This is definitely a change. Sanford previously said he had his staff looking at the plan, but "for a different reason" than other governors -- that is, to figure out what was wrong with it.

Bullshit. You know his guys were combing that bill to see what was in it for South Carolina. Now that they have a good idea, they've decided it's better to take the cash than risk the wrath of the voters. God this is just laughable.

"I didn't wanna do it, Mommy, it's all those mean ol' Democrats forcing me to do it."

Of course you know when the stimulus actually proves helpful to SC, he'll be the first to take credit. And the MSM will buy it.

Governor Perry will stand tall!

Sanford is a pompous pig of a politician. I hope he chokes on his words and neo-con views.

Got to love Time Magazine's worst Governor. I live in SC and this is the first I heard he is taking the money.

This Gov has been fighting our state Employment Security Commission for weeks because they paying money to the 200,000 unemployed here.

Two weeks ago we learned that we unemployed are taking drugs so as to flunk drug tests so we can keeping getting the free money.

This past week he noted that there where 100,000 jobs bing advertised in the state and that half of us should be working.

Problem is very few unemployed can meet the requirements for the advertised jobs (these two things have been reported on various TV station in state)

Sanford is such a true Republican he cannot even work with a Republican legislature and last election teamed up with wealthy Howard Rich of New York to oust members of his own party in favor of supposedly better conservatives, who hate public schools

Of course Stanford and these dopey republicans who strongly railed against the stim bill are now willing and able to take the money. You got love republican kabuki ideology. Hypocrisy is the lifeblood of the Republican Party. What’s next? These repubs who think homosexuality is wrong are now willing to take it in the ass.

Sanford is the darling of the right-wing think tankers here in NC, who always point to him as an example of what kind of leader NC can elect. No thanks.

The problem is, he got far more national attention saying he wouldn't take the money than he'll ever get for changing his mind.

He was on a different cable every night for a while, building up his reputation among the market fundamentalist crowd.

Reminds me of Jindal who was here speaking a couple of weeks ago. They hold him up as a role model too, because he cut taxes, slashed government, blah, blah, blah, never mentioning that Louisiana is now broke partially because of his tax cuts.

Just laughable. This whole Republican dog and pony show is like a bad soap opera.

Thank you, Gov. Sanford, for making my life a little easier. We've been deciding where to vacation this summer and you're such a twit, I've just crossed Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach off of the list.

I've seen less posturing and posing on a catwalk. So lame.

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Today's HChron reports Perry just caved

That leaves the Fine Governor of the Great State of Lurziana, Earl K Jindal!

He'll stand tall for us!

Do you think Fox News will accidentally refer to him as "Sir Allen Stanford" in the graphic below his talking head?

These Guvs are putting on a clinic for consciousness-raising amongst voters in their states. It's like they're TRYING to get rid of low-information voters. How can Rush keep up?

This was a stupid exercise for the MSM to engage in from the very beginning. Was there ever any doubt that Sanford would take the money? Heck no. So this man was given a platform...why?

Shorter version: we hate you and everything you stand for but we'll take your filthy dirty money because we need it.

this showcases like few other things how intellectually bankrupt these GOP'ers are...

demagoguery rules the day with these goons... until one day it comes back to bite them big time.. demonstrating how little credibility they have... (it's like with abortion -- they're against abortion but they're also AGAINST CONTRACEPTIVES.. i.e., they're also against methods TO PREVENT ABORTIONS... how can anybody with a brain take these idiots seriously??)

This Sanford nut along with Jindal and Palin are already campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. They have no credibility and they just plain look silly. People are hurting in their states and their answer is ideological bullshicky.