Vitter said, “One thing in the Obama stimulus bill had money for offshore drilling in Brazil. That’s crazy. That’s the world turned upside down.” (Town Talk, 2/19/10)

There’s not polite way to say this: David Vitter is lying. The Recovery Act offered no money for offshore drilling in Brazil. Last Summer, the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. made a loan to a Brazilian oil company, but Ex-Im Bank is self-sustained by revenues, no taxpayer dollars are involved in this particular loan, and no Recovery Act funding was used. (Press Release)