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Shelby's Folly
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12/15/2009 9:05:08 AM
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One of the few editorials in the DECATUR DAILY that I agree with.
Shelby’s ideology just rhetoric
When U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, votes against health care reform, he will cloak his vote in a conservative flag. Fiscal responsibility is essential, he will say, as he has said in so many previous votes against spending measures for the poor or the environment.
He voted against the tax rebate stimulus because it was fiscally irresponsible. The Cash for Clunkers program, he said, was sending taxpayer dollars into an “economic abyss.” Environmental regulations are too expensive, and cap-and-trade legislation would be an economic disaster.
Yet on Sunday, Shelby was one of three Republican senators who voted in favor of a $1.1 trillion spending bill.
The reason for the vote is no mystery. He was successful in loading it with earmarks for Alabama and, especially, for his hometown of Tuscaloosa. He is against increasing federal debt and expansive government — unless it provides him with Alabama votes or another Tuscaloosa building named in his honor.
In 2007, Shelby posed this question in a newsletter to constituents: “We must ask ourselves a difficult question: Should we continue to fund programs that are politically advantageous or should we make tough decisions to cut spending to decrease our ever-growing federal debt?”
He answered that question Sunday.
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