{"id":5683,"date":"2011-08-24T00:07:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T07:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2011-08-24T02:23:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T09:23:05","slug":"was-god-after-cantor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/was-god-after-cantor\/","title":{"rendered":"Was God After Cantor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

All kidding aside, I have no intention to suggest that the epicenter of yesterday\u2019s quake in Cantor\u2019s district, after he took the lead in pushing Republican plans to defund federal disaster relief, was an act of divine vengeance.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the happenstance is most entertaining.\u00a0 It reminds me of the time when Pat Robertson prophesied that God would smite Disney World with a hurricane, because they had ended hiring discrimination against LGBT people.\u00a0 The next hurricane to make landfall in the US damaged Robertson\u2019s Virginia Beach headquarters.\u00a0 Well, if it was God, you have to credit her with a sense of humor.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"24CantorHat\"Back in March, after the Japanese earthquake, Eric Cantor defended<\/a> Republican plans to cut funding from the USGS and warning systems to help in case of a disaster. <\/span><\/p>\n

What if we where to experience a disaster like Japan? How prepared are we in our country? Yesterday house republican leader Eric Cantor defended republican proposals to cut spending<\/strong> for the United States Geological Survey<\/a>, the National Weather Service<\/a>, and NOAA<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Government officials predict the closure of as many as 12 NOAA offices \u2013 which provide warning services for 30 million Americans. The national weather service budget would be cut by $126 million over the next six months with furloughs at 22 forecast offices. -and shorter work weeks for the storm prediction center and the national hurricane center shall be expected<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any local LEPC<\/a> or emergency coordinator will tell you that the inability for warnings to be disseminated to the public, whether due to staffing inadequacies, radar maintenance problems, or weather radio transmitter difficulties would be disastrous.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Luckily, this wasn’t a quake like Japan’s\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

Keith Olbermann and Paul Tompkins had some fun with this on Countdown<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n