I get mine and screw everyone else.

Screw the politicians...on both sides.

by ignoring those who support selfish, myopic and hurtful policies.

By all means, give the residents the support they need.

But they should be forced to recognize the representatives and policies they support whole-heartedly refused to help others in similar circumstances.

That is how we grow.

totally supported Bush and Cheney.

But that's ok. If it makes you feels smart to say so, lol.

You and others on this thread sound like tea-partiers in that you don't want to help people in need.

I hope you never suffer a weather event or any other kind of natural disaster.

I've experienced floods, fire, and hurricanes. I have nothing but empathy for those dealing with disaster. I don't care what their politics are. I'm a human being who feels for others.

Some of the comments I read here on DU about this situation chill me to the bone. How cold you must be inside to not care about those suffering.

YOU wake up to your living room full of water. YOU find your car under water. YOU go underneath your best friend's house to retrieve her drowned cat. YOU can then talk about how people need to be taught lessons.

Good lord, oh never mind. I just have no words.

I am so tired of DUers who call out posts for pointing out the hypocrisy of GOPers because "now is not the time".

The Republicans have been trying to kill off government and demonizing it at least since Reagan.

then they demand the Feds do something.

That and the parable of the three servants.

Real people there, ya know? Including DUers.

Wow, learning here who is really "progressive" and who is not.

Sitting at your computer laughing up your sleeve at people who have lost their homes. Do you think only GOPers lost their homes? No, that's not the case. The GOPers are probably perfectly ok.

But let's sit back and snark at the rest of the state because they just happen to live there.

God help you.

that I am talking about GOP politicians, like their Governor and Congressmen, not the citizens. And pointing out the hypocrisy doesn't mean I don't want Fed aid for the State. That is for people like Lindsay Graham. Or shouldn't we point out that he voted against Sandy relief.

Expose the fugging scumbags who hurt others with their selfish approach to disasters.

to help their citizens. i don't care what the politicians said after Sandy. The only thing I would expect is that they have to ask for it. They need to ask the federal government for help - that's enough of a message for me.

Thank you.

or vote against relief for another part of the country, like they did with Sandy relief? Do we keep quiet then as well?

make those votes and call them out for the hypocrisy. Plenty of Democrats - and some DUers - are from S. Carolina. Almost a million voted for Pres Obama.

and once again, I am NOT saying they should not get aid, so I will not keep quiet about the hypocrisy of the likes of Graham and Haley.

Did anyone here tell you to keep quiet? Why are you accusing people of doing something nobody did just because they don't agree with you on this?

I have been told that now is not the time to talk about Fed hating, Climate Change denying GOP politicians.
I have absolutely been told to keep quiet.

that charge with some links to people saying you need to keep quiet.

and I have no need to prove to you anything.

Good day.

Just as I suspected. You made a charge you can't back up.

I don't need to prove anything to some one who calls me a liar.

Keep those blinders on.

When I make a charge, I back it up. I don't just throw it out there and expect everyone to lick it up like ice cream. So everyone who asks for evidence is calling the person a liar? Perhaps in your world.

I said good day.

aid - many are calling for us to continue exposing the ReTHUG scumbags who would deny others similar help.

But it's also appropriate to call out the politicians who would deny aid when disasters happen elsewhere, but are first in line when it happens in their districts.

cannot understand those two things are not mutually exclusive.

So the citizens are responsible for the votes of their legislators since they voted them in overwhelmingly time and time again. And in the future they will vote them in again. And if there is a disaster in the NE again they will probably vote to deny federal aid AGAIN.

And I will bet the GOP delegation voted to SHUT DOWN the government just recently. Perhaps the government should have been shut down right now. Then there would be no help for everyone.

And the same damned GOPPERS in the west who don't want to pay taxes and really don't support the firefighters saving their asses are crying their asses off because their house burned. Yet they would not support better wages and disability protection for these same firefighters.

They bastards want it both ways as long as minorities, the sick, disabled, veterans don't get help. They don't complain when these people are actually denied services.

Not unlike abortion.