Enjoy your extended recession South Carolina

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford doesn't want your dirty stimulus money. Well actually he does want it, but only if he can spend it on things that don't actually help stimulate the economy. You see he's got 2012 ambitions and adhering to some bullshit Republican fiscal code with Bobby Jindal is a tad more important than listening to egghead economists and helping the citizens of his state. Priorities, the man's got GOP primaries to think about here.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford plans to ask President Obama for permission to use part of his state's stimulus money to pay down its debt, not on new spending, according to a letter he sent state legislators Tuesday.

A longtime opponent of the president's nearly $800 billion stimulus package, the Republican governor told his state's lawmakers that spending approximately $700 million in money coming from the federal government would only make the state's financial situation worse in the long term.

"[W]hen one is in a hole, the first order of business is to stop digging," Sanford wrote in the letter obtained by CNN Tuesday.

Yes, clearly what drove us into a hole was government spending. Government spending is clearly the problem and despite the suggestions from....every economist that only government spending on projects can make up the GDP shortfall and the sheer weight of historical evidence showing that government spending makes a difference in these situations almost directly proportional to how much is spent, Mark Sanford knows what's really the problem and whats really the solution.

John Boehner agrees, government spending is the problem. If the country was on fire, government spending would be the culprit. It's nice to know that a massive economic crisis has not deterred America's stupidest party from playing to the base and placing their perceived political future ahead of time tested solutions. The Peter Pan party never wants to grow up, never wants to be adults. I'd feel sorry for your impending extended misery SC, but you're South Carolina and you enabled this idiot. Suffer. Though, try not to spread the suffering outside your own borders. Some of us have states not run by monstrously incompetent base humpers.