Raise your hand if you didn't see this one coming: Rep Angrily Demands FEMA Relief

[Cigar]

Arizona Republicans who voted against disaster relief demand their state get disaster relief (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/14/1231242/-Arizona-Republicans-who-voted-against-disaster-relief-demand-their-state-get-disaster-relief)
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Hurricanes? I think they're overrated.

Raise your hand if you didn't see this one coming: Yet another group of anti-Hurricane-Sandy-aid Republicans angrily demands federal disaster relief for their state, because this is different, damn it, in that it directly affects us this time (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/08/14/2467861/three-arizona-republicans-fema-hypocrisy/).


Arizona Republicans Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. John McCain, and Rep. Paul Gosar all voted against emergency relief funding after SuperStorm Sandy ravaged much of the New Jersey and New York area earlier this year. Now, following an Arizona wildfire, the same trio is vocally complaining that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is not doing enough to aid their state.

Of course they are. McCain and Flake issued a joint statement denouncing the FEMA rejection of aid; while no one argues that the fires were not devastating, FEMA had stated the event "was not beyond the response and recovery of the state/local governments," which is the usual measure of these things. FEMA can't go around giving money to everyone who asks, after all, because Congress has demanded they not do that. Also: We're under sequestration, remember? That said, I have absolutely no doubt that McCain will strong-arm the agency into reversing their position and giving Arizona federal money, just as Texas Gov. Rick Perry was able to speedily gain aid for the small Texas town that was leveled by a small Texas business taking advantage of small Texas regulations on how not to explode. No, even after voting against Sandy relief John McCain will get his money. And the next time some other state is hit with a natural disaster, they'll be back to demanding austerity and that those damn other states lift themselves up by their own bootstraps, because the only core principle that remains in modern conservatism is that you need to be a gigantic asshole.

[Mainecoons]

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[zelmo1234]

Just to take you back in time, lets remember that is was not the disaster relief that they has issues will, it was the pork barrel spending that the Democrats attached for political reasons?

You know the over spending that caused the Sequester to have to happen!

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/01/30939-superpork-bill-60-billion-sandy-relief-bill-full-of-graft/

Just thought that I would remind people what repulsive measures that the Democrats will go to to get their wasteful spending

[Mainecoons]

Republicrats and Demicans love their pork barrel spending.

Another pathetic thread attempt by our leading partisan hack.

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[Cigar]

Good ... then I hope they say NO! :grin:

[nic34]

Must be the Sedona compound is in the line of fire......

[BB-35]

Arizona Republicans who voted against disaster relief demand their state get disaster relief (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/14/1231242/-Arizona-Republicans-who-voted-against-disaster-relief-demand-their-state-get-disaster-relief)


http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/4494/large/Bush__McCain.jpg?1346238921
Hurricanes? I think they're overrated.

Raise your hand if you didn't see this one coming: Yet another group of anti-Hurricane-Sandy-aid Republicans angrily demands federal disaster relief for their state, because this is different, damn it, in that it directly affects us this time (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/08/14/2467861/three-arizona-republicans-fema-hypocrisy/).

Arizona Republicans Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. John McCain, and Rep. Paul Gosar all voted against emergency relief funding after SuperStorm Sandy ravaged much of the New Jersey and New York area earlier this year. Now, following an Arizona wildfire, the same trio is vocally complaining that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is not doing enough to aid their state.


Of course they are. McCain and Flake issued a joint statement denouncing the FEMA rejection of aid; while no one argues that the fires were not devastating, FEMA had stated the event "was not beyond the response and recovery of the state/local governments," which is the usual measure of these things. FEMA can't go around giving money to everyone who asks, after all, because Congress has demanded they not do that. Also: We're under sequestration, remember? That said, I have absolutely no doubt that McCain will strong-arm the agency into reversing their position and giving Arizona federal money, just as Texas Gov. Rick Perry was able to speedily gain aid for the small Texas town that was leveled by a small Texas business taking advantage of small Texas regulations on how not to explode. No, even after voting against Sandy relief John McCain will get his money. And the next time some other state is hit with a natural disaster, they'll be back to demanding austerity and that those damn other states lift themselves up by their own bootstraps, because the only core principle that remains in modern conservatism is that you need to be a gigantic asshole.

You know good and well why they voted against the sandy relief bill.......your dishonesty grows each day ceegar

[Cigar]

Must be the Sedona compound is in the line of fire......

Saying NO to them will be good tough love ... it builds character from when they finally Succeed from the Union. :grin:

[Professor Peabody]

What a dishonest thread.


Obama Sandy aid bill filled with holiday goodies unrelated to storm damage (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/little_help_here_1kW6aQ8fElj4CKwbheEV0N) Vics suffer as $60B aid plan gets porked up

By S.A. MILLER and GERRY SHIELDS Post Correspondents
Last Updated: 6:02 AM, December 15, 2012

The pork-barrel feast includes more than $8 million to buy cars and equipment for the Homeland Security and Justice departments. It also includes a whopping $150 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to dole out to fisheries in Alaska and $2 million for the Smithsonian Institution to repair museum roofs in DC.


An eye-popping $13 billion would go to “mitigation” projects to prepare for future storms.

Other big-ticket items in the bill include $207 million for the VA Manhattan Medical Center; $41 million to fix up eight military bases along the storm’s path, including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; $4 million for repairs at Kennedy Space Center in Florida; $3.3 million for the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and $1.1 million to repair national cemeteries.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/little_help_here_1kW6aQ8fElj4CKwbheEV0N

Sandy relief yes, giant Democrat pork barrel NO! Nothing hypocritical about their no vote at all.

[Agravan]

You know good and well why they voted against the sandy relief bill.......your dishonesty grows each day ceegar

This is the way Democrats operate. They introduce a bill for "disaster relief". in that bill they may have x millions for the relief, but then they attach riders that include x + billions for their pet projects, which have nothing to do with relief. they win either way. If Repubs vote for the bill in order to get the relief to the people they need, Dems get their pork and then they say "See, repubs are hypocrites when it comes to spending because they voted for the pork", but if Repubs vote NO because of the pork, then the Dems say "See?, Those repubs are cold, heartless bastards that don't want to help people get relief". It's a win-win for them, which is why they do it. The sad part? The weak-kneed establishment repubs let them do it, over and over and over.... Dems have no morals.

[zelmo1234]

What the republicans should do is introduce the AZ aid bill and attach a national voter ID registration and defund planned parenthood and see if the Democrats would vote for it

[Agravan]

What the republicans should do is introduce the AZ aid bill and attach a national voter ID registration and defund planned parenthood and see if the Democrats would vote for it
Do you actually think the dems or the media would even mention the fact that it was a relief bill at all?? They would just concentrate on the latter and not the former.

[nic34]

Q: What percentage of the national spending is pork?

A: About 1 percent.

http://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/pork-barrel-spending/

[zelmo1234]

Q: What percentage of the national spending is pork?

A: About 1 percent.

http://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/pork-barrel-spending/

I think that if you really looked at programs, it would be higher than 1%, but I am not sure

But even if it is only 1% that is a savings of 30 billion in a nation that is going broke.

Like I said we attack the deficits and debt one dollar at a time, and it is a long trip!