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riversedge

(70,220 posts)
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 11:14 AM Aug 2017

@VP is trying to make people forget his heartless response to Hurricane Katrina..

OMG--Pence attached Katrina money to cuts in Medicare and soc Sec. Glad It read this article. Glad they have a good memory.













Pence is trying to make people forget his heartless response to Hurricane Katrina

http://shareblue.com/pence-is-trying-to-make-people-forget-his-heartless-response-to-hurricane-katrina/

By Oliver Willis | August 29, 2017

Mike Pence is on a media blitz to insist the Trump administration will fund Hurricane Harvey relief. But fully funded disaster relief wasn't something he supported when he was in Congress.
(Flickr/Gage Skidmore)

Mike Pence is on a self-serving blitz of radio appearances this week, touting the Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Harvey. That includes promises to have federal funds ready to go for relief — something he cruelly opposed when he was in Congress.

Pence had the nerve, during his several radio interviews Monday, to repeatedly refer to his time in Congress as proof he understands the importance of passing legislation to provide for disaster relief.
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But when thousands of citizens affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 needed Pence’s help, he had other priorities. He was instead focused on bludgeoning those citizens by attaching his extremist political ideology to disaster relief bills, holding up vital support that was urgently needed.

Pence said that funding for Katrina relief should be paid for with cuts to Social Security and Medicare, ideas that the right has championed for decades, even though they have proved to be unpopular and destructive again and again.

Justifying his cruelty, Pence told reporters at the time that Katrina relief and the rebuilding of devastated areas like N
ew Orleans just had to wait, because “it is not acceptable to take a catastrophe of nature and turn it into a catastrophe of debt.”.....................
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@VP is trying to make people forget his heartless response to Hurricane Katrina.. (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2017 OP
There's no reason to rationally give him the benefit of the doubt that he changed seeing he's ... uponit7771 Aug 2017 #1
"Heartless" is just the word for it gratuitous Aug 2017 #2
The sae could apply to health care. Scarsdale Aug 2017 #11
'That's partly why we banded together in societies,' NO DOUBT! elleng Aug 2017 #19
What a "Good Christian"! Dustlawyer Aug 2017 #31
K&R ismnotwasm Aug 2017 #3
K & R ......"heartless" is the whole point... Wounded Bear Aug 2017 #4
And Scarsdale Aug 2017 #12
fake christian Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #5
...real hypocrite. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #9
thanks for the addition Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #10
K & R malaise Aug 2017 #6
There is just so much ammo, I can NEVER remember enough to refute anybody. pangaia Aug 2017 #14
Please tell me you also trc Aug 2017 #22
Well, I don't have a lawn in front. pangaia Aug 2017 #25
Heard it this morning, can't remember if it was on MoJo. nt Ilsa Aug 2017 #7
..and mike is a 'good christian'.... spanone Aug 2017 #8
Will all those that voted for Trump DK504 Aug 2017 #13
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #15
He's just another heartless lying hypocritical assholes. lark Aug 2017 #16
A time like this is NO time to be a bean-counter. calimary Aug 2017 #17
Evil sadists. All of them! zentrum Aug 2017 #18
I despise Pence NastyRiffraff Aug 2017 #20
that "soothing" exterior lebkr Aug 2017 #33
If we had a real media maxrandb Aug 2017 #21
What a horrible, heartless CHRINO. To think that he would Tanuki Aug 2017 #23
Ask Ted Cruz mgardener Aug 2017 #24
and they have the GALL to call themselves Christians Skittles Aug 2017 #26
We get rid of Drumpf and then we'll have to deal with this heartless asshole progressoid Aug 2017 #27
Yes, and his evilness zentrum Aug 2017 #30
Naomi Klein article about Mike Pence the architect of free market disaster relief GETPLANING Aug 2017 #28
Pence is Dense Blue Owl Aug 2017 #29
EVIL. If Trump goes, we must double our vigilance! WinkyDink Aug 2017 #32
Pence is a true believer of Charles Koch's radical libertarian ideology. PatrickforO Aug 2017 #34
Hypocrites R Us colsohlibgal Aug 2017 #35

uponit7771

(90,339 posts)
1. There's no reason to rationally give him the benefit of the doubt that he changed seeing he's ...
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 11:15 AM
Aug 2017

... affiliated himself with such an a moral person in Benedict Donald

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. "Heartless" is just the word for it
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 11:20 AM
Aug 2017

Disasters happen. They've happened since the dawn of mankind. That's partly why we banded together in societies, to ameliorate the impact of a disaster on any individual. Pence's insistence that disaster relief be offset by cuts to the poorest and most vulnerable, hardly squares with that Christian faith he wears like a shed snake skin. Disaster relief should be a regular and well-funded portion of our national budget, because disasters will always happen. And, instead of depending on Social Security and Medicare dependent citizens to fund it, why don't we raise taxes on those best able to afford it, and who coincidentally have the most to lose in a disaster (financially speaking)?

I'll take "Questions Mike Pence Would Like to Avoid Answering" for $600, Alex.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
11. The sae could apply to health care.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 12:01 PM
Aug 2017

Think about it. Devastating illness can ruin lives and bank accounts. We should all band together for UNIVERSAL healthcare. I want to know WHY politicians get to decide what their own healthcare will be like, while screwing others out of even minimal coverage? Do they think themselves and their families are worth more than the rest of us??

Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)
4. K & R ......"heartless" is the whole point...
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 11:25 AM
Aug 2017

in fact, that's the one thing that Repubs really mean when they say that "government should operate more like a business."

One very important thing they want to make sure of is that government is truly heartless. Remember the old line from the movies, usually blabbed by one of the bad guys just before they shot somebody in the head? "It's not personal, it's just business."

Yep, all you people suffering out there, it's not personal, it's just "business" as usual. Harvey is not a disaster, it's an opportunity for business.

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
9. ...real hypocrite.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 11:52 AM
Aug 2017

I heard Lawrence say this last night on MSNBC and that word and a lot of others (mostly the 4 letter variety) flew out of my mouth.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
14. There is just so much ammo, I can NEVER remember enough to refute anybody.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 12:21 PM
Aug 2017

Maybe I should take notes, print out a cheat sheet and have the refutations, lies, hypocracies(cant spell that) and such ready to go.

On the other hand, I VERY RARELY have any discourse with 'these people.'

One guy on our HOA BOARD had a trumper sticker on his shiny, polished black Silverado during the 'campaign.' I reallay let him have it in a meeting months ago.

Some of old ladies on the board were shocked, shocked I tell you at my outburst, to say nothing of the language I used.

PS. I'm an old guy so I can call the old biddies old ladies, thank you. Plus I am the only OLD guy on the board.



trc

(823 posts)
22. Please tell me you also
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 01:53 PM
Aug 2017

Yelled at them to get off your lawn...that would make me smile. And I am now jokingly referring to young folks as whipper snappers, just cause my old guy sense of humor thinks it's funny (it's not, but whatever...get off my lawn with all that judging). 😀

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
25. Well, I don't have a lawn in front.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 03:32 PM
Aug 2017

And in back,, sort of a LONG narrow lawn that runs behind my 6 unit bldg..

Oh, I could sit out on my back 'deck' and wait for somebody to come along.. which almost never happens.

When it does it is often jeanne from next door and she's a sweetie..


DK504

(3,847 posts)
13. Will all those that voted for Trump
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 12:05 PM
Aug 2017

get the picture as these monsters pull and aid they need after these disasters, made wore by policy of the US. Will the finally get it that they voted for a guy that would rather put on the streets rather than good paying jobs or decent housing?

lark

(23,099 posts)
16. He's just another heartless lying hypocritical assholes.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 12:39 PM
Aug 2017

Funny how it's always Repugs who don't want to approve federal money for disasters, except when they control everything and now want to pretend (wink, wink) that they care. They don't give a fuck about anything for the working class unless they think it strongly affects their ability to be re-elected.

calimary

(81,267 posts)
17. A time like this is NO time to be a bean-counter.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 12:42 PM
Aug 2017

Hey, Pence, I'd say "Fuck you in the heart" if you had one.

SHEESH this guy is VILE!

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
20. I despise Pence
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 01:20 PM
Aug 2017

as much as I despise Trump. He's a cold, calculating monster behind that "soothing" exterior and hypocritical Christianity.

lebkr

(39 posts)
33. that "soothing" exterior
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 08:59 AM
Aug 2017

My daughter calls it the evangelical mask. No real emotions are reflected in their faces. Makes you think they are hiding something, that they are deceitful, creepy.

maxrandb

(15,330 posts)
21. If we had a real media
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 01:33 PM
Aug 2017

they'd be pointing shit like this out, instead of sucking orange colored dick!

Heartlessly screwing over the poor just isn't as sexy as "but her emails"

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
23. What a horrible, heartless CHRINO. To think that he would
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 01:54 PM
Aug 2017

try to rob the vulnerable elderly and disabled of their earned Social Security and Medicare benefits as a condition for Katrina relief literally gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.

PatrickforO

(14,574 posts)
34. Pence is a true believer of Charles Koch's radical libertarian ideology.
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 09:25 AM
Aug 2017

The Koch brothers want unrestrained capitalism, and the only government expenditures they will support are those that funnel our tax dollars into corporate profits. Otherwise, as Grover Norquist, one of their many puppets, says, "Shrink government to the point where you can drown it in a bathtub."

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
35. Hypocrites R Us
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 09:36 AM
Aug 2017

This jerk is a top line Bible Thumper but not so much into love thy neighbor. And he apparently believes that the Universe has only been here for a few thousand years, which is provably false, so he is delusional too.

And if Drumpf is kicked out this bozo will be President.

We need to take back the Senate and pick up as many House seats as we can. And win back more Statehouses and State legislators.

We need to take back this Nation from the evil crazy train.

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