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Monday, March 16, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Obama to Sanford: Go to hell, redneck
Posted By John Grooms on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM
OK, maybe he wasn't that rude, but the Obama administration still told South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford where to get off earlier today.
We've been keeping you up to date on Sanford's attempt to derail stimulus package spending in his state (because, as you know, South Carolina's unemployment rate is now only 10.4 percent). This afternoon, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag told Sanford that the administration is rejecting his request to use $700 million in stimulus dough to pay down state debt rather than use it to create jobs and/or avoid deep cuts in unemployment benefits.
So, the short version is that one more GOP reactionary has had his pre-presidential-campaign PR move shoved back in his face. Or, to use an old-time South Carolina phrase, Gov. Sanford shit and fell back in it.
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