If you are wondering what’s in that stimulus package, you can find out at recovery.gov, where the details are provided and where spending of the $787 billion will be tracked. Here’s a chart copied from the site:

One of the spending goals that caught my eye was “Protecting the Vulnerable,” for which $81 billion is allocated. I imagine that’s the part that has some Republicans acting as if they just stepped into an ant nest. If it’s one thing Republicans seem to hate, it’s protecting the vulnerable.

That’s why some Republican governors are refusing part of the money allocated to their states. In South Carolina, for example, Gov. Mark Sanford is rejecting funds tied to census  tracts with a population that is chronically below the poverty level. House Majority Whip James Clyburn, who represents most of those tracts, points out that the residents are overwhelmingly African-American, and he calls the governor’s rejection of the funds “a slap in the face” for those citizens.

I am sure I don’t have to mention South Carolina’s racist history, or point out that Gov. Sanford is white and Congressman Clyburn is black… or that the governors refusing stimulus money are mostly from the Old South. So much for “post-racial America.”