House Passes Harvey Aid Package As Irma Approaches
Final update:
The can has been kicked on the debt ceiling (see here)
Updated with the latest headlines:
HOUSE PASSES FIRST HARVEY ASSISTANCE PACKAGE OF $7.85B
HOUSE PASSES BILL TO FUND FIRST TRANCHE OF HURRICANE HARVEY AID
Now we'll see if the Senate moves to attach the debt ceiling to the bill.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/905469988806549504
Earlier:
With FEMA expected to run out of money by Friday and as Hurricane Irma barrels towards Florida, the clock is ticking for U.S. law
Right, so when Sandy did it’s dirty work the Republicans, following their then existing “conservative convictions,” of everybody should take care of themselves, we are a go it alone nation, we don’t believe in taxes for health care or welfare but we do-do believe in it for military-care and not on our corporate-care constituency, fervently opposed Sandy relief even after supporting disaster aid for their own home states. Now the shoe is on the other foot, Republicans are raiding the cash stash and do we see Democrats fervently opposing red-state Harvey relief or do you expect them to opposed red-state Irma relief to even the score? Not a chance. At their core, Democrats care about people. At their core, Republicans care about wallets. Sure, I agree Democrats like the buck as well, but at their heart, their constituency and the issues they care about are people. Not the “fine” protesting people in Charlottesville either.
So, Harvey, Irma, Debt Ceiling, Koreas, Trump, DACA, Nazis, KKK, White Supremacists, — It’s FUBAR!
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
Marty great post. I’m going to have to defer to my all time fav best acronym “SNAFU” used many times in the past by friends and comrades. The normalization of control of everything in our lives from “algo’s” that react to all markets and bend the curve of fair to levels beyond belief, to central and “humongous” banks that bleed the entire planet’s population, taking just enough blood each time to keep the farce alive. So to me yes we have normalized “all fu*ked up”