Democrats controlled two of West Virginia's three House seats, both Senate seats, the Governor's mansion, and the state legislature (which they have held since 1928).

One of West Virginia's two current Democrat senators, Joe Manchin, was governor at the time of the stimulus and appointed Mr. Gianato.

The executive branch of the federal government in 2009-2010 was controlled by the Democrats, along with both houses of congress. The federal stimulus was passed with no Republican support.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29obama.html

The entire chain of custody from the grant through request for bids through the eventual approval was controlled by Democrats. The only people involved in this fiasco without a (D) after their name are those people who will have their taxes raised in order to pay for these routers, because of course they were not paid for with existing revenue.

This is very much a failing of Democrat administrations at a federal, state and local levels.

Democrats in West Virginia are hardly liberal - they're sort of a party on their own compared to the Democratic party elsewhere in the US.

He did actually say "Liberal" and not Democrat. There is a bit of a distinction there. Generally the Liberal party in the US isn't so Liberal and the Conservative party isn't so Conservative. I mean when you get down to it, in US politics...nobody's really much of anything. To peg it all down on a bunch of labels adds about nothing to meaningful discourse, because the labels don't mean anything.

wasteful spending is an affliction that spans the entire spectrum of human enterprise, both governmental and corporate.

Sure but in the private economy it is self correcting. Businesses that waste money go out of business.

Governments that waste money just raise taxes, borrow more money, or print more money. Corrections when they do come are often catastrophic in nature.