These are the asshats that are holding up help if you live in CT, NJ & NY. I hope the East & West coast Senators take note next time the middle of the county blows away in a tornado.

Progressive Culture | Scholars & Rogues

Here’s a list of the estimable members of the US Senate who voted against disaster relief for New Jersey, Connecticut and New York yesterday. There are 32 of them. They’re all Republicans, of course. They mostly come from Red States. One is a former Presidential candidate, and several others have run for the presidency. Not only that, they mostly come from taker states–states that get back more in federal money than they pay in US taxes.

We’ve discussed this issue before, but this type of vote highlights these differences in an interesting and unfortunate way. These guys really hate us. Booman has the right idea–the next time Marco Rubio or Jeff Sessions asks for federal disaster assistance for some whopping hurricane that has wiped out half his state, or the idiot Blunt expects disaster assistance for some pack of tornadoes that has taken out dozens of trailer parks, we tell them to go away and…

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