What do these people have in common?

Robert Aderholt, Spencer Bachus, Joe Barton, Judy Biggert, Rob Bishop, John Boehner, Jo Bonner, Henry Brown, Ginny Brown-Waite, Michael Burgess, Ken Calvert, Dave Camp, Eric Cantor, Joseph Cao, Shelly Capito Moore, John Carter, Mike Castle, Jason Chaffetz, Mike Coffman, Mike Conaway, John Culberson, Geoff Davis, Charlie Dent, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart, Vern Ehlers, Mary Fallin, Elton Gallegly, Jim Gerlach, Phil Gingrey, Louie Gohmert, Bob Goodlatte, Kay Granger, Parker Griffith, Sam Hall, Pete Hoekstra, Sam Johnson, Tim Johnson, Steve King, Jack Kingston, Mark Kirk, Leonard Lance, Chris Lee, John Linder, Frank Lucas, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Dan Lungren, Don Manzullo, Kenny Marchant, Kevin McCarthy, Michael McCaul, Thad McCotter, John Mica, Candice Miller, Tim Murphy, Sue Myrick, Randy Neugebauer, Pete Olson, Ron Paul, Todd Platts, Ted Poe, Bill Posey, Adam Putnam, Denny Rehberg, Dave Reichert, Mike Rogers, Mike Rogers, Tom Rooney, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Peter Roskam, Paul Ryan, Steve Scalise, Jean Schmidt, Aaron Schock, Pete Sessions, John Shimkus, Heath Shuler, Bill Shuster, Lamar Smith, Cliff Stearns, Glenn Thompson, Mac Thornberry, Pat Tiberi, Fred Upton, Greg Walden, Zach Wamp, Ed Whitfield, Joe ("You Lie") Wilson, Frank Wolf, Don Young, Bill Young

Lamar Alexander, Bob Bennett, Kit Bond, Sam Brownback, Richard Burr, Saxby Chambliss, John Cornyn, Mike Crapo, Jim DeMint, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Jim Inhofe, Johnny Isakson, Mike Johanns, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Sessions, Richard Shelby

• All of them are members of the current US Congress. Those in the first group are in the House of Representatives. Those in the second group are Senators.
  
  "What's the BFD?" you ask.
  
  
• All of them claim to disagree with the "Obama Stimulus" - a government spending program that is pumping several hundreds of billions of dollars into the USA economy. The "stimulus" is designed to create and/or save millions of jobs from the ravages of an economic recession.
  
  And?
  
  
• All of them spoke out against the 'stimulus' plan, claiming (among other things) that it would not create any jobs and would not save any jobs in danger of disappearing.
  
  Is there a point to all this?
  
  
• All of them voted against the "stimulus' bill when it was debated and approved by Congress.
  
  [ ... yawn ... ]
  
  
• All of them continue to this day to gloat and claim that the 'stimulus' has not created or saved any jobs. "We were right all along. The stimulus is just typical Democratic wasteful spending."
  
  
  So what? The 2 sides to the argument disagree. That's how it is in the USA.
  
  1. For openers, many of them have requested that funds for government-funded projects in their own districts or states. The justification: the projects funded by the stimulus will create lots of jobs in their districts and states.
     
     
  2. Many of them did get funding for government-funded projects in their own districts or states. And when those projects received the needed funding (from the 'stimulus'), those same people had ceremonies at job sites and bragged about how each of them helped their districts get funding for important projects and the resulting jobs.
     
     
  3. And they continue to claim that the 'stimulus' was merely government waste that created no jobs.
     
     Isn't that a contradiction?" you ask.
     
     It's more that mere contradiction.
     

     hypocrisy, n. insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have.
     hypocrite, n. one who practices hypocrisy.

     It's hypocrisy. If I had to choose one class of people whom I would never trust, that class would be hypocrites. One never knows which hypocritical statements to believe.
     
     It also explains those people's true opinion of YOU. They believe that you are too stupid to notice the hypocrisy.
  
  Those are the points:
  
  
  1. Today's Congressional republicans are hypocrites.
  
  
  2. Today's republicans don't think that you are worthy of honesty and integrity.
  
  
• Oh, one more thing:
  
  They are all republicans ... every last one of them is a republican. Think about that when you're trying to sort out whom to believe in American politics.

Did I mention that they are all republicans?