Allahpundit @ Hot Air:
Fun fact: By some estimates, roughly half of the $60 billion aid bill that passed the Senate consists of expenditures unrelated to Sandy relief, i.e. pork. Had the House GOP amended the fiscal cliff bill last night to include $300 billion in spending cuts over 10 years, the amount of pork alone in the Sandy bill would have wiped out this year’s cuts in one fell swoop. That’s how meaningless the fiscal cliff negotiations were.
Rest assured, a relief bill will pass soon — maybe tomorrow, now that the screeching among tri-state congressmen has earned them an audience with Boehner this afternoon. King knows that, as doesChris Christie, who’s called a presser for later today. What’s going to change on the ground in New York and New Jersey between now and the next few days, when the bill is safely on Obama’s desk for signing? Not a thing, but it’s a fine opportunity for grandstanding by blue-state Republicans eager to seize an opportunity to distance themselves from the party’s brand while it’s at low tide. In fairness to them, the politics of the bill being pulled last night are awfully tawdry and self-destructive. But even so, I’m curious: How much unrelated spending would this bill need to be larded up with before fiscal warrior Chris Christie decided it needed a few more days of deliberation and amendment? King goes so far here as to urge New Yorkers not to donate to the NRCC because of the delay. Either he’s deathly afraid of losing his seat to an anti-GOP backlash or he’s hysterical. Actually, check that: Whatever his other motives, he’s hysterical.
“I’m saying anyone from New York and New Jersey who contributes one penny to congressional Republicans is out of their minds,” Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Fox News. “What they did last night was put a knife in the back of New Yorkers and New Jerseyans.”…
Meanwhile, King called the decision a “disgrace” and “immoral” — and accused fellow Republicans of turning away from Christie. “What did they do? They knifed him in the back,” he said.
They “knifed him in the back” by not passing a bill that’s … going to pass overwhelmingly within a week?
Governor Christie, being a governor, apparently expects Congress to take some interest in effective, real world governing. He expressed his displeasure with the ineffectiveness of Congress in no uncertain terms this afternoon. CNN carried it live. FOX didn’t.
Here are his comments, at Forbes.
@Greg: So what’s your point? Fox broadcasts things CNN doesn’t all the time. Did MSNBC broadcast it live or any of the other left leaning major news networks? Besides, Christie only gets angry when the cameras are around, it also shows how left politically he really is.
KING AND CHRISTIE, MADE AN AWFULL MISTAKE BY TAKING ON THEIR OWN SIDE,
THE REPUBLICANS NOTICE SOME MANY MILLIONS IN THE BILL GOING NOT TO THE SANDY PROGRAM,
IT CAME FROM THE DISHONEST DEMOCRATS TRYING THE SAME GAME THEY DID TO PRESIDENT BUSH,
BEFORE ON HIS BACK,
SO THE REPUBLICAN CUT THE BILL AND CUT THE MONEY GOING TO HOLLYWOOD FOR MOVIES,
AND TO OTHER UNWORTHY CAUSE WHICH ARE STUPID AND NOT NEEDED
TO FALL ON THE PEOPLE’S POCKETS,
THE REPUBLICANS CAME PUBLIC WITH IT, GOOD JOB