House Ignores Krazy Talk from Martin, Lembke, Nieves & Crowell

The Missouri House voted today to use $189 million in federal education money for public schools today, ignoring bizarre calls from some Republican politicians to send the money to other states. The decision to use the money is hardly controversial, but the lunatic wing of the Republican Party called for Missouri to reject the alleged "bribe."  For instance:

• Ed Martin repeatedly directed followers to a St. Louis Tea Party action page asking Show-Me State legislators to "send DC's Education Bribe back where it came from."
• About the money approved today by the House, Sen. Brian Nieves wrote, "If I'm walking down the street and find a line of people taking stuff out of a damaged store front and I know that if I don't grab that 42 inch LCD TV, the guy behind me is going to anyway.... Doing something that is wrong is still wrong even if every body else is doing it! Kind of sounds like something our Mothers likely told us. The federal government has NO business in our schools anyway!"
• Sen. Jim Lembke said "the state of Missouri should take a stand" and reject the money as a demonstration of fiscal conservatistm
• Sen. Jason Crowell also called on the General Assembly to reject the money, but with less bombast