Bloomberg: Congress Likes As Much As Communists Getting No Better

In the final moments of the last session, House Republicans blocked a vote to provide Hurricane Sandy relief funds. A few days later, Republican leaders rushed a narrower flood insurance bill to the floor in the new session after Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, and others protested the decision by House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, to cancel the vote on the broader measure.

 

It was a sobering display of the government’s inability to respond to basic needs, said Representative Mark Takano, a freshman Democrat from California who had just arrived in Washington. “I was shocked by the failure to pass aid for Sandy,” he said.