The New York Times reports that some GOP Confederate governor's plans to refuse stimulus money isn't sitting very well with the people who'd be hurt most by this partisan ploy:
As governors in nine states, mostly in the South, consider rejecting millions of dollars in federal stimulus money for increased unemployment insurance, there is growing anger among the ranks of the jobless in those states that they could be left out of a significant government benefit.
The stimulus bill recently passed by Congress includes incentives to states to expand benefits to many more jobless people, including part-time workers and those who have cycled in and out of the work force, who are not covered in many states.
The Republican governors of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas, along with Alaska and Idaho, have raised protests, saying that expansion could eventually require them to raise taxes.
On the fence is Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee. If he joins the GOP Confederacy on this, he might as well switch parties at the same time.
Read more about this fool's mission here.
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