Tossing bags of billions of federal bucks at state and local governments desperately in need of cash hasn’t everywhere elicited tears of gratitude or knees bent in thanksgiving to the Obama administration.
In South Carolina, Gov. Mark Sanford says he is turning down $700 million in stimulus money for education. This ignited chaos among lawmakers, predictions of doom from educators, protests from the citizenry and a thicket of legal opinions about whether the state can get the money, anyway.
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