These Texans didn't support federal aid!

The issue, they said, was that the Sandy bill had been larded down with non-Sandy and non-emergency spending. “Emergency relief for the families who are suffering from this natural disaster should not be used as a Christmas tree for billions in unrelated spending," Cruz said.

Good reason to vote against a bill that is mostly for nonsense not associated with assisting the storm victims......

that won't happen with this president....
 
Jarod said:
Let's see how their opinions have changed!

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-harvey-aid-sandy-vote-20170828-story.html
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Who gives a rat's hind end? Most people don't until they need it.
We are all sitting on our collective asses and form opinions about others. These opinions change quickly when something happens to us.
I so wish everyone would share in compassion for these victims instead of slobbering drool down your chin pointing fingers and finding something nasty to say, or even wishing death on these people like some do.
Be human.
 
NOVA said:
The issue, they said, was that the Sandy bill had been larded down with non-Sandy and non-emergency spending. “Emergency relief for the families who are suffering from this natural disaster should not be used as a Christmas tree for billions in unrelated spending," Cruz said.

Good reason to vote against a bill that is mostly for nonsense not associated with assisting the storm victims......

that won't happen with this president....
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Yaya said:
The issue, they said, was that the Sandy bill had been larded down with non-Sandy and non-emergency spending. “Emergency relief for the families who are suffering from this natural disaster should not be used as a Christmas tree for billions in unrelated spending," Cruz said then.
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USFREEDOM911 said:
You mean that Federal Aid Bill that was so laden with pork, that it might has well been referred to as the Bacon Bill.
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Typical dishonest, right-wing goofball droolery.

That was not the only reason those Texas and other Repugnants voted against the bill. But leave it to you dishonest fucks to conveniently leave out the rest.

Others demanded that every dollar spent on Sandy relief be balanced by a dollar cut somewhere else in the federal budget. As I wrote last year, when Louisiana congressmen who voted against Sandy were tasked with securing relief for victims of Hurricane Matthew, this position elevated the ideology of the balanced budget to an article of faith. Notably, the lawmakers insisting on a one-for-one trade-off against Sandy aid were never specific about where the cuts should come from.

A second ideology undergirding hostility to Sandy aid was climate change denial; virtually every lawmaker who voted against the package had also denied or expressed extreme skepticism about climate change, even though it may well have magnified the impact of of the storm on low-lying districts, and may well have contributed to the devastating potency of Hurricane Harvey. As I reported then, tying climate change to specific weather events is difficult, but climatologists say that among the likely consequences of climate change is an increase in the frequency of Category 4 and 5 storms like Matthew and Harvey.

The biggest factor influencing the Sandy vote, however, may have been the disappearance of bipartisan comity from the halls of Congress. The process may be denigrated as “logrolling,” but the idea that every legislator is going to need something from his or her colleagues at one point or another is ingrained in history. When a Mississippi flood displaced 600,000 residents of the Delta in 1927, for instance, Rep. Phil Swing personally led a congressional tour of the region. Swing represented California, 1,800 miles away, so what was he up to? Simple, he was preparing the ground for a flood control project for his home district, the Imperial Valley. He sponsored the Delta restoration bill and got his wish — congressional funding for what we know today as Hoover Dam. Both regions reaped decades of benefits.

The breakdown of partisan and regional cooperation has been compounded by the substitution of ideology for foresight. That’s a particular danger today, when the possibility — nay, probability — of future devastation from climate change, not to mention other natural occurrences, is staring us in the face. As Rep. Frank LoBiondo, (R-N.J.), called to GOP holdouts after their 2013 vote against Sandy relief: “Florida, good luck with no more hurricanes. California, congratulations, did you get rid of the Andreas fault? The Mississippi's in a drought. Do you think you're not going to have a flood again? Who are you going to come to when you have these things?”
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IOW, right-wingers have become such ideologues that their Representatives cannot work with or compromise with other members of Congress.

The ignorant, mule-headed, thick-skulled political right is making it impossible to govern this country.
 
NOVA said:
The issue, they said, was that the Sandy bill had been larded down with non-Sandy and non-emergency spending. “Emergency relief for the families who are suffering from this natural disaster should not be used as a Christmas tree for billions in unrelated spending," Cruz said.

Good reason to vote against a bill that is mostly for nonsense not associated with assisting the storm victims......

that won't happen with this president....
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So I suppose you can tell us exactly what was in the Sandy relief bill that you considered wasteful pork spending or "...nonsense not associated with assisting the storm victims...."

Or are just guzzling Ted Cruz's Kool Aid?
 
NOVA said:
The issue, they said, was that the Sandy bill had been larded down with non-Sandy and non-emergency spending. “Emergency relief for the families who are suffering from this natural disaster should not be used as a Christmas tree for billions in unrelated spending," Cruz said.

Good reason to vote against a bill that is mostly for nonsense not associated with assisting the storm victims......

that won't happen with this president....
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It's another Ted Cruz lie!

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08...hypocrisy-destroying-lie-sandy-bill-pork.html

[FONT=Lyon_Text-Regular]“I won’t abandon Texas the way [/FONT]Ted Cruz[FONT=Lyon_Text-Regular] did New York,” King tweeted.
[/FONT]https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/king-says-he-wont-hold-cruz-and-cornyn-against-texas
 
SmarterthanYou said:
they don't, you liberal idiot. we take care of our own. the only thing we need to worry about is our local/state governments preventing us from doing the job they wish they could do.
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Texas can't do this alone, the devastation is too great, coming into Houston yesterday we saw emergency vehicles from as far away as New York. We will need lots of help to recover.
 
Nomad said:
Typical dishonest, right-wing goofball droolery.

That was not the only reason those Texas and other Repugnants voted against the bill. But leave it to you dishonest fucks to conveniently leave out the rest.



IOW, right-wingers have become such ideologues that their Representatives cannot work with or compromise with other members of Congress.

The ignorant, mule-headed, thick-skulled political right is making it impossible to govern this country.
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So you're ok with all the bacon bits that were attached. :palm:
 
Yaya said:
The issue, they said, was that the Sandy bill had been larded down with non-Sandy and non-emergency spending. “Emergency relief for the families who are suffering from this natural disaster should not be used as a Christmas tree for billions in unrelated spending," Cruz said then.
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i dont recall but did Cruz sponsor another bill with a clean package for sandy? If he didnt he is a political idiot.
 
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