Hurricane Sandy Shuts Down Obama Campaign.

Oh, wait... We have it from a reliable source that Mitt-the-Twit would just tell the whole East Coast, "Here's a block grant....(It's kind of like a voucher.)... Good luck." (Let the bastards freeze in the dark...and starve...)

Mitt Romney In GOP Debate: Shut Down Federal Disaster Agency, Send Responsibility To The States

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During a CNN debate at the height of the GOP primary, Mitt Romney was asked, in the context of the Joplin disaster and FEMA's cash crunch, whether the agency should be shuttered so that states can individually take over responsibility for disaster response.

"Absolutely," he said. "Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. Instead of thinking, in the federal budget, what we should cut, we should ask the opposite question, what should we keep?"

"Including disaster relief, though?" debate moderator John King asked Romney.

"We cannot -- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids," Romney replied. "It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we'll all be dead and gone before it's paid off. It makes no sense at all."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/2 ... 36198.html

Of course, like Medicaid, if the severity of the calamity happens to exceed the amount of the grant due to unforeseen circumstances, you can just send them a nice letter saying, "Sorry about that..."

I remember that....and how angry it made me. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Rita, federal medical and haz mat teams from all over the US were mobilized (actually many, like the one here in CO that my daughter is part of, were staged before the hurricane hit). That was one of the responses that really worked well.......no way the State of Louisiana could have provided those services in such a quick manner and with such enormous man/woman power. It takes a centralized disaster relief effort, one much bigger than any single state could afford, with massive training and organization.....to respond to these disasters and save lives and property. Mitt was flat wrong, dangerously wrong.

I have family in both Louisiana and Houston. They don't think it went so well.

Yeah, that was in 2005... I can see why...

Becky wrote: I have family in both Louisiana and Houston. They don't think it went so well.

A lot of it didn't....which is why I said that the medical relief was one part that did go pretty well.....unfortunately Bush had moved the medical disaster teams from health and human services to FEMA shortly before Katrina hit, and there was little direction from the top....but these amazing teams, of doctors, medics, nurses, haz mat experts, got it together....took their tents and medical equipment, and trucked across country from 6 different regions and set up field hospitals. That kind of help is invaluable in a disaster like Katrina. And they will be there for this storm......if needed.

Netdude, all the best to your sweet neice.

Raees wrote: I do get a kick out of how the Regressives have marginalized an anti-Islam movie as a "youtube video."

but you left out, (not surprizing for you) that some demonuts used it to blame the deaths in Libya, but since it is coming from you it is OK>

Prez is glad there is something else in the news.

Becky wrote: I am glad that the President is standing ready to help all of those folks who are about to be so badly affected by this storm. He is doing the right thing. Good for him.

Yes... maybe he can finally fulfill one of his many unfilled 2008 campaign promises "... the oceans will recede." Let's see him do that!

It says something that the guy in charge of the federal Rita response is now doing a talk radio show in Denver.