NJ Gov Christie Rips Boehner, GOP House Majority over Lack of Relief Action On Sandy

[tinselwolverine]

Was just on tv live; might not be a link yet.

Surprised Slick didn't beat me to this.

EDIT: Here is a report.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I heard Governor Cuomo was part of that as well like he did a thing, lol.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I heard Governor Cuomo was part of that as well like he did a thing, lol.

Long time GOP Rep from New York Peter King is pretty vocal too, in criticism of Boehner over this.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Long time GOP Rep from New York Peter King is pretty vocal too, in criticism of Boehner over this.

I didn't mention as a Dem / GOP thing just that Cuomo is an idiot who during Sandy stayed in Manhattan and didn't do a thing.

 

[Slick]

Hanniity claims this is Boehners last day as speaker...lol

nobody in the Repub party wants his job....Hannity is such a fucking tool.

 

[Thumb]

I wish they would stop pretending his name is pronounced Bay-Ner, and call him Bo-Ner, as would be fitting.

 

[TheVictors]

Come on, people. Everybody knows that natural disasters are just another way 'they' are creating a welfare state. 'They' encourage lazy, good-for-nothing people to live by the ocean knowing full well that if a hurricane or flood destroys everything they have, that only the Insurance companies will fuck them, but not the government to which they pay taxes.

It's all a scam by the liberals ...Boehner had to draw line in the sand (whether the beach was still there or under 20 feet of sea water). How long can you continue to pay out all this assistance to people who refuse to go out and live somewhere else before something unprecedented happens?!

 

[byco42]

Maybe it was all the pork that was packed into the bill that had nothing to do with the relief effort?

 

[tinselwolverine]

Maybe it was all the pork that was packed into the bill that had nothing to do with the relief effort?

A report I saw said that was the Senate version of the bill, and the HOR actually had excluded those from its version of the bill that, according to what Christie claimed he was told, and Peter King reported he was told, was ready to go to the floor of the House for a vote.

 

[Michchamp]

Maybe it was all the pork that was packed into the bill that had nothing to do with the relief effort?

suddenly congressmen and senators have a problem with a bill because of too much pork? I don't think that was it. or maybe the pork was just not spread wide enough. I think Boehner is just not an organized guy. politics aside, everything I've read about him says he's more into boozing, tanning and golfing on press junkets than actually shepherding his party. you'd think this would be a good thing for the opposition, but since enough of them are just as beholden to big rich money we keep getting these
"compromises" to the right of where the people who elected obama want him to be.

anyways, sounds like the GOP pressure did it. they're going to rush something through now.

 

[byco42]

I don't care anymore. We're ka-bobs all on the same skewer.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I don't care anymore. We're ka-bobs all on the same skewer.

Well, in case you change your mind, the election of the Speaker is currently being shown on C-SPAN.

 

[byco42]

Well, in case you change your mind, the election of the Speaker is currently being shown on C-SPAN.

Different statist, different day, same outcome. There's no "working together" when your own demise is the objective.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Hanniity claims this is Boehners last day as speaker...lol

nobody in the Repub party wants his job....Hannity is such a fucking tool.

Anyway, Sean Hannity's brilliant prognostications have proven to be false - Boehner just won re-election as Speaker.

 

[TheVictors]

Yeah, a LOT of bullshit built into that bill. AmTrak getting money and other districts no where near Sandy's landing/flooding.

 

[Michchamp]

Anyway, Sean Hannity's brilliant prognostications have proven to be false - Boehner just won re-election as Speaker.

sounds like no one else seriously challenged him. he received 220 of 229 possible GOP votes

none of the hardcore tea partiers actually have much pull in the GOP when it comes to matters of party governance. the usefulness of the "Useful Idiots" ends at that point. from the Trib's article on it:

Nine Republicans, largely newly sworn-in freshmen, voted for alternatives to Boehner. Outgoing Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) received two votes, (they did it for the LuLz!) while House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who has recently disagreed with Boehner over the "fiscal cliff" and a Superstorm Sandy aid package, received three. Cantor voted for Boehner.
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[tinselwolverine]

I think Boehner is just not an organized guy. politics aside, everything I've read about him says he's more into boozing, tanning and golfing on press junkets than actually shepherding his party.

I really can't hold it against a guy for wanting a cocktail or two and catching a few rays, although I'm more golf watcher than a golfer myself, and I rarely get followed on press junket.

His party is a tough party to shepherd right now, given the divergent positions between the moderate conversatives and the very conservatives, as it were; and the fear of moderate conservatives that they might end up getting "primaried."

I think we're going to be hearing some accolades for Boehner here pretty soon, for being able to accomplish finding "common ground" between the agendas of the President and the more conservative Republicans.

Grover Norquist is viewing the deal as a "victory" in the first of three fiscal skirmishes; the next two being the sequester, and the debt ceiling.

 

[TheVictors]

Eric Cantor is like an annoying puppy dog that keeps jumping in your lap.

 

[jwlcosu]

I don't care anymore. We're ka-bobs all on the same skewer.

Atlas is shrugging.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Different statist, different day, same outcome. There's no "working together" when your own demise is the objective.

Technically...it's actually all the same statists, in exactly the same places.

But, it is a different day.