Thursday, July 09, 2009

Biden to travel to Boner’s backyard Thursday


Biden’s office has announced that he’s traveling to Cincinnati tomorrow to highlight stimulus spending. But here’s what it doesn’t say in the Veep’s press release: It turns out Biden’s stimulus event is taking place right next door to the district of Boehner, who has proclaimed that the stimulus has flopped in his state.
That doesn’t appear to be a coincidence.
Boehner has been one of the leading critics of the stimulus package, most recently claiming that no stimulus contracts had been let in his home state of Ohio, though some stim cash seems to have landed right in Boehner’s district.
Biden is going tomorrow to Cincinnati, right next door to Boehner’s district, to hold an event at a formerly abandoned factory that’s being developed with stimulus money, where he’ll highlight other recovery act cash being spent in the state.
A GOP aide scoffed at Biden’s visit. “It’ll be interesting to see how the Vice President defends the Administration’s trillion-dollar `stimulus’ that was supposed to create jobs `immediately’ in a state that now has over 10 percent unemployment,” he said.
Read on.

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