Democratic fucking jackass

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Tennessee’s Democratic Governor Weighs Rejecting Stimulus Funds

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen says he’s still among the top candidates for a post in the Obama cabinet, but that hasn’t discouraged him from possibly rejecting some of the stimulus money that President Barack Obama is sending his way.

Bredesen, who says he is “on a fairly short list” of candidates for health and human services secretary, told a Chattanooga paper that he is considering turning down federal funds for unemployment insurance included in the economic recovery package signed by the president last week.

He would be the first Democrat to refuse part of the stimulus for states, joining Republican governors like South Carolina’s Mark Sanford and Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, who is giving the GOP response to Obama’s economic address this evening.

Bredesen is concerned that accepting $141 million for Tennessee’s unemployment insurance would force the state to expand the program and leave state taxpayers with the bill in two years’ time.

“We are evaluating this piece of money, whether it makes sense for us to take it,” he said. “We may well be one of the states that say we can’t take on that portion of it.”

In testimony before Congress today, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said it would “reduce the stimulus effect of the package” to leave the unemployment funds unspent. But Bredesen still likes his chances of joining the Obama administration after a breaking with the president on the high-profile issue.

Republican talking points and all. When are the next governor elections again? That fucking jackass needs to be targeted. Will someone please explain to me why the hell it is that our elected officials seem to be increasing forgetting that they are we the people's PUBLIC SERVANTS????