Republican California Governor labels his Republican colleagues as Hypocrites on the Stimulus Bill

Today Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) appeared on ABC’s This Week with host Terry Moran where the Governor labeled his Republican colleagues in Washington as patent hypocrites on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, more commonly known as the stimulus package. When asked by Mr. Moran if railing against the stimulus bill in public while taking credit for stimulus-related projects and ceremonies in their home districts was hypocritical, the Governor responded “Exactly”, referring that it was.

The Governor noted that he thought it interesting to have all those Republicans running around pushing back on the stimulus money, saying that it doesn’t create any new jobs; and yet go out and do photo ops in their districts and say: 'Isn't this great, look at the kind of money I've provided for the state and this is money to create jobs, and this has created 10,000 new jobs, this has created 20,000 new jobs”.

Schwarzenegger said that his Republican colleagues should be asking themselves on how they can support president in order to stimulate the economy back to good health, instead of solely focusing on trying to gain political advantage for the next election'

The governor laid down a marker to all those who allege that the stimulus hasn't created a job. He said they should talk to the 150,000 people getting jobs in California from both the private sector and the public sector.


See interview here:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/02/schwarzenegger-rendell-republicans-playing-politics-on-stimulus.html