By Mr. Curmudgeon
The Democrats were looking for House Republicans to provide them political cover. They didn’t. That got Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) hopping mad. Beltway Republicans are not supposed to do this.
The legislation in question would have provided New York City $7.4 billion over ten years to pay 9/11 emergency response workers who have developed health problems they claim resulted from working in and around the fallen World Trade Center.
“This is not something that got rushed through,” Wiener yelled from the House well. “This is nine years in the making. Nine years worth of people getting sick and dying when the only thing they did wrong, so to speak, was to come to Ground Zero and helping dig out neighbors. Unfortunately, the 'Party of No' hit a new low last night.”
There is only one problem with Weiner’s girlish screeching. “A simple majority goes through,” said Rep. Peter King (R-NY). And, of course, King is right. Until November, Democrats are the majority. The problem with the legislation was that Democrats included a provision to grab taxes from foreign corporations earning profits and creating jobs in New York. Imbued with a rare case of fiscal sanity, a majority of Republicans (not all) voted against the measure.
You see, Nancy Pelosi didn’t want a tax hike and job-killing measure to pass on a simple Democratic majority vote, so she raised the stakes by requiring a two-thirds majority vote to pass the measure. It was a win-win for Democrats.
If the measure passed, New York City got a bailout from US taxpayers with a sizable number of Republicans onboard to provide cover. If it failed, a New York Democratic he-man named Weiner could shriek that mean old Republicans were denying another Democratic special interest a taxpayer provided payoff.
The problem for Democrats is that today’s taxpayer – you know, the ones showing up at huge Tea Party rallies – aren’t falling for the usual class warfare drivel uttered by Democrats desperately clawing to maintain power. That’s because, thanks to big government, Americans now belong to one social class…the screwed.
Just in passing, the Democrats hid a tax hike behind a measure claiming to aid sick and dying 9/11 workers so as to make it harder for soft-headed Republicans to say no to more spending. The measure was called “H.R. 847: James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010.”
A quick synopsis in the New York Times reads, “…New York City Detective James Zadroga died as result of inhaling dust from Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on World Trade Center while working as rescuer.”
However, New York City’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, reported that Zadroga’s lung condition was the result of “prescription drug abuse” and not terrorist dust.
Not to worry, Democrats will find some other way to squeeze more money out of us. Where there’s a Weiner, there’s a way.
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