Republicans Hate Pork! Unless it's their own.

Stop wasteful spending!  Unless it's Republican wasteful spending!  From McClatchy:

Republicans are expected to deliver a daylong rant Wednesday against Democratic spending legislation, yet the bill is loaded with thousands of pet projects that Republican lawmakers inserted.

Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, included $142,500 for emergency repairs to the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., joined state colleagues to include $1.425 million for Nevada "statewide bus facilities." The top two Republicans on Congress' money committees also inserted local projects.

Bobby Jindal Loves Extending Unemployment Benefits...

...when he doesn't have plans to kick Obama out of the White House.

Back in 2005, shortly after a different crisis, good old Jindal co-sponsored a bill that extended unemployment benefits 52 weeks after the day the area was declared a disaster. So a federal extension of 52 weeks is entirely okay, but the 20 weeks Obama wants is out of the question?

Being unemployed as a result of a hurricane and being unemployed as a result of an economic collapse have the exact same effect: you still need to eat, and you still don't have a job.

Obama Bipartisanship Vs. Bush "Bipartisanship"

"I guarantee you this is not bipartisan."

-- John McCain in crazy man rant

Republicans, on every TV show they can get booked on, are railing against Barack Obama and his apparent "Orwellian" tactics and complete lack of bipartisanship.  Trouble is, two weeks into his presidency, Barack Obama has already met with the opposition party in the House as many times as President Bush did in  the entirety of his eight years.  The product of these talks?  The removal of family planning funding, reduced spending on mass transit, and the conversion of infrastructure spending into tax cuts....Result?  0 Republicans voted for the package.