Rachel Maddow shocks Rep. Schock by calling out his spending hypocrisy

[JohnWxy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/14/rachel-maddow-stuns-rep-a_n_461885.html


A heated exchange took place during NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday when MSNBC host Rachel Maddow accused Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) of hypocrisy for railing against a spending bill in public while touting its benefits in his home district.

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"You, in your district, I just read that you were at a community college touting a $350,000 green technology education program, talking about how great that was going to be for your district," she said. "You voted against the bill that created that grant. That's happening a lot with Republicans sort of taking credit for things that Democratic bills do and then Republicans simultaneously touting their votes against them and trashing them. That, I think, is a problem that needs to be resolved within your caucus. Because you seem like a very nice person but that is a very hypocritical stance to take."
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"If you vote against the omnibus bill," she said at the end of the exchange, "if you complain about the omnibus bill, if you tout your vote against the omnibus bill, it is hypocrisy to then go to your district and go to a ribbon cutting ceremony for something that is funded by the omnibus bill that you voted against."

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"More than a dozen Republican lawmakers, while denouncing the stimulus to the media and their constituents, privately sent letters to just one of the federal government's many agencies seeking stimulus money for home-state pork projects," the Washington Times (really) reported.

[SharonRB]

1. No one can say Rachel doesn't do her homework

I loved that exchange!

[cutlassmama]

2. She's great, isn't she?

[Kind of Blue]

3. That was a thing of beauty!

She's so unafraid, brief and cuts like a sword.
KnR