re: #12 lawhawk

Heres a list of what they tried to include. Porks pork. And he’s the official pork guy. if you dont think the items that survived the bill are “pork” then we have different definitions of the word. Seriously, most of these projects may even need to get done, but they can be funded without borrowing new money, as disaster relief is borrowed, and it just increases the total burden in a lazy, opportunistic way. And when most of it won’t even be spent for 2 years, because its mitigation related, or for minor damage, how is it an “emergency” and why was a 4 week delay fatal? It wasn’t.

They delayed it for weeks, boo-hiss!, but it passed anyway. Meanwhile, insurance was paying out, etc. And the pork that did survive the bill mostly went to red state projects, as bribery by Reid, to insure enough Republicans would vote to pass it. It worked! Lesson learned, pork is GOOD! More pork please! Pork gets things done! But just not in a timely enough manner, or something. Load it with pork, hurry up and pass it cause your district gets stuff, win/win. Tom Delay was a big proponent of this shit and look where it got us.

They couldn’t possibly introduce an actual emergency spending bill, oh wait, they did for $37 million to go directly to Sandy damage, but that didn’t fly because it didn’t include enough other projects. Neither side would swallow that. So it was $60 million (with 97 amendments to be worked thru) or nothing.

They all suck. Every single one of them.

At least there wont actually BE any disaster bill needed in this case, as apparently FEMA has 5X the amount of $ it needs to cover the damage. So the entire point is moot in this instance, and everybody grandstanding about who is more compassionate and shit could possibly just shut up, but of course they wont.