In February 2009, Mike Castle voted with his party and against Delaware in opposing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
And almost immediately afterwards, the hyprocrisy show began. In May, Mike Castle celebrated the restoration of the Wilmington Train Station, paid for by stimulus funds. Then, in early July 2009, Mike Castle was taking credit for AMTRACK project funded by stimulus money. And here is Mike Castle helping present a nice big stimulus check that he voted against:
That was for an announcement by Gov. Markell of waste water project funded by the Stimulus.
And now, Mike Castle is saying that the stimulus did not go far enough!!! So, first it was too much, then it was just right, and now it is not enough. Castle wants Delaware and the Northeast to get money for high speed rail just like Florida, the South, and the West did, and he is angry the stimulus funds did not provide for such projects here in the First State.
“These are our tax dollars, and while I don’t agree that this [stimulus] funding has been successful in its stated goal of long-term job creation, I will not sit by while our money goes to other states,” Castle said.
How interesting. Mike Castle is now interested in job creation. Tell me then, why did he vote against the jobs bill in December?
[Castle] opposed this second stimulus for the same reasons he opposed the first $787 billion stimulus package in February. “We cannot spend our way back to economic prosperity,” Castle said in a statement. […] The jobs bill is designed to steer money from a financial bailout program to infrastructure projects and job-creation and job-preservation efforts while extending unemployment benefits and subsidies for COBRA insurance for laid-off workers.
So, let’s review. Mike Castle is and was against stimulus spending. But he happily takes credit for stimulus projects, and indeed demands more funds for rail projects in Delaware and the Northeast. Mike Castle votes against a jobs bill, but then complains that we aren’t doing enough to create jobs.
{Count Dracula voice} One, Two, Three, Four, Five! Five Flip Flops. {end Count Dracula voice}