Republicans Run from Cantor’s Plan to Withhold Disaster Relief

[rsmith6621]

http://dccc.org/blog/entry/republicans_run_from_cantors_plan_to_withhold_disaster_relief/

From members of his own House Republican Conference to Republican Governors, Republicans are running away from Leader Eric Cantor’s outrageous proposal to hold disaster relief benefits from Hurricane Irene survivors until he can enact his radical agenda to cut Medicare and education.

Hurricane Irene is projected to be one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in U.S. history and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is on the verge of running out of money and state and local governments can’t afford to go it alone. Families lost everything they spent a lifetime working for; they don’t need Republican Leader Eric Cantor’s partisan Washington games, they need help.

Representative Leonard Lance (NJ-07): “U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance (R-Hunterdon County) is disagreeing with one of his party’s top leaders and saying that the federal government should “spend whatever is necessary” in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. <…> Lance, who represents such flood prone communities as Cranford, Bound Brook and Manville, said that he expects to communicate his position on the issue to Cantor and other House Republican leaders later this week.”

[dtexdem]

1. So primary him. Can he be recalled?

Oh, wait, that's right: Repukes cannot recall. ;-)

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Let's ask all the candidates about this.

Make them distance themselves from Cantor, or look like a monster. I love it.

[tblue]

3. Obama could throw that in his speech.

Taxes help pay for things like SAVING YOUR HOUSE! Or KEEPING YOU ALIVE!

[Kurmudgeon]

4. I hope Virginia wakes up and boots this guy.

[Supersedeas]

5. but do these people have the courage to disagree with E Cantor beyond this narrow issue

where their constituents are involved.

Where is their political courage?