Flashback: King defended supporting Boehner for Speaker despite aid delay
Rep. Peter King,
still talking a good game about how outraged he is that Republicans made New York and New Jersey wait three months to get emergency relief add after Hurricane Sandy:
“My relationship with Congress will never be the same again,” the Long Island lawmaker said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “They made us wait 90 to 100 days to give the most basic human aid. It was absolutely disgraceful. When I see these Republicans slapping each other on the back, all the camaraderie, ‘Hey, we’re great friends.’ All I know is that there were people close to dying in my district and nobody gave a damn. That’s not something I’m not going to forget.”
Yep, Peter King won't forget how Republicans screwed over the Northeast. It's the same thing he said in January. And he showed just how serious he was by ... voting the very next day to give John Boehner another term as Speaker. But don't worry, he's still taking a hard line on ... Marco Rubio.
“Guys like Marco Rubio in Florida and all the money your people have gotten in Florida over the years from every hurricane that comes along and this guy has the nerve to vote against money from New York and they come up here and try to raise money,” King said. “He can forget it.”
King previously attacked Rubio for having “the balls” to raise money on Wall Street after voting against the Sandy bill.
“I made it clear any of those people people who voted and postured against money coming to New York and New Jersey and then wants to come up here and take money out of our pockets, forget it,” the congressman added. “They can stay home.”
Yeah, they can stay home. Until 2016, at least. By then, King will be all for Marco, or whomever the GOP nominates as its presidential candidate. Because King's relationship with Republicans will never be the same again ... until they next time they need him for something.