"And the rhetoric was far harsher during the day on the Senate floor, when Mary Landrieu, D-La., unleashed an unusually personal attack on House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., saying the weeks-long controversy started when he said, "Before we can provide help we need to find offsets in the budget."
"She called that "the Cantor doctrine" and said the controversy "could have been avoided if Cantor had just said, 'I'm sorry, but I made a mistake.' But instead of saying that, he doubled down," she said." From "Senators pass bill to avert government shutdown." Source: MSNBC
The only aids that this Congress needs to offer plugging the leaking Ship of State, which is turning into a Ship of Fools crammed with shrill, hateful demagoguery against principled participants in the Federal Government.
Washington D.C. would run out of sand if it regulated its sale in the Sahara Desert. Every time a hurricane strikes the Eastern seaboard, desperate states sit knee-deep and worse in water, waiting for mismanaged federal agencies to make a desperate and despairing attempt to assist.
Ms. Landrieu, whose Louisiana Purchased support for ObamaCare almost certainly harmed job creation in her Bayou State, has no right to pick on the House Majority Leader. He has calmly recognized that if the Federal Government makes no attempt to make ends meet, there will be no government, and no federal response, for federal aid, to assist states and localities struck by natural disasters.