If it “hurts” business, he might be against it.
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A soft hold? I don’t typically advocate violence, but I wouldn’t cry if someone decided to give him a hard kick in the ass.
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Aide: Gov Snyder, the peasants in Flint are revolting.
Snyder: I know they’re revolting. Get some water and clean them up before they come up to my office.
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With all that lead in the water, looks like Trump’s gonna get more of those low-intelligence voters he loves.
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One would be surprised to find a Cruz campaign office within 20 miles of Flint.
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Or he’ll approve it a day before the primary and take credit.
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And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Since you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.
Bet Cruz has no idea where that comes from and what it means.
Any delay in this for any reason increases the chances that some child ingests more lead.
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What is there to not understand here? In right-wing circles, the words Chicago and Detroit are dog-whistle synonyms for “black.” Same thing with Flint. If a legislative action is aimed at helping the lives of black people, conservatives must put a stop to it. This is dog-whistle politics at its worst, and it will only help him peel off some support from Trump.
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There’s at least one person standing in the way of enacting a bipartisan
bill that would provide hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to
victims of the Flint water crisis: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
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Anyone against fixing Flint’s water problems should be forced to drink and cook and bathe with that water. And in a few weeks get tested for lead in their blood. And then be informed as to the toxic effects of led and the other contaminants from that untreated river water.
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I would go with a hold too unless the bill forces the resignation of Gov. Snyder.
I think I’ve said this before, but this issue just tears me up. I know that the right thing to do is for the federal government to step in and provide whatever is needed to get this situation resolved as quickly as possible. But when do the people that voted these jerks in and when do the jerks themselves have to pay for their decisions. They have literally put lives on the line so they could save a few bucks and live up (down?) to their conservative “principals.” The behavior was criminal (in my mind) and both the perpetrators and the enablers (voters) should be held accountable. But how? And when? And yet we cannot let people–CHILDREN–die or continue to be poisoned.
I guess this makes me a bleeding heart liberal, and I guess this is what makes heartless/soulless/conscienceless conservatives laugh. How do they sleep at night?
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A Cruz spokesman told the AP that staffers “are simply reviewing the
bill right now.” Other Republican senators may also have holds on the
bill, according to the report.
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Each day you review this bill is a day a kid could be damaged for life. Do you want that on your conscience? I wouldn’t.
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Is it that fucking hard to pipe clean water to Flint from Detroit or some other source? Troy or Saginaw could lay plastic pipe by the side of a road and deliver water within a week or two I would think if people really cared.
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Ted Cruz = Tone Deaf Dickhead, and I am being generous!
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“Tone Deaf” implies that he’d do something differently if he realized how it sounds/appears. I’m not sure he truly cares.
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Obviously God told his wife to tell him to block the bill because of freedom!!
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Bipartisan and nonpartisan mean the same thing in this context — people from both parties or no party at all would get behind it.
But she probably just found the better word as she was already speaking.
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Never miss a chance to be a dick.
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Loved Josh Marshall’s description of this: “desperate, cynical effort to lock down the critical asshole vote”. Wonderfully put, Mr. Marshall.
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I am abashed.