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McCain and Jindal Split on Katrina Funding

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June 18, 2008 2:33 PM

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf, Kate McCarthy, Teddy Davis, and Gregory Wallace Report: Louisiana Gov. and McCain VP prospect Bobby Jindal said on Wednesday that he and the state's congressional delegation speak with "one voice across party lines and across chambers" in support of a $5.8 billion supplemental bill to aid reconstruction in the hurricane-ravaged state.

This puts the first-term Republican governor and former congressman at odds with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who labeled the Senate version of the $5.8 billion funding request "bloated" and criticized it for being attached to measures to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

"While I don’t doubt the importance some may see in the various provisions included in the underlying bill, I strongly disagree with their inclusion in a war supplemental funding bill," McCain said in a statement submitted into the congressional record on May 22nd.

McCain, who has campaigned for president as a scourge of "pork-barrel spending," lambasted the funding measure without specifically mentioning the Louisiana reconstruction projects as a reason for not supporting bill.

In addition to funding Army Corps of Engineers' work to shore up the state's flood protection, the supplemental also includes $137 million for hospitals, $60 million for port dredging, $50 million for crime prevention, and $73 million for housing vouchers for displaced residents.

Jindal, 37, was one of three potential running mates who attended a recent barbeque at McCain's Arizona ranch.

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mccain continuing to fight for katrina victims by voting against them!!!!


THANK YOU SENATOR!

Posted by: bhrandon | Jun 18, 2008 2:43:56 PM

Wrong Bhrandon you are lying.

McCain is for the katrina provisions. He is against the other garbage in the bill.

The dems take a good bill and fill it with loads of pork.

That is why we are in such massive debt.

McCain's courage and straight talk though will never get a fair hearing in front of the voters.

With the massive media bias there is no election. This is a coranation.

Posted by: david | Jun 18, 2008 2:50:46 PM

How can anyone really equate aid for recontructing an area that was devestated back in 2005 as "pork-barrell spending"?!

Posted by: zlm | Jun 18, 2008 2:51:04 PM

The voodoo economics, McCain will oppose any money that is not for the private sector cronies, which should be allowed credit instead of cash.

Americans should know that voodoo economics of Reagan and Bush is the reason why the budget deficit has risen to record levels during those administrations and there have been meltdowns in the housing markets TWICE now -- during Reagan years and now during Bush years!

The more practical and progress and PRODUCTIVE economic policy would be to allow CREDIT to the wealthy and CASH at the lower income level.

Credit will force the wealthy to produce goods and service in order to pay off their debt.
The lower income will purchase those goods and services mostly as essentials.

Supply side economics allows the nation's wealth to those addicted to wealth, and increases the number of poorer citizens.

The wealthy merely gamble away the extra wealth in the interest rate markets, instead of producing goods and services.

Posted by: Patriot | Jun 18, 2008 2:52:42 PM

Another headline that is a lie.

McCain is not against the katrian funding.

He is against the pork in the bill that has nothing to do with Katrina.


WHEN WILL THE MEDIA STOP LYING ABOUT MCCAIN.


ENOUGH ALREADY. THE MEDIA IN THIS COUTNRY IS A TRAVESTY.


YOU HAVE 85 PERCENT OF THE MEDIA WHO ADMIT THEY ARE DEMOCRATS.

THE MEDIA IN THIS COUNTRY TAKES SIDES WITH RUSSIA. THEY USE THE SAME PROPAGANDA.

THE MEDIA AND THE DEMS HAVE CONFERENCE CALLS TO SET UP HOW TO ATTACK THE DEMS.

Posted by: Jeff | Jun 18, 2008 2:53:19 PM

We are in such massive debt because of the war in Iraq. Also, most of the bills that included several earmarks were sponsored and passed by republicans during the republican dominated congress before the dems even took control of both the house and the senate. In fact, the dems have hardly accomplished anything at all while controlling both the house and senate. both parties are to blame for the mess we are in.

Posted by: zlm | Jun 18, 2008 2:53:41 PM

To Zim,

Because bills have hundreds of provisions in them.

The Katrina part is only one part of the bill.

The dems won't have it as a stand alone measure.

Instead the dems take a popular measure like Katrina and stuff it with loads of pork measures.

The dems do this to play politics.

McCain then shows courage by refusing to play these games.

The dems then say McCain is against Katrina funding.

When in fact McCain is for Katrina funding.

McCain wants the Katrina funding as a stand alone measure. Why should tax payers have to waste billions on pork.

The dems take a good bill and then load it up with 200 provisions of pork.

This is why we are in massive debt.

Then the media lapdogs at ABCNEWS repeat the same lies.


WORST ELECTION EVER.

Posted by: Jeff | Jun 18, 2008 2:57:20 PM

Uh, folks off budget "emergency" (WHO calls a planned war an emergency?) funding for three wars and a coming fourth IS pork barrell spending of the most egregious kind!!! McCain's logic is unlimited, unaudited amounts of government taxpayer dollars overseas... FINE! Spending even half as much money to rebuild New Orleans and address finacial hardships here in the sates... UNACCEPTABLE! If this isn't a glaring example of McCain's lack of concern or expertise on things that effect real Americans, then I don't know what is! Let McCain chair the UN if he wants to run the world, just don't expect me to be happy with him using our wealth, blood and treasure to further his personal aims of conquest overseas, that leave us with nothing to show for it but thousands of graves and Trillons in DEBT!!!

Posted by: heresy | Jun 18, 2008 2:59:18 PM

This is how 40 billion dollars a year are spent in the name of "pork-barrell"

I support McCain 100% on this. Unless we cut spending we will never reduce the expenditure.

McCain'08

Posted by: john | Jun 18, 2008 2:59:37 PM

The media coverage of this election is nothing short of disgraceful.

They have taken a good man in McCain and lied and smeared him non stop.

McCain is for the Katrina funding. He is against the pork in the bill that is unrelated in the katrina bill.


The media is constantly lying about McCain.


This isn't democracy.

The media in this country takes sides like Russia.


Recent study said 89 percent of the stories about Obama were positive while only 14 percent about McCain were positive.


THIS ELECTION IS A DISGRACE.

Posted by: Jeff | Jun 18, 2008 3:00:04 PM

Heresy McCain doesn't want to run the world.

McCain voted against keeping our troops in Lebanon.

McCain is for turning over the areas to the iraqis and bringing our troops home.


McCain hates war. He is a navy man. He saw the horrors of war first hand.


I hate this election. I hate this election with a passion.

This election sucks. A great man like McCain smeared.

Posted by: Jeff | Jun 18, 2008 3:02:31 PM

Heresy can you dems stop lying about McCain for one second.

McCain isn't against the Katrina portion of the bill.

McCain is against the crap in the bill that the dems added on that have nothing to do with Katrina.

But dems never ever ever let facts get in the way of a good lie.

Posted by: Jeff | Jun 18, 2008 3:04:29 PM

Move over Barak Obama! Here comes Bobby Jindal! Kind, eloquent, reserved, intensely focused on serving his constituents, devoted and principled. Oxford educated--Rhoads Scholar. Scientist, natural leader, so accomplished, and experienced yet ten years younger than old man Barack. Unlike Barack Obama Jindal is a non-smoker. I'll vote for Bobby Jindal in a heartbeat!

Posted by: sallywolf | Jun 18, 2008 3:08:26 PM

Hey biased ABCNEWS how is this headline:

ABCNEWS splits from accurate reporting.

What a disgrace.

ABCNEWS every day has a lying hit piece against McCain.


Our politics are broken because of media outlets like ABCNEWS.


McCain says no to the dem games. Dems love to take good bills and add waste to them.


Why can't the headline be why won't dems let the katrina money as a stand alone provison instead of adding so much pork to it.

Because this way McCain can stand on principle and vote against the waste in the bill and then the dems can lie and say he voted against katrina victims. When in fact he supports giving the money to katrina victims and not to the pork barrel projects that are unrelated.

Posted by: Jeff | Jun 18, 2008 3:10:37 PM

Jeff sit back for a shocker, I worked to elect McCain in 2000. I was involved in my state working for his campaign to elect him. I am NOT FOR OBAMA!!!! I voted for a Republican in my primary. How many years have Bush and/or McCain had to do anything fo New Orleans. And NOW he says he's for funding for the area's rebuilding. NO! He's for charging us to pay to bomb Iraq and rebuild it while our infrascruture is collapsing! Is THAT what you call leadership!?! That looks like negligence to me, but what do I know, I just happened to work for McCain. I've been around him and hs staff, a hell of alot more than somebody who doess whatever Fox news tells him too. If you think McCain is a conservative, your just drinking kool-aid. He's for a carbon tax, mulitple wars, erosions of civil liberties and the ignoring the rule of law. Not to mention his campaign finance bill kept multiple documentaries that exposed Hilliary and other canidates for the shills that they are, banned from being aired on televison thanks to his draconian anti free speech laws. If that is what a conservative is today, I'm GLAD that I am not longer counted ay one by the party. I and the many of those like me NEVER left the party, the party left me, as well as the rest of us. And has set the stage for electing Barack Obama, with Hilliary a heartbeat away from the White House. If that is a record you are comfortable defending, then you certainly haven't come across the writings and speeches of Lincoln, Taft, and even Reagan that made the Republican party a true oppostition party, than the bloated, elitist country club it has now become.

Posted by: heresy | Jun 18, 2008 3:26:35 PM

Billions of dollars have been wasted on the Katrina victims and recover efforts. Far too many of those people were irresponsible in that they lived on other working peoples' taxes rather than by the sweat of their own brow. After Katrina, they still have the same mind-set. Bet those people in the current flood zone will get 25% of what an average Katrina victim has already received and keep on receiving.

Posted by: Mary | Jun 18, 2008 3:31:29 PM

Hey Sallywolf, obviously you are not from Louisiana. Bobby Jindal just caved in to pressure from our louisiana Legislature and allowed them to double their salary, after promises in his campaign agaist this. By the way, he says that he is adamantly against their extravegant raise, but will not veto because they have threatened to stop some of his pet projects. Some leader, huh???

Posted by: Brenda J. Browning | Jun 18, 2008 3:36:35 PM

Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all

Wink, wink.

Posted by: fact check | Jun 18, 2008 3:44:46 PM

Havent you idiots figured out by now that Obama supporters are the most vile liars in america?

They are very angry. They have been locked up in their cages for 30 years . Even since Carter was BOOTED out of office in a landslide.

Now the LIBERALS are out in full force again.

Lock your doors. The circus is back.

Posted by: ned | Jun 18, 2008 3:47:38 PM

Three trillion dollars for Baghdad, but not one red cent for Americans. McCain thinks that an amount that is equal to less than half of the cost of one month of the Iraq war is an unreasonable figure for America's greatest natural disaster since the San Francisco earthquake. I wish that McCain cared about America as much as he cares about "winning" a war against a country that did us no harm. How can you "win" something that has no basis for being waged. McCain is still stinging over Viet Nam and he's trying to feel better about that war by fighting this one. There is no connection and he would be well served if he came to understand that projection and transference are not things to be desired.

Posted by: karela | Jun 18, 2008 5:45:49 PM

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