The House of Representatives leadership is growing extremely comfortable thumbing their nose at optics, and ramming their anti-gay and anti-women agenda down the throats of the American people, while not performing their primary function as lawmakers entrusted with the nation’s purse strings: protecting and supporting those devastated by crisis or disaster.

 

The House GOP, as the world — thanks to NJ Governor Chris Christie yesterday — refused to put up for a vote the Hurricane Sandy bill to fund relief for the superstorm’s victims. The House GOP, especially including Eric Cantor and John Boehner, also just stalled their way out of time to vote on the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act, allowing the 18-year old law to expire, and exposing women across the nation to greater risk of violence.