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To: tejek who wrote (517268)	9/30/2009 11:01:12 AM
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On Monday, King told The Hill that the best vote he ever cast was to deny emergency aid to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. The exact quote was: "And at this point, maybe I’d answer that question another way, probably the singular vote that stands out that went against the grain, and it turns out to be the best vote that I cast, was my “no” vote to the $51.5 billion to [Hurricane] Katrina. That probably was my best vote." It makes good fodder for the liberal nutjobs -- and he made a mistake by not explaining it further. But he was right. The money was wasted. The Sioux City Journal had this to say: "In September, we took our congressman, Steve King, to task for voting against a $52 billion aid package for victims of Hurricane Katrina. King - who was just one of 11 members of Congress who voted against the package which passed both houses and was signed by President Bush - based his vote on the need for "fiscal responsibility." He said the federal government needed to develop a comprehensive plan for spending aid dollars, including input from members of Congress, before more money was appropriated. He earlier had voted for a $10.5 billion emergency aid package. Well, after reading an Associated Press story about a report that details how perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in Katrina disaster aid have been misspent, it appears we were wrong and King was right about his vote on the $52 billion." The man is a f*cking hero. To stand up against a bipartisan bill that was obviously wrong and a fiscal disaster-in-waiting, and you liberals are taking the entire argument out of context and bashing him. This is so typical of you people.

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