If I can borrow (and alter slightly) a line from “Love Story,” being a Republican means you never have to say “I’m consistent…”

J.D. Vance has been highly critical of the infrastructure law that the Biden administration passed in 2021, campaigning against it as a candidate for senate that year — but privately, and once in office, he has asked for huge funds from the law to go to Ohio, The Associated Press reports.

In total, Vance has requested over $200 million from the law.

From The AP:

Vance is hardly alone among Republicans who have condemned spending enacted under Democratic President Joe Biden, only to later reap the benefit when government funds flow to popular projects back home. In this case, he also was criticizing the achievement of one of the bill’s authors — former Sen. Rob Portman, the Ohio Republican he succeeded.

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To the man Vance defeated in the general election, former Democratic congressman Tim Ryan, Vance’s pivot “fits the general pattern of him being two-faced on just about everything.”

“Look at the Trump stuff,” Ryan said. “He was ‘America’s Hitler’” in Vance’s estimation, ”then when it didn’t benefit him anymore to have that view, he changed it.”

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