Anatomy Of A Rethug Smear

[babylonsister]

Pelosi’s Office: Conservative Talking Point About $30 Million For Mice Is “Fabrication”


Is there really $30 million in the new stimulus package devoted to saving the salt marsh mouse in Nancy Pelosi’s district?

That’s what some conservatives are now charging, and the claim seems to be gaining some traction with elected GOP officials and conservative media outlets, who are using it to argue that the bill is stuffed with Dem pork.

But there isn’t any such money in the bill. And Pelosi’s office is saying that the claim is a “total fabrication.”

How did this one get going? Yesterday a House Republican leadership staffer circulated a background email, which I obtained, charging that GOP staffers had been told by an unnamed Federal agency that if it got money from the stim package, it would spend “thirty million dollars for wetland restoration in the San Francisco Bay Area — including work to protect the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse.”

The GOP staffer’s email didn’t say what agency it was. It didn’t say the money was actually in the package — just that an unnamed agency had said they would spend it on that if they got it.

But conservatives picked up the claim and began stating as fact that the mouse money was in the bill. On Fox News yesterday, Mike Huckabee blasted the bill for containing money for Pelosi’s mouse, and today GOP Rep Dan Lundgren hammered the alleged mouse money in the bill as “absurd.” Today’s Washington Times ran with a story called: “Pelosi’s mouse slated for $30M slice of cheese.”

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http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/stimulus-package/pelosi-staff-conservative-talking-point-about-30-million-for-mice-is-fabrication/

[louis-t]

1. My guess is one the appointees stupidface snuck in

at the last minute and are now sabotaging everything they can.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Interesting. But, how can one of these burrowing assholes be removed? n/t

[foxfeet]

7. Rat poison? Not that I'm advocating its use.

[louis-t]

9. I've heard they can't.

[Dr. Mullion Blasto]

3. it is a known fact

that salt mice are much more intelligent than most people, and that their IQ is roughly double that of GOP staffers. I have no problem allocating a lot of money to restoring their habitat. In fact, I wish we could find some way of giving them the vote.

[babylonsister]

4. Hahaha! And welcome to DU, Dr. Mullion Blasto!

:fistbump:

[babylonsister]

5. OMG, Jack Kingston on the House Floor, now it's a RAT in SF!!

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

6. republicans LOVE this shit..and LIVE for it..

and dems still put stuff in bills that they can ferret out and make a mantra of..:grr:..

wetlands restoration, as a protection from flooding/erosion.whatever.... leaves little wiggle room..add a mouse (or any endangered species) and you KNOW the repubes will fall on it like hungry hyenas on a carcass..and the Corporate media will pounce on it and take it home for them..

Non-thinkers always have to have a super-condensed, easy to mock, "storyline", and if it contains some famous "buzzwords", like SannnnnFrancissssssco, or Hollywooooood, all the better for them..

They never debate the REAL issues, because they LOSE.. nitpickers pick nits..and we keep handing them nits..:(

[MotorCityMan]

8. Sigh... Now this will become an established "fact"...

like "Gore said he invented the internet".

Rethugs never let anything like the truth intrude on their "facts".