One Good Thing The House Did

From the Chicago Tribune: The U.S. House of Representatives adjourned on Tuesday night without acting on a $60.4 billion Superstorm Sandy disaster aid bill, prompting angry denunciations from members from the states hardest hit by the storm.
"I have just been informed that we will be having perhaps no further votes in this Congress," said Democratic Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland. "I am deeply disappointed at that information. We have millions of our fellow citizens who have been badly damaged by a storm called Sandy."
"We help each other," Representative Rush Holt, a Democrat of New Jersey, said on the House floor. "We always have ... There are thousands of people who are not going back to their homes. They deserve our help."
They and others pleaded with the Republican leaders of the House to rethink the decision, but few were in the chamber to listen.
There was no sign of a response from House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio or Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, who are in charge of scheduling the House.  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-storm-sandy-aidbre90001q-20121231,0,5626802.story
I don't doubt that there should be some help for the small geographic areas hit by Sandy, but the politicians got greedy and asked for way more money that they were entitled to and they tried to ask the nation to pay for things that had nothing to do with the hurricane.
I think the real reason though was to stick it to the east coast, where most politicians are Democrats and there are tons of liberals there.  There really was no down side for the GOP not to vote on the bill.
Now, if the GOP had the guts to do the same thing with the fiscal cliff.