say no to everything. do they know where they re going this time around? well, no, they don t. and remember that they re lamenting the fact that the president s coming after them. but they don t seem to mind if it s them going after the president. i mean, never mind the double standard here. if you just take his prognosis as being a fact, they have to figure something out, why at this moment when they need to figure out what they stand for is he talking about these kind of tactical things? where do we fight, where do we not fight? how about you fight everywhere? how you try and come up with a national plan and some national appeal instead of trying to go house district by house district? because that way you end up with this rump of a national argument which confines you to the deep south. can governors christie and jindal rescue the gop from itself? i think there are and serious minds going here and they are trying to figure out, especially those who have to run a national elect
$60 billion is the necessity has been very well documented by governors christie. so the politics of this pretty inconvenient. with the backdrop of too much spending in washington and the republicans trying to fight the president on the most recent fiscal cliff, this was just pretty inconvenient and they didn t give a damn about the people. i mean, that s my read on it. what about yours? i think that is true to some extent. but it s even worse because they had to separate the bill into two bills, $27 billion, and hopefully $33 billion extra on the assumption that most of the republicans wouldn t vote for the full amount that we need. that has never been the case where you nickel and dime people in desperate straits because of a natural disaster before. will there be enough votes for this? will you get the votes to get the $60 billion in aid to do right by these americans? i think the votes will be there now. but you know, because the speaker pulled the bill last night, and we r
governors christie. so the politics of this pretty inconvenient. with the backdrop of too much spending in washington and the republicans trying to fight the president on the most recent fiscal cliff, this was just pretty inconvenient and they didn t give a damn about the people. i mean, that s my read on it. what about yours? i think that is true to some extent. but it s even worse because they had to separate the bill into two bills, $27 billion, and hopefully $33 billion extra on the assumption that most of the republicans wouldn t vote for the full amount that we need. that has never been the case where you nickel and dime people in desperate straits because of a natural disaster before. will there be enough votes for this? will you get the votes to get the $60 billion in aid to do right by these americans? i think the votes will be there now. but you know, because the speaker pulled the bill last
been very well documented by governors christie. so the politics of this pretty inconvenient. with the backdrop of too much spending in washington and the republicans trying to fight the president on the most recent fiscal cliff, this was just pretty inconvenient and they didn t give a damn about the people. i mean, that s my read on it. what about yours? i think that is true to some extent. but it s even worse because they had to separate the bill into two bills, $27 billion, and hopefully $33 billion extra on the assumption that most of the republicans wouldn t vote for the full amount that we need. that has never been the case where you nickel and dime people in desperate straits because of a natural disaster before. will there be enough votes for this? will you get the votes to get the $60 billion in aid to do right by these americans? i think the votes will be there now. but you know, because the
from wisconsin, and hoeven from north dakota aren t ready to spend the money either. louisiana congressman steve scalise says he wants to control the spendling and georgia representative jack kingston says congress shouldn t have to pay $2 million to fission fix the roof at the smithsonian museum. maybe those republicans don t want to fix the statue of liberty island either. we ll save money if we just kept it closed, right? crews pumped 270 million gallons of saltwater out of the transit tunnels. but we could have saved money there if we just didn t fix the commuter trains. governors christie, cuomo, and milloy have really heard and put together and joined forces to demand help from congress. in an op-ed in the washington post the governors wrote, americans come together in times of crisis. our states have stood with your communities when they suffered and faced devastation. it s time for congress to stand with us. amen to that. tonight in our survey i asked,