Joe Biden has no shame whatsoever...

...or, Now wait just a blasted minute here...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that economically strapped residents of Houston and Harris County are paying a price for Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s rejection of a portion of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus assistance.
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“It would be one thing if the state had the money, and said 'I don’t want to take federal money. We’re just going to fund it ourselves,’ ” Biden said during a 45-minute question and answer session.
“It’s another thing when the states are hurting badly, and you decide you’re not going to take on the responsibility to put a few more cop in the street to keep the crime rate down, or keep more teachers in the classroom rather than increase classroom size.”

Joe Biden is one shameless demagogue. Perry took almost $19 billion of that government money to fund all those cops and teachers and whatnot. In fact, that money worked so well for the state budget that it more or less killed any chance of getting casino gambling passed this legislative session. Furthermore, according to the AP, the state INCREASED money on public education spending by about $2 billion; upped higher ed spending by $1.2 billion; and made it possible for about 35,000 more students to receive financial aid from the TEXAS Grants Program. And I don't know about the whole "more cops in the streets" thing, but considering I haven't seen anything about that in the states major media outlets I'd guess it was not that big of a problem. So I don't know exactly where Biden's getting all this crap from.
Wait a minute, yeah, I do. He's pulling it out of his fourth point of contact, the same place he gets about 98 percent of everything else he says. And that's probably a lowball figure.
As for this...

Biden, who was asked about Perry, insisted that he was “not commenting directly” on Texas’ GOP chief executive. “Each governor has his or her rationale.”
But Biden added: “I’m at a bit of a loss as to the rationale.”

Even though Perry has explained his rationale, Biden still doesn't get it. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. One could say Biden is about as dumb as a box of hammers, but that'd be a gross insult to the hammers...