1/25/22: Of all the gall! In November, Rep. Rob Wittman, a Republican congressman from Virginia, voted against the infrastructure plan pushed and passed overwhelmingly by Biden and the Democrats.
Showing extraordinary chutzpah, Wittman is now tweet-touting his success in bringing $70 million to his district, to expand the Port of Virginia in Norfolk. As part of the infrastructure bill.
When the free
press put Wittman’s spokesperson on the spot, asking about the tweet, Rep.
Whitman decided to delete it and duck and cover.
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Rep. Wittman. |
As ABC explained, he was not alone in such hypocrisy.
Shortly after voting against
the measure last fall, Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., celebrated its hundreds of
millions in funding for a stalled highway project in Birmingham.
Last week, Rep. Kay Granger,
R-Texas, touted new funding for a flood control project
from the package, which she opposed last year, decrying it at the time as a
“so-called infrastructure bill.”
Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, a
freshman lawmaker who also voted against the infrastructure bill, celebrated
new “game-changing” funding to upgrade locks along the Upper Mississippi River.
Normally, this
would be embarrassing to anyone who had the capacity to feel shame. Sadly, this
is today’s stunted version of the Republican Party.
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