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BumRushDaShow

(146,692 posts)
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 03:22 AM Jan 20

Mike Johnson Implies Conditions For California Wildfire Aid Is A 'Common Sense Notion'

Source: Huff Post

Jan 19, 2025, 03:44 PM EST


House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he “won’t commit” to providing aid without conditions to the flame-engulfed region of Los Angeles County.

Johnson and other Republicans have been considering leveraging California’s need for aid and relief to advance political agendas as the fires rage on. On Sunday’s episode of “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker asked Johnson if he could commit to not binding California disaster relief to conditions, such as increasing the debt limit.

“No, I won’t commit that because we have a serious problem in California,” Johnson said. “Listen, there are natural disasters. I’m from Louisiana, we’re prone to that. We understand how these things work. But then there’s also human error, and when the state and local officials make foolish policy decisions that make the disaster exponentially worse, we need to factor that in, and I think that’s a common sense notion.”

But California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has called for expedited aid with no “strings attached” multiple times.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/speaker-mike-johnson-california-wildfire-aid_n_678d411ee4b0a4bfc4309304

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Mike Johnson Implies Conditions For California Wildfire Aid Is A 'Common Sense Notion' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 20 OP
Tell me about all the houses KT2000 Jan 20 #1
What a sanctimonious bastard. alwaysinasnit Jan 20 #2
Human error...like building your most populous city below sea level? JT45242 Jan 20 #3
Since when? no_hypocrisy Jan 20 #4
"And Superstorm Sandy in 2011(?) in New Jersey and New York." BumRushDaShow Jan 20 #5
There are no good republicans JoseBalow Jan 20 #6
OK, then fair play- Karma13612 Jan 20 #7
Then California should hold back as much tax revenue as they need to deal with the disaster tanyev Jan 20 #8
If every Registered Democrat JustAnotherGen Jan 20 #10
Hakeem Jeffries JustAnotherGen Jan 20 #9
All Californian should take this as the character of the people some of them voted for and anyone related to a person Jit423 Jan 20 #11
Too many Americans have an irrational, reflexive hatred of California Zorro Jan 20 #12
Fake Christian doubles down on stupidity Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 20 #13

KT2000

(21,132 posts)
1. Tell me about all the houses
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 03:26 AM
Jan 20

on the coast that continue to be rebuilt after hurricanes, Johnson. Tell me about an entire city that was built below sea level. Tell me about putting chemical plants in wetlands.

JT45242

(3,088 posts)
3. Human error...like building your most populous city below sea level?
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 04:50 AM
Jan 20

Human error like having the army corps of engineers work very hard to keep the Mississippi River from doing it's normal meandering to prevent new Orleans from becoming a backwater town?

Human error like paying to rebuild oil refineries belie sea level near New Orleans over and over again after every hurricane

Human error like the mishandling of aid to line the pockets of rethugs like Brett Fabre and build sports facility rather than the intended uses

I could go on ...but this worthless blob fish needs to shut his pie hole.

Maybe, just maybe, he should read the first few verses of Isaiah 10 every day ...Isaiah 10:1-2 NIV
[1] Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, [2] to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

https://bible.com/bible/111/isa.10.1-2.NIV

You won't find anything condemning abortion or transgender in the book, but this is pretty clear.

no_hypocrisy

(49,936 posts)
4. Since when?
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 05:19 AM
Jan 20

My taxes have rebuilt New Orleans, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolinas.

And Superstorm Sandy in 2011(?) in New Jersey and New York.

There were no conditions attached.

BumRushDaShow

(146,692 posts)
5. "And Superstorm Sandy in 2011(?) in New Jersey and New York."
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 05:57 AM
Jan 20
There were no conditions attached.


Sandy was in 2012 but since NY & NJ were "blue states", the hubris out of the GOP, like you see today, was fierce. To the point where the GOP reps in the impacted states went ballistic when the initial funding was killed.

From DKos -



Hurricane/Super Storm Sandy hit in late October 2012 and emergency funding wasn't enacted until early January 2013.

Karma13612

(4,733 posts)
7. OK, then fair play-
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 08:03 AM
Jan 20

When a southeastern red state in Hurricane country gets decimated by the next big hurricane, the Democrats should demand the aid be conditional on reversing their abortion bans.



Seems pretty straightforward to me!

tanyev

(45,241 posts)
8. Then California should hold back as much tax revenue as they need to deal with the disaster
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 08:16 AM
Jan 20

and then send whatever’s left to the federal government. It’s just common sense.

JustAnotherGen

(34,268 posts)
10. If every Registered Democrat
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 10:02 AM
Jan 20

In the high cost of living blue states refused to file Income Taxes this year - it would put the Maga into a very difficult position.

Since 2019 when the Tax and Jobs Scam was inflicted on states like NJ - we've always had to pay another few hundred at tax time.

How to get it done? I don't know. But our additional payments go directly to the IRS.

A year without Blue State Democrats giving welfare to Louisiana? That's a wonderful thing.

Also - a small act of financial defiance? I commute 2 or 3 days a week to Bucks County PA (live ten minutes from the NJ/PA border) - I will not be spending a single penny in PA.

That's not a thing. No Dunkin hot chocolate, no sandwich from The Country Store, certainly no gas.

It's a small thing and I HOPE it hurts the white working class people in PA. I've never once been waited on by a person of color or Black American since I started there in August 2023.

JustAnotherGen

(34,268 posts)
9. Hakeem Jeffries
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 09:54 AM
Jan 20

Told him to get lost.

So the Magat Party is going to have to do it with the Democratic Party electeds.

The Party just needs to hold the line.

Jit423

(820 posts)
11. All Californian should take this as the character of the people some of them voted for and anyone related to a person
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 10:12 AM
Jan 20

who lost all in these horrific fires should never vote Republican again, no matter where you live.

Zorro

(16,747 posts)
12. Too many Americans have an irrational, reflexive hatred of California
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 10:19 AM
Jan 20

Especially those in the South and Midwest. I suspect most of those have never even been to California.

I've witnessed it personally over many years. Some time back I flew my elderly mom and friend from Florida, and they were amazed and pointing out all the churches they saw as we drove around.

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