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Title: Flip-Flop Mittens: Mitt Romney offers answer on his FEMA stance
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CBS
URL Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162 ... ers-answer-on-his-fema-stance/
Published: Oct 31, 2012
Author: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-5754
Post Date: 2012-10-31 23:09:58 by Brian S
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Views: 3753
Comments: 8
ASHINGTON There's nothing like a natural disaster to test the depth of politicians' preference for small government. And so it turns out that after superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast, Mitt Romney is far more supportive of the government agency in charge of coordinating disaster relief. Only last year, as Romney hewed to the right while battling for the GOP nomination, he seemed to downplay the federal government's role in disaster response. "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," Romney said at a debate last June. "And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better." Asked by moderator John King of CNN whether that would include disaster relief, Romney said: "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." Now, a week before Election Day, after of a massive disaster, Romney's campaign is reassuring voters that his administration wouldn't leave disaster victims in the lurch. The public's attention is locked on the devastation caused by Sandy at a time when Romney and President Barack Obama are locked in a close presidential campaign. With Obama heavily involved in getting federal funds to those in trouble, the Romney campaign moved quickly to reassure the public it supports a strong program of storm relief. "I believe that FEMA plays a key role in working with states and localities to prepare for and respond to natural disasters," Romney said in a statement supplied by his campaign Wednesday. "As president, I will ensure FEMA has the funding it needs to fulfill its mission, while directing maximum resources to the first responders who work tirelessly to help those in need, because states and localities are in the best position to get aid to the individuals and communities affected by natural disasters." Wednesday's statement came after the candidate ducked a spate of opportunities Tuesday to personally clarify his position and the statement essentially endorsed the current disaster aid system. But what the campaign wouldn't do is say whether a President Romney would insist that help for disaster victims be funded by cutting other programs in the federal budget, as many conservative Republicans insist. Running mate Paul Ryan is squarely on the side of cutting other spending to pay for disasters. Earlier this year, he tried but failed to scrap a new system, established in the 2011 debt ceiling-deficit cuts deal, that boosts disaster spending and budgets help for victims of hurricanes, tornadoes and floods before they occur. House leaders rebuffed him, siding with Appropriations Committee members of both parties who like the new system. What Ryan proposed is that when disaster strikes, lawmakers first scour the rest of the budget for savings to pay for rebuilding homes, roads and schools and helping small businesses.
Poster Comment: Sandy could very well be Mitten's undoing..."Act of God", I say..."Act of God"
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
You're crazy. What has changed since 2010? Is Obama more or less popular?
Doesn't matter...what is happening now, matters!
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'... Five days until we flush the toilet.
Yep...and the 'mormon turd' you people nominated will be relegated to the dust-bin of political history. He won't try again and go off to utah to acquire many more 'wife's'... Hope he does better in this regard than he did last time. ;)
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'... He won't try again and go off to utah to acquire many more 'wife's'... Hope he does better in this regard than he did last time. ;) Romney wasn't my choice but he may be a good choice. We will see. Obama surely sucks. Presidents aren't relegated to the dust pins of history. But after the election when your boy Obama is stripped of power. There will be hearings on Bengazi (maybe not Republicans can be wusses sometimes) and people will be put under oath. Obamacare will be undone. Obama will be the new Jimmy Carter. Bill Clinton only democrat re elected since the real turd FDR. Romney's wife seems decent. I don't remember Carters wife. Nancy was in the occult so I don't like her. Barbara is evil. Hillary is evil. Michelle is trashy, ugly, stupid and wrong on about everything. Maybe not evil though. Ann Romney may be the classiest and best first lady that I've ever seen.
He won't try again and go off to utah to acquire many more 'wife's'... Hope he does better in this regard than he did last time. ;) Romney being a Bishop and all is sure to qualify for his own planet where he will marry many spirit women and spawn more baby spirits to become future Mormons.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
The Romney family is finally going to be in a position to get even with you Christian fundies for chasing them out of the US and forcing them to live in Mexico. Mormons never forget.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Should Romney get elected, these neo-con buffoons have no idea what kind of President he will be.
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'... Sandy could very well be Mitten's undoing..."Act of God", I say..."Act of God"
#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)
#3. To: Brian S (#2)
Doesn't matter...what is happening now, matters!
#4. To: A K A Stone (#3)
#5. To: Brian S (#4)
Yep...and the 'mormon turd' you people nominated will be relegated to the dust-bin of political history.
#6. To: Brian S (#4)
(Edited)
Yep...and the 'mormon turd' you people nominated will be relegated to the dust-bin of political history.
#7. To: A K A Stone (#5)
(Edited)
Romney's wife seems decent. I don't remember Carters wife. Nancy was in the occult so I don't like her. Barbara is evil. Hillary is evil. Michelle is trashy, ugly, stupid and wrong on about everything. Maybe not evil though. Ann Romney may be the classiest and best first lady that I've ever seen.
#8. To: mininggold (#7)
The Romney family is finally going to be in a position to get even with you Christian fundies for chasing them out of the US and forcing them to live in Mexico. Mormons never forget.
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