McCotter: Stimulus plan “obscene”

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (MI-11) published a commentary on conservative blog RedState.com in which he said the nearly trillion dollar stimulus package passed by House Democrats, and opposed by McCotter and the Republican caucus, was a “fiscal obscenity.”

In the blog, McCotter slams Dems for holding Republicans’ feet to the fire, while letting the Dems who voted against the bill — most of them members of the Blue Dog Coalition — off the hook. He calls it hypocritical.

So why is McCotter opposed to the bill?:

Evidently, the hypocritical House Democrats are shocked Americans are disgusted by a trillion dollar fiscal obscenity that does much for hiking artists who are trying to stop smoking and avoid STDs, but does nothing – or worse than nothing – to create jobs for working families and respect taxpayers.

As noted earlier this week, House Republicans have declared the $475 million in STD prevention and screening and smoking cessation as wasteful spending.

McCotter, who opined from the floor of the House about how Republicans liked children and not just with a “side of fries,” might have a wee bit of an ulterior motive in attacking the Democrats. The guitar-strumming Republican is targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) of the Democratic National Committee with radio ads questioning his failure to support the stimulus. McCotter won only 51 percent of the vote in November, putting him on the list of most vulnerable Republicans.