Tea Party Problem # 1

The big problem for Radical Republicans is that they are just plain nasty and cruel and proud of it, like House Majority leader Cantor, who said that disaster relief must wait on matching cuts.

http://www.talkradionews.com/news/2011/9/1/gop-gov-christie-slams-cantors-idea-to-negotiate-hurricane-a.html

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie warned House GOP Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia today not to hold hostage the states’ need for Federal Emergency Management Agency aid money to another brutal budget battle like the country endured with the market-tanking debt ceiling negotiations.

“You’re going to turn it into a fiasco like that debt-limit thing where you’re fighting with each other for eight or nine weeks and you expect the citizens of my state to wait? They’re not gonna wait, and I’m going to fight to make sure that they don’t,” Christie said putting the Tea Party-driven House on notice that its slash and gut politics will not be tolerated.

“I don’t want to hear about the fact that offsetting budget cuts have to come first before New Jersey citizens are taken care of,” the boisterous New Jersey chief executive barked.

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