Roy Blunt: Steelman is "dishonest and hypocritical"

With only 511 days left to convince voters who is more dishonest and hypocritical, Roy Blunt and Sarah Steelman aren't taking a day off.  On Friday, you may recall, Steelman called out Blunt and Missouri GOP for their complete lack of credibility on fiscal policy. Today, Blunt demonstrated the gentlemanly statesmanship that makes hearts swell in Northwest Washington, and reminded us that Steelman is "dishonest and hypocritical" too:

Sarah Steelman's letter is dishonest and hypocritical. When Sarah Steelman ran for State Senate the Rolla Daily News, her hometown paper, called her 'dishonest' for attacking her opponent for not bringing enough funding back home to the district.

When she was in the state Senate, Sarah Steelman supported earmarks and bragged about earmarks like $200,000 for soybean research and $5.5 million for a local university construction project. She even bragged about state spending for baseball fields and sewers in her district.

In October of 1999, the Rolla Daily News reported that Steelman even vowed to continue bringing state assistance to her district in order to generate economic development.

Sarah Steelman knows that Roy Blunt did not send a letter chastising her on spending. Every Republican member of Congress in Missouri sent her a letter because she was not truthful and misrepresented the facts in a campaign television ad.

Blunt's team is working hard to destroy Steelman's entire "outsider" image, noting that her "husband, David, is the former Republican leader of the Missouri House and that her father-in-law is a past state GOP chairman." 

At this point, it's hard to see how the struggle for victory in August 2010 will allow either to be standing in November 2010.