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Subscribe to RSSFront page of the New York Times: “Fury in G.O.P As House Stalls Hurricane Aid.”
The New York Daily News’ cover: “Stabbed in the back: N.Y. pols blast Sandy betrayer Boehner.” (The cover includes a picture of the Statue of Liberty with a bloodied knife in its back and John Boehner.)
The Daily News’ story: “House Speaker John Boehner did an about-face Wednesday and promised quick action on $60 billion in Hurricane Sandy aid, after his abrupt decision to table the measure triggered a storm of outrage. Boehner’s reversal ended a day of anger and drama in which top Republicans from New York and New Jersey accused the speaker of betrayal — an extraordinary attack against their party’s most powerful figure.”
The New York Post: “Furious GOP lawmakers unloaded on fellow Republican House Speaker John Boehner yesterday for spiking a bill to provide $60 billion in Hurricane Sandy relief — prompting a stunning about-face that puts the disaster aid back on a fast track.”
AP: “Under intense pressure from angry Republicans, House Speaker John Boehner agreed Wednesday to a vote this week on aid for Superstorm Sandy recovery.”
USA Today finds: “More than 40% of the 82 incoming House freshmen had more debt than leftover cash in the bank, a USA TODAY analysis of final election reports shows. For more than two dozen of them, the unpaid bills topped $100,000 each. Seven of the 12 new senators showed debts on their Dec. 6 reports to the Federal Election Commission. As a result, newly elected lawmakers are bombarding their supporters with pleas for campaign money and holding rounds of fundraising dinners, breakfasts and receptions — even before they are sworn in Thursday.”
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) returns to the Senate today after suffering a stroke nearly a year ago. His interview with the Chicago Daily Herald: “Kirk's life and outlook would be dramatically changed, the stroke serving as a defining moment that he said deepened his faith and altered his sense of purpose. Sitting at the dining room table of his suburban townhouse, his left arm slack, Kirk gestures emphatically with his right hand as he says the experience made him resolve ‘to never, ever give up.’”
“He is determined ‘to just keep going, even when things feel like we're at the end here. Which is what the ICU was like for me.’ This Thursday, Jan. 3, Kirk plans to climb the 45 steps of the U.S. Capitol without the aid of a handrail.”
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Stabbed in the back is what the republican controlled house has done to the American people!
Stab Hub?
Cantor is a backstabber.
stabbed in the back is the first thing the democratic leadership of this country has done to the American people. the next thing for them to do is turn us into a 3rd world country.
I find it ironic that republicans are outraged by Boehner's actions. This guy has been treating the POTUS and the Democratic Party with the same distain, deceit, and general lack of respect for quite a while! How's it feel when you guys get the same treatment from this drunken reject?
Just wondering, how many of that 40% are the 'fiscal hawks TeaPeople'!
Their campaigns in the red?....That can't be true from the 'stop the spending' crowd!
Boehner reaped what he sewn. He promised there would be a vote on Sandy releif on Tuesday and then backstabbed the NY, NJ Republicans and betrayed the people in the northeast. He deserves everything he got. I hope they pick someone else for leader.
Lets let the media pick the next speaker. They're good at picking dumb politicians.
Yeah just because the Dimocraps loaded that bill with pork doesn't mean it shouldn't be voted on.
Methinks there be a tempest brewing in the Republican party. What a shame. Lack of true leadership coupled with stubborn children doesn't make for a functional organization but unrest and lack of action on almost everything.
It was true leadership stupid as this bill was so full of pork it did not deserve to be looked at. You people amaze me that you have so much time to get on here and bitch but not enough to do any research before you just blow @!$%# out your ass. Get a job and occupy your time with something that adds to society instead of being such a bunch of loser ass whiners. Me thinks, what a stupid ass way to start a comment. Me thinks your plexiglass belly button needs to be defogged since me thinks you can not achieve pulling your head out of your ass.
Rick, couple of questions for ya:
-What in that bill would you classify as "pork"? Really. Be straight with me on this one. And link the REAL bill, while you're at it.
-What would you classify as a "job"? Be specific and blunt if you have to. I'm curious what kind of labor you consider a "job".
-How do you know that Adler has a fat belly? Do you know him IRL? Perhaps a link to a photo would suffice. Imageshack can be great for this if you know how to use it.
I'm rather curious as to how the Southerners would prefer life be lived. Or rather, how YOU prefer we live life.
"Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream". Find it on-line, watch and learn what and who our leaders care about. Politics in America has nothing to do with our society or individual needs. It is all about who has the most ($) at the end of the game. Our government will send trillions of dollars out of the country "to help" (read: influence) our fellow citizens of planet Earth, but argue over helping our families and neighbors in times of desperate need. Every time mother nature guts this country, it is a war over who gets what ($) and how best to take advantage, financially, of the pain and suffering of our fellow citizens. All we can depend on are each other and prepare for the time when we are sacrificed for the "good" of our political system.
These people chose to live in these storm areas. They have recieved help, and still want more. Where is the money coming from, are they going to rob the Social Security for it. I believe in helping people but I also believe we owe it to ourselves to help our selves. Where are their insurance policies. And if they don't have any, whose fault is that. Did they have insurance to cover damages from storms. If not this is also their fault. Yes, I feel sorry for everyone but they knew this gould and would happen during one of nature's outburst. Aid is something most of us are willing to give but to ask us for all we keep getting the hands reaching out for is getting to be tiresome. If you live in an area these kind of storms happen in, make sure you are fully covered with insurance, Quit expecting to reach out and recieve.
Correll, maybe the insurance they DID have didn't cover the entirety of what all was destroyed? Not to mention, not all of those who got shafted by Sandy were as dumb as the dumb@!$%#s of Katrina. And you generally don't expect Hurricanes to hit that high up. Not at such a region so close to the wintry north.
New York was hit - it's not an area you generally consider a Hurricane zone. I live in Oregon, and while we do get storms and the like, we never really experience or have to worry about hurricanes. California has to worry about quakes due to the San Andreas fault-line (but that's a different natural disaster altogether).
It sounds like you failed geography in school. Because I at least remember this stuff where it matters.
Once again, I ask (Didn't any of these cry babies have insurance?) or do they as usual expect everybody else to pay for their stupidity?
Stick, even if they had insurance, it doesn't cover everything. You sorely the destructive power of nature.
Sandy is not Katrina. It's a totally different beast altogether.
Sandy hit areas not normally prone to hurricanes. New York and New Jersey, for example. I've never heard of an instance where those two states ever got shafted THIS severely by a hurricane. True, the death toll was less than Katrina, but at least those people had that as a precedent to get the hell out.
Even then, there are some idiots, I'll agree with you. But those people are not the ones asking for aid. And again, insurance doesn't cover everything. You can't blame them for the unpredictability of nature. That's like blaming God for taking your mother due to cancer!
I respectively disagree with you that's like blaming God for taking your mother..Did you get a GOOD LOOK at some of those aerial photos of where those houses were built??...In some instances they were built LESS than 50 feet from the OCEAN...Now forgive me if I'm wrong, BUT, if I were to build a house 50 feet from an ACTIVE volcano, then chances are, I'm going to get blown up!!..The ocean is a BEAST...Pure and simple..Probably the most destructive force on our planet..Seems to me it would be COMMON SENSE to people that you cant build houses at the waters edge and NOT expect the water to somehow, someday impact your home..Don't you think??And to take the simple precaution of having enough INSURANCE to pay for whatever might happen..Remember, you never need FIRE INSURANCE until after your house burns down...I wonder what percentage of people living there had fire insurance..I'll guarantee that its close to 100%
So let me ask you this..The home owners on those beaches build their homes there because they have "More value"..And every year that "value" goes up..But expect the federal government {you and me} to bail them out when they don't have ENOUGH INSURANCE to cover their loss..In turn, shouldn't the government{you and me} expect OUR percentage of money when they sell those houses for a BIG PROFIT?..
ANY time you build a house on ANY coastline in America, whether it be Texas, California, Florida or New England, a law should be PASSED that you should HAVE to have insurance sufficient enough to cover a total loss due to ocean related events..I don't care to help ANYONE in need, but I don't think its fair for me to live in a crack box house in the mountains, barely scraping by and then THEN have to have my hard earned money{taxes} paid out to someone that chooses to live in a house worth 10 times mine,30 feet from the biggest BEAST on the planet..Even BIGGER than Al Gore..If they chose to live there, then they should show ENOUGH responsibility to at least carry insurance to cover them in case of a catastrophe...One that will EVENTUALLY happen..
Congress needs to go; remember french history 1770-1793 - Maybe the American People need to HANG some in the whitehouse lawn....
We need a corruption clean out --look at AL GORE made millions on corrupt deals.
Most bad government has grown out of too much government.-Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears
the people, there is liberty.Thomas Jefferson:
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
in government Thomas Jefferson
"We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to
overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the
Constitution." Abraham Lincoln
We the People have a Constitutional duty to alter or abolish
a government which has become tyrannical. First we have to recognize that we
live under a tyranny. It is no doubt in my mind that we do as evidenced by the
amount of power that the federal government holds over the States and the
individual. When that government prevents the People from electing anyone
outside their sphere of influence or control, we do not have the freedom to
control our own destiny as a People. " Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations. Pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design
to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty, to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards for their future security". Thomas
Jefferson (Annals of America, 2:447-48.)
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government)
those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it
into tyranny”
I predict
future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting
the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. - Jefferson
"The
beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to
take it." -Thomas Jefferson
P.L....I'm truly happy to see some one took the time to read and understand some of the Founders' writings.
But, calling for hangings on the W.H. lawn is a good way to get a visit from the SS.
..justaplumber - - shame on you - you are supposed to have more common sense that that......you want to talk pork read the bill they signed for the Fiscal Cliff........you listen to them ????
. . this is just a warm up - - the debt ceiling is coming up and they already approved increase spending for the military >> do you really think we need over 800 military installations worldwide ???
THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING
My problem with the 60 Billion dollar relief bill is that most of it is PORK... add ons to the bill that have nothing to do with actual relief for SANDY victims. It is insane to attach so many addendums to a bill such as this. This practice is the reason our federal government has such a significant debt problem.