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The Unceasing Apoplexy of Bryan Fischer: Fiscal Cliff Legislation Is 'Vicious and Demonic'

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lawhawk1/03/2013 10:25:19 am PST

re: #436 Dark_Falcon

Boehner had promised that the Sandy vote would come up before yesterday.

He reneged - and gave no reasons. He failed to return Gov. Christie’s calls four separate times. Never gave an adequate reason. Basically told NY, NJ, CT, and all Sandy victims to pound sand.

King was among those GOPers who called for action.

That could have been sufficient reason to cast a no vote - or threaten a no vote if the vote on Sandy aid wasn’t done in time. Either the threat wasn’t made, or it was and shown to be a hollow threat. Political SOP either way.

Boehner had his own reasons for delaying the vote, and splitting the vote into two separate parts - perhaps as a way to claim to be fiscally prudent even though the bill itself was pretty much clean of pork and was on point. The $400m in unrelated Sandy items were out of the bill by the point that the House could have taken it up. There’s no reason to take two separate votes, except to make it more difficult to get passage.

That’s bad precedent and it lengthens the amount of time before states get reimbursed for costs, infrastructure gets rebuilt, and businesses and individuals can rebuild their own situations because they await the government aid to get to work on the infrastructure upon which everything else depends (think beach replenishment/dunes/sea walls to lessen and/or prevent future damage).