DUmmies start to talk politics about Oklahoma tornadoes

[Rebel]

One of the biggest examples of  you'll see:

Celldweller (27 posts)

9. Can't you wait til the buried children

are recovered/rescued before you politicize this event?

Lex (32,241 posts)

24. It was politicized before it happened when

Sandy relief was refused by Republicans.

Celldweller (27 posts)

30. just curious...

iirc, the relief bill was delayed to get to the House and then when it arrived it contained non hurricane related bullshit. The non-hurricane relief stuff was removed and the bill was passed.

Am I incorrect on this?

Lex (32,241 posts)

31. How about a link on that?

Celldweller (27 posts)

38. right here

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr41/text

To save you an hour of reading lol...

The original EMERGENCY RELIEF BILL was 60.4 billion dollars.

Of that:

13 billion dollars for future projects to minimize damage from future storms

1 billion dollars to train Iraqi policeman

188 million dollars for AMTRAK expansion project

150 million dollars for Alaskan fisheries.

8 million dollars for the DHS and DOJ to buy new vehicles.

and there's more I'm just lazy.


After Dems and Pubs got together and did a little DC wrangling they arrived on a number of 50.5 billion and PBO signed it.

juxtaposed (507 posts)

48. what's your point, they all sound like good things?

Celldweller (27 posts)

54. you're right...

Independently I don't oppose any of them.

But do they BELONG in an EMERGENCY RELIEF BILL?

Let's just play make-believe for a moment. The hurricane is in Texas and the Repub Senate drafts a relief bill that gives $150 million dollars to new AR-15 for the Texas State Troopers (or w/e they called) maybe 200 million dollars for a retractable roof for Texas Rangers stadium and 100 million dollars the the GWB Pres library.

Just because something is tied into a EMERGENCY RELIEF BILL doesn't mean it's a priority I guess.
Emergency relief means $$ to FEMA and HUD, the local repair people and the first responders, right?

Bottom line, DC is a cesspool, always has been. Every Senator/Congresscritter is beholden to some special interest that they must serve by bringing back free DC money.

And then the Senators bargain with each other... "Hey I will vote for your bill if you allow my Caribou research project if you allow my Airport expansion project".

It's all a crooked process.

Drum roll.....

Zoeisright (7,813 posts)

69. **** your cesspool example.

Here: something for you to read, stupid: the National Weather Service, whose actions saved lives because people had a 30 MINUTE WARNING about this tornado, was created by Congress. FEMA and first responders are funded by congress.

Only an idiot would condemn Congress because idiotic repukes are trying to break the government.

There's something crooked here, all right: look in the mirror.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

"If you're against free birth control you're against disaster relief!" totally makes sense as a talking point.

[wasp69]

Response to DonRedwood (Original post)
Mon May 20, 2013, 10:04 PM
 Doctor_J (26,338 posts)
86. This is why we have to realign the media, by any means necessary

Then the president and DC Dems could be magnanimous while we bombarded the airwaves with hatred for the OK Repukes.

Actually if we had balanced media in the US there would be no Repuke party, and the Cock Bros would have joined Mussolini in hell years ago

It's because of stochastic terrorists, like DUmbass "Doctor_J", that I am armed to the teeth.  He proposes something that already exists - a sycophantic and pliable press who gives cover to the regime while the gutter trash henchman do the dirty work.  Generating that type of contempt, day after day, leads to only one inevitable conclusion:

I'm glad our Founding Fathers were prescient enough to see you coming, DUmmie.