April 2, 2008
NYC Tells Capitol Hill 9/11 "Was an Attack on America"
RepresentativeDarrell Issa, a Republican from California, played the spoiler during the city's attempt to get federal money for sick first responders. Issa said the planes that flew into the World Trade Center weren't weapons like a dirty bomb, "It simply was an aircraft, residue of two aircraft, and residue from the materials used to build this building."
To which NYC counsel Michael Cardozo said, "Congressman, this was I believe an attack on the United States of America. It was located at Ground Zero, but it was an attack on America." The city is hoping the federal government will create another 9/11 victims' compensation fund.
Issa is opposed because he thinks the state and city should deal with it and questioned how much of the federal money had been giving paid out. He said, "I can't vote for additional money for New York if I can't see why it would be appropriate to do this every single time a similar situation happens, which quite frankly includes any urban terrorist. It doesn't have to be somebody from al Qaeda. It can be someone who decides that they don't like animal testing at one of our pharmaceutical facilities."
Representative Anthony Weiner was livid and said, "It's a violation of congressional protocol to punch a colleague in the nose, and never in my 10 years in Congress have I ever felt the desire to do it as much as I did today."
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then can nyc (and state) have all our wounded/dead servicemen back? because that war in iraq isn't what this state signed up for.
Hey, Congressman Weiner... give him a shot in the mouth for me, too! Man! These repugnant republicans are always using the images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 in their campaign material and as a twisted way of making Democrats look bad (excuse me for inserting a few facts, but on Sept. 11, 2001:
President - republican
Senate Majority - republican
Congressional Majority - republican
New York Governor - republican
New York Mayor - republican
Supreme Court Majority - republican)
but when it comes to actually halping the barve men & women who were there to help others???? Typical republican scum: I've got mine, f___ you!
It's funny just how far down the nine levels of Hell the Republicans have fallen since Abe Lincoln. Or maybe it's sad. Or both.
I would also like to request my neighbor's brother and friend's father back, since they in no way were alerted to the American foreign policy decisions which helped to create 9/11. Thanks Congressman Dickhole!
oh, pull yourself up by your bootstraps,
I can do it, so can you
no free hand outs
get off the government teat
I'm tired of you people........
well this wouldn't of happened if you'd known....
we gave you people a warning not to put all your egss in one basket
I agree with the Representative from CA. It's not the federal taxpayer's responsibility to pay for crises in NYC 7 years after the fact.
This goes for Katrina and OK City, too. FEMA and such is a good idea on paper, but like most agencies, they fail and costs billions of dollars, dollars that could've been saved and spent on insurance or saved by the tax payers.
However, the federal government was responsible for our foreign policy that led to 9/11, so you could argue that they should pay for the clean up.
I love how its always up to NYC to pay for everyone else problems and mistakes.
Maybe he needs an airplane to land on his front lawn to get the message.
Bottomless Chips is right. US foreign policy played such a huge part in this, and the subsequent attack was a result of a lack of foresight and security on the federal level.
If it happened to an American-owned property in an overseas city, would that country's city be responsible?
Representative Darrell Issa made a douchebag commment, and I doubt he speaks for the Republican party, California, or even his constituents on this one.
Instead of getting all pissy about it, though, we should probably thank him, because I have little doubt that his comments will unite enough people against him to help the city get more money from the federal government.
I would have a lot more respect for Weiner if he actually DID punch the guy instead of just saying he wanted to. Weiner is good at grabbing opportunities to get in front of the camera, usually for softball issues or after something bad happens. I don't like him, but he's got good political timing.
I don't see what Issa's beef is.
To begin with, had LA been the target of a terrorist attack similar in magnitude to 9/11, I doubt he would be refusing federal monies to pay for the aftermath.
Secondly, with so much being spent on the Iraq War, what is a few million (hell, maybe a billion or two) dollars for a real cause (helping first responders who gave a lot that day and in the subsequent months).
I know that some people will point to my remark about a "real cause" and say that I mean that the troops deserve less money. That's not what I am saying at all. The war itself is a sham and the effort has been underfunded from the beginning. We've fucked ourselves because we did not go into it 100% (though I would argue we should not have gone into it at all) and now we're stuck. Something as risky as a war is like jumping a bridge: either you don't do it or, if you have to do it, you go full speed. If you go half speed, then you're just fucking yourself in the end.
Weiner couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag.
Weiner Issa weiner.
Is that haiku?
I've shaken Weiner's hand and it's proportionally pretty big for his body, like his nose is for his face. He could probably put a good haymaker on this wimp.
Weiner for Mayor!
The following is from Issa's own site...
"Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) hailed a unanimous vote by the California Costal Commission earlier today that will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to move forward with plans to operate and maintain the San Luis Rey River Flood Control Project..."
Oh wait a minute...people who didn't ask to get respiratory disease and cancers when they helped out at Ground Zero wouldn't get any help from the Federal Govt that was partly responsible for thier plight, yet people in Issa's district get the Army Corps of Engineers? Um....isn't the Army a Federal agency, funded by Federal dollars? So...aren't his constituents being helped by Federal money? Hey, Issa...its just a river, it floods, thats what rivers do on occasion...its simply a river...
Bet the GOP is real proud of this guy.
And, I suppose, his district is, too... since they now have the distinction of being represented by the dumbest man in Congress.
so issa has stopped grandstanding and sticking up for a perjurer (he was very oustpoken when sticking up for roger clemens in the hearings) and is now wanting this?
what is california smoking for this guy to have gotten elected. oh wait...