http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/02/house-republican-says-nobody-should-donate-to-house-republicans Comments On: House Republican Says Nobody Should Donate to House Republicans by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:27:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by XRay]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:49:24 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:14:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sahara29]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:58:34 -0800 The Stranger
I find it very amusing that he's facing the same situation that Newt Gingrich was in about 15 years ago, when Boehner was the one leading the charge for Speaker Newt's dismissal.
Posted by Knat]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:57:00 -0800 The Stranger Record, that's true. It looks like a copy & paste experiment that escaped the lab. For the higher profile votes, though, Reps like to grandstand a bit. The point is that this is too juicy for a quick vote.
A $60B aid package going to the region with the highest concentration of US voters is too great an opportunity for the House GOP to lump it into the same news cycle as the fiscal cliff deal. I'm certainly not accusing Rep King of any altruism here.
Posted by Sir Vic]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:51:03 -0800 The Stranger
You know..it almost seems like it. I mean it can't happen here in America!! Right?
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:23:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:23:09 -0800 The Stranger Politico and HuffPo, after Harry Reid called Boehner on his bullshit behavior, Boehner told Reid to go fuck himself. Twice. Then he went and bragged about it to his GOP buddies. The Great Orange Orator, that John Boehner...
Posted by Knat]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:43:28 -0800 The Stranger Congressional Record was ever spoken on the floor. It's all inserted afterwards. "I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks" is what gets said on the floor.

@10, you forgot to mention Peter King's pet project, his ongoing vilification of American Muslims. His grandstanding investigations are nothing but a witch hunt. He's Joe McCarthy risen from the dead. Oh, and his bipartisanship is nothing new; he's always been about 40% Democrat. You have to be, in Queens. He's best buds with Bill Clinton.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:36:25 -0800 The Stranger Congressional Record, you will quickly learn that much of the floor time in the House is spent giving self-serving speeches. (or inserting items paid for by benefactors) The larger the Bill, the greater the number of these horrid displays of oratory.
That vanity is still nothing compared to the trough pillaging that goes on in Committee proceedings. The larger the Bill, the greater the trough to be pillaged for the benefit of those benefactors.

Federal spending on Sandy relief will be an enormous amount of pork to be doled out by guys like Rep. King. Everyone wants to get their piece of it, and then make their smarmy floor speech about who they're helping. We're talking 100+ Reps that need time to create material for their next campaign flyer. You can't rush that.

That's why the vote didn't happen. Too soon to be used for maximum political gain.
Posted by Sir Vic]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:21:32 -0800 The Stranger

Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:18:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sahara29]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:15:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by CbytheSea]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:11:05 -0800 The Stranger
Okay, I have a long-standing dislike of Peter King, like seriously. I laughed when one of the Slog contributors referenced him as Peter king (R-IRA). Other than his support of Northern Irish insurrectionists, his usual claim to fame is being a knee-jerk, pit-bull of an attack dog against anything Democratic or progressive. He's a foul, slobbering demagogue who reliably parrots Rove's and Ailes' talking points of the day, a fully-owned tool of the usual billionaire supporters of the Republican Party.

Usually.

I am shocked and stunned. I didn't realize he had two ounces of constituent-support blood in his veins. For him to go off the reservation like this, to not only denounce his own party, but to essentially renounce it ("As far as I'm concerned, I'm on my own. They're going to have to go a long way to get my vote on anything."), is truly amazing.

Wow.
Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:07:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by dnt trust me]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:57:37 -0800 The Stranger To paraphrase Jon Stewart to Christie, "when you are uninsured and get cancer, that is your Sandy".
Posted by wxPDX]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:56:53 -0800 The Stranger Posted by NateMan]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:56:44 -0800 The Stranger The tea party may have helped the GOP in 2010 but these political rookies are really fucking up the brand. A disaster relief program is one of the easiest stimulus packages a government can do.
Posted by CbytheSea]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:50:33 -0800 The Stranger
Fuck Chris Christie.
Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:47:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by fixo]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:44:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:41:53 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:35:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Why are there cars?]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:32:57 -0800 The Stranger