"Stimulus" for Mice in San Francisco

STIMULUS FOR MICE: WITH UNEMPLOYMENT RISING, DEMOCRATS STIMULUS FORCES TAXPAYERS TO FUND MICE IN SAN FRANCISCO

ADMINISTRATION PROMISED STIMULUS WOULD CREATE JOBS IMMEDIATELY, KEEP UNEMPLOYMENT BELOW EIGHT PERCENT

July 9, 2009 | House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH)

How does helping the salt marsh harvest mouse help middle-class families and small businesses struggling with dramatic job loss during this recession? Thats a good question to ask House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), other Democrats in Congress, and the Administration because it was recently revealed that the tiny little mouse was getting $16 million in taxpayer dollars thanks to the Democrats stimulus spending bill that isnt working. House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) announced the mouse money in his on-camera press briefing earlier today:

The bottom line is this: the stimulus isnt creating enough jobs, but heres one thing the stimulus is accomplishing. Youll recall earlier this year on the debate on the stimulus bill, the Democrats promised that the stimulus bill would be free of earmarks. And a lot of us disagreed. We pointed to one particular request that we were convinced was going to be funded in this. That was to protect the salt marsh harvest mouse near Speaker Pelosis district in San Francisco. You remember the Democrats claimed no no no, were not going to fund this, its not in the bill, its not going to happen. Well, guess what? $16 million of the stimulus money was appropriated to take care of the salt marsh harvest mouse. (VIDEO)

The Washington Times has the details about how the mouse got its money from a bill Democrats promised would be about creating jobs during the ongoing recession:

The tiny mouse that became a hotly disputed symbol of wasteful spending in the congressional debate over the $787 billion economic stimulus bill has returned to pester House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The Obama administration quietly announced last week that as much as $16.1 million from the stimulus program is going to save the San Francisco Bay area habitat of, among other things, the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse.

That has revived Republican criticism that the pet project was an "invisible earmark" in the massive spending bill for Mrs. Pelosi, whose San Francisco district abuts the bay, and epitomizes the failure of stimulus spending to help an economy still shedding jobs.

Money for mice. Is that what middle-class families and small businesses expected from the Democrats trillion-dollar stimulus spending bill? Wasnt the legislation supposed to create jobs immediately and keep unemployment below eight percent? So lets get this straight: the stimulus isnt creating jobs for American workers, but it is making sure American harvest mice have nice comfortable homes in the midst of the recession. No wonder the American people think Washington is so out of touch.

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[TheParty1984]

What? No liberal morons want to spam here and attack Boehner or the "GnoP'? Oh yeah, its pretty hard to attack someone else when you're blowing money on MICE RESEARCH!

[UberSciFiNerd]

more and more it seems to me like liberals care more about animals and trees than human beings losing their jobs.

[ZUFALL2938]

@photolitherland man you really buy into this stuff that liberals dish out...corporations are the bad guys/all CEOs are corrupt/capitalism is evil... so thats the reason why you think corporations arent hiring,because the CEOs buy stuff they don't need?? are you kidding me?? did you just think of that off the top of your head or is that what someone told you to think?? I truely truely hope you DO NOT vote! And you think there IS an enviromental problem??? You gotta be retarded

[ZUFALL2938]

@photolitherland they care about corporations because its the corporations that allow us to make a living by giving us jobs.....liberals are willing to put the enviroment(which there is NO enviromental crises to begin with) ahead of people being able to put food on their table. you tell me what party doesnt care about people!!!

[Shargrailar]

UNLESS its not complete incompetance but malicious destruction of our independance to make us beg for socialism to save us from the political anarchy congress now runs by.

I would like to believe the incompetance personally, it probably did'nt help we voted in a wannabe who had less leadership qualifications than a McDonalds manager.

[Shargrailar]

The stimulus package was one of the biggest frauds I have ever witnessed our government performing, anyone notice how unemployment still went up and continues?.

If they had broken down the stimulus into checks for every tax paying American then our payout would have stimulated the economy far more than the bs route they took.

This administration is too busy fixing their hair in the rearview mirror to pay attention to where their driving us!!

[mm3mm3]

D-con

[underfoil]

wow, fuck your mouse. and fuck you.

[FrioFrijoles]

Oh so youre telling me the democrats aren't actually going out into the salt marshes and handing the mice money?

oh the god for that!...

As long as we're in this crisis, the mouse is safe. No salt marshes are being filled in for any housing developments right now...

Yea! Dont give em 4 more years! We'll run this country into the ground in 2!

[rickrik00]

After this, I don't EVER want to hear any democrat liberal talk about "the children." How does this, to quote Bill Clinton, feed a hungry child? Explain this to the working families in Michigan and Ohio how this is supposed to "stimulate." And shame on the republicans for not making more of this perfect moment to illustrate the concept of conservative principles and to differentiatte themselves from California liberals. Amen to John Boehner! Keep it coming.

[beachlvr28]

awesome. people are losing jobs, losing homes, losing everything they had ever ownded because this economy is going down the tube. instead of using the $16 million to help America get back on its feet, they decide to waste it on some useless endangered mouse. oh ya. we are definately headed the right way with this president.

[rationalnow]

Everybody say "salt marsh harvest mouse" three times fast before Nancy Pelosi puts back that extra $10 million she took out for the damn mouse! BTW nice new digs for your press conferences.