Rep. King & Rep. Weiner discuss GOP block of health care funding for 9/11 responders

[Vyna80]

Why does the anchor mimic an owl at 4:22?

[kalifani]

@MissMoxie78 Yeah, must've been hard to keep calm w/ that King Fucktard wagging his finger as if he's the authority in charge & as if Weiner is an unruly juvenile. All while he's the one ranting like a petulant brat. I'll refrain from expressing my most vile thoughts on the matter of these Repugnicans. Not pretty.

[Rawego]

this country is finished.

[whatchaknow100]

wow ,think of these bastards rich kids acting like thier damn insane parents ,gops teach thier kids how to hate like them and kill people and dont care how they do it ,theyll het inocent children die to what they want .thier rich and sick at the same time ,but thier also white people ,insane greedy killers ,when you see a gop member out on the streets ,treat them like animals that they are ,and only animals follow animal like them dont they,hell thier children are animals too

[yummycalorie]

Weiner's like a lawyer. He has a loud voice compared to Pete King. Whenever you have a vid with Pete King next to Anthony Weiner, you should add subtitles.

[JFAINTER88]

wow i think u guys are stupid they are pointing at eachother. 2 retards arguing who sucks worse. news flash THEY BOTH DO. and so does everyone else who voted yes on this bullshit bill,..

[FURepublicans]

@MissMoxie78 You're not kidding! That's one of the rudest things you can do to people is to stick your finger in their face.

[toomuchbui]

Both parties are officially idiots. Kick them all out.

[Rawego]

@toomuchbui you got it buddy!!

[ladieskeeper]

GO PETER KING!!! STOP THE LIBERAL LONNIES!

[marcostar57]

Well it's a 11% approval rating because REFUCKLICANTS are partisan hacks and don't give a damn about 9-11 responders or any other Americans (except for their corporate overlords).

[Charlesperalo]

Do these people realize we are a bankrupt nation???

[joshatkins94]

@Charlesperalo Not actually bankrupt. But it's true that the previous administration did squander the Clinton surplus with tax cuts for the rich and then later on did TARP, and poor regulation has been one cause of a huge financial crisis which necessitated stimulus spending. So the situation isn't very good, right now.

[Charlesperalo]

@joshatkins94 Well first off I'm a Ron Paul man not a Bush man so lets get the straight. Now regarding wasting the Clinton surplus you do realize that we were actually seeing less revenue come in it really was just built on social security checks? Now how did the tax cuts do anything? Spending did! We were getting more revenue from the taxes so if anything they were helping. Now if you look at the community reinvestment act,fannie and freddie,and the Fed it wasn't do to lack of regulations.

[exenrontexas]

@Charlesperalo The CRA loans were NEVER an issue. What pulled the economy down was the DEREGULATION of risky, derivitive gambles by large corporations and the banks. The GOP allowed that with stopping Brooksley Born, the Clinton regulator who warned America about them in the nineties, from regulating them. It was Mitch McConnell and Phil Gramm, the ENRON criminal, who shut down Born's efforts to reign in the GOP madness. The exposure was in the TRILLIONS. CRA was chump change by comparison.

[jimmmmy41]

@Charlesperalo Last time I checked, Paul is a republican. The fact of the matter is, economic health means more that just how much revenue the govt brings in. It's also about how the govt. balances budgets. We were better off when the govt received less revenue because we paid our bills via pay/go. We didn't run two wars off of the books, either. With regard to the housing bust, you cannot find a bank that was "forced" to make a bad loan! Bad investment and speculation cause the crisis. Facts.

[Charlesperalo]

Umm Jimmy I'm against the two wars,I'm against the bases,and I'm against the entitlement state. Now you do realize how much competition they had when it came to Freddie and Fannie. And Barney Frank still wants to make it easier to get loans through them. Also when a bank wanted to expand they had by rules of the Fed to give a certain amount of loans to minorities and the poor. I'm blaming Bush for this,but also every president since Wilson.

[jimmmmy41]

@Charlesperalo I see. As long as we establish that you, and so many ideologues like you, don't want to deal with facts. You just want to tout a stale ideology. All the way to Wilson? That stuff makes it impossible to take you seriously.

[Charlesperalo]

1913 the Federal Reserve those were Wilson years. Now I am willing to say what needs to be said for facts. The simple fact is that the government was working for decades to get people more housing. So what happened you had the effect of bad loans made to meet up with regulations set up by the Fed,community reinvestment act,the insurance of a bailout,competition from Fannie and Freddie,and government tax incentives to buy homes people can't afford.

[jimmmmy41]

@Charlesperalo Once again, the reality is this: the housing bubble was exacerbated by the 1920's level of speculation. Bundled sub-prime loans sold as investment vehicles were a bad deal from the start. Anyone who can add would say no way, it's a bad deal. But the craven greed of the loosely regulated segment of Wall Street created the situation, just like in '29.

[Charlesperalo]

I do take facts into hand and I'm telling you the role of the federal reserve in the crash. They came short on money and they never of would of made these loans if it wasn't for the Fed in place.

[jimmmmy41]

@Charlesperalo You're bitching about the Fed? That horse is so far out of the barn, it's over in the next county! The Fed didn't tell these institutions to leverage nearly a trillion based on a few billion in assets. Pure greed created this particular meltdown. At least the dot-com crash had something to do with people trying to bring something to the market. 2008 was about unscrupulousness. And, it's back to business as usual for the geniuses. Nobody wet to jail for this shit - nobody!

[Charlesperalo]

@jimmmmy41 Are you kidding me? First off there was the sense of security for the loans giving by the Fed. This can be seen in the Great Depression. Now look at mandates saying they must loan to minorities,poor people,or other things just to expand. Than there were the artificially lowered interest created by the Federal Reserve. This is what caused the bubble and raising them is what caused the burst of the bubble.

[jimmmmy41]

@Charlesperalo You can not find a bank that was forced to make a bad loan. The way these assets were bundled and sold unscrupulously caused the melt-down. Simple math would say that's a bad investment. Regulators tried to point this out and they were treated like someone at a frat party who puked into the punch. Get real.

[Charlesperalo]

You do realize how the federal reserve gave them the power to make the loans,the competition from Freddie and Fannie,and the mandates by the Fed to give to poorer people.

[JFAINTER88]

@jimmmmy41 the facts are everywhere on this it doesnt seem like you are hitting the mark.

[bogdanmil]

@jimmmmy41

The vidoe is about medical coverage for 911 rescuers what the hell are you morons argueing about?

[JFAINTER88]

@jimmmmy41 ya the fed said go ahead and if shit fucks up will bail you out

[bogdanmil]

@jimmmmy41 this is about 911 rersponders



[elchamber]

I could have sworn that King was adult.  He looked like an old man.

[dudeutuberox]

wow! just wow

[rjeffes]

Once again, the DEMOCRATS DO NOT NEED THE REPUBLICANS TO PASS ANYTHING IN THE HOUSE. This has nothing to do with Republicans blocking a bill. How do you block a bill when you can't block a bill. The Democrats blocked their own bill and those are the facts. They couldn't get their own party fully on board, because if they did....IT WOULD HAVE PASSED!

[elchamber]

@rjeffes You're right, but this topic is clear. Help those who are suffering from 911. I think the demohypocrite got the results they planned on.

Republicans fail due to bitching about the democrates.

[joshatkins94]

@elchamber Republicans wanted to obstruct with unrelated issues (illegal immigration, for instance) the passage of a noncontroversial necessary bill. Instead of passing the bill immediately, the y messed around with amendments which could have been added to another bill some other time. Playing politics is what they, not Rep. Weiner, did.

[Charlesperalo]

Regarding the process that made this bill it was going to be sprayed with pork.

[andrewjabar]

@rjeffes

You need to learn some things before you run your mouth. For a bill to pass without unnecessary amendments, you need 2/3 of the vote. Democrats do not control 2/3 of the House. For them to push this bill through without requiring 2/3 of the vote, it opens up the bill for all kinds of BS Republicans amendments that they'll use to hold the bill hostage to score political points.

[marcostar57]

@andrewjabar Good obvious points, but It's a tall task to attempt to inform narrow-minded Rethugs.. facts & the truth hurt their little brains too much.

[JediMasterRick2]

The Republicans are going to pay for all this unAmerican BS in November. They don't care about the American people. They just want to block everything and keep this country a mess so they have a chance at gaining control. It's the wrong fight at the wrong time. It will back fire and they will loose big-time.

[restas1]

This is just an example of the contempt the american public has for congress. you have a controlling know-it-all partying that whines when nothing goes their way. They are trying to use this bill as a political trigger during an election year. It won't work. The dems are reeling and they know it. In this video weiner comes off a smug know it all. This sounds like two drunks at a bar debating politics and as usual the dem comes off as holier than thou.

[Magnumanxxl]

Pork to u, but a bill for someone else. And when a bill pass that u like it pork to someone else. I love how ppl bitch about this Congressman and his rant without looking up the "FACTS". "If you're offended then your guilty!"

[TPAUSA]

Hahaha! King got owned. 

[bigdaddyquey]

I just love this guy! Thank God! Finally! It's about time!

[dfrutled]

Weiner is awesome!!!

[bstnrdsxfrk]

Weiners a smug little bastard. If the democrats really wanted to pass the bill, they could have. Instead, they put politics ahead of helping the american people. They created a win-win situation for themselves. If the GOP voted yes, then they get all of the pork and riders passed that they want. If the GOP votes no, then they can go crying to the public about how the GOP is a bunch of obstructionists.

1) If all that pork was truly good, then why couldn't it stand alone to be voted on? (con't)

[bstnrdsxfrk]

@bstnrdsxfrk

(con't) 2) If they really wanted to pass it because they thought it was the right thing to do, they could have had a simple up or down vote and passed it. While I agree that the Republicans should have voted for the bill, the Democrats are equally guilty for playing this off for a cheap political talking point, something to attack Repubs with in the fall. Both sides acted disgracefully--it's no real mystery why Congress has such a low approval rating.

[ovetodrinkpepsi1]

@bstnrdsxfrk @bstnrdsxfrk Yea, almost all the democrats voted for it. Almost all the republicans rejected it. 243 / 254 democrats voted for it...12 / 178 republicans voted for it. When another 9/11 event were to happen...be selfish, don't help. Do not sacrifice your health for the less fortunate...its the republican way.

[bstnrdsxfrk]

@ovetodrinkpepsi1 If the bill simply stated "We will provide health care coverage for the 1st responders of 9/11" I guarantee that every person in Congress would have voted for it. Instead, the Democrats soiled a good bill with pork and riders and put politics ahead of actually *helping* our heroes. You need to check your facts.

[JurassicCock255]

@bstnrdsxfrk We could have passed it on our own ? Ohh ..... Republicans are STUPID....When we ram HC down your throat u guys bitch and say we didnt get yall help.....

Now when we try to get your help you say u want us to ram it down your throat and do it alone ....republicans i swear

[bstnrdsxfrk]

@JurassicCock255 Well in either case, Democrats didn't ask for Republican input. If it hadn't had all that pork and shit in it, they could've passed it. Funny how you so easily forget *why* the Democrats didn't get Republican support for it. You're obviously drinking the left-wing kool-aid. The Democrats are making it look like the GOP voted against the health coverage for 1st responders, when they were actually voting against the pork. Oh and personally, I supported the HC bill.

[bstnrdsxfrk]

@JurassicCock255 Oh and you obviously didn't catch my sarcasm the first time around. The irony of it is that the Democrats alone thought that the riders were good for the American people, but if they were so worthy of being passed, then why did they not consult the GOP about them? I was subtlely (perhaps a bit *too* subtlely, judging from your response) pointing out the hypocrisy of the way the Dems shaped the bill.

[BigBrousky]

Oh, how I wish duels were still fashionable.

[Ebonyleopard]

why does the bill need amendments, just vote on the darn bill as is King instead of trying to add extra junk onto it? I love Weiner's expersion though. If he was Japanese, he'd so have punched King in the face.

[arpeggio420]

@Ebonyleopard Because that's the only way they can pass non-popular legislation. This is how our government works. They can make any bill they want, say the Bill to Protect Children, Flowers, and Unicorns, and in that bill riders can be attached that have absolutely nothing to with the bill. For example, the above bill could have a main text that states that the purpose of the bill is simply to promote love, and then fill it with riders that legalize illegal immigrants or add a new tax.

[arpeggio420]

Blah blah blah, the truth is, Weiner, you dick, that both of you are tools. Both of you are poster children for what is and has been wrong with this country. Stop putting riders in bills that have absolutely nothing to do with the title of the bill. Riders on bills are where 95% of the corruption and pork comes from. I hope, six years from now, there's not a single incumbent left in Washington. You vile scumbags have robbed this country enough.