King is mad as a wet hen. Apparently he was momentarily distracted with the Obama Tax Increase and thought they would vote for everything. Well, the next Speaker (Thursday’s the day guys), may well remind New Yorkers that fiscal prudence on their part might have given them the funding necessary to take care of their own disasters!
Once again, and unfortunately for us, the area worst hit by Hurricane Sandy was Staten Island which is one of the few Republican strongholds in the New York city area. So, withholding Sandy funding is just going to tick them off bigtime against the Pubs. Another lose/lose situation where the Pubs are put in an untenable political position.
Seriously, unless New York’s Republicans can come up with a Senator they don’t have much of a national presence of relevance to us. After all, anybody can be a Democrat.
Really? How difficult is it, since all the cameras/etc. were there after the cliff fiasco to go on the mic and say “I will gladly have this called for a vote, when all the pork is stripped from the bill or funding is found for the expenditures. This bill would gut the savings we just voted on 5 minutes ago.”
If I can do that in 1 min. why wouldn’t our ‘highly educated betters’ not do better?