House GOP kills Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill. GOP to Sandy victims: Drop Dead.
Source: American Blog
Oh. My. God. The GOP House just killed legislation to provide relief for Hurricane Sandy victims.
The House was supposed to take up a huge relief bill proving relief for Hurricane Sandy victims before closing down until the next Congress, but GOP House Speaker John Boehner killed it, and now theyre leaving town:
The most likely reason Boehner is afraid of a revolt from conservatives if asked to spend even more money, even if it is to help victims of one of the greatest disasters in American history. Conservatives dont care. Remember that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney called for closing down FEMA in the middle of the Hurricane Sandy.
Washington Post conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin, a Romney surrogate (wither official or not, she was clearly attached as their hip throughout the campaign) today called on Speaker Boehner to take out his vengeance on Sandy victims, and thats exactly what Boehner did.
Read more: http://americablog.com/2013/01/house-gop-kills-hurricane-sandy-relief-bill-last-act-before-closing-down-congress.html
Creeps!
Of course, why not take it on blue northeast? Would have been different were it Mississippi..
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)the Pukes and BaggerHaters say to you folks in the Sandy "zone"...
Fuck Off.
Now, about the next time you go to vote at the polls??????????????
Cha
(297,692 posts)get it passed when the New Congress comes back ..on Jan 3,2013?
question everything
(47,535 posts)These were also the arguments about the fiscal cliff - pro and con.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Apparrently bootstraps are plenty tight aleady for red state USA.
Fucking assholes.
Great Caesars Ghost
(532 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)This shit proves it.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)"Never seen the country so divided" has become almost a trite expression now, but is so true.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)There wasn't much government help during and after Katrina, Gustav, Rita, and Ike. I only know of Ike personally, and how after the Katrina fiasco, Bush sent in FEMA to the area. However, what wasn't so heavily reported was that FEMA then rejected 90% of the claims made.
So, as far as republicans go with regards to funding help after natural disasters, their track record is bad everywhere. They simply do not like to give funding out to help people in need, no matter where they live.
LW1977
(1,236 posts)You'd think this is also the President's fault. Give it a day, they will try to blame this on Obama too.
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)....there are places along the Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama coast that are STILL waiting for assistance from the Katrina disaster. They will probably never see a dime of help.
Same goes for the Gulf oil spill. Don't be fooled by all of the BP ads yakking about how well BP has treated the victims.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)how much red tape is having to be sorted through to help people. I wrote a paper a month ago comparing it with the Bhopal gas disaster in 1984. While not as many lives were lost, environmentally and economically one could argue it was worse.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)But aren't those 3 states mainly represented by Republican/Tea Baggers, that the voters elected?
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)...people who are least able to recover from any disaster without state and Federal aid.
I personally don't care how they voted, but I know they're Americans who still need the help that was promised to them shortly after the disasters took place.
caledesi
(11,903 posts)question everything
(47,535 posts)Why don't they stand in front of microphones, with photos, demanding action?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)sour grapes. Take it out on victims.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,212 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)I don't know or really think it's true, but it is actually a possibility with this mad GOP crowd! That says a lot right there.
And you've done a truly great typo!
"wither official or not,"
Wither???? It is true that some get "weather" and "whether" mixed up, but "wither"???? As in "Wither is my zither?" or "Wither goest thou?" Oh wait.... that's "whither"! "Wither is a verb....as in "Plants wither without water" or "GOP Speaker of the House just withered away"
Gotta love English!
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)we knew exactly what the OP meant. Nice of you to be a jerk about it.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)I was jovial in my typo comment because everyone makes typos.
Besides, it wasn't a spelling mistake. It was the use of the wrong word.
You don't pay attention much, do you?
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)And you have NO idea why I use the name I have PAL, and if you were as smart as you try to make other people believe you are you'd have figured it out.
Keep being the grammar police, you give us plenty to laugh at.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Lordy!
Get a life. While doing so, try to spell things correctly and use the right words. People won't think you're an idiot then and may even listen to what your saying. (It's easy! I just edited this very post to spell a word correctly!)
(It's funny. These folks who feel so threatened by the mysterious "grammar police". If they don't care whether they look foolish because they can't spell and don't know "to" from "too" (and they do look foolish) why would they care if someone corrects them? What a tempest in a teapot! Anti-intellectualism. The same thing that gave us Bush Jr.)
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)bye, you can bloviate for one less person now.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Such a hissy fit.... with FU personal messages! You really spent a lot of angry energy on nothing. And you obviously have no reading comprehention.
B'bye...feel better. Work out those inferiority and anger issues!
question everything
(47,535 posts)The way we post on this forum is to copy and paste directly from the source.
We add our commentary at the bottom of the post.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)It's still a great one!
My greatest typo was when I typed "What a waist of time". to which someone replied "Is that like in the neck of time?"
A good typo is like a good spoonerism. (my fave one of those what when my friend Lisa, after we had bee drinking a little one cold New Years Eve in the park, stood up and said "Ooooo... My wees are kneak."
caledesi
(11,903 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)repugs... Is he just gonna sit there on his big cheesy ass and attack teachers and fire fighters or is he gonna man up and start living up to his press. Which means dismantling the extreme right in his series of next press conferences...
JustAnotherGen
(31,904 posts)He has a lot of support in NJ right now. Yeah - Dough is an ass. But he has also called Republicans to task for their bigotry - think Muslims. He will win his position again this year and can win it if he runs against TEA Party ideology.
ETA: http://blog.northjersey.com/thepoliticalstate/6083/house-may-not-vote-on-any-sandy-relief/
Looks like Christie was working behind the scenes to get support for what the Senate put forth. What a kick in the teeth.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)THIS should be front page news, to show just how lame the REPUBLICANS are. This is the kind of thing they live for, to give a kick in the teeth to the down trodden.
Baka tane! Samuii! Mottainai! Neboken ja neyo! Goman na hitoga kirada
Great Caesars Ghost
(532 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)Jon Ace
(243 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)to bad obama does`t point this out to the rest of the nation
tclambert
(11,087 posts)How can they turn their backs on the corporate "people" they love so much?
The Wizard
(12,549 posts)are still pissed off over losing the Civil War. The time to end Civil War reconstruction ended 100 years ago. The people in the free states would be much better off if the slave states had remained separated from normal Americans.
A good start would be shuttering all military installations in the slave states and moving them to free states. Taking their military capability would in effect be a castration.
The revenge of the hillbillies has gone on for far too long.
no_hypocrisy
(46,192 posts)1. NJ governor Chris Christi and
2. Rep. Peter King of Long Island
Both have constituents who are literally dependent upon the Sandy aid. They won't be silent.
riqster
(13,986 posts)He totally blew up about this last night.
question everything
(47,535 posts)He described Boehner, variously, as selfish, duplicitous and gutless for reversing course at the last minute on Tuesday night and refusing to allow a vote on a $60-billion aid package before the current Congress adjourned.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-chris-christie-sandy-aid-congress-20130102,0,4385141.story
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)I tend to think of them as the epitome of the definition of the word asshole! It's such a succinct label for them, and I suspect some of them would even proudly take the label as a badge of honor and verbally admit "I am indeed an asshole!"
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)obama2terms
(563 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Moreover, I fail to see how legislators prepared to pass a gargantuan Sandy relief bill can claim to be upset over the lack of fiscal discipline."
....unfuckingreal......
Jon Ace
(243 posts)They had to throw a tantrum (deny this bill) to try and make Obama look bad. Typical.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)billbailey19448jj
(31 posts)They go ahead and do this. Cruel, callous bastards who don't actually value human life, unless it's a fetus.