August 27, 2011 02:44 AM UTC

Irene open thread

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• by: MADCO

(Is that 2012 or Deep Impact? – promoted by Colorado Pols)

I’m looking forward to see the tea party signs that say “Keep Yer Gov’t Hands Off My Disaster Relief”

Mayor of New York has ordered evacuation.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t…

“We should be like 1900; we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960,” (Ron) Paul said. “I live on the Gulf Coast; we deal with hurricanes all the time. Galveston is in my district.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com…

And we should all ride horses or walk. And chew tobaccy. And order our heroin from the Sears catalogue.

GOTP leadership wants spending cuts to offset any disaster aid.

But, Cantor added, “the federal government does have a role in situations like this. When there’s a disaster there’s an appropriate federal role and we will find the monies. But we’ve had discussions about these things before and those monies will be offset with appropriate savings or cost-cutting elsewhere in order to meet the priority of the federal government’s role in a situation like this.”

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com…