[UPDATE]: And I thought that I was being harsh.
Back in the day, Senator Schumer bragged about removing the funding, in fact. He thought that it was “bipartisan.”
He said the compromise hammered out between Senate Democrats and moderate Republicans – which has enough support to get it past any threat of a filibuster – was far better than that passed by the House on Jan. 29.
“All those little porky things that the House put in, the money for the [National] Mall or the sexually transmitted diseases or the flu pandemic, they’re all out,” Schumer said.
(H/T: AoSHQ)
“Bipartisan” being defined as “three Republicans and the Democratic party,” of course. Now that there’s a question about said funding, suddenly they feel like they need to pin it all on the Republican party, and never mind that the stripped-out appropriations was part of a failed attempt to bribe the GOP. Note, “failed”: if they had wanted to do a real cut, they would have axed things that would have hurt across the board; instead, they went with what they themselves considered extraneous or meaningless, and it’s just Schumer’s bad luck that the swine flu decided to break out in Mexico. So, as Don Surber notes, we’re going to get the default option from the Democrats again: blame it on the GOP somehow.
Of course, the people that will scream loudly about this will say not a word about Schumer if they can possibly help it. That’s because they don’t actually care about swine flu. Well, that’s not quite true: after all, the more people that die, the more they’ll feel justified and righteous about screaming about the Republican party. Sure, it’s a tragedy, but the really important thing for them is to elect more Democrats.
Moe Lane
PS: When are we getting the rest of HHS, by the way?
*Of course, porky might be a compliment by Schumer’s standards:
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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RJD (Diary) Monday, April 27th at 1:06PM EST (link)then again, can’t expect too much from simple, one-track minded Liberals.
If Congress & President were 100% Democrat...
wdgf Monday, April 27th at 1:09PM EST (link)…Every ill would STILL be blamed on George Bush and the Republicans.
LIBERAL: Accepts blame for nothing, takes credit for everything. Demands complete control without responsibility. Telegraphs what he is doing or planning by what he claims others are doing or planning. Gives freely… of others.
Schumer's an idiot . . .
DFLer Monday, April 27th at 2:37PM EST (link). . . who says whatever he thinks will make him points in the moment.
I’d give props to whoever put the funding in that bill in the first place, before it got axed. Likewise, I’d criticize anybody who pushed to take it out, regardless of party. Let the chips fall where they may.
God knows (and Rick Perry knows) a big flu outbreak right now would make economic recovery even harder.
if concern was appropriate over Drugs, Killings, Kidnappings, etc...
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, April 27th at 3:35PM EST (link)Travel restrictions would have, and should have, already been in place regarding travel to/from DrugCartelLand (aka: Mexico) and these cases wouldn’t have been coming into the US. But you know, the Federal Government can’t shut down travel to/from Mexico over Americans being killed/kidnapped intentionally – they cannot let pass “making a SHOW” (and that’s about all this administration is interested in doing) over the paranoia (obviously, “concern” and care is necessary) that is associated with the potential unintentional deaths of Americans due to disease migrating in from Mexico. All we are getting are advisory warnings, of course. The Border is still completely open.
Again, if they cared enough about American Deaths happening along the Border they would have closed travel down to/from Mexico to force Mexico to step up and cleanup their country and most these cases wouldn’t exist.
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Martin Knight (Diary) Monday, April 27th at 4:31PM EST (link)I mean, after betraying her Party to stand with the Democrats and vote for their “Stimulus” bill, she’s waking up to Chuck Schumer sticking the knife deep and good.
I’d feel sorry for her, but I’m a heartless extremis conservative not a soft spineless “moderate.”
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Husker (Diary) Monday, April 27th at 4:38PM EST (link)Life lesson Sue: Rabid dogs bite (even if you're nice to them)
Old_Crow (Diary) Monday, April 27th at 5:22PM EST (link)“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison
Pandemic Plan
Michael DeWeese (Diary) Monday, April 27th at 4:51PM EST (link)Flu Pandemic Plan for the DHS was created under George Bush long ago. All DHS needs to do is follow the plan. But they won’t, they will hem and haw and finesse it and people will die.
Anyone have link to the part of the bill cut that was for flu pandemi and when and how it was to be spent? Would any of that money even been allocated and ready to be spent to have an effect on what is happening today?
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