:47:29 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is firing back at Sen. Jon Kyl for calling for an end to economic stimulus spending, and they're aiming for where it hurts the most - at home in Arizona.
The White House on Tuesday released letters from four cabinet secretaries to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, citing Kyl's comments and outlining transportation, housing, Indian education and other projects in his home state they said would be eliminated if the senator has his way.
Kyl, the No. 2 Senate GOP leader, has said the stimulus spending hasn't succeeded in boosting the economy and that it's adding to the deficit. He's suggested on his Senate Web site and in interviews that spending not already allocated be halted
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The outrage needs more MSM coverage.
Imagine what the MSM would say if a Republican attempted this kind of blackmail?
Kyl needs to publicly identify who threatened him and the nature of the threat.
I say we do exactly what you are suggesting starting on Labor Day, 2009 and extending to Veterans' Day, to commemorate 9/12 the Day of Resistance. No tax money to the government for at least a month.
The White HOuse is blatantly bragging about this:
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, one of two Republicans in Obama’s cabinet, made no attempt to conceal his needling.
Kyl “publicly questioned whether the stimulus is working and stated that he wants to cancel projects that aren’t presently under way,” LaHood wrote Brewer. “If you prefer to forfeit the money we are making available to your state, as Senator Kyl suggests, please let me know.”
LaHood noted in the letter that at least $520.9 million of the $48 billion for transportation projects under the economic recovery act are intended for Arizona projects, including transit projects in Phoenix.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Arizona would lose $45 million for 500 single-family housing loans if projects not already under way were canceled.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said the state would forfeit $73 million his department oversees, including $22 million for homeless programs.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, a Westerner who formerly served with Kyl in the Senate, didn’t mention the Arizonan by name in his letter, but referred to “some key Republican leaders in Congress.” He said the state would lose $60 million for Bureau of Indian Education schools, among other money.
“The outrage needs more MSM coverage.”
Do you have any idea what kind of coverage they would give of this? They would put horns and a tail on Kyl and interview people who he had starved.
I'm scared - have been for a while.
He's destroying our Country. Will we fight for it? The heat's turning up real high. Real high.
Yes, I'm scared.
What can a state do to fight this?
Something like the Cook fellow - assert that 0 has no legal authority to withhold funds b/c he isn’t really the president?
Paging Orly Taitz.
Which create NO long-term production jobs.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Arizona would lose $45 million for 500 single-family housing loans if projects not already under way were canceled.
Which create NO long-term production jobs.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said the state would forfeit $73 million his department oversees, including $22 million for homeless programs.
Which create NO long-term production jobs.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, a Westerner who formerly served with Kyl in the Senate, didnt mention the Arizonan by name in his letter, but referred to some key Republican leaders in Congress. He said the state would lose $60 million for Bureau of Indian Education schools, among other money.
Which create NO long-term production jobs.
DOT Highway funds are a common cudgel used against individual states that don't want to go along to get along. This is how the fedgov has managed to insinuate itself into legal drinking age, speed limits, intoxication limits, etc. They're still based on laws passed by the state, but the states are told, "Unless you raise the drinking age....etc."
Thugocracy is what we have now.....
The sanctuary city, democratic mayor of Phoenix, is having a hissy-fit. I don’t think all of Arizona is in lock step with that guy..... the AZ Republic is so off the left it isn’t even funny — how did it ever get so out of step with most of the state of Arizona.
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