It comes as no surprise to learn that Obama was one of a small minority in the Senate who voted against the bill that sought to waive the Stafford Act in order to make assistance funds available to the New Orleans Katrina victims without their having to match them with a 10% contribution.
See this for a list of those who voted for and against the bill. You’ll note that Obama’s “nay” vote was one of only 14 cast against the act, almost all of them liberal Democrats. No doubt he would say he knew the act would pass and so he felt okay voting against it in order to protest the Iraq war funds that were also part of the bill. But there’s something profoundly distasteful and almost grotesque about him voting against the waiver, knowing the bill had passed despite his vote, and then misleading the audience to make them angry that the waiver hadn’t happened.
This is all due to the Political Heisenberg Principle: One can accurately determine either a politician’s integrity, or positions, but not both.
Or that Obama’s on blue meth?
The corallary is the Heiseberg Principle of MSM Certainty: When something is observed that could damage a liberal politician, the media is certain to obscure either the story’s location or the momentum it could generate.
A third corallary is that while the speed of light is a constant in all inertial reference frames, the speed of “sunlight” (the natural disinfectant) depends upon the political reference frame.
FWIW, other Nays include Clinton, Kerry, and Kennedy.
Also in this bill:
Funding for the Bush Surge and a Minimum Wage Increase from $5.15 to $7.25.
Page 170, Section 8102.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-110hr2206eah/pdf/BILLS-110hr2206eah.pdf
Obama wondered where their dollar was? He voted against $2.10 an hour increase.
I’m confused – did the waiver happen, or didn’t it?
“almost grotesque”? Extremely grotesque. Actually, something quite sick about it —
it’s way beyond “normal,” dirty “politics.”
telling them it didn’t pass, when it did pass — and having voted against it himself — to convince them that the nation doesn’t care about them because of the color of their skin — ohh, sick — very sick.
We are shocked to learn that politicians lack humility?
It is interesting to note that Coburn also voted Nay, Obama and Coburn, wow!