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politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 05:09 PM Jan 2013

With the Hurricane Sandy aid bill getting 49 votes for and 179 against from Repugs in the House

and 192 votes for and 1 against from the Dems, does this mean that Dems give all those broke @ss Red States the middle finger the next time a natural disaster hits their perpetually broke @sses? I think it's only a matter of time before another hurricane hits Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama; a tornado hits Tornado Alley, or the Mississippi River overflows the banks of the Midwest states.

When this happens, and it will eventually, would you be fine with Dem House members voting against disaster relief for these Red States? If not, at the least would you be in favor of waiting 90 days before Congress even took a vote on it?

I am so pissed with these Repugs because for all their small government, 2nd amendment BS, they fail to realize that their folks receive a disproportionate amount of benefits from the federal government from what they send to Washington. This is the same Honey Boo Boo mentality which leads them to spend over $1000 for a Bushmaster and won't purchase flood insurance, when the likelihood that the government is coming for your guns is nil, but the riverbanks you live next to overflow every few years. Jan Brewer of Arizona, is now only too happy to take federal funding for medicaid under Obamacare, after four years of calling President Obama a socialist.

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