Are Republicans Hypocrites...

... if they help their constituents take advantage of stimulus funds they voted against? So argues Josh Marshall. It might equally be asked: Are Democrats hypocrites if they enjoy the safety and security of the United States after voting against the military appropriations that defend it? Or if they pay lower tax rates after a Republican tax cut? Or if they accept the benefit of cheaper prices at the store after Republican tort reform? Once enacted, laws apply to all. Everyone is obliged to obey them, whether they favored them or not, and everybody gets their benefit, whether or not you believed that benefit was worth the cost. Republicans had a better idea of how to stimulate the economy: a payroll tax holiday. Democrats had the votes to push through their worse idea. We all have to make the best of that worse idea, and Republican constituencies belong to that all.