Sean Hannity joined the Republican Rehab: Sandy edition brigade tonight. Following on the heels of a similar effort on Fox & Friends a few days ago, Sean Hannity did his part to rehab the image of House Republicans - who blocked Sandy relief legislation earlier this week – via the all-purpose Fox News strategy: blame President Obama. Even though Hannity admitted that the supposedly poisonous pork in the bill that the GOP “had to pull” was put there by the Senate. One of his guests took it a step further and suggested that the reason for the delay in aid is because Obama only cares about lower class victims, not the middle class. And we know which races inhabit which!

As Hannity knows, neither Republican Congressman Peter King nor Republican governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, agreed that Republicans “had to pull” the bill. But instead of hosting any New York/New Jersey representatives, Hannity trotted out two Congressmen whose constituents were not Sandy victims, Randy Forbes (R-VA) and Trey Gowdy (R-SC). Gowdy voted against the relief package that finally went through Congress today after House Speaker John Boehner caved in the face of King’s and Christie’s withering and public criticisms.

Hannity even admitted that it was “Harry Reid and the Democratically-controlled Senate” who put in the pork. What nobody bothered to mention is that the pork just so happened to benefit red states. As Forbes’ Rick Ungar (a regular guest on Forbes on Fox) reported:

And what happens when you buy off seven Republican senators with a package of goodies under the guise of storm relief supposedly meant to benefit two blue states?

You get yourself a filibuster proof piece of legislation.

… (I)t is clear that these GOP senators—each and every one of them a supposed mortal enemy of unnecessary government spending—did not rush to request that the money be removed from the bill so as to save the nation a few billion bucks.

Isn’t it funny how Hannity and his two Congressional guests either missed that or decided not to bring it up?

So let’s recap a moment. Speaker Boehner pulled the original bill because of the pork that was put there by the Senate to keep it from getting filibustered. After getting hammered by his own side in the media, he rushed out a bill to pay for flood insurance claims and has promised a vote later in the month for a larger aid package.

And Hannity dealt with all this by attacking President Obama and Democrats – and blamed THEM for putting the victims “in the middle of a political football here." Hannity said Christie and King "should be mad at senate Democrats for using this tragedy to take more money at a time when our country’s bankrupt.”

Later, Hannity brought out Sandy victim Scott McGrath. Let me say that as someone who has spent far too many days and nights without heat that I think what he has undergone is horrible. I’d be furious and speaking out, too. But McGrath has become something of a regular on Fox. And guess what? He always seems ready and eager to attack President Obama.

Sure enough, McGrath did it again for Hannity. And I’m sure it didn’t hurt that he put a little racial spin on it. Speaking of the legislative roadblocks, McGrath said, “They didn’t do it to the victims of the other storms in the past (i.e. Katrina)… You know, they went after George Bush and they attacked him and asked him to be held accountable…” McGrath added:

Mr. President, I want you to come back to my address on Staten Island, with my borough president and any other politician, and tell me to my face why you’re putting this pork in this bill and not helping us, the victims and the middle class of Sandy. If this was some other area, a low class area, they’d be helping ‘em. But it’s the middle class, working people that keep getting the finger here.

If there really is a problem with FEMA, why hasn’t Sean Hannity been covering it? It’s not like he doesn’t jump at every opportunity to knock the Obama administration. Meanwhile, McGrath didn’t say a word about the obstruction in the House.