Bond suffering from short-term memory loss

Sen. Kit Bond and Will Smith demonstrate their memory erasing device in Hannibal on Tuesday.

Last week, we endured all sorts of grandstanding from Sen. Bond about how the President's economic recovery bill wouldn't (1) create jobs, (2) help the economy or (3) help with the housing crisis. His position wasn't ambiguous -- he even decried the bipartisan compromise. Here is a pretty typical quote:

It doesn't stimulate jobs. But more important, it doesn't provide the basic need we have in this country to deal with the problems in the home industry and the credit market that came about from the bad subprime loans...

But, oh, what a difference a weekend makes!  After two weeks of railing against the bill and voting against it, Bond is taking personal credit for the bill. Why?  Because he says it (1) "saves jobs" and (2) "jump starts" projects halted by the economy and (3) addresses the housing crisis.

Sadly, the KHQA story on Bond's brand-new support for the recovery package doesn't mention his change of heart partisan, cynical self-promotion.

UPDATE: I failed to include Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer's change of heart cynical self-promotion in this post earlier. Luetkemeyer went to Kirksville yesterday to celebrate a new project funded by the economic recovery package, plus Pell Grant money included in the bill. Here's what Luetkemeyer said last week:

I am acutely aware that people are hurting out there, but this massive spending bill will do nothing to improve the quality of life of hard-working taxpayers...

Except, apparently, for all of the things it does to improve the lives of taxpayers when there's a chance to get some positive press.