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question everything

(47,535 posts)
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 02:00 AM Jan 2013

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 they’re 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 don’t 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 that’s 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..
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House GOP kills Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill. GOP to Sandy victims: Drop Dead. (Original Post) question everything Jan 2013 OP
Under the cover of New Year's Day... SoapBox Jan 2013 #1
I read the Senate passed a package.. Can they Cha Jan 2013 #2
No. New Congress, everything has to be reset question everything Jan 2013 #3
I'll bet they'd do a 180 if the storm happened in Texas Populist_Prole Jan 2013 #4
We are at war. Nuff said Great Caesars Ghost Jan 2013 #14
We have a cold civil war going on. Odin2005 Jan 2013 #40
Yeah..no longer any way to deny it. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2013 #48
I don't get the impression at all. kentauros Jan 2013 #25
The way the "independent thinking" DUers responded to the cliff deal.. LW1977 Jan 2013 #5
Just a quick comment.... OldDem2012 Jan 2013 #6
I've lost track on the Katrina relief, but on the BP oil spill I have read enough to know davidpdx Jan 2013 #15
That's unfortunate atreides1 Jan 2013 #23
What damn difference does that make? The people most affected live and work along the Gulf coast,... OldDem2012 Jan 2013 #31
BP used to be called by its real name - British PETROLEUM! nt caledesi Jan 2013 #33
So where are their representatives? question everything Jan 2013 #45
That's a hell of a way for Boehner to smash his defacto7 Jan 2013 #7
Boehner's such a wuss Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2013 #8
I love the "revenge" meme! AlbertCat Jan 2013 #9
The spell police strike again DainBramaged Jan 2013 #22
I see you live up to your name here. AlbertCat Jan 2013 #28
I pay attention to the clowns who try to bully people around the board with their bullshit piety DainBramaged Jan 2013 #41
And you have NO idea why I use the name I have PAL AlbertCat Jan 2013 #42
Pompous and ass are TWO words that fit you TO a T DainBramaged Jan 2013 #44
Poor Dear AlbertCat Jan 2013 #46
Not my typo question everything Jan 2013 #34
Not my typo AlbertCat Jan 2013 #43
Well said! nt caledesi Jan 2013 #10
Where is Gov. Chris Christi on this? I mean these are his people being shat on by fellow busterbrown Jan 2013 #11
Wait for it JustAnotherGen Jan 2013 #17
Everyone should be made aware of this.... AsahinaKimi Jan 2013 #12
AKA This is what you get for voting for Obama, Sandy Victims!!! Great Caesars Ghost Jan 2013 #13
NY/NJ delegation - both Democrats and Republicans were wild about it. Peter King was visibly upset Justice Jan 2013 #16
The one time I'll probably ever have respect for Rep. King (nt) Jon Ace Jan 2013 #38
once again the republicans betray the american people madrchsod Jan 2013 #18
Don't they know that many corporations have offices in the affected region? tclambert Jan 2013 #19
The slave states The Wizard Jan 2013 #20
Waiting to hear from two prominent republicans about this: no_hypocrisy Jan 2013 #21
King has been anything but silent riqster Jan 2013 #26
Christie is enraged question everything Jan 2013 #35
These people are evil SOBs! Odin2005 Jan 2013 #24
While I agree with you about them being evil, kentauros Jan 2013 #27
Pretty telling that. lonestarnot Jan 2013 #29
The GOP is imploding. Scurrilous Jan 2013 #30
I'm sure it will be brought up in the next congress obama2terms Jan 2013 #32
WP"s Rubin comment lunasun Jan 2013 #36
Repubs are sore from their whoopin' yesterday. Jon Ace Jan 2013 #37
The Teabaggers shot the GOP in the foot, AGAIN! Odin2005 Jan 2013 #39
just when I thought that the GOP couldn't get any more despicable billbailey19448jj Jan 2013 #47

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
1. Under the cover of New Year's Day...
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 02:06 AM
Jan 2013

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

(297,668 posts)
2. I read the Senate passed a package.. Can they
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 02:17 AM
Jan 2013

get it passed when the New Congress comes back ..on Jan 3,2013?

question everything

(47,535 posts)
3. No. New Congress, everything has to be reset
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 02:23 AM
Jan 2013

These were also the arguments about the fiscal cliff - pro and con.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
4. I'll bet they'd do a 180 if the storm happened in Texas
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 02:48 AM
Jan 2013

Apparrently bootstraps are plenty tight aleady for red state USA.

Fucking assholes.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
48. Yeah..no longer any way to deny it.
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 11:33 PM
Jan 2013

"Never seen the country so divided" has become almost a trite expression now, but is so true.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
25. I don't get the impression at all.
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 10:24 AM
Jan 2013

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)
5. The way the "independent thinking" DUers responded to the cliff deal..
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 03:14 AM
Jan 2013

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)
6. Just a quick comment....
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 03:43 AM
Jan 2013

....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)
15. I've lost track on the Katrina relief, but on the BP oil spill I have read enough to know
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 06:49 AM
Jan 2013

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)
23. That's unfortunate
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 09:59 AM
Jan 2013

But aren't those 3 states mainly represented by Republican/Tea Baggers, that the voters elected?

OldDem2012

(3,526 posts)
31. What damn difference does that make? The people most affected live and work along the Gulf coast,...
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 12:28 PM
Jan 2013

...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.

question everything

(47,535 posts)
45. So where are their representatives?
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 12:01 PM
Jan 2013

Why don't they stand in front of microphones, with photos, demanding action?

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
9. I love the "revenge" meme!
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 04:27 AM
Jan 2013

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!

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
28. I see you live up to your name here.
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 11:52 AM
Jan 2013

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)
41. I pay attention to the clowns who try to bully people around the board with their bullshit piety
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 10:00 PM
Jan 2013

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)
42. And you have NO idea why I use the name I have PAL
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 02:28 AM
Jan 2013

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.)

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
46. Poor Dear
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 10:47 PM
Jan 2013

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)
34. Not my typo
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 05:50 PM
Jan 2013

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)
43. Not my typo
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 02:33 AM
Jan 2013

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.&quot

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
11. Where is Gov. Chris Christi on this? I mean these are his people being shat on by fellow
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 04:47 AM
Jan 2013

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

(31,898 posts)
17. Wait for it
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 07:12 AM
Jan 2013

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)
12. Everyone should be made aware of this....
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 05:39 AM
Jan 2013

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

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
18. once again the republicans betray the american people
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 07:27 AM
Jan 2013

to bad obama does`t point this out to the rest of the nation

tclambert

(11,087 posts)
19. Don't they know that many corporations have offices in the affected region?
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 07:40 AM
Jan 2013

How can they turn their backs on the corporate "people" they love so much?

The Wizard

(12,548 posts)
20. The slave states
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 07:51 AM
Jan 2013

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

(46,191 posts)
21. Waiting to hear from two prominent republicans about this:
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 08:37 AM
Jan 2013

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.

question everything

(47,535 posts)
35. Christie is enraged
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 05:57 PM
Jan 2013

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

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
27. While I agree with you about them being evil,
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 10:35 AM
Jan 2013

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!"

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
36. WP"s Rubin comment
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 06:21 PM
Jan 2013

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)
37. Repubs are sore from their whoopin' yesterday.
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 09:43 PM
Jan 2013

They had to throw a tantrum (deny this bill) to try and make Obama look bad. Typical.

 
47. just when I thought that the GOP couldn't get any more despicable
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 11:11 PM
Jan 2013

They go ahead and do this. Cruel, callous bastards who don't actually value human life, unless it's a fetus.

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