Sen. Mike Lee, who appears to be Ted Cruz’s only friend in the Senate, has succeeded in using a hold to single-handedly deny the people of Flint, Michigan any funding to deal with their catastrophic lead-poisoning problem.
Bipartisan Senate leaders reached an agreement Wednesday on a long-stalled energy modernization bill that some had hoped would include money to address the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
But because the Flint provision is still the subject of a hold by Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee — who objects to the way it is funded — the energy bill will now move on without it.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan is not pleased:
“It’s totally unacceptable that Sen. Lee continues to block a vote on our fully paid for, bipartisan agreement to help Flint and other communities across the nation who have serious lead and water problems,” the Democrat said. “This is about something as basic as making sure families have clean water to drink and children with lead poisoning get the help they need.”
“We will not give up until this gets done using whatever legislative vehicle it takes,” she added.
Maybe the funding will come someday, but it will have to wait.
He is one evil azz muthaphucka.
Lee got into the senate with 300,000 votes. Is that what gives him his mandate to continue to poison Americans or is it ideology? Freedom Liberty.
Utah is low on the takers and givers scale. But there’s room to reduce the amounts that Utah takes to nearer that of several other states.
FLINT: CLASSIC REPUBLICAN SCANDAL
ANTI -DEMOCRACY
Firing Flint government rendering the voter’s choice of reps moot
CRONY CAPITALISM
Handing power over to an “emergency manager” who happens to be a business associate(?) of the governor
IDEOLOGY over PEOPLE’s WELL BEING
Switches water supply from Detroit water to Flint River Water-to save money to cut budget, simply instead of finding a way to raise revenue that doesn’t endanger people’s lives.
ANTI – SCIENCE=ANTI REALITY when it is not convenient to their interests
Warnings from experts about the danger of Flint water are willfully ignored
SLOW EMERGENCY RESPONSE
After actually single-handedly creating this crisis, the Governor and Emergency Manager acted like FEMA responding to Katrina. Slow and INCOMPETENT
WANT TO BE FINANCIALLY BAILED OUT WITH FEDERAL MONEY TO COVER THEIR OWN INCOMPETENCE, DESPITE CONSTANTLY COMPLAINING ABOUT FEDERAL MANDATES AND PROGRAMS THEY DONT LIKE
NOW THE GOP IN CONGRESS SAYS NO-so state GOP fucks em, the Feds reject them, and state says “hey, we tried.” Fucking liars.
FIGHT HARD FOR NO ACCOUNTABILITY:
Just like after Iraq War lies, Katrina, 2008 Financial Meltdown, Republicans will fight any attempts to hold high officials accountable either legally or otherwis.e
We will be told that investigating all of this is politicizing a tragedy, and a distraction from the healing of Flint and “looking ahead”
WITH THE HELP OF THE LAZY SHORT TERM MEMORY MEDIA, THEY HOPE WE FORGET THAT IT WAS ANOTHER HARDCORE REPUBLICAN DISASTER
THIS IS REPUBLICANISM
And it’s racist as hell.
Thanks for the info. Of course, no consequences or accountability for Mike Lee.
These f*ckers don’t give a sh*t whether citizens live or die. In fact, if some citizens die faster: good!
that’s clear, isn’t it? Mike Lee’s in Utah. Not his problem, is it?
Bastard.
yep yep yep
If a Republican had accomplished what PBO did…they’d already have the bills shoved through Congress to put him on Mt. Rushmore.
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Why Obama Will Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents of All Time
Yep. (We just won’t build Mount Rushmores anymore.) In so many ways, Obama was better than we imagined, better than the body politic deserved, and far, far better than his enemies will ever concede, but the great thing about being great is that the verdict of enemies doesn’t matter.
In fact, and I say this as a Bill Clinton fan, I now feel certain that, in the coming decades, Obama’s star will rise higher than Clinton’s, and he’ll replace Bill in the public mind as the Greatest Democrat since FDR.
This has to do with the nature of Obama’s leadership, which is to play to legacy (and Clinton’s impulse, which is to play to the room). Bill Clinton will long be revered because he’s charismatic, presided over an economic revival, and changed and elevated the view of the Democratic Party. Barack Obama will long be revered because he’s charismatic, presided over an economic revival, and changed and elevated the view of the presidency. He’s simply bigger than Bill.
I have many SERIOUS disagreements with Obama, especially as details of the drone program abuse and misuse have emerged.
But, as for:
“and he’ll replace Bill in the public mind as the Greatest Democrat since FDR.”
That is already done, no contest. Of course the boomers will always have JFK to wax poetic about, too. I just like how JFK styled his voice after Mayor Quimby.