Discussion: Compared To Katrina, Congress Notably Sluggish On Hurricane Maria Oversight

This is because the GOP is now the party of TRUMP who is treasonous. After Katrina, the GOP was the party of W, who may not have been the brightest bulb, but he was NOT treasonous

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Saw a picture of flooded chicken houses in Trenton NC and so looked at google maps to find it before. Arrow on before is pointing to Trent river.


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Trenton,+NC+28585/@35.0697023,-77.3583874,3102m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89a92542817d2fd7:0x5630ea3b590d5f44!8m2!3d35.0641234!4d-77.3551852

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Yeah, Dubya just started an unneeded war that’s still going.

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For the political party that displays emotions ranging from indifference to celebration over the misery of others, here’s a new image.

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One reason why they are not investigating is fear of Trump and his Twitter attacks. Another reason is that they don’t see Puerto Ricans as “real” Americans, members of Congress won’t feel any backlash for their inactions is because Puerto Ricans can’t vote and therefore can’t hurt their re-election prospects.
It should also go without saying that once they start then they’ll be expected to fix FEMA which is complicated and hard to do under their “free markets” approach to governing.

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No argument there… but at least there was a bi-partisan vote supporting him… but I guess that just goes to prove that the GOP runs a tighter ship than the Dems

Republicans halfway gives a shit about New Orleans, they like Donald don’t give a shit about Puerto Rico.

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AT LEASt they could fly away and escape.

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SHOULDN’T we put AMERICA first and NOT A BUNCH OF hispaniolios? NOT VERY PAtriotic. TREASON!

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“Compared To Katrina, Congress Notably Sluggish On Hurricane Maria Oversight”
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Well we knowm after all, that the only current function of Congress right now, beyond naming post offices for notable people, is to defend all things trump and nothing more.

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Republicans reportedly deny accusations of inaction.

As they collectively lift their GOP necks, from the totally prone position, in their Post Reagan GOP recliner chairs.

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Welp, as our fearless leader pointed out in his infinite stable genius wisdom… (paraphrasing now)… “you can get aid trucks to New Orleans cuz there are roads to it. But it’s a lot harder to drive to an island like Puerto Rico. Surrounded as it is with tremendously vast amounts of water…who knew?”

And that right there is exactly why trump showed up at the San Juan Airport and tossed about 8 or 10 rolls of paper towels and called the recovery from the storm done and done…A+++. Nobody could do it better.
Unless a tragedy affects trump himself or those closest to him he will not care on anything approaching a personal level like Obama would.
Passing out one case of paper towels for a photo op by trump I took, at the time, to be meant as a personal insult to the island’s residents.

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On cnn.com there was a photo of two hound dogs in a pen and they were 8 inches deep in water. They were exactly the kind of dog we have and I hope the guy who took the picture has sense enough to get those dogs out of there.

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Wish the US had like a bunch of big ships that could carry supplies, and workers, maybe have hospital onboard, or really cool if they could land and take off in airplanes on some!

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That image of trump was photoshopped onto the background. He was at an airport when he make that fist pump motion but it was still despicable since he did it on the 17th anniversary of 9/11.

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tRump and his GOP hate Puerto Ricans. I wonder if tRump’s hate has to do with his time as a hotel owner in NYC? Whatever the case, he found very little reason to help people from an island that shunned one of his golf courses. Who else was affected by Maria? The Virgin Islands- islands full of brown and black people. tRump didn’t even bother to go there.

If the GOP started investigating tRump, they wouldn’t have time for anything else. remember, they investigated the IRS for supposedly delaying tax-exempt status for conservative organizations, but can’t seem to find a reason to make the same IRS turn over tRump’s tax returns.

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Pathetic… even when being called out on their lack of response, their response to that is complacency. Dear God, we need a change in Nov!!!

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