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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThese Louisiana politicians are demanding flood aid, but voted against Sandy relief
Last edited Fri Aug 26, 2016, 01:33 PM - Edit history (1)
Guess which party?
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-louisiana-floods-20160822-snap-story.html
Call it logrolling or one hand washing the other, a generally recognized fact in Washington is that if you want something for your district, it pays to agree to the same thing for another guys district.
That point may have been lost on three Louisiana congressmen when they voted against a $50.5-billion relief package for the victims of Superstorm Sandy. The 2012 storm ravaged coastal communities in New Jersey and New York. Now theyre in the position of needing the same sort of aid for their own state. How will that play out?
The three lawmakers, all Republicans, are Rep. Steve Scalise (currently the House majority whip); Bill Cassidy, who moved up to the Senate last year; and John Fleming. Theyre all likely exemplars of another Washington truism: fiscal responsibility is great, until its your own district thats getting fiscally hammered. Then Job One becomes working to help the residents of the threatened areas in their time of need....
Fleming, Scalise and Cassidy, by the way, are also climate change deniers, a sign that theyre unable to process evidence in front of their own eyes. Fleming has claimed that evidence of climate change is the product of a radical environmental agenda. Scalise has griped that its an effort by radicals to prop up wave after wave of job-killing regulations that are leading to skyrocketing food and energy costs. Cassidy in 2014 claimed that global temperatures had not risen in 15 years, which happened to be untrue. Remarkably, both Fleming and Cassidy are medical doctors.
That point may have been lost on three Louisiana congressmen when they voted against a $50.5-billion relief package for the victims of Superstorm Sandy. The 2012 storm ravaged coastal communities in New Jersey and New York. Now theyre in the position of needing the same sort of aid for their own state. How will that play out?
The three lawmakers, all Republicans, are Rep. Steve Scalise (currently the House majority whip); Bill Cassidy, who moved up to the Senate last year; and John Fleming. Theyre all likely exemplars of another Washington truism: fiscal responsibility is great, until its your own district thats getting fiscally hammered. Then Job One becomes working to help the residents of the threatened areas in their time of need....
Fleming, Scalise and Cassidy, by the way, are also climate change deniers, a sign that theyre unable to process evidence in front of their own eyes. Fleming has claimed that evidence of climate change is the product of a radical environmental agenda. Scalise has griped that its an effort by radicals to prop up wave after wave of job-killing regulations that are leading to skyrocketing food and energy costs. Cassidy in 2014 claimed that global temperatures had not risen in 15 years, which happened to be untrue. Remarkably, both Fleming and Cassidy are medical doctors.
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These Louisiana politicians are demanding flood aid, but voted against Sandy relief (Original Post)
KamaAina
Aug 2016
OP
Bawling, glory-hole screwing hypocrisy means nothing to the Far Right. It is sport to them.
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#3
struggle4progress
(118,228 posts)1. "Oh, fugg you! And now -- let's talk about me!"
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)2. Too bad every dem can't say...
"I vote 'Yay' even though Mr. X and Mr Y voted against Sandy aid". At least it would give the media something to talk about if they all did it.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)3. Bawling, glory-hole screwing hypocrisy means nothing to the Far Right. It is sport to them.