Sen Jim Inhofe: Disaster Aid Hypocrite

[J.E.D]

Senator Jim Inhofe: Oklahoma Tornado Aid Will Be 'Totally Different' From Sandy Aid

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe (R) said on Tuesday that federal aid to tornado-ravaged parts of his home state will be "totally different" than a Hurricane Sandy aid bill he voted against late last year.

Speaking on MSNBC, the lawmaker said that in the case of Hurricane Sandy, "everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place." However, he said, "that won't happen in Oklahoma."

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he has already signed a federal disaster declaration for parts of Oklahoma, where tornadoes have caused dozens of fatalities and flattened entire communities.

Inhofe said the Sandy Relief bill "was supposed to be in New Jersey," but "they were getting things … in the Virgin Islands, fixing roads there, and putting roofs on houses in Washington, D.C." Both Inhofe and Coburn voted to slash aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, with Inhofe saying he considered the full proposed aid amount to be a "slush fund."

While Northeastern states like New Jersey and New York suffered some of the worst damage from Hurricane Sandy, the storm affected 24 U.S. states in total during October of 2012. Sandy carved a destructive path from the Caribbean Sea to the Great Lakes, where it produced 25-foot waves in Lake Huron.

Hurricane Sandy is believed to have cost more than $50 billion, making it the second-costliest storm in U.S. history.

 

[bripat9643]

Senator Jim Inhofe: Oklahoma Tornado Aid Will Be 'Totally Different' From Sandy Aid

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe (R) said on Tuesday that federal aid to tornado-ravaged parts of his home state will be "totally different" than a Hurricane Sandy aid bill he voted against late last year.

Speaking on MSNBC, the lawmaker said that in the case of Hurricane Sandy, "everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place." However, he said, "that won't happen in Oklahoma."

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he has already signed a federal disaster declaration for parts of Oklahoma, where tornadoes have caused dozens of fatalities and flattened entire communities.

Inhofe said the Sandy Relief bill "was supposed to be in New Jersey," but "they were getting things … in the Virgin Islands, fixing roads there, and putting roofs on houses in Washington, D.C." Both Inhofe and Coburn voted to slash aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, with Inhofe saying he considered the full proposed aid amount to be a "slush fund."

While Northeastern states like New Jersey and New York suffered some of the worst damage from Hurricane Sandy, the storm affected 24 U.S. states in total during October of 2012. Sandy carved a destructive path from the Caribbean Sea to the Great Lakes, where it produced 25-foot waves in Lake Huron.

Hurricane Sandy is believed to have cost more than $50 billion, making it the second-costliest storm in U.S. history.

What's "hypocritical" about voting down a giant pork laden piece of crap?

 

[waltky]

Funerals begin as Moore digs out of rubble...

Moore tornado: Thunderstorms hamper recovery
23 May 2013 - Cleanup efforts in an Oklahoma community smashed by a huge tornado have been hampered by thunderstorms, as the first victim's funeral was held.

Antonia Candelaria, nine, who died as the twister hit her school, killing six classmates, was laid to rest. Amid heavy rain and hail, a flash flood alert was issued for the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, where 24 people died, including 10 children. Monday's storm is estimated to have wreaked over $2bn (£1.3bn) in damage. The recovery effort is now beginning to accelerate after all of the missing people were accounted for.

Children 'suffocated'

Residents have been picking through piles of debris where their homes once stood, after being formally allowed on Wednesday afternoon back into the area that was battered by the top-of-the-scale tornado. Whole neighbourhoods in Moore, an Oklahoma City suburb of 56,000 people, were flattened by the twister, which packed winds of at least 200mph (320km/h). Officials estimate 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed and 33,000 people affected. Moore's fire chief, Gary Bird, said that a number of residents had been injured while sifting through the wreckage of their homes. "Now we are getting numerous calls for things such as gas leaks, electrical shocks, carbon monoxide leaks, nails being stepped on, that kind of thing," he told the Tulsa World newspaper. Despite harsh storms, weather officials said no new tornadoes were expected on Thursday. Among the destroyed buildings in the city are Moore Medical Center and two primary schools.

Antonia Candelaria was among six students who suffocated after being buried under a mass of bricks, steel and other materials as the Plaza Towers Elementary School collapsed. A seventh Plaza Towers student, a seven-year-old boy, was killed instantly as an object fell on the back of his neck. An obituary in the Oklahoman newspaper said Antonia was especially talented in music and art, and had recently auditioned to sing in the school's talent show. Parents, teachers and children who survived gathered at area schools on Thursday as the district marked the formal end of the school year. During the tornado, 22 people hid in the bank vault of the Tinker Federal Credit Union as the rest of the building was destroyed around them. "It was crowded," Jan Davis, an employee, told CNN, "but if there were more people we would have crowded them right in."

On Wednesday, Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis said he would propose an ordinance in the next few days to require all new homes to have storm shelters. Federal grants are already available to help residents subsidise the costs of safe rooms and shelters. But Mr Lewis said he believes is it is necessary to mandate such structures in building work. Some Moore residents were already vowing to rebuild - with storm shelters. "That is the first thing that will be going into the design of the house," Shayne Patteson told the Associated Press news agency as he looked through the remains of his three-bedroom home. President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Moore on Sunday.

BBC News - Moore tornado: Thunderstorms hamper recovery

See also:

Two years after a tornado, Joplin struggles to rebuild
22 May 2013 - Two years ago, a tornado destroyed the town of Joplin, Missouri. Its long, painful recovery offers lessons for the people of Moore, Oklahoma, who are just beginning to rebuild.

About eight hours after a tornado touched down in Joplin, Missouri, Jerrod Hogan saw two people, a husband and wife, standing in a pharmacy car park near a makeshift medical station. They said they had driven from Mississippi, more than 350 miles (563km) away. "When we heard what happened, we loaded up our truck and came here to help," they told Mr Hogan, a 36-year-old surveyor and director of Rebuild Joplin. The couple were part of an outpouring of assistance after the tornado.

Two years ago, a storm ripped through Joplin, Missouri. The rubble is mostly gone, but the town continues to rebuild

Long and slow

Joplin, a city of 50,000 people, was devastated by the 2011 twister, the deadliest in decades. It killed 161 people and caused more than $2.8bn (£1.7bn) in damage. More than 8,000 buildings were reduced to rubble, and the rebuilding has been long and slow. Yet in addition to the physical damage, tornadoes also exact an emotional and psychological toll. At the same time, disasters attract con artists and hucksters who add to the pain. Today the schools in Joplin remain under construction. And many families are still waiting for their new homes to be built. The rebuilding lessons that Mr Hogan has learned are important - both for those in Joplin and also for people in Oklahoma, where a tornado killed 24 people this week and destroyed entire city blocks.

For some in Joplin, part of a region known as Tornado Alley, the storm's devastation was familiar. Joplin school superintendent CJ Huff, 43, grew up on a farm in McCune, Kansas. When he was 12, a tornado struck. "I still remember the sound of my dad coming down the stairs, yelling, 'It's coming, it's coming,'" Mr Huff says. When the tornado hit Joplin, he was more prepared than most. But he has been taken aback at how hard it has been for the city to recover.

Fraud

 

[TheSeventhTiger]

I would guess that Jim Inhole also believes that Republicans caused the Japan earthquake of 2011 and the dust storm that ravaged the mid-west back in the 30's when Joe Biden was a child wishing President Roosevelt would end slavery.

 

[Political Junky]

Senator Jim Inhofe: Oklahoma Tornado Aid Will Be 'Totally Different' From Sandy Aid

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe (R) said on Tuesday that federal aid to tornado-ravaged parts of his home state will be "totally different" than a Hurricane Sandy aid bill he voted against late last year.

Speaking on MSNBC, the lawmaker said that in the case of Hurricane Sandy, "everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place." However, he said, "that won't happen in Oklahoma."

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he has already signed a federal disaster declaration for parts of Oklahoma, where tornadoes have caused dozens of fatalities and flattened entire communities.

Inhofe said the Sandy Relief bill "was supposed to be in New Jersey," but "they were getting things … in the Virgin Islands, fixing roads there, and putting roofs on houses in Washington, D.C." Both Inhofe and Coburn voted to slash aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, with Inhofe saying he considered the full proposed aid amount to be a "slush fund."

While Northeastern states like New Jersey and New York suffered some of the worst damage from Hurricane Sandy, the storm affected 24 U.S. states in total during October of 2012. Sandy carved a destructive path from the Caribbean Sea to the Great Lakes, where it produced 25-foot waves in Lake Huron.

Hurricane Sandy is believed to have cost more than $50 billion, making it the second-costliest storm in U.S. history.

I was waiting to hear from the OK senators, thanks.
Yes, total hypocrisy.

 

[Avatar4321]

What's hypocritical about wanting a bill that is 1) Not loaded with pork, 2) actually applies to the people of OK, and 3) is offset by cutting spending elsewhere?

That's what he asked for for both bills.

Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the people of Oklahoma told them thanks but no thanks considering the private help thats been coming.

 

[TheSeventhTiger]

Jim Inhole, we all have a question for you: Since 90% of all Floridians live in the lower tier of Florida, how much longer before that section of Florida capsizes into the Atlantic Ocean?

 

[Stephanie]

they don't CARE the people aren't even BURIED...it's MORE important to point out who is a HYPROCITE..

this is what, the 6th fucking thread on this same shit?

sick pukes

 

[Avatar4321]

Jim Inhole, we all have a question for you: Since 90% of all Floridians live in the lower tier of Florida, how much longer before that section of Florida capsizes into the Atlantic Ocean?

You're asking the wrong Politician. Senator Inhofe isnt the one who suggested land, Islands or otherwise, could capsize.

 

[JWBooth]

What's hypocritical about wanting a bill that is 1) Not loaded with pork, 2) actually applies to the people of OK, and 3) is offset by cutting spending elsewhere?

That's what he asked for for both bills.

Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the people of Oklahoma told them thanks but no thanks considering the private help thats been coming.

Well said.

 

[Freewill]

Senator Jim Inhofe: Oklahoma Tornado Aid Will Be 'Totally Different' From Sandy Aid

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe (R) said on Tuesday that federal aid to tornado-ravaged parts of his home state will be "totally different" than a Hurricane Sandy aid bill he voted against late last year.

Speaking on MSNBC, the lawmaker said that in the case of Hurricane Sandy, "everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place." However, he said, "that won't happen in Oklahoma."

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he has already signed a federal disaster declaration for parts of Oklahoma, where tornadoes have caused dozens of fatalities and flattened entire communities.

Inhofe said the Sandy Relief bill "was supposed to be in New Jersey," but "they were getting things … in the Virgin Islands, fixing roads there, and putting roofs on houses in Washington, D.C." Both Inhofe and Coburn voted to slash aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, with Inhofe saying he considered the full proposed aid amount to be a "slush fund."

While Northeastern states like New Jersey and New York suffered some of the worst damage from Hurricane Sandy, the storm affected 24 U.S. states in total during October of 2012. Sandy carved a destructive path from the Caribbean Sea to the Great Lakes, where it produced 25-foot waves in Lake Huron.

Hurricane Sandy is believed to have cost more than $50 billion, making it the second-costliest storm in U.S. history.

Your link and your posting it shows the dirty underbelly of the liberal left. It is one thing to argue about funding and the pork that was attached to the Sandy relief. It is quite another to use the deaths of so many for political fodder as you and so many on the liberal left have done. The sick twisted underbelly of the liberal left has been exposed for all to see.

 

[Old Rocks]

Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma publically thanked President Obama for prompt action on disaster relief for the tornado victims. Are you fellows going to give him the Christie treatment?

 

[Old Rocks]

Cole also was the only Republican to vote for the aid for the Sandy victims. As he stated then, there are almost yearly disasters in Oklahoma because of droughts and tornados, and the federal government has aided Oklahoma residents in every one of them. He stated that it would have been hypocritical of him to vote against aid for the Sandy victims. Didn't bother Coburn and Inhofe, however.

 

[peach174]

There was an lawful lot of pork in the Hurricane Sandy relief bill.

150 million for Alaskan Fisheries. What has Alaska got to do with the East Coast disaster?
8 million for homeland security & justice dept. to buy cars. $20,000.00 of that, for a new car for the inspector general.
58.8 million for Forrest restoration on private land. WTF?
10.78 billion for future construction & improvements.
25 million for rural Nevada.
None of this was going for Hurricane Sandy relief.

So if they vote for Tornado relief in Oklahoma with pork like Hurricane Sandy had, then yes they would be hypocrites.