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McCain and Jindal Split on Katrina Funding
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.
June 18, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan | Permalink | User Comments (34)
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We've spent more than enough money on New Orleans (Katrina victims) already - if mismanagement and corruption has squandered those funds, then let them find their own way out - after 45 years of paying taxes to fully support those who refuse to work and/or help themselves, I and most hard working Americans are fed-up - McCain is 100% correct here.
seph
Posted by: seph | Jun 18, 2008 7:21:08 PM
Go SallyWolf, you took the words out of my mouth. I totally agree with all those atributes. Jindal has more knowledge in his little finger than OBama, eventhough younger, he has more experience than OBama. Have you listen to Obama,trying to speak, on his feet without a teleprompter, ugg,uggg, ummm,ummm.....etc.and then when it comes out it doesn't make sense. Did someone say he is so articulate, that is when he practices and reads outloud.
I hope that McCain choose Jindal for for VP, he is up and rising star.....
Posted by: CMhinsley | Jun 18, 2008 7:28:53 PM
The Republicans would rather spend money rebuilding Iraq than rebuilding America. We cannot get rid of the clowns fast enough.
Posted by: Bob Scofield | Jun 18, 2008 7:52:06 PM
I should say "The Republicans in Washington", my bad. They love calling things names. Anything that costs money that they don't like that goes to a particular state is labeled "Pork barrel", such as rebuilding cities that they allowed to be destroyed through their incompetence, and reinforcing levees. Did I mention that they can't leave fast enough for me? I shudder at the destruction they are capable of inflicting on this country over the next 7 months.
Posted by: Bob Scofield | Jun 18, 2008 7:57:29 PM
Mcain is angry that a bill for billions of dollars to be spent in iraq has attached to it a few billions for americans ravaged by storm. In essence, he is saying that he is in support of tha fact that we spend about $10 billion a month in iraq, but doesn't give a damn that americans are suffering. And he wants to be the president of this country? Good try, good try! Americans are not that gullible.
Posted by: dew5050 | Jun 18, 2008 8:41:34 PM
Iraq- $1trillion and counting
Katrina victims- under $10 billion
And Mcain wants to be president?
As an independent white american, i'll do all that is within my power to make sure that he does not become our president. Our children must be brought back home and we must earnestly start to rebuild our country. Charity they say, begins at home. May God bless America!
Posted by: dew5050 | Jun 18, 2008 8:50:50 PM
McCain supporters are funny.
Posted by: Gregg | Jun 18, 2008 10:50:53 PM
Well let McAlzheimers do what he wants to do. My bet is that the people in the Katrina ravaged area are not going to think about any pork in a bill, they are going to see it as McAlzheimers not wanting to help them, and that my friend is good for us!
While they died from heat, drowning and other things, McAlzheimers was partying with his mentor Bush, and now you think these people don't know the truth?
McAlzheimers is just another Bush in an even worst mindset.
Obama is my choice, period!
Posted by: Angel | Jun 18, 2008 11:48:18 PM
We've spent more than enough money on New Orleans (Katrina victims) already - if mismanagement and corruption has squandered those funds, then let them find their own way out - after 45 years of paying taxes to fully support those who refuse to work and/or help themselves, I and most hard working Americans are fed-up - McCain is 100% correct here.
seph
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Excuse me, do you mean that Katrina victims were all non working, non taxpaying people? How much money did we spend, considering that we spend billions on a war based on lies and deceit. Americans are fed up, then who in the hell are we, you know the ones like me that find your comments disgusting and elitist? Oh, may be we are Iraqi's who in the hell knows.
Posted by: Angel | Jun 18, 2008 11:54:22 PM
It is an unforunate that so much of what passes for "dialogue" on these political blogs is so uncivil and, so often, careless of facts or proportion. Both Senators McCain and Obama are sincere in their belief that they will be the best leaders for the country. Both should be given credit for even trying, given the vitriolic nature of politics. Today, at the request of the family, they sat together at Tim Russert's funeral. If they can be civil to one another, why can't their supporters? Each represents very different courses of action for what will be enormous challenges. There will be no easy answers and the one who becomes president will have to lead the Amerian people in making hard choices and sacrifice. I believe one will be much better at this than the other, but I don't have to think that the other candidate is evil or that the media is lying all the time about my candidate (except maybe Fox McNews -- they just can't help it). Oops, my preference is showing. And that should be OK; no insults are needed are intended. Let's all be citizens first.
Posted by: A Citizen | Jun 19, 2008 12:04:53 AM
Jindal was never a real contender for Veep. He was McCain's stalking horse for the real selectee, Alaska Gov Sarah Palin.
Posted by: Ted | Jun 19, 2008 1:46:28 AM
It's incorrect to characterize this as a disagreement between two Republicans. In reality, they agree. Republicans always deplore spending on other people's constituents, but they are for spending on their own constituents. Thus Jindal is in favor of the spending, while McCain is against. They are both in perfect agreement with the Republican code, and thus with each other.
:)
Posted by: Nancy Irving | Jun 19, 2008 1:49:23 AM
Yeah. McCain wants to keep the $350 million in this bill to help Iraqi refugees while cutting $79 million in aid to handicapped Katrina victims. So 5 times more aid for the citizens of the middle east than America itself. This is disgusting. This country's priorities are SO screwed up.
Posted by: doctorj | Jun 19, 2008 8:42:21 AM
Would someone from the the media please continue to investigate Senator
Obama. Sentor Obama needs vetting. Senator Clinton was the only candidate ready
to serve the post of President of the United States.
If you would think of this as a job interview:
Democrats should all run from Obama
His resume has no substance
Referrals and past co workers consists of racist, Anti American pastors and
criminals such as Rezko.
His co worker was William Ayers, a domestic terrorist
Please for the sake of our country, read about this man.
His name alone speaks volumes:
Barack Hussein Obaam
What do Americans expect to hear from Sen. Obama “Yes I think like Wright. I
knew that Ayers was a terrorist. I have Muslims in my family.”
He’ll lie about everything and throw everyone under the bus, including his
church, his white grandmother, his Muslim followers. (check out the Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan had 20,000 muslims meeting in Chicago a
few months ago to support Obama. It’s scary.}
Obama is a deceptive politician, ignoring voices of the voters, practicing
unfair voting tactics. He is for Obama only.
Stop with the "he's cool" ideas and think! Investigate. For the sake of our
country, this is serious.
Posted by: Rick from Pa | Jun 19, 2008 11:47:49 AM
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