Somebody is messin' with Joe

Remember when President Fabulous told us that we didn't have to worry about any waste, fraud or abuse with Porkulus because Slow Joe Biden would be personally responsible for overseeing the program and "nobody messes with Joe!"

Well, like everything else in Obamaland, reality has failed to meet expectation as it looks like millions billions are being spent in non-existent Congressional Districts

Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one, it has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according to recovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist.

According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 billion was used to “create or save” just under 30,000 jobs in these phantom congressional districts–almost $225,000 per job. The web site operates on an $84 million budget and is tasked with monitoring the distribution of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress–which, for the record, counts 435 members–in early 2009.

The site’s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America’s political or geographic landscape. More than $2 million was given to the 99th District of North Dakota, a state which has only one congressional district. In order to qualify for 99 districts, North Dakota would have to have a population of about 60 million people, almost 24 million more people than California.

The stimulus revived 8 recently retired congressional districts. Pennsylvania’s 21st District has received just under $2 million in funds. Mississippi’s 5th District and Oklahoma’s 6th received $1 million from the legislation, respectively. All three were eliminated by the 2000 census.

Many other recipients carried the banner for congressional districts that have been defunct for decades. South Carolina’s 7th took the cake, garnering more than $27 million in stimulus funds, despite being eliminated in 1930. And Virginia’s 12th District may have been written off at the start of the Civil War, but it must carry some sentimental value in Old Dominion–it received more than $2 million, according to recovery.gov.

And for anyone who is gullible enough to believe that these are simply clerical errors, there is this:

The federal government's website tracking the use of stimulus dollars overstated the amount of money going to boost New Hampshire's economy by more than $1.15 million, according to a review by the deputy attorney general in charge of monitoring the state program.

The findings follow revelations that Recovery.gov, the Obama administration website designed to help the public track spending, lists congressional districts that don't exist being the beneficiary of large sums of money and home to jobs that were either created or saved.

Um, so where did the money go???