Outrageous!!! - GOP taking from the poor to provide hurricane relief

Tomorrow the GOP is moving a bill "on suspension" through the House to provide $51.8 billion in hurricane relief.  "On suspension" means there will be no opportunity to read the bill, no opportunity to amend it, no opportunity to insert language to keep tabs on how the money is used or misused.  It's their way or the highway.

And, on top of that, here is Rep. Bill Thomas, Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, on how the GOP will fund Katrina Relief:

Meanwhile, House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas, R-Calif., said he envisions three separate bills moving, one per week over the next three weeks, beginning with a vote Thursday on freeing up funds under programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and also encouraging charitable donations.

"We're not putting a lot of new money out there; it's freeing up money that's there already," Thomas said. That would then be followed by funds for infrastructure repairs and then bills aimed at longer-term recovery.

In other words, no new money for the victims.  They will use the sparse funds already earmarked for programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (i.e., welfare for the poor of this country).  And they'll save room for a $290 billion estate tax cut -- and for other goodies for the wealthiest Americans.