Get on Wormtongue’s enemies list and you’ll suffer for it, even your whole state, as Al Reuters has found in a study of discretionary federal spending:
“Reuters sorted the states into three categories: ‘red’ states, where Obama got less than 45 percent of the vote in 2012, ‘blue’ states in which Obama got more than 55 percent of the vote, and ‘purple’ states where Obama won between 45-55 percent of the vote. As noted, red states sustained a 40 percent cut in discretionary grant spending, but blue states only lost 22.5 percent, just a little over half as much.”
This is the change without the hope, unless you vote the right way. Like what the Democrat IRS did to the Tea Party and other conservative groups.
But it’s as old as Miriam Sawyer’s recollections of growing up in Albany, NY, where Republicans “did not have potholes in their streets fixed or the snow removed (there was a lot of snow)…”
Via Instapundit.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Suits me. It always seemed kinda odd that our Texas politicians are so anti-federal, all the way down to dogcatcher level, then turn around and beg DC for tax money. Let ’em keep their tax money, and leave us the hell alone.
Without a share of our federal tax money our state taxes would have to be raised just to support highway maintenance. But federal money always comes with strings attached, usually requiring a state match of some sort, so it’s definitely a devilish situation.
Hmm… why do I have a suspicion that the other way around works too? I bet it is because I distrust all pols equally.
I never heard of a big-city Republican administration doing what Miriam describes. Or a Republican president behaving like Barry is here. If you can find me one I’ll stand corrected. None of them could have escaped the dominant Democrat news media. Just like this study is by Al Reuters, which is weird enough, but it’s not by the New York Times. As it would be if Barry was a Republican.