NRCC Bashes Democrat for Stuff That Doesn’t Exist
The National Republican Congressional Committee is up with a new ad against Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), who won one of the closest races in the country last year. It knocks him for his “yes” vote on the stimulus package:
“„Pelosi’s plan wastes hundreds of millions on programs that won’t help the economy: smoking cessation, arts funding, treatment for STDs.
Arts funding did make it into the bill that President Obama signed, as did smoking cessation. But the $335 million included in the House’s first version of the stimulus package, passed on January 29, was stripped out in the Senate. If it was once part of “Pelosi’s plan,” it no longer is, because it no longer exists.
The argument that arts funding “won’t help the economy” is controversial, too, but controversial is better than outright false.
