Time For A New Sovereignty Resolution

Birther Rep. Tim Jones (R-Eureka) says he can't be held responsible his vote to use federal Recovery Act money in last year's budget because Sen. Claire McCaskill "forced" the legislature to accept $1.3 billion for education and health care expenses. In Jones' latest  newsletter:

This week, Senator McCaskill criticized Missouri's General Assembly and Governor for utilizing the federal stimulus funds to plug major budget gaps that she forced on Missouri over a year ago.

Emphasis in the original. You know the federal government is really getting too powerful when it forces state legislators to draft and pass budgets against their will.

Unfortunately, Jones does not explain in his column how House Republicans were able to resist the will of the feds and evil Democrats in refusing the federal dollars that would provide 35,000 working Missourians with health insurance.   Nor does Jones explain how McCaskill "forced" Republicans to appropriate more stimulus dollars last May than the librul Gov. Nixon had recommended. 

I'll take my questions up with Sen. McCaskill.  She's the one calling the shots, it seems.