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It's crazy to think that a United States Senator, even one as creepy as Ted Cruz, would hop on a plane while their constituents freeze without power after a devastating winter storm. But that's exactly what the Texan did --- and proceeded to make a bad act even worse.
In Republican Resistance To Hurricane Relief, A Stink Of Hypocrisy â And Worse January 05 | 2013 Provoked by opposition to Hurricane Sandy relief among House Republicans â and the delay in voting the first tranche of aid by Speaker John Boehner â both New Jersey governor Chris Christie and representative  Peter King (R-NY) denounced the irresponsibility and cruelty of those betrayals. Even when that first bill passed, 67 Republicans voted no, in contrast with only 11 who voted no when Congress provided emergency funding for Hurricane Katrina (far mor...
Reprinted with permission from Alternet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, long accused of mapping out a 2024 presidential run by using his office for political gain, kicked off the new year with a religion-tinged tribute to himself, and his "swagger," in a series of tweets. "My New Year's Resolution: give the American people the full story about our foreign policy. You may not read it elsewhere," Pompeo tweeted in the first of more than a dozen tweets from his official U.S. government account."We're so much safer today than four years ago," tweeted Pompeo, a claim many experts find false. "Over...
Pompeo Accused Of Retaliating Against NPR After Barring Reporter Reprinted with permission from Alternet In her role as a pool reporter, Kelemen was to travel with Pompeo and share information as a representative of all radio news outlets, not just NPR. But last week, Pompeo ignited a feud with NPR when host Mary Louise Kelly pressed him on his failure to stand up for State Department officials who got wrapped up in the Ukraine impeachment scandal. Reporters need the departmentâs permission to fly on the plane along with the secretary for foreign trips, though this practice...
May 27 | 2015 Texans donât trust the federal government, and Texas politicians donât like federal disaster relief. Until they do. As floodwaters ravaged Central Texas, President Obama reached out to the state Tuesday afternoon to pledge the full cooperation and support of the federal government, exactly the kind of aid Texas has desperately needed and vocally rejected for so long. Citylab has a comprehensive account of the Lone Star Stateâs tangled and troubled relationship with FEMA. As Capps notes, âTexas suffers more natural disasters than any state in ...