Inside the effort to win Congressional support for $500 million in flood recovery aid
#1) Wake up in cold sweat realizing what it's going to mean that 80% of your community's flooded homes don’t have flood insurance.
#2) Feel sweat get colder with realization that only path forward is major bi-partisan cooperation by Congress. In September. In the middle of Trump v. Clinton.
#3) Make 250 phone calls. Learn your friends in low places have some friends in high places.
#4) Marvel that members of Congress are not NEARLY as ideological and partisan as they act most of the time. Watch a deal come together where everyone wins.
#5) Watch that deal unravel into smoldering shards and ash. Change your mind on marveling from #4.
#6) Repeat steps #2 to 5.
#7) Resist INSANE temptation to let yourself get pitted against the people of Flint, Mich and their need for lead-free drinking water! (Louisiana supports Flint!!)
#8) Go to the sewer to get some fresh air, mumbling lines from Yates, “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”
#9) Learn what solidarity means, as people across the country work their own Reps and Senators to benefit people they've never met.
#10) EXHALE, as the Senate votes for you (72 - 26) and the House votes with you (342 - 85). Feel grateful that, sometimes, the center does still hold.
Thank you, America!
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