Pic Of The Moment: Boebert: Federal Funding Is Wasteful Garbage!

[malthaussen]

11. It's not *exactly* hypocrisy.

This has aspects of business as usual, except for one thing I'll mention later. But it is not uncommon at all for a legislator to oppose a funding bill, and then when it passes anyway, to request some of the funds for his district. They are really two different things. For example, one might oppose the wasteful and ridiculous spending on the F-35 boondoggle, and then when the bill passes anyway, try to get funding to set up component manufacturing in his district.

What makes this a little different is making a great to-do and political capital of one's opposition to the measure, and then demanding a piece of the pie. If the principle by which you oppose a measure is so great, then one should not soil one's hands with the product.

-- Mal