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FULL Gov. Chris Christie News Conference on Sandy Aid, Blasting The House Majority

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Anyone who can reference Wimpie from Popeye to call his own Party out is an American hero.
 
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Christie will blame Big Bird if that takes the heat off him. At some point people are going to realize that FEMA and federal emergency aid isn't what they thought they were.
 
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It's one thing to refuse help to others and quite another thing when you need the help.

1-800-HYP-OCRISY
 
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Which is a big pile of BS. FEMA currently has 5 billion dollars to aid in Sandy relief and there is another 9 with the partial aid package floated today.

I'm surprised so many fail to see that louder politicians get about a bill and the "urgent" need for its passage how likely the bill is deeply flawed. As clearly the Sandy Aid Bill is. Couldn't a bill have been drafted that solely addresses the needs of the people that Schumer, Cristie, etc are using as anecdotes to push this bill through? Is that too much to friggin ask?
 
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Im with Christie on this one (wow never thought i would say that). Are we seriously having a debate about whether or not to give a disaster stricken area of the country federal aid to help them? Wow... We are :shock:
 
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Im with Christie on this one (wow never thought i would say that). Are we seriously having a debate about whether or not to give a disaster stricken area of the country federal aid to help them? Wow... We are :shock:

No one is arguing that the disaster area should get help. It's all the unnecessary pork the the senate has added to the bill that is the problem.
Why can't the democrats pass a clean bill for a change?
 
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Im with Christie on this one (wow never thought i would say that). Are we seriously having a debate about whether or not to give a disaster stricken area of the country federal aid to help them? Wow... We are :shock:

No, we're having a debate of all the extra crap that was included in the bill that has nothing to do with response/recovery assistance to those impacted. There is no urgency as there existing funds in the FEMA emergency fund to continue assistance recovery efforts until March.
 
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No one is arguing that the disaster area should get help. It's all the unnecessary pork the the senate has added to the bill that is the problem.
Why can't the democrats pass a clean bill for a change?

Why "cant democrats pass a clean bill"?:roll: Republicans voted and passed this bill in the senate bud.

Better question is why did Bohner walk away without an explanation?
 
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Just for my edification (section IV-Dept of Defence):

Provided, That using $34,500,000 of the funds provided herein, the Secretary shall expedite and complete ongoing flood and storm damage reduction studies in areas that were impacted by Hurricanes Sandy and Isaac in the North Atlantic and Mississippi Valley Divisions of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Provided further, That using up to $15,000,000 of the funds provided herein, the Secretary shall support an interagency planning process in conjunction with State, local and Tribal officials to develop plans to address the flood risks of vulnerable coastal populations, including innovative approaches to promote the long-term sustainability of the coastal ecosystems and communities to reduce the economic costs and risks associated with large-scale flood and storm events

Bill Text - 112th Congress (2011-2012) - THOMAS (Library of Congress)


Does this money sound like it is specific to 'Sandy'?...or this:

For an additional amount for `Construction' to rehabilitate, repair and construct U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects related to the consequences of natural disasters, $3,461,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That $2,902,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading shall be used to reduce future flood risk in ways that will support the long-term sustainability of the coastal ecosystem and communities and reduce the economic costs and risks associated with large-scale flood and storm events that occurred in 2012 along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast within the boundaries of the North Atlantic and Mississippi Valley Divisions of the Corps that were affected by Hurricanes Sandy and Isaac:
 
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Why "cant democrats pass a clean bill"?:roll: Republicans voted and passed this bill in the senate bud.

Better question is why did Bohner walk away without an explanation?

While not specifically Boehner it seems plausible:

Part of Boehner's reasoning for initially holding off on a vote, according to a Republican leadership aide, was that FEMA had assured them that there were sufficient disaster response funds through March. The aide also added that the Sandy bill was the victim of bad timing. To ask Republicans to vote on another spending bill, the aide said, on the heels of the controversial "fiscal cliff" vote, which Republicans complained didn't include enough spending cuts, was not ideal.

Amid backlash, Boehner schedules Sandy vote - CBS News
 
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While not specifically Boehner it seems plausible:



Amid backlash, Boehner schedules Sandy vote - CBS News

So basically voting no or wont vote because 1.)Things didnt go as planned. And 2.)"We didnt get everything we wanted in the fiscal cliff deal":cry:

So since of these two things that are very common in governing the republicans plan on screwing people over. Gotcha. :thumbs:

good job repubs!
 
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While not specifically Boehner it seems plausible:



Amid backlash, Boehner schedules Sandy vote - CBS News

Tin foil hat time... I heard of a possible conspiratorial angle that Boehner is using it as leverage in his own party for the House Speaker vote being held tomorrow where he is trying to ward off a surging Eric Cantor. Don't know how true... just a rumor I heard.
 
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Christie will blame Big Bird if that takes the heat off him. At some point people are going to realize that FEMA and federal emergency aid isn't what they thought they were.

This is what's so beautiful about conservatives: yesterday Christie was a conservative darling. Now he's public enemy number one. Conservatives and their ideological purity will eat each other alive.
 
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Tin foil hat time... I heard of a possible conspiratorial angle that Boehner is using it as leverage in his own party for the House Speaker vote being held tomorrow where he is trying to ward off a surging Eric Cantor. Don't know how true... just a rumor I heard.

I'm gonna need a source on that one...










...:lamo
 
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Im with Christie on this one (wow never thought i would say that). Are we seriously having a debate about whether or not to give a disaster stricken area of the country federal aid to help them? Wow... We are :shock:

I have to agree. After Sandy, Christie seemed to grow up and started to take governing seriously. That puts him at odds with conservatives and their bizarre ideological fetishes. Hats off to Christie.

As to the tea party occupation forces preventing disaster relief, it's just more evidence of the lunacy of modern conservatism, which is quickly becoming totally isolated if not a laughingstock.
 
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I'm gonna need a source on that one...










...:lamo

LIke I said, it's just a silly rumor I heard being batted around.
 
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I agree with Christie on this completely.
 
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Christie will blame Big Bird if that takes the heat off him. At some point people are going to realize that FEMA and federal emergency aid isn't what they thought they were.

meh... I don't doubt Cristie's intentions. I truly think he is a man very proud of his state. I don't think he's playing politics because if he is, he'd be burning bridges all over his own party. I think he just wants to get things going on repairs to his state.
 
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This is what's so beautiful about conservatives: yesterday Christie was a conservative darling. Now he's public enemy number one. Conservatives and their ideological purity will eat each other alive.

He has never been the conservative darling by my measure--just the what the dems want the GOP to run. Either way, as Luther has posted above, this was held up because everybody in the Senate apparently hung a chunk of ham on the Christmas tree. I am not sure $200M for rum-makers is really related to NJ aid, nor is the money to NASCAR, fisheries in Alaska, or roofs for the Smithsonian.
 
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A thing of beauty:



Anyone who can reference Wimpie from Popeye to call his own Party out is an American hero.


I have to admit, Christie isn't afraid to be who he is and that impresses me. Christie did a lot for the GOP running up to the election. GOP crazies - which for the moment still seem to have control of the imploding GOP - thanked Christie by giving tell him to piss off.

For a while much of America didn't believe Hurricane Sandy had done as much damage as it did. I was one of the doubters. I thought more than a little bit of the spin was about grabbing some federal bucks while the opportunity arose. I was wrong about Sandy and it many Americans changed their minds as well about the extent of damage and the motivation behind Christy's request for massive federal aid. New Jersey was pounded. The people of New Jersey need help. The nation knows this. The federal government can easily find 60 billion to aid New Jersey. The crazies in the GOP won't even talk about it.

All this simply reinforces the fact that the GOP is out of touch; does not have its hand on the pulse of the nation. It is now biting the hand that feeds it.
 
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Why "cant democrats pass a clean bill"?:roll: Republicans voted and passed this bill in the senate bud.

Better question is why did Bohner walk away without an explanation?

Who wrote it, bud?
And who attached all the unnecessary earmarks?
 
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Who wrote it, bud?
And who attached all the unnecessary earmarks?

It was a bipartisan bill in the Senate bud. When you got usually extreme partisan members of congress speaking out against their own party thats how you know your party is probably in the wrong. Looks like some but hurt Kock funded Tea party members of congress in the republican party are a little but hurt over last night.
 
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It was a bipartisan bill

It was written by the democrats. That's why there are so many earmarks.
 
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It was written by the democrats. That's why there are so many earmarks.

:lamo
Check the senate vote bud...
 
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