Doing what you're expected to do shouldn't move the needle in the positive.
Not doing what you're expected to do, could possibly move it in the other direction though.
Hurricane can only hurt the bammer.
Doing what you're expected to do shouldn't move the needle in the positive.
Not doing what you're expected to do, could possibly move it in the other direction though.
Hurricane can only hurt the bammer.
Interesting contrast to Mitt's stance that federal disaster relief is immoral.
ROMNEY: Absolutely. 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 ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we’re doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we’re doing that we don’t have to do? And those things we’ve got to stop doing, because we’re borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we’re taking in. We cannot…
KING: Including disaster relief, though?
ROMNEY: We cannot—we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. 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. [emphasis added]
I notice that Romney was in Ohio today. Collected food donations for the folks on the East Coast. Praised Americans for coming together and helping one another. FEMA activated a number of US&R Task Forces - including Indiana's - to assist with SAR if necessary. I guess we'll have to see which Governors request Federal aid after the storm subsides.
Whoops, spoke to soon. Mitt has flipped on federal disaster relief.
Mitt flips on FEMA, now would keep it - Salon.com
Doocey: Is there any possibility that Gov. Romney may go to New Jersey to tour some of the damage with you?”
Christie: “I have no idea, nor am I the least bit concerned or interested. I’ve got a job to do here in New Jersey that’s much bigger than presidential politics and I could care less about any of that stuff.”
“I have a job to do. I’ve got 2.4 million people out of power, I’ve got devastation on the shore, I’ve got floods in the northern part of my state. If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics then you don’t know me.”