{"id":8698,"date":"2012-08-28T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8698"},"modified":"2012-08-28T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:59:00","slug":"isaac-the-republicane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/isaac-the-republicane\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac, the Republicane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Referring to Isaac as a Republicane<\/em> is satire. But given the countless times Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians have publically prayed for God\u2019s wrath to strike the groups that they so love to hate, one cannot help but see the humor in a hurricane disrupting their convention.  But the humor ends as Isaac bears down on New Orleans.  As Republicans in Tampa express their concern, they are being completely dishonest, because their behavior reflects the exact opposite.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"28Isaac\"Tropical Storm Isaac is more than just a logistical inconvenience for Republicans gathered in Tampa: it is a powerful reminder both of Republican incompetence in handling Hurricane Katrina seven years ago, and the party\u2019s no-less-disastrous plans to further cut emergency-related spending<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

That is not something you will hear Paul Ryan talk about this week at the convention, nor any of the other lawmakers who make simplistic promises about the power of slashing government spending. But the budgets assembled by Mr. Ryan and warmly embraced by Mitt Romney severely cut spending for emergency preparedness, exactly the kind of money needed in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and scores of other states for this and future storms<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Between 2010 and 2012, House Republicans forced a reduction of 43 percent in the primary grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that pay for disaster preparedness<\/strong>. That is $1.8 billion that will not be available for evacuation equipment and supplies, communications gear that lets first responders speak to one another, and training exercises. (House Republicans tried to cut $354 million more in this year\u2019s homeland security spending bill, but Democrats restored the money in a conference with the Senate.)\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

Photo credit: ABC<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

This does not require rocket science to understand.  If Republicans gave the slightest damn about the victims of natural disasters, like Isaac, they would not be gutting the funds to protect people from and to help people recover from such emergencies.  Therefore their aura of concern rings false.  Perhaps Isaac is a Republicane after all, because part of the suffering it causes Gulf Coast residents is a gift directly from the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n

That said, please join me in hope, prayer, or whatever you do for the people in Isaac\u2019s path.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Referring to Isaac as a Republicane is satire. But given the countless times Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians have publically prayed for God\u2019s wrath to strike the groups that they so love to hate, one cannot help but see the humor in a hurricane disrupting their convention.  But the humor ends as Isaac bears down on New […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}