New York Republican Rep. Peter King went to war with his Republican colleagues on Wednesday after leaders spiked a Hurricane Sandy relief bill, calling on New Yorkers to stop all donations to GOP House members.
“These Republicans have no problem finding New York when they’re out raising millions of dollars,” King said on Fox News. “They’re in New York all the time filling their pockets with money from New Yorkers. I’m saying right now, anyone from New York or New Jersey who contributes one penny to Congressional Republicans is out of their minds. Because what they did last night was put a knife in the back of New Yorkers and New Jerseyans. It was an absolute disgrace.”
Boehner refused meeting with NJ delegation last night. It's on the speaker.
Real economic consequences - a day delay is a day that businesses don't get needed assistance to rebuild and reopen.
Time was, disaster aid was something you don't play games. Now, everything is a piece of bait for the political game. It's the reason they hate Congress.
Unlike Congress, the governors have actual responsibility for governing.
Christie is nothing if not quote-worthy. There's a ton of quotables in here, and he's still on a rip-roaring rampage against Boehner and the GOP leaders in Congress (though he's saving his ammo on Cantor b/c Cantor worked on the alternative plan in the House).
“And why the Republican party has this bias against New York, bias against New Jersey, bias against the northeast? They wonder why they’re becoming a minority party? Why we’ll be the party of the permanent minority?"
King is right, of course. The party of Confederate dead-enders hates much of the rest of the country, particularly large, wealthy, liberal states like NY and NJ. I'm sure we in NY wouldn't be alone in getting a flip of the bird for disaster relief from the GOP. If an earthquake hit godless, sodomite San Francisco, or if Mt. Rainier devastated much of metro Seattle, I'm guessing the GOP congress would shrug too.
Heh, yesterday there was a freeper headline that said "Republican Horror New Year". Looks like day #2 isn't getting any better.
Yup.... it's a Drudge re-post... notice the pic of the Prez, as they try to make it seem like he's openly mocking them. I wonder what the true context of that photo is...
I think that Christie is really, really close to telling the GOP to go shove their party where the sun doesn't shine.
And if he does no should blame him. His constitutants got hammered and too much of the party doesn't accord them high priority. Under such circumstances, Congressman King would be inhuman if he wasn't ticked off.
This is why New Jerseyeans are likely to reelect him. He's not afraid to tell it like it is. And he clearly blames the GOP for screwing New Jersey on Sandy aid.
Yup.... it's a Drudge re-post... notice the pic of the Prez, as they try to make it seem like he's openly mocking them. I wonder what the true context of that photo is...
This is why New Jerseyeans are likely to reelect him. He's not afraid to tell it like it is. And he clearly blames the GOP for screwing New Jersey on Sandy aid.
This is why New Jerseyeans are likely to reelect him. He's not afraid to tell it like it is. And he clearly blames the GOP for screwing New Jersey on Sandy aid.
I'll tell you what, after this I'd actually consider voting for him if he ran for POTUS and I wasn't crazy about the Dem candidate.
Yup.... it's a Drudge re-post... notice the pic of the Prez, as they try to make it seem like he's openly mocking them. I wonder what the true context of that photo is...
It's going to be really interesting to see how the TPGOP contingent react to this. I really wouldn't be surprised if they double down on their ideological purity rhetoric and try to block any aid package - public opinion be damned.
Hey, Dark, seeing how people like Christie and Huntsman are beating on the GOP leaderhip means you don't have to be held hostage by the tea party anymore.
Hey, Dark, seeing how people like Christie and Huntsman are beating on the GOP leaderhip means you don't have to be held hostage by the tea party anymore.
Except when you want to be...when the pain and suffering of fellow Americans is the desired outcome.
As entertaining as this is, let's not get too starry-eyed about Christie. He's still totally on board with the GOP agenda, and that's the real problem underneath all this drama.
Everyone with half a brain knows the fiscal cliff is bullshit. Let all the tax cuts expire. Give the middle class a real cut not some bullshit robbing of revenue for SSI. Fuck the GOP. Press them against the wall. Hard.
As entertaining as this is, let's not get too starry-eyed about Christie. He's still totally on board with the GOP agenda, and that's the real problem underneath all this drama.
THIS! I didn't want to burst any bubbles. I am glad you did.
As entertaining as this is, let's not get too starry-eyed about Christie. He's still totally on board with the GOP agenda, and that's the real problem underneath all this drama.
Who's that? The imaginary Sandy victims in her head? The empty chair she talks to?
Pudintane thinks Govt should just give everyone affected by Sandy, a set of bootstraps. Then she would complain about all the $$$ that is being spent on bootstraps.
Why? Because Eric Cantor thought that the idea of allowing rapists to be tried in tribal courts wasn't kosher, so he demanded that they be granted immunity from their crimes before he'd let the bill come to a vote.
Someone I know: "They aren't voting on Sandy aid because of all the pork attached!"
Sigh.
I've been getting that all day. Lemme find what someone posted as the 'pork' involved...here ya go.
$41 million request for repairs at eight military bases, including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Customs and Border Protection has asked for $2.4 million to replace "destroyed or damaged vehicles, including mobile X-Ray machines." The bill includes a $4 million repair job at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. $150 million for fisheries in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, and $125 million for a Department of Agriculture program that would help Colorado cope with summer wildfires.
Where do I find out if this stuff is actually included in the bill? I get the whiff of made up shit here.
The $60b package had all of $400 million in unrelated items. Those were cut, and the House version would have mirrored the Senate version (combining the two bills that were proffered in lieu of the single Senate bill).
Boehner didn't even let that come to the floor. He killed the bill before a floor vote could be taken - up or down.
And it would have passed. Boehner, for reasons that no one knows and can't be understood by anyone with a functioning neuron, killed it. The delay will have real world consequences.
The $60b package had all of $400 million in unrelated items. Those were cut, and the House version would have mirrored the Senate version (combining the two bills that were proffered in lieu of the single Senate bill).
Boehner didn't even let that come to the floor. He killed the bill before a floor vote could be taken - up or down.
And it would have passed. Boehner, for reasons that no one knows and can't be understood by anyone with a functioning neuron, killed it. The delay will have real world consequences.
* $8 million for cars for the Homeland Security and Justice departments.
* $2 million for the Smithsonian to repair roofs damaged before Sandy
Possibly but a sniff test of the list going around probably not much pork. It's really easy to spin these lists dishonestly. For example the "Alaska Fisheries" thing is probably some sort of joint research project involving habitat, fisheries studies, stocking programs, etc.
Boehner doesn't fit as Loki. He's more a morose type of villain, whereas the Loki of recent Marvel movies needs more of a megalomaniac style of performance.
Possibly but a sniff test of the list going around probably not much pork. It's really easy to spin these lists dishonestly. For example the "Alaska Fisheries" thing is probably some sort of joint research project involving habitat, fisheries studies, stocking programs, etc.
And apparently it was all cut from the House bill, so there was absolutely no reason for this to have not been put up for a vote.
Boehner doesn't fit as Loki. He's more a morose type of villain, whereas the Loki of recent Marvel movies needs more of a megalomaniac style of performance.
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. IF (and in my eyes, this is a big If) Boehner played a game like this...he not only deserves to lose the speakership, but reelection. He should be drummed not just out of the House, but out of humanity.
A 6-year-old Montgomery County boy was recently suspended from school for making a gun gesture with his thumb and forefinger. Now, his family has retained a lawyer and is fighting back.
Relatives of the majority of people killed in a Colorado movie theater rejected an invitation on Wednesday to attend its reopening later this month, calling it a "disgusting offer."
The parents, grandparents, cousins and widow of nine of the 12 people killed released a letter sent to the theater's owner, Cinemark, in which they criticized the Plano, Texas-based company for not reaching out to the families of victims to offer their condolences. They also said the company refused to meet with them one-on-one without lawyers present.
The families said they were asked to attend an "evening of remembrance" followed by a movie when the Aurora theater reopens on Jan. 17 in invitations sent two days after Christmas.
Amtrak owns the rail lines that Metro North and NJ Transit use through the Northeast Corridor. The East River tunnels are shared use between Amtrak, NJ Transit and LIRR. Those tunnels were partially flooded. All required repairs. The NEC had overhead line damage, power damage, and rail damage.
The Amtrak request is in line with damage sustained.
The website lists the 9 Principles, accompanied by quotations from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The 9 Principles are:
America is good.
I believe in God and He is the center of my life.
I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
Amtrak owns the rail lines that Metro North and NJ Transit use through the Northeast Corridor. The East River tunnels are shared use between Amtrak, NJ Transit and LIRR. Those tunnels were partially flooded. All required repairs. The NEC had overhead line damage, power damage, and rail damage.
The Amtrak request is in line with damage sustained.
Aren't these the same tunnels Christie refused to rebuild when he blocked that project
Bassem Youssef, whose Daily Show-inspired satirical program propelled him to stardom, is the latest target of Egypt's attempts to silence government critics.
The Hudson River tunnels didn't flood. The East River tunnels did.
Christie killed the ARC project because NJ would take the brunt of cost overruns and NY would get all benefits but no cost sharing. Even the feds wouldn't go along with covering the cost overruns. NJ Transit was responsible for overseeing the tunnel project, but everyone conceded that there would be huge cost overruns - the feds made specific reference to fact that NJ transit had no mechanism in place to contain costs.
Sandy showed that NJ transit couldn't be trusted with infrastructure or its rail fleet. Christie made the right decision on that front, and Amtrak subsequently came up with a superior plan in Gateway that will expand commuter rail access to Manhattan, plus give real high speed rail access - separating Amtrak HSR and local commuter trains that share the same right of way.
the email from AFA founder Donald E. Wildmon said conservative Christians would “be treated as second class citizens, much like African Americans were prior to civil rights legislation in the 1960s,” by the year 2060, with the government seizing control of not only every public radio frequency, but of the family structure itself.
“Marriage will include two, three, four or any number of participants,” Wildmon wrote. “Marriage will not be important, with individuals moving in and out of a ‘family’ group at will.”
Wildmon also alluded to the heavily-debunked conservative allegation regarding President Barack Obama’s religious beliefs, saying, “We will have, or have had, a Muslim president.”
The email closed with predictions that government control would also force faith-affiliated groups “out of health care,” a presumed reference to the non-denominational Affordable Care Act, and that cities with names “from the Bible” would be forced to change. However, at least one of his examples, St. Petersburg, Florida, would be spared even in that unlikely scenario — the city was directly named after St. Petersburg, Russia, which was itself named after its founder, Tsar Peter The Great.
Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law.
Both argue that Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and that people have forgiven him a lot because of the “nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him.”
And now I'm listening to wingnuts go on at length about the "cost" of Obama returning to Hawaii to finish his vacation. $3 million "taxpayer dollars wasted!"
To: Hoodat
Quite right, low information voters used Christie’s gushing approval of Obama as their prime reason for voting for a second term. Christy was played like a chump in a perfectly-timed photo op.
People of New Jersey: you voted overwhelmingly for Obama, and now you want help. Go ask Obama, Soros and Buffet for money and leave the taxpayers alone.
7 posted on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 21:12:58 by moodyskeptic (Counter counterculturist)
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To: Hoodat
Hey Christie...go Eff yourself you fat POS!
12 posted on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 21:20:22 by pgkdan (Does America have a Cassius Chaerea?)
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To: Hoodat
Shove it up your smelly Obama, Christie.
You’ve already bent over for the Obamadork, so you’re in position.
Oh, and whilst you’re bending over, just sign the document stating that you’re now an official Obamahole...e,g,..a dim-bulb-crat.
13 posted on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 21:21:30 by Da Coyote
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Ah, these fearless and brave sofa samurai, these glorious keyboard commandos and armchair generals, dispensing their witticisms whilst planning Civil War II. I'm sure all of them will be in the front lines, laying their lives on the line.
At least, as soon as they figure out how to get their electric mobility scooters to the front lines.
Conservative Christians will be treated as second class citizens, much like African Americans were prior to civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
Family as we know it will be drastically changed with the state taking charge of the children beginning at birth.
Marriage will include two, three, four or any number of participants. Marriage will not be important, with individuals moving in and out of a “family” group at will.
Churchbuildings will be little used, with many sold to secular buyers and the money received going to the government.
Churches will not be allowed to discuss any political issues, even if it affects the church directly.
Tax credit given to churches and non-profit organizations will cease.
Christian broadcasting will be declared illegal based on the separation of church and state. The airwaves belong to the government, therefore they cannot be used for any religious purpose.
We will have, or have had, a Muslim president.
Cities with a name from the Bible such as St. Petersburg, Bethlehem, etc. will be forced to change their name due to separation of church and state.
Groups connected to any religious affiliation will be forced out of health care. Health centers get tax money from the state, making it a violation of church and state.
I'm confused. These people always say blacks and other minorities were so much better off in the 1950s before all the civil rights nonsense, now they're making it sound bad. Which is it?
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Well, guess I'll have to start running sooner than I'd anticipated. I was planning on running in 2028. Maybe I'll move that up to 2020.
Apparently the End Times has some sort of dilation effect since it will take over 50 years to come about. Lots of time for fearmongering and fund raising to continue at a fever pitch.
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Apparently the End Times has some sort of dilation effect since it will take over 50 years to come about. Lots of time for fearmongering and fund raising to continue at a fever pitch.
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The End Times is powered by commercially viable fusion.
Apparently the End Times has some sort of dilation effect since it will take over 50 years to come about. Lots of time for fearmongering and fund raising to continue at a fever pitch.
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I'm torn as to whether I should openly state I'm Muslim when running for President or should I hold it close to the vest, and then on Inauguration Day, preface my speech with "Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Surprise!!"
While I understand why Peter King and Chris Christie are upset, should they really be surprised? I mean this is the same party that wanted to cut hurricane monitoring in the wake of hurricane and tried to deny benefits to 9/11 first responders because some of them may have been illegal aliens. Again I understand why they're pissed because this is pathetic behavior from the House GOP but it's hardly surprising if you know their history which these two guys surely do.
If any of them gave one rat's ass about pork, the DOD budget would be half of what it is.
Yeah, that's what gets me, they bitch incessantly about pork spending, but speaking one word against the defense budget and they'll skin you alive, cover you in molasses, and stake you over a red ant hill.
Yeah, that's what gets me, they bitch incessantly about pork spending, but speaking one word against the defense budget and they'll skin you alive, cover you in molasses, and stake you over a red ant hill.
The defense budget along with their stupid tax pledge is why no one in the GOP caucus should be seen as a serious deficit hawk. Hell, remember when the Pentagon said they wanted some stuff cut. Paul Ryan, that brilliant deficit hawk accused the generals of lying. Congressional conservatives aren't deficit hawks in the slightest. Anyone who supports Republicans because they're "fiscal conservatives" is fooling themselves about the reality of what the GOP actually stands for and does in regards to the debt.
Ah, these fearless and brave sofa samurai, these glorious keyboard commandos and armchair generals, dispensing their witticisms whilst planning Civil War II. I'm sure all of them will be in the front lines, laying their lives on the line.
At least, as soon as they figure out how to get their electric mobility scooters to the front lines.
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