Two Florida Republicans Vote Against Hurricane Relief for Texas

Expect Them to Come Crawling fto Washington for Florida Benefits

As Florida takes a huge hit from the weather once again the Federal government will dip into its pockets and send billions to a state devastated by a massive storm. They did this for Texas despite the hatred of Texans for the Feds, and they will do this for Florida despite the hatred of Floridians for the Feds.

So it should have been headline news when two Florida Congressmen voted against hurricane aid for Texas.

Yoho, who represents areas of northern Florida, said the disaster-relief bill should have been stand-alone legislation.

“Snaking in a debt-ceiling increase with funding for victims and communities affected is immoral and reflective of broken leadership in Washington,” Yoho said in a statement after the vote Friday. “I do not think it wise to extend our borrowing limit without mandatory spending reforms . . . If this was a clean measure that focused on those affected by Hurricane Harvey, I would have proudly voted for it.”

A weasel statement from a pure bred weasel. And his colleague joined up.

Gaetz, whose district includes coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico, called the spending package “generational theft.”

“I have a pretty strident view that I will only vote to raise the debt limit if that vote is accompanied with reductions in entitlement spending,” Gaetz said, according to the Miami Herald. “If conservatives don’t start voting no against debt-limit increases, all the FEMA in the world won’t save us from our must unfortunate destiny.”

Of course these two will be front and center begging for money for Irma. And next year they will be begging for votes but hopefully the people of Florida will now see them for what they are. Probably not though and one thing about conservatives is that after they use government to take care of themselves they rarely want it to take care of others.