A recent report from CNN named the names of the Republican politicians, the Republican
lawmakers, who personally, in one way or another, referred to the infrastructure package, the
trillion dollar infrastructure package as some form of socialism, and then turned around
when everybody stopped paying attention and begged for money, usually from transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg for their cities and states, the list of people, Let's start
with that.
All Republicans, by the way, Representative Tom m Emmer, Senator Tommy Tuberville, Representative
Maria Salazar, Representative David Vlado, Representative Paul Goza, Representative Andy
Barr, Senator Rand Paul, and Representative Ashley Henson.
Those are the names specifically that this CNN report hammered for, again, referring
to it as socialism.
And then after they got their base all riled up and they stopped paying attention, they
said, Hey, uh, uh, Mayor Pete, can we, can we get some money here?
I got, I got all these projects I want to get done.
I, I need to deliver for my state, for my district, for my city, whatever it is.
I gotta show 'em.
I did something.
So could you please help us out?
We got potholes everywhere.
I'd love to fix those and I'd love to have my name all over it.
So please, please give us the money.
Tom Emer, by the way, referred to it as President Biden's Multi-trillion dollar Socialist W
wishlist.
Andy Barr called the bill a quote, big government socialist agenda.
And then he, of course, wrote three letters of his own on behalf of three different projects,
also citing their importance for safety and job growth.
Rand Paul said he voted against the bill because it typified wasteful spending, which would
deepen the national debt.
And Rand Paul wrote 10 different letters, petitioning for more of that money coming
into Kentucky, including for a community development organization working to expand a river walk,
improve three stretches of roads, strengthen a dam, support the revitalization of an old
internal revenue service facility, Covington, improved streets, blah, blah, blah, all that
stuff.
All things, by the way, that do need to get done.
I'm not begrudging these Republicans for wanting money to fix their areas.
What I am angry about is their motive, and of course, them attacking this legislation
that they all voted against.
You know what your constituents need, You know what your state needs, what your city,
what your county, what your district needs.
And you voted against it.
And then after you got your base riled up saying, Biden's got all this wasteful spending.
It's horrible.
It's terrible, it's socialism.
And they're like, Yeah, we hate it too.
You go begging Mayor Pete, Pete Butti, edge's transportation secretary, the guy, you and
your party have viciously trashed.
I'm not even a fan of the guy, but your attacks on him have been absolutely reprehensible
and you're begging him for money.
Please, please help us with your socialist money.
We need it so desperately.
So very badly.
And I am also angry about the motives.
They don't wanna fix these problems because they're problems that need to be fixed.
They're not actually worried about people getting in car accidents or the dam breaking
or any of that.
What they wanna do right before midterms is go to their constituents and say, Look what
I did for you.
Look, I, I got this money.
We're fixing things.
It's all because of me.
I did it all.
We've already seen it happening with Republicans who voted against the infrastructure bill,
going back to their constituents and then bragging, Look at all this money I brought
you.
I did this.
Of course not mentioning, it's from the infrastructure bill they voted against.
They're disgusting.
They're hypocritical.
They're absolutely the worst of the worst.
But their constituents love it cuz they think they're out there fighting the good fight
against wasteful spending, not realizing those same programs, they divide it as socialism
are the ones coming to save their asses.