Fox Blasts Senate For Doing ‘Nothing’ On Disaster Aid, 10 Days After It Passes $7 Billion Bill

[TomCADem]

The corporate media is busily trying to give Republicans a free pass on their passage of a disaster relief bill that guts funding for reneawable energy programs.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/25/328091/fox-pundit-disaster-aid/

This week, after continually claiming that they wouldn’t hold disaster aid hostage for budget cuts, the House GOP did just that, voting down a continuing resolution that included the aid, and only approving it after $100 million more in cuts were added to the package.

House Republicans then turned around and blamed Senate Democrats for holding disaster aid hostage, with a spokesman for Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) saying “any political games from Senate Dems will only delay FEMA money that disaster victims desperately need.” Fox pundit Brit Hume picked up on this theme today on Fox News Sunday:

HUME: Let’s just take look at this latest skirmish. You need a continuing resolution to keep the government open and there’s a need for some relief funding because it’s almost been exhausted. So the Republicans pass a bill that has the disaster relief funding in it, to the tune of several billion dollars and they pay for it with cuts in green jobs funding. Well, green job funding ought to be by now a very low priority given the history of it and the fact that its utterly failed to produce meaningful jobs.

They sent it to the Senate. What does the Senate do? The Senate blocks it and then does, so far, nothing. Now, it may be that with the media coverage and the political statements that will be made about this, that if the government shuts down the Republicans will get the blame. But I ask you in this: who’s being responsible? And who’s playing politics?

[sakabatou]

1. Well of course FOx is gonna lie. It's their job to distort.

[Angry Dragon]

2. If money needs to be found, take it out of foreign aid to

Iraq or Afghanistan or out of military spending

[atreides1]

4. Take it out of foreign aid to

Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Pakistan!!!

[TomCADem]

5. NYmag - "Americans Overestimate Amount of Foreign Aid in Budget by 900 Percent"

The corporate media and Republicans repeatedly harp on about about foreign aid, but the fact of the matter is that it constitutes a tiny section of the federal budget. The reason why it is repeatedly raised is because it exploits the natural zenophobia and racism of the American public.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/04/americans_overstimated_amount.html

Americans aren't really that familiar with the nuts and bolts of the federal budget! For example, the average American guesses that foreign aid accounts for 10 percent of the federal budget, when, in fact, it's actually only one percent. We're even worse when it comes to guessing the amount of funding for public television and radio in the budget. Americans on average guessed 5 percent, but it's only 0.1 percent. Something to keep in mind as the country makes difficult budget decisions for the next few year

[OHdem10]

3. Is Fox doing their usual campaign for Republicans. Put Pressure

on Senate, hoping the Senate will be forced to pass that
not so good Bill from the House. Help the House get
their bill passed. Typical Fox strategy.