Is Michael Grimm Serious or Delirious? Or rather, does all that he’s said and done in the last few days about “Sandy Victims,” “the Fiscal Cliff,” “Speaker Boehner” and “Shame and Embarrassment about being in the Republican majority” show that Grimm is a Seriously Deleterious “Republican Congressman” from Brooklyn and Staten Island
Congressman Grimm’s quotes lately are almost indescribable. Just take a quick look at the Staten Island Advance/silive.com’s “Staten Island's Michael Grimm helps Speaker Boehner to 2nd term” by Jillian Jorgensen 1/3/13.
[ http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/staten_islands_michael_grimm_h_1.html ]
About newly re-elected Speaker Boehner, for whom the Staten Island Republican did cast his vote for speaker, Grimm said the following:
"I could never support anyone for Speaker -- John Boehner or anyone else -- if they didn't support New York....” Then according to the Advance’s report of Grimm’s remarks about the Speaker, “[Grimm] said Boehner's intention was never not to help Sandy victims. ‘It merely was a timing issue that obviously I disagreed with wholeheartedly, but he always intended to do the right thing for Staten Island and everyone else that was so severely hit by this storm," he said. "You have to support my constituents if I'm ever going to support you, but that's just anyone’."
Then my Republican-Conservative Congressman got all “Alice in Wonderland”! Talking to the Speaker personally afterward — looking him in the eye — telling him how important it was — asking for help on a personal level. Blah, blah, blah! The votes on "Hurricane Sandy Relief" had been “scheduled” or “promised” by Boehner the day before the vote for House Speaker of the 113th Congress.
FOLKS ALL OF THIS IS PURE UNADULTERATED BS from a man now-called “Congressman Grimm” whose whole life has been about false fronts, a pattern of dishonest self-representation and disloyalty, all against the backdrop of a personality containing within it a profound confusion about identification and loyalties.
Here’s how the Advance described Grimm's view of himself during the Fiscal Cliff-Sandy Relief twist and shout: “Grimm said he respects that most of the Republicans who will vote no on the measure [ the Sandy Relief bill ] are being consistent -- they don't believe in spending money the government doesn't have. *** ‘Under normal circumstances, for regular spending, I agree with them,’ Grimm said. *** But this is an emergency, he said, and he believes one of the limited roles of government should be to ‘step up and do whatever needs to be done’ in emergencies. *** Grimm said he doesn't believe this Congress will be much different from the previous one -- but he hopes to continue to lead bipartisan efforts, saying he worked closely with the state's two Democratic senators, Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, for the first time in the wake of Sandy, as well as with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He said it has been a great experience. He has also worked extensively across the aisle in the House, he said.”
Don't forget this is the same Congressman Michael Grimm who joined in a press conference with the likes of Democrats Nita Lowey and Charley Rangel, and said that he was "somewhat in disbelief and almost ashamed" of being part of the Republican majority; adding that he's "not proud" of what the Speaker did about the "Sandy Relief Bill"
The long and short of it is that Grimm is now exposed as somebody who is as twisted as a corkscrew. Republicans and Conservatives that really believe in anything cannot depend on Grimm standing up for them or their principles. Everybody else can rely on the Brooklyn and Staten Island Congressman to do and say anything, or should that be everything, to show that he’s on their side, whether they are the brain-dead folks at home or the dysfunctional Republican-establishment leadership in Washington.
5 comments:
I don't think congress will approve the money. Even if it does do we really believe Frat Boy grimm will see that its administered properly? I dont care if congress approves 90 billion. Staten Island will see none of it. People are now saying how great it was that Katrina money was approved in 10 days. Yeah Katrina was a great example of government fixing things. FEMA trailers are rotting in fields in Arkansas.
Congress had no trouble sending billions of dollars to Iraq and Afghanistan for nationbuilding while our nation crumbles. Ninety eight percent of Afghanistan GDP is paid for by US taxpayers.
Those HUNDREDS of billions of dollars for the Afghan War have largely been spent -- they are almost all gone, but a lot of that money was borrowed and still needs to be paid back as part of our trillions of dollars of debt.
The parts of this Disaster Relief Bill not going directly to victims is eventually going to be part of empty and valueless spending by the various levels of government with only a small part of it being spent on projects to clean up and/or fix things wrecked by Sandy.
The only thing consistent in politics in the last 150 years has been the Republican Party. The Republican party has always been about big spending, big debt, money poured into pork projects in foreign countrys buried in defense spending. It was the first Republican president that turned our money into paper, and Nixon put the final blow in 1971 when he announced on national TV an executive order that we werent even going to pretend to follow the gold standard. I read this last week in Maxim.
Historically there have been hard currency Republicans and soft currency Republicans, and the same is true with Democrats. It's the post-Keynesians in both parties that have put us in the fix we are in right now.
Their their fiscal, monetary, financial and economic policies and prescriptions have been the same --- "Put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up...." The dosing has been heaviest since 2008, but the prescription stays the same --- "Put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up...."
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