Thursday Open Thread [3.19.15]
Eugene Robinson on the GOP’s failure to govern:
It was only January when Republicans took full control of Congress, but already it is safe to say they have no earthly idea of what they want to accomplish. What we’re seeing is not just a bit of sputtering before the GOP machine cranks up and begins to systematically fulfill its governing plan.
There is no plan. Republican majorities in both the House and Senate are so out of control that they’ve managed a feat once thought impossible: They make the Democratic Party look like a model of unity and discipline.
The latest WSJ poll underscores the GOP’s lack of diversity:
Ninety-five percent of self-identified Republican primary voters are white. That’s among the findings of the latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll, as well as that 74% of all Americans age 18 and older are white, a figure that tracks with census data. This means that heading into 2016, the Republican primary electorate is dramatically less diverse than the country overall. The GOP primary electorate is even less diverse than the country was in 1916, when 91% of the voting-age population was white, according to historical census data.
This is freaking excellent: FEMA will no longer give any disaster aid to states that do not plan for climate change. Florida is likely the state that suffers the most, as their Skeletor of a Governor had declared that no state employee can even mention the term ‘climate change’ without being burned at the stake. So when a Cat 5 levels Miami this September, Florida is shit out of luck. And all those tornado alley states are fucked too. Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas, all deny climate change. Good luck rebuilding.
I love blackmail.
The President fact checks. This is beautiful.
Thats awful. The people who will be hurt the most are the same people who’s right to vote and change their insane state government is being taken away. We need to invade Florida and change the regime.
Liberals don’t have the requisite evilness to withhold aid, even from ungrateful rednecks. The attempt would backfire.
That’s true. We always save people from Republican policies and ideology. That’s a big reason there’s still a Republican Party.
I say… give them help only after making the climate deniers publicly admit to climate change. PSAs, billboards, mailers, etc.
They have to publically confess their belief and sign a paper lol. There could be incredible climate change with the southern third of Florida going under water along with coastal areas world wide and the talk radio republicans would deny its from fossil fuel burning
The problem with right wing republicans is that they conflate their sordid ideology with reality and it doesn’t work for objective people
And when was the last hurricane to make landfall in Florida? Anybody?
Then Florida doesn’t have to worry about a thing, then. And I am sure that all of the folks that got help last year for the tornados and winds in the Panhandle will be AOK living without FEMA help next time.
That’s one way to balance a budget!
They are heading in the right direction, the next correct move is to not give states any disaster relief period. I live in New Mexico, and have no interest in helping pay to rebuild the Jersey Shore. The states that are located in these areas that often get these storms need to set aside funds from the taxes they charge state residents and state employees, and taxes from tourism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uOj7FlAj44
>They are heading in the right direction, the next correct move is to not give states any disaster relief period. I live in New Mexico, and have no interest in helping pay to rebuild the Jersey Shore.
Fuck off, Rusty!
People who live in NJ have no interest in rebuilding New Orleans or any of the Gulf states, or any state that borders the Mississippi River every fucking time it floods. Yet our “gummint” always finds a way to bail out these ignorant farm state hillbilllies who CHOOSE to live next to a river that often overflows its banks.
And people who live in Delaware have no interest in supporting the disasters in New Mexico caused by storms, flooding and fires. But yet we do, while people in New Mexico complain that other people are getting Federal money.
Lebay, I dont know where you live, but if you dont live in louisiana, or work there, or travel there, then you should not have to pay for lousiana disasters. P.s. casandra, new mexico should pay for our own disasters, and since we dont have hurricanes and earthquakes and tornadoes, (that is why alot of us choose to live here) believe me, even being the relatively poor state that we are, we would come out way ahead. Each state should pay for their own disasters. Get rid of FEMA