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| -Election 2012 |
| Obumble Voted Against Katrina Waiver |
| 2012-10-04 |
| It comes as no surprise to learn that Obama was one of a small minority in the Senate who voted against the bill that sought to waive the Stafford Act in order to make assistance funds available to the New Orleans Katrina victims without their having to match them with a 10% contribution. See this for a list of those who voted for and against the bill. You’ll note that Obama’s “nay” vote was one of only 14 cast against the act, almost all of them liberal Democrats. No doubt he would say he knew the act would pass and so he felt okay voting against it in order to protest the Iraq war funds that were also part of the bill. But there’s something profoundly distasteful and almost grotesque about him voting against the waiver, knowing the bill had passed despite his vote, and then misleading the audience to make them angry that the waiver hadn’t happened. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #6 Aaand they got five times as much fed money for Katrina as NYC got for 911. O knew all of that and lied though his teeth. Despicable. |
| Posted by: KBK 2012-10-04 18:22 |
| #5 Maybe he just doesn't know how to read and has just been social promoted all the way up because of his oratory skills. That would explain a lot of the present votes and 'reading' intelligence briefings yet doing nothing about them. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2012-10-04 14:37 |
| #4 He voted *against* the Katrina bill which passed by a large margin. He then lied to 'his people' that the bill was rejected by the Evil Party to get them fired up. Yeah, that is amazingly shameless. Is it possible to be appalled but not surprised? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-10-04 06:31 |
| #3 Waitaminute! This is the act he told the crowd the evil W blocked to keep them down? That means 0 voted with Boooosh? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2012-10-04 05:51 |
| #2 "He actually voted for or against something instead of 'present'?" FTFY, gorb. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-10-04 03:05 |
| #1 He actually voted? |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-10-04 01:41 |