A quick look at the map as compared to this list discloses that congressmen whose districts were struck by the costliest (Katrina) and third costliest (Ike) hurricanes in US history, along with the deadliest (and deadliest natural disaster, Galveston in 1900) and the hurricane with the highest sustained winds (Camille) managed to vote against relief for Superstorm Sandy.
Those votes were from Palazzo (R. Miss.) and Weber (R. Texas). Joining them in coastal votes against coastal interests were Desantis (in his second vote, apparently, R. Fla.) and Yoho (R. Fla.). Coastal Republicans elsewhere in Texas (3 more by my count), Florida (a lot of them), Louisiana (three), Alabama (1), Georgia (1), and South Carolina (2) were able to think, there but for the Grace of God goes my constituents and voted for relief.
Obviously, Pallazo and Weber were born after Camille and the 1900 Galveston storm hit their respective districts and may not be conversant with the various ways we have of learning about things that happened before we were alive, but surely they remember Ike and Katrina?
That’s shameful.
It’s worse than shameful. It’s despicable. It’s insulting. It’s unconscionable. It is … or by any reasonable standard it should be … un-American.
If some wingut Congressman from Wyoming or Montana wants to vote against federal assistance relief for those poor souls in Sandy’s path … well, that’s to be expected from Wyoming or Montana wingnuts. But Mississippi? Texas? Louisiana? Alabama? Georgia? Florida? South Carolina? North Carolina? Virginia? These people aren’t wingnuts … they’re ideological pissants.
Good god. How can our “representatives” deny, delay, condition, or qualify disaster relief for the Sandy victims? New Jersey would be well within its rights, in my humble opinion, of course, if it sent “a few of the boys” to punch those people in their high and mighty noses. Hard. Repeatedly.
Aaaaand it just gets better:
Palazzo Welcomes Disaster Assistance in Hard-Hit Mississippi Counties
Aug 30, 2012
Biloxi, MS – Congressman Steven Palazzo, Mississippi’s Fourth Congressional District Representative, today welcomed news that a major disaster declaration has been issued for the state of Mississippi to help communities recover from Hurricane Isaac.
“Some of the counties in the fourth congressional district have been the hardest hit by Isaac,” Palazzo stated. “This determination comes as good news to our local communities who are dealing with the effects of the storm. We cannot thank the governor’s office and FEMA enough for their continued support.”
… And, NMC, if those lower-case “z”‘s aren’t enough to wean you off Garamond, then I don’t know what can be done. Also, see how the “A” in “FEMA” appears to be falling off the line, in what can only be described as an emergency calling for management to be administered.
Caps in Garamond ital look like they’re seeking magnetic north while the lower case letters are locked on true north. This cries out for a committee’s attention.
I wonder who declared those Mississippi counties disaster areas? It wasn’t mema and it wasn’t the governor. It was big bad Obama, but of course there is no thanking him in the press release.
Don’t even get me started on today’s vote against extending the borrowing authority of the NFIP, a program evey person making a claim has paid into. It’s not their fault it’s broke.
Palazzo…not sure if he’s politically dumb or just an idealogue. I hope builders, realtors and bankers on the coast take him to the woodshed on this vote.
I hope builders, realtors and bankers on the coast take him to the woodshed on this vote.
Builders, realtors, and bankers (and others) are the heavy lifters spending the money to oust state Democratic office holders, including judges, and to replace them with GOP pissants, toadies, and puppets. They paid good money to get Palazzo. They’ll keep him.
I’ll have to admit that the concentrated mass of Garamond italic is pretty ugly. But then, who wants to put that much italics in anything they’d write?
PhucktardsRUs. It is unbelievable, and most definitely going to be unforgiveable (‘specially next time any state in the SE needs anything from the Feds).
IMO and FWIW, it appears to be a bs/cs payback-of-sorts to Govs. Christie/Cuomo and the rest of *them* that voted for the half-black guy.