Republicans appear to be doing their best to make setting relief conditions for victims of devastating natural disasters seem normal or reasonable — and by the end of the week, perhaps everyone will be willing to get on board.
As large swaths of Los Angeles County burned over the past week, and 24 people lost their lives, Republicans were quick to play the blame game and use disaster relief as an opportunity to play politics. One by one, they went along with their eerily identical and immature plans to reform liberal politics in California, without explaining exactly what politics had to do with wildfires in the first place.
during interview Mondays on Newsmax chris salcedo show, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville was asked why people who lost their homes, property and businesses deserve help from Congress.
“Senator, why should other states bail out California for choosing the wrong people to run their state?” Salcedo asked.
“We shouldn’t be,” replied Tuberville. “They got 40 million people in that state, voted these idiots into office, and they continue to do so.”
As Tuberville made clear, he didn’t blame all Californians. Only liberals who live in cities.
“And it’s just a very small fraction of them in that case that do that. If you go to California, you’re going to meet a lot of Republicans. A lot of good people. I hate it for them,” Tuberville explained. “But they’re overwhelmed by the politics of these cities.” The interior, uh, that has woken up, with the people who vote for it.”
“And – you know, I don’t mind sending them some money, but unless they show that they’re going to change their ways, and go back to building dams and storing water and doing maintenance with the brush and the trees – everything that everybody else is doing to the country, they refuse to do,” Tuberville said. “They don’t deserve anything.”
The Alabama Republican could barely explain what kind of policies he was criticizing, because he didn’t even know that. He’s just playing a game of telephone with all the Republican lawmakers and conservative pundits: There’s no way the actual ideas will make it to the end. The important part is that the message looks the same. House Speaker Mike Johnson He took his turn on the trumpet Just hours before Tuberville.
In any case, Republican criticisms of “woke” politics never carried much interest in the first place. Nearly every reservoir in California held an amount of water at or above its historical average, despite the fact that it was a particularly dry winter. Rolling Stone I mentioned.
Donald Trump claimed that California Governor Gavin Newsom “refused to sign a water restoration proclamation” (there is clearly no such thing), and blamed the state’s efforts to conserve rivers and wetlands. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Water District, which feeds the Los Angeles Aqueduct, has “the largest amount of water stored in its system in the agency’s history,” according to Mark Gould, director of water scarcity at the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Board of Directors. Member of MWD.
Those on the ground, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said that was the problem Sheer size, speed and geographic location From the fires that caused the Pacific to run out of water, not gross liberal mismanagement. But that won’t stop Republicans from echoing their tune.
One can hardly imagine if Democrats would have tried to make this nonsense when Hurricane Helen devastated western North Carolina, home to a large concentration of Republican voters — but that is the future of the Republican Party under Trump.