Does Bill Clinton continue to take credit for balancing the budget while demonizing the budget cuts made Newt Gingrich and the Republican congress that actually made a balanced budget possible?

Do the HARD NEWS reporters in Ezra Klein’s JournoLIST conspiracy to help Democrats get elected always spin this story deceptively to help Democrats like Obama & Pelosi to get re-elected despite that the economic stimulus was chock full of corrupt wasteful spending?:

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“A half million dollars for new windows at the Mt. St. Helens visitors center in Amboy, Washington. The building has been closed since 2007 and there are no immediate plans to reopen it.”

Among other waste:

–$ 6.9 million dollars for repairs to an 1846 brick fort marooned on Dry Tortuga at the end the Florida Keys. Few people can visit this remote national park unless they hire a seaplane or take a four-hour round-trip boat ride.

–Creating a museum in an abandoned train station in Glasboro, NJ, at the cost of $ 1.2 million.

–$ 2 million dollars to send researchers from the California Academy of Sciences to islands in the Indian Ocean to study exotic ants.

–A study of dog domestication at Cornell University with a price tag of $ 296-thousand dollars.

–$ 141-thousand dollars to send students from Montana State University to China to study dinosaur eggs.

–$ 762-thousand dollars to create interactive choreography programs at the University of North Carolina. Dancers would wear electronic monitors to analyze their movements.

–$ 89-thousand dollars to replace sidewalks in Boynton, Oklahoma that were just replaced five years ago. One of them goes nowhere near any houses or businesses and leads directly into a ditch.

As for political fraud:

Hillary Clinton pollster Mark Penn is looking at some pretty sweet numbers – namely $ 6 million in federal stimulus dollars awarded to two firms he controls.

The Hill newspaper reported Wednesday that $ 5.97 million from the $ 787 billion stimulus package helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global PR firm headed by Penn.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/12/09/2009-12-09_hillary_clinton_pollster_mark_penn_.html

“Federal records show that $ 5.97 million from the $ 787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn”

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/71353-mark-penn-got-6-million-from-stimulus

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