Latest Agency Obama Uses to Push His Socialist Politics On the Nation? FEMA

This is so insane I don't even know what to say.

If I thought this Administration were clever, which I do not, I would guess that they are specifically using FEMA as their newest clawhammer for authoritarian lawlessness because they want to rile up conspiracy theorists to say conspiracy-theory type things. (In case you don't know, there have been FEMA conspiracy theories for almost as long as there has been FEMA.)

But I don't think they're doing that.

I think they're just trying to destroy the American system of ordered liberty.

FEMA to deny funds to warming deniers
States whose governors refuse to acknowledge climate change will not get preparedness aid.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change. Starting next year, the agency will approve disaster-preparedness funds only for states whose governors approve hazard-mitigation plans that address climate change.
This may put several Republican governors who maintain that the Earth isn't warming due to human activities, or prefer to take no action, in a political bind. Their position may block their states' access to hundreds of millions of dollars in FEMA funds. In the last five years, the agency has awarded an average $1 billion a year in grants to states and territories for taking steps to mitigate the effects of disasters.
"If a state has a climate denier governor that doesn't want to accept a plan, that would risk mitigation work not getting done because of politics," said Becky Hammer, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council's water program. "The governor would be increasing the risk to citizens in that state" because of his climate beliefs.

The aid in question is for pre-disaster preparedness -- preparing for hurricanes, floods, etc. It's not about the aid that follows a disaster.

Even so, Obama is now threatening people's lives unless they sing his Cult's hymnals.

AllahPundit wonders what Chris Christie will do about this. He thinks that even Christie will be strongly inclined to oppose Obama's latest burst of authoritarian fascism.

I can't wait until a Republican president uses the same lack-of-any-authority to conditional all federal dollars for children's health upon governor's certification that abortion is now illegal in their states.

Posted by: Ace at 06:13 PM

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1 Yup, blackmail. Or is it extortion.

Posted by: DangerGirl, footloose and Party-free at March 23, 2015 06:14 PM (KuU4f)

2
Climate beliefs...well, it is a religion to those assholes. LOL

Posted by: Bruce J. at March 23, 2015 06:14 PM (iQIUe)

3 I hate these jerks. Every. single. one.

Posted by: DangerGirl, footloose and Party-free at March 23, 2015 06:15 PM (KuU4f)

4 It's good to be the king...

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at March 23, 2015 06:16 PM (Bn6aD)

5 But why not just check-mark the plans and move on? Nothing really needs to be done besides lip service, right?

Posted by: Kate58 at March 23, 2015 06:16 PM (oLZsm)

6 Climate beliefs...well, it is a religion to those assholes. LOL
Posted by: Bruce J. at March 23, 2015 06:14 PM (iQIUe)

It is their "God."

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at March 23, 2015 06:17 PM (Bn6aD)

7 I will address concerns about Global Climate Change with my middle finger. Now where do I pick up my grant money?

Posted by: Yes means Maybe at March 23, 2015 06:18 PM (7wyDO)

8 I believe this falls under....

the Freedom of RELIGION clause...

But apparently, we now somehow have a State Religion.... called environmentalism.

Posted by: BB Wolf at March 23, 2015 06:18 PM (qh617)

9
Alternate post title:

The boy-King Makes Yet Another Decree

Posted by: Soothsayer's imaginary twitter feed at March 23, 2015 06:18 PM (Bl8Zy)

10 Reposting from last thread, because FEMA:

A SMOD simulation toy, for the Horde's enjoyment:

http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/

Complete with Douglas Adams reference.

Posted by: Piercello at March 23, 2015 06:18 PM (QJCCx)

11
Even the most conservative president imaginable - PLEASE G-D - would never unilaterally do anything like what SCOAMF and his tyrants have done.

We play by the rules. They do not or use the law itself to subjugate us.

And therein lies the problem . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:18 PM (St6BJ)

12 But why not just check-mark the plans and move on? Nothing really needs to be done besides lip service, right?

Posted by: Kate58 at March 23, 2015 06:16 PM (oLZsm)

I doubt it. They probably have to actively make some "alterations" to their current plans that funnel some bullshit state money to the fed in the name of "climate change."

Posted by: DangerGirl, footloose and Party-free at March 23, 2015 06:18 PM (KuU4f)

13 "The science is SETTLED!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Posted by: ManBearPig at March 23, 2015 06:18 PM (S0A/C)

14 Is it time for a million man death squad yet?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2015 06:19 PM (FMbng)

15 5 But why not just check-mark the plans and move on? Nothing really needs to be done besides lip service, right?

Posted by: Kate58 at March 23, 2015 06:16 PM (oLZsm)

Because then the Feds can say that Manmade Climate change is real, because ALL the Governors Agree!

Its coerced Speech...

Posted by: BB Wolf at March 23, 2015 06:19 PM (qh617)

16 The Federal Agencies need to be cleansed from top to bottom, with a flamethrower if necessary.

Posted by: toby928(C) at March 23, 2015 06:19 PM (rwI+c)

17
What Patrick Henry said.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:19 PM (St6BJ)

18 Obama-style fascism:

The image of Barack Obama's pink fluffy slipper stamping on a human face, forever.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 23, 2015 06:19 PM (72D6h)

19 Just zero out the FEMA budget, then.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 23, 2015 06:19 PM (MMC8r)

20 16 The Federal Agencies need to be cleansed from top to bottom, with a flamethrower if necessary.
Posted by: toby928(C) at March 23, 2015 06:19 PM (rwI+c)

Cleansed? Eliminated.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:20 PM (St6BJ)

21 Time for everyone to rewatch the 'Deathcamp of Intolerance' episode

Posted by: Trey and Matt at March 23, 2015 06:20 PM (LoIJo)

22 You think this is bad, I hear Hillary is considering Prima Nocta on any state where the governor opposes gay marriage.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2015 06:20 PM (g1DWB)

23 So, even progressives who believe in Global Warming will die from unprepared-for disasters because Obama wants to Mean Girl GOP governors. Nice.

Posted by: zombie at March 23, 2015 06:20 PM (K4YiS)

24 "If a state has a climate denier governor that doesn't want to accept a
plan, that would risk mitigation work not getting done because of
politics," said Becky Hammer, an attorney with the Natural Resources
Defense Council's water program. "The governor would be increasing the
risk to citizens in that state" because of his climate beliefs.

Some fascists are more equal than others.

Posted by: Zombie George Orwell at March 23, 2015 06:20 PM (Dwehj)

25 Why not just deny it to states that refuse to vote Democrat?

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 23, 2015 06:20 PM (MMC8r)

26 17
What Patrick Henry said.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:19 PM (St6BJ)

Give me Liberty.... or give me free shit!

Posted by: Patrick Alphonso Henry, 2015 at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (qh617)

27 Does anyone know an arborist?

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (LoIJo)

28
Time for the Dalek Initiative.

Posted by: Soothsayer's imaginary twitter feed at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (Bl8Zy)

29 25 Why not just deny it to states that refuse to vote Democrat?
Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 23, 2015 06:20 PM (MMC8r)

They need to spend money on reports.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (St6BJ)

30 What is you people's problem?
Ogabe cured my cousin's cancer. The doctors did the marrow transplant, but Ogabe cured him.
When will you realize that there is no god but man, and Ogabe is his prophet?

Posted by: No god But Man at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (XBF+S)

31 If I thought this Administration were clever, which I do not, I would guess that they are specifically using FEMA as their newest clawhammer for authoritarian lawlessness because they want to rile up conspiracy theorists to say conspiracy-theory type things. (In case you don't know, there have been FEMA conspiracy theories for almost as long as there has been FEMA.)--------

FEMA hates that I am revealing the secret of this common item they are stockpiling. Come to my website whose current address I can't remember because I change it every six weeks to discover what this item is.

Posted by: Annoying commercial on Rush at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (z/Ubi)

32 Affirmative Action Has Consequences.

Posted by: Garrett at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (wM9k+)

33 Affirmative Action Has Consequences.

Posted by: Garrett at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (wM9k+)

34 But why not just check-mark the plans and move on? Nothing really needs to be done besides lip service, right?

Posted by: Kate58 at March 23, 2015 06:16 PM (oLZsm)

Because then the Feds can say that Manmade Climate change is real, because ALL the Governors Agree!

Its coerced Speech...

Posted by: BB Wolf at March 23, 2015 06:19 PM (qh617)
Once you get someone to admit that 2 + 2 = 5, you have set the precident that you can get them to admit anything you want.
Dammit, 1984 wasn't supposed to be a how-top guide.

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (LZOpX)

35 But together a plan for "climate change", zombie apocalypse, and sharknado.

Submit it as one plan to FEMA.

See what happens.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (78TbK)

36 Like Daddy used to say "why the hell don't the states just hang on to the federal tax money they collected when the feds start this extortion crap".

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (Vm8WO)

37 why do you wish that last part, Ace- I mean- you aren't a republican anyways, so what difference does it make?

Posted by: exhippie at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (urGox)

38 26 Give me Liberty.... or give me free shit!
Posted by: Patrick Alphonso Henry, 2015 at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (qh617)

Funny, but I am in no mood.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (St6BJ)

39 Deny AIDS funding to any state that allows gay marriage.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (10ydV)

40
obama is like the Borg

Resistance is futile.

You must submit.

Posted by: Soothsayer's imaginary twitter feed at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (Bl8Zy)

41 If only there was some state AG willing to start filing criminal charges of some kind against federal workers who obey plainly illegal instructions from the Progressive tyrants. Warrants would be nice. Even send Dog out to bring the miscreants out of their D.C. lairs and back to face the music. Jail those mo-fo's and we might start seeing some even-handedness.

Posted by: MTF, vote for someone the GOP insiders hate! at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (FCsIb)

42 25 Why not just deny it to states that refuse to vote Democrat?
Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 23, 2015 06:20 PM (MMC8r)

Don't. Give. Them. Ideas.

Posted by: rickl at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (sdi6R)

43 36 Like Daddy used to say "why the hell don't the states just hang on to the federal tax money they collected when the feds start this extortion crap".
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (Vm8WO)

Withhold the Withholding? Nice try, but it goes straight to the Treasury.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (St6BJ)

44
Assimilate or be destroyed.

Posted by: Soothsayer's imaginary twitter feed at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (Bl8Zy)

45 Read the Small Print at the bottom of the Executive Order:

Section 23b:

Any governor who kisses Obamas ring will get an extra 10% in onus FEMA funds;

Blowjobs and reacharounds get you 15%!

Explore Obama's brown starfish and the Feds will build a Tsunami Wall around your state -- at no charge!

Posted by: zombie at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (K4YiS)

46 In point of fact, it's not the President, or his appointeds that need to feel the heat, it's the Becky Hammers of the world.

Posted by: toby928(C) at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (rwI+c)

47 This is illegal as hell but he can do anything he wants because everything is off the table.

We have no opposition Party.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (wlDny)

48 "AllahPundit wonders what Chris Christie will do about this. He thinks that even Christie will be strongly inclined to oppose Obama's latest burst of authoritarian fascism."

Why ace still bothers to link to anything by the ridiculous Allahpander is beyond me.

Christie gave Obama a rim job on national television on the eve of an absolutely critical election. He's not "strongly inclined to oppose" anything Obama does. He's a squish. Like Allahpander.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (noWW6)

49 Like Daddy used to say "why the hell don't the states just hang on to the federal tax money they collected when the feds start this extortion crap".

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (Vm8WO)

Does the money even go through the states? Personally, I'd love to see all direct taxes eliminated and the Federal government simply tax the state governments.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (10ydV)

50 OT, but another outrage. The Times of Israel reports that White House Chief of Staff McDonough says that Israel must end "its 50 year occupation" of the West Bank. (Since when does the Chief of Staff make major foreign policy announcements?)

I think of American Jews voting for Obama TWICE--and words fail me.

Posted by: Burke at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (ugH4u)

51 46 In point of fact, it's not the President, or his appointeds that need to feel the heat, it's the Becky Hammers of the world.
Posted by: toby928(C) at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (rwI+c)

The fish stinks from the head. But fellow travelers gotta travel.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:24 PM (St6BJ)

52 Ah, Ace attacking Obama's FEMA, always nice to see Democrat-on-Democrat conflict.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 23, 2015 06:24 PM (2cS/G)

53 38 26 Give me Liberty.... or give me free shit!
Posted by: Patrick Alphonso Henry, 2015 at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (qh617)

Funny, but I am in no mood.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (St6BJ)

Give me Liberty, or give me Free Contraceptives!

Posted by: Patricia Henry, 2015 at March 23, 2015 06:24 PM (qh617)

54 Well, there are climatologists who are suffering from climate depression, caused by the fact that people don't believe them. We need to make a safe space for them. You a-holes DON'T have the right to cause them stress, ill health, and self harm just because you are too stupid and greedy to accept the findings of science.

Posted by: Al Gore at March 23, 2015 06:24 PM (6E7W2)

55 We're all Not-Republicans now.

Posted by: toby928(C) at March 23, 2015 06:24 PM (rwI+c)

56
So what, praytell, are the hazard mitigation plans that support global warming ideals?
Not that it matters, because it will be vague and ever-increasing.
Let me guess:
Energy production
Energy consumption
Monitoring
Etc

Posted by: Justamom at March 23, 2015 06:24 PM (qq0xb)

57 22 You think this is bad, I hear Hillary is considering Prima Nocta on any state where the governor opposes gay marriage.
Posted by: JackStraw

Somebody been watching Braveheart? FREEDOM!!!!!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 23, 2015 06:24 PM (Vm8WO)

58 "Because then the Feds can say that Manmade Climate change is real, because ALL the Governors Agree!"

If I were, I dunno, Jindal and someone asked me about it, I'd admit I signed off for summa that sweet sweet Fed gravy, and under Federal coercion. In other words, Louisiana's tax dollars had been held for ransom by our Exalted Leaders and I was merely doing the Yes Massa dance in the best interests of my state's constituency.

If, on the other hand, they're requiring the reapportionment of tens of thousands of state dollars to yet another Fed slush fund, that's a different story.

Posted by: Kate58 at March 23, 2015 06:24 PM (oLZsm)

59 Isn't this what the Transportation Department does with speed limits and Fed Hifhway dollars?

Also, Drunk Driving laws, I think.

Posted by: Garrett at March 23, 2015 06:24 PM (wM9k+)

60 50 I think of American Jews voting for Obama TWICE--and words fail me.
Posted by: Burke at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (ugH4u)

Not me. Scum, vermin, momzers and imbeciles who will swallow Zyklon B with a smile.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:25 PM (St6BJ)

61
This is not the hill to die on.

Posted by: Squeaker of the House at March 23, 2015 06:25 PM (1sVzz)

62 Ahem. Delegation doctrine. Ahem.

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at March 23, 2015 06:26 PM (IrByp)

63 So FEMA says they will stay out of a state if they do not promote Global-Warmist religion?

Winning!

Posted by: Kristophr at March 23, 2015 06:26 PM (6fIOn)

64 Question, does this not fit the definition, of EXTORTION?

Posted by: BB Wolf at March 23, 2015 06:26 PM (qh617)

65 All in for Ted Cruz baby.

Posted by: maddogg at March 23, 2015 06:26 PM (xWW96)

66 28 Time for the Dalek Initiative.
Posted by: Soothsayer's imaginary twitter feed at March 23, 2015 06:21

Come on, how about a little love for the V'Ger plan?

Posted by: V'Ger at March 23, 2015 06:26 PM (Vm8WO)

67 Any reaction from the Democratically controlled House and Senate?

Posted by: toby928(C) at March 23, 2015 06:26 PM (rwI+c)

68 "(Since when does the Chief of Staff make major foreign policy announcements?)"

Since this White House took a former campaign van driver with absolutely no military, intelligence, or foreign policy background, and elevated him to a position on the National Security Council, nothing seems like a stretch any longer.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 23, 2015 06:26 PM (noWW6)

69 61
This is not the hill to die on.
Posted by: Squeaker of the House at March 23, 2015 06:25 PM (1sVzz)

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we're not on a hill. We're in a ditch, lined up like sardines waiting for the bullet to the neck.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:26 PM (St6BJ)

70 This is not the hill to die on.

I'm already dead....

The Constitution...

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at March 23, 2015 06:27 PM (Bn6aD)

71 "Help! I'm drowning here!"

"Does your governor believe in this week's variant of Climate Chaos Theory?"

"What?? Blub glub...HALP!!!"

"Does your governor believe in this week's variant of Climate Chaos Theory?"

"What the--blub--fuck are you talking about? How should I know? HELP ME!"

"Request denied."

Posted by: zombie at March 23, 2015 06:27 PM (K4YiS)

72 Ahem. Delegation doctrine. Ahem.

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at March 23, 2015 06:26 PM (IrByp)

What are you talking about? I think that we need a thorough explanation by you.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 23, 2015 06:27 PM (10ydV)

73 I'm not sure this is illegal, exactly. it's pretty much how they did the 55mph limit

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 23, 2015 06:27 PM (Cq0oW)

74 Welcome to my nightmare.

Posted by: Zombie George Orwell at March 23, 2015 06:27 PM (Dwehj)

75
William Craig Fugate - Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency - was considered for the position by President Bush. He was later appointed as the FEMA director in May 2009 by President Barack Obama.

He was confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote.

You are so welcome.

Posted by: The Senate Republicans - Ole!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 23, 2015 06:28 PM (kdS6q)

76
I gotta go make the pizza.

Later.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2015 06:28 PM (St6BJ)

77 34 But why not just check-mark the plans and move on? Nothing really needs to be done besides lip service, right?

Posted by: Kate58 at March 23, 2015 06:16 PM (oLZsm)

Because then the Feds can say that Manmade Climate change is real, because ALL the Governors Agree!

Its coerced Speech...

Posted by: BB Wolf at March 23, 2015 06:19 PM (qh617)
Once you get someone to admit that 2 + 2 = 5, you have set the precident that you can get them to admit anything you want.
Dammit, 1984 wasn't supposed to be a how-top guide.
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 23, 2015 06:22 PM (LZOpX)

Say that man made global warming is real.

Posted by: Gul Madred at March 23, 2015 06:28 PM (z/Ubi)

78 Steve Goddard has been banned from Twitter for being a DENIER! and Iowahawk is holding vigil not tweeting. The Horror!

Posted by: sophistyhick at March 23, 2015 06:28 PM (yeBw9)

79 What are you talking about? I think that we need a thorough explanation by you.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 23, 2015 06:27 PM (10ydV)

Sorry, I'm out of profanity.

*does Interpretative Dance*

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at March 23, 2015 06:28 PM (IrByp)

80 I have a copy of the new Obama Republic:

http://goo.gl/1qcBQZ

Posted by: Physics Geek at March 23, 2015 06:29 PM (llWHs)

81 Sorry, I'm out of profanity.

*does Interpretative Dance

Does it include two middle fingers?

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at March 23, 2015 06:29 PM (Bn6aD)

82 *does Interpretative Dance*

That throat-squeezing motion is quite evocative, Your Grace.

Posted by: toby928(C) at March 23, 2015 06:29 PM (rwI+c)

83 73
I'm not sure this is illegal, exactly. it's pretty much how they did the 55mph limit

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 23, 2015 06:27 PM (Cq0oW)

That was illegal as well.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 23, 2015 06:30 PM (wlDny)

84 We need FEMA funds to arm CCW holders with state-militia M-4 carbines to prevent global warming!

Posted by: Kristophr at March 23, 2015 06:30 PM (6fIOn)

85 All in for Ted Cruz baby.

I am certainly not a SoCon, but...

Posted by: Those guys from this morning at March 23, 2015 06:30 PM (Dwehj)

86 So what's to stop a Republican president to deny FEMA money to states that say allow abortion on demand, or restrict firearm access, or have a tax rate that's too high?

I hope Congress responds by immediately abolishing FEMA and reserving the funds FEMA controls for block grants to the states in case of disaster.

Posted by: Iblis at March 23, 2015 06:30 PM (9221z)

87 If AGW raises the sea level high enough I'll move back to the DC area and hold heads underwater - plan accomplished. Where's my check.

Posted by: DaveA at March 23, 2015 06:30 PM (DL2i+)

88 Does it include two middle fingers?
Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at March 23, 2015 06:29 PM (Bn6aD)

Maaaaaybe.

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at March 23, 2015 06:30 PM (IrByp)

89 Politicizing disasters? What could go wrong ...

Posted by: Pedantic Joe, Buff for life at March 23, 2015 06:31 PM (PhNHa)

90 Michelle Obama is going to force all day cares, public or private, to weigh and measure their tots. Because the govmint really needs to know absolutely every detail from us, birth to death! And because you plebes cannot be trusted to make good choices.

Posted by: LizLem at March 23, 2015 06:31 PM (yRwC8)

91 And the governors who refuse to sign the confession?

Off to the Fun Camps with you!

Posted by: zombie at March 23, 2015 06:31 PM (K4YiS)

92 49 Does the money even go through the states? Personally, I'd love to see all direct taxes eliminated and the Federal government simply tax the state governments.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM

I thought it did, but Sefton says no. Withholdings need to be killed. Let everyone get a full paycheck and then have to shell out on 4/15. Boy would that shock a lot of LIVs to see just how much uncle sugar takes.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 23, 2015 06:31 PM (Vm8WO)

93 The Federal Empire.

Posted by: eman at March 23, 2015 06:31 PM (Wz/+q)

94 Pass legislation imposing a 100% federal tax on all new construction projects below 50' above sea level.

If it's the federal government's job to protect people from rising sea levels, then we'll need the money to start some of those shovel-ready projects in a significant number of blue states.

Posted by: Furious George, Not Mitch McConnell at March 23, 2015 06:32 PM (UlJ3l)

95 Seriously you guys .... Burge isn't tweeting!

Posted by: sophistyhick at March 23, 2015 06:32 PM (yeBw9)

96 >>I'm not sure this is illegal, exactly. it's pretty much how they did the 55mph limit

Maybe I can get a waiver?

Because, I can't drive...55!

Posted by: Sammy Hagar at March 23, 2015 06:32 PM (wM9k+)

97
Sorry, I'm out of profanity.

*does Interpretative Dance*

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at March 23, 2015 06:28 PM (IrByp)

The jumping up and down parts are especially insightful. Here, put on this leotard. It should help with your self-expression.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 23, 2015 06:32 PM (10ydV)

98 @43 We should at least make withholding optional.
Some fools believe Ogabe gives them $$ in their refund check.
That's like ignoring the cabfare from Yankee Stadium to Coney Island and telling everyone you got $11 from the cabbie.

Posted by: No god But Man at March 23, 2015 06:32 PM (XBF+S)

99 Any state that doesn't set aside money for Hawaiian shirts for its citizens to prepare for the upcoming warmening will get a noogie from the FEMAfolks.

Posted by: Hank at March 23, 2015 06:33 PM (/ujVT)

100 *Texas just smiles away, sitting on $1Billion plus in rainy day funds*

Go on now, ya hear! Git!! Get your sorry FEMA asses back to Yankeeland!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 23, 2015 06:33 PM (JO9+V)

101 They learned everything from me

Posted by: Marcus Licinius Crassus at March 23, 2015 06:33 PM (/2E+M)

102 I'm not sure this is illegal, exactly. it's pretty much how they did the 55mph limit>>>

Also the 21 year old drinking age and the .08 DUI limit. I'm sure there are a lot more I don't know about with Highway money alone.

Posted by: Robinson at March 23, 2015 06:33 PM (W2Cji)

103 sophistyhick: I noticed.

Not sure if this isn't playing into the hands of the Twitter SJW sand-box nazis.

Posted by: Kristophr at March 23, 2015 06:33 PM (6fIOn)

104 I hear Hillary is considering Prima Nocta

We have you pegged as a dissident JackStraw.

Posted by: IRS (R not for Revenue) at March 23, 2015 06:33 PM (DL2i+)

105
what ever happened to polynikes?

Posted by: Soothsayer's imaginary twitter feed at March 23, 2015 06:33 PM (Bl8Zy)

106 Sorry, I'm out of profanity.

*does Interpretative Dance*

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at March 23, 2015 06:28 PM (IrByp)

I have plenty, would you like to borrow some?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2015 06:33 PM (FMbng)

107 Colorado Alex: I think she would be able to do that better in a tube top.

Posted by: Kristophr at March 23, 2015 06:34 PM (6fIOn)

108
But why not just check-mark the plans and move on? Nothing really needs to be done besides lip service, right?
Posted by: Kate58

You can keep making offerings to your God. Just make an offering to the Emperor too.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 23, 2015 06:34 PM (kdS6q)

109 >>>>the agency will approve disaster-preparedness funds only for states whose governors approve hazard-mitigation plans that address climate change.

there's more than one way to skin a cat. I'd close all Grievance Studies programs at state schools to address climate change. I'd cut government employee salaries to address climate change.

Posted by: Benedict Arnold CEO at March 23, 2015 06:34 PM (n5fTN)

110 Look, if you self-identify as a "SoCon" or a "FisCon" or a "Hawk" or a "Dove" or whatever, that's fine, that's good, that's the Right. Instead of spending the next 22 months defending amd narrowing your point of view to a vanishment, see if you can't find what parts of your philosophy are missing within the philosophies of others. I don't know what I am on the scale, I hate abortion, believe in medical marijuana, insist on secure borders, want a return of forces to Germany. But any Fis/So-Con is going to e closer to my beliefs than any Democrat.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 23, 2015 06:35 PM (2cS/G)

111 I have plenty, would you like to borrow some?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2015 06:33 PM (FMbng)

Yes, please.

*holds cup under USB port*

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at March 23, 2015 06:35 PM (IrByp)

112 >>Steve Goddard has been banned from Twitter for being

Jeff Goldblum is still alive, dammit!

Posted by: Steve Goddard at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (wM9k+)

113
there's more than one way to skin a cat. I'd close all Grievance Studies programs at state schools to address climate change. I'd cut government employee salaries to address climate change.

I'd deny AF1 from landing in my State.... Polluter!

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (Bn6aD)

114 What this threaf needs is more Ted Cruz.

*shuts down EPA*
*padlocks IRS*

Posted by: @votermom at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (dcwmE)

115 AllahPundit wonders what Chris Christie will do about this.

Gosh, I can't wait to find out from the Fat One if Obama's semen is tastier than the glazing on a double-wide trailer-full of Krispie Kremes.

Posted by: Hibiscuits Credit-Unions at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (Q819Q)

116 Obama saw this on House of Cards. He isn't even original with the ideas he steals.

Posted by: Brenden at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (wa+SP)

117 Ace, perhaps this will help you reconsider your "I have both parties equally" stance?

Yes, I agree that the GOP has been a progressive socialist party. No argument there.

But the Democrats have gone full fascist. Even Mussolini would be a little stunned at Obama's (and in the future, Hillary's) audacity and totalitarianism.

Yes, the GOP has lurched far to the left, and now stands where the Democrats used to stand about 15 years ago. But the Democrats have since then lurched even farther to the left, and are now out in Stalin territory.

In these fresh circumstances, the lesser of two evils is looking mighty tempting.

Posted by: zombie at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (K4YiS)

118 Get out of their way and let them go all nuts on us.
People learn from pain.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (WNERA)

119 Sorry, I'm out of profanity.

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at March 23, 2015 06:28 PM (IrByp)

This is a sign of the end times.

Posted by: Physics Geek at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (llWHs)

120 The Feds get away with this stuff because so many states have become dependent on federal money for a variety of things.

The only way to fight this is for the states to wean themselves from federal money. Then they can tell DC to go pound sand.

Posted by: rickl at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (sdi6R)

121 I have both parties equally =
I HATE both parties equally

Posted by: zombie at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (K4YiS)

122 110 Look, if you self-identify as a "SoCon" or a "FisCon" or a "Hawk" or a "Dove" or whatever, that's ...
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 23, 2015 06:35 PM
(2cS/G)

I'm a Fist-Con

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (/2E+M)

123 Simple Governors, do not take the money stating that the official position of the United States is not to negotiate with terrorists.

Posted by: booter at March 23, 2015 06:37 PM (Lg1F3)

124 Sorry, I'm out of profanity

I just go and borrow a cup from the neighbors when I run out.

Posted by: Steve Goddard at March 23, 2015 06:37 PM (wM9k+)

125 The nudge has become the sharp prick of a bayonet. It is coordinated and the vilest of actions. You shall comply!

Posted by: sophistyhick at March 23, 2015 06:37 PM (yeBw9)

126 97 The jumping up and down parts are especially insightful. Here, put on this leotard. It should help with your self-expression.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 23, 2015 06:32 PM

Did you ask her to take a shower first so you can calibrate the webcam?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 23, 2015 06:37 PM (Vm8WO)

127 >>I'm not sure this is illegal, exactly. it's pretty much how they did the 55mph limit

Really? You can go 75-80 mph in certain parts of Utah highways, and 65 everywhere else. In Texas you can go 85. Did our states just give a big FU and do what we want?

Posted by: LizLem at March 23, 2015 06:38 PM (yRwC8)

128 from Wiki: (Sounds like what O would do)

When buildings were burning, Crassus and his purposely-trained crew would show up, and Crassus would offer to purchase the presumably doomed property and perhaps neighboring endangered properties from their owners for speculatively low sums; if the purchase offer was accepted, Crassus would then use his army of some 500 slaves which he purchased due to their knowledge of architecture and building to put the fire out, sometimes before too much damage had been done: otherwise Crassus would use his crews to rebuild. If his purchase offers were not accepted, then Crassus would not engage in firefighting.

Posted by: MikeH at March 23, 2015 06:38 PM (/2E+M)

129 there's more than one way to skin a cat. I'd close all Grievance Studies programs at state schools to address climate change. I'd cut government employee salaries to address climate change.
Posted by: Benedict Arnold CEO

GENIUS

Posted by: zombie at March 23, 2015 06:38 PM (K4YiS)

130 Fascists.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 23, 2015 06:38 PM (ODxAs)

131 lizlem: Yes.

Posted by: Kristophr at March 23, 2015 06:38 PM (6fIOn)

132 I think I meant to include the word "flag" in my 1st tweet here, but my blood pressure was dangerously elevated and I think I almost passed out whilst typing.

Posted by: Physics Geek at March 23, 2015 06:38 PM (llWHs)

133 "I can't wait until a Republican president uses the same lack-of-any-authority to conditional all federal dollars for children's health upon governor's certification that abortion is now illegal in their states."

You're assuming the existence of Republican balls that have not been in evidence for 20 years.

Posted by: Nomennovum at March 23, 2015 06:38 PM (0z+LY)

134 The chickens have indeed come home to roost! Dlya vashego zdorov'ya!

Posted by: Zombie Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev at March 23, 2015 06:38 PM (Dwehj)

135 Yes, please.

*holds cup under USB port*

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us SMOD at March 23, 2015 06:35 PM (IrByp)

Cup? You're going to need a spackle bucket.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2015 06:39 PM (FMbng)

136 Really? You can go 75-80 mph in certain parts of Utah highways, and 65 everywhere else. In Texas you can go 85. Did our states just give a big FU and do what we want?
Posted by: LizLem at March 23, 2015 06:38 PM (yRwC

Montana complied too. On the interstates they charged 20 dollars for speeding. You couldn't go 130 mph and get a 20 dollar fine but the MHP would take your 20 and that was the end of it.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 23, 2015 06:39 PM (WNERA)

137 Did you ask her to take a shower first so you can calibrate the webcam?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 23, 2015 06:37 PM (Vm8WO)

That comes after the dancing.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 23, 2015 06:40 PM (10ydV)

138 all I'm saying is, there's plenty of precedent

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 23, 2015 06:40 PM (Cq0oW)

139 (Sorry about the frequent typos, touch screen is fried)

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 23, 2015 06:40 PM (2cS/G)

140 I like the idea of South Dakota preparing for tsunamis and hurricanes and Texas preparing for glaciers and offshore ice bergs and Emperor penguin invasions.

Posted by: Spliff at March 23, 2015 06:41 PM (ef+U4)

141 >>Cup? You're going to need a spackle bucket.

If I ha a dollar for every time I have heard that statement...

Posted by: Peter North at March 23, 2015 06:41 PM (wM9k+)

142 109
I'd close all Grievance Studies programs at state schools to address climate change.

Posted by: Benedict Arnold CEO at March 23, 2015 06:34 PM (n5fTN)

That actually makes sense, considering all the hot air that is spewed in those classes.

Posted by: rickl at March 23, 2015 06:41 PM (sdi6R)

143 122 I'm a Fist-Con
Posted by: Lindsey Graham at March 23, 2015 06:36

Hey, me too!

Posted by: Reggie at March 23, 2015 06:41 PM (Vm8WO)

144 139 (Sorry about the frequent typos, touch screen is fried)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 23, 2015 06:40 PM (2cS/G)

4:20 man, 4:20. Got any Doritos?

Posted by: touch screen at March 23, 2015 06:42 PM (/2E+M)

145 Obama saw this on House of Cards. He isn't even original with the ideas he steals.
Posted by: Brenden at March 23, 2015 06:36 PM (wa+SP)

My thought as well! I don't even want to know what type of lessons he might be picking up from, say, the Good Wife or Scandal.

And he is learning entirely the wrong lessons from Game of Thrones, pretty sure he sees himself as the Starks not the Lannisters. Unless he thinks the Lannisters are the real protagonists...

Posted by: LizLem at March 23, 2015 06:42 PM (yRwC8)

146
Remember: Bush wasn't even permitted to fire his own U.S. Attorneys.

Posted by: Soothsayer's imaginary twitter feed at March 23, 2015 06:42 PM (Bl8Zy)

147 I took a course at GWU from a guy who was #2 at the Clinton FEMA under James Lee Witt.

The FEMA folks loved that guy because they said that he "got" preparedness and was not just a political appointee. However, when he came in, he picked loyal Democrats for the leadership positions (the guy said this proudly, btw).

And, they pioneered the use of FEMA for political leverage. For example, FEMA first gave money for snow removal to Charlotte, NC, who had a loyal Democrat mayor. Other southern locales were not covered by it.

This is what big government does in the hands of Democrats. It is all a big patronage game. They aren't here to represent all of us, they are there to enrich and empower their cronies.

Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2015 06:42 PM (Uo5BP)

148 When they can actually prove AGW outside their computers I'll start paying attention. Until then it is politics dressed up as science. Fuck'em

Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 23, 2015 06:43 PM (WNERA)

149 Easy solution: Contract out any "global warming" money to the Koch Bros.

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 23, 2015 06:43 PM (LZOpX)

150 FEMA first gave money for snow removal to Charlotte, NC, who had a loyal Democrat mayor. Other southern locales were not covered by it.

This is what big government does in the hands of Democrats. It is all a big patronage game. They aren't here to represent all of us, they are there to enrich and empower their cronies.
Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2015 06:42 PM (Uo5BP)

It's the Chicago way...

Posted by: MikeH at March 23, 2015 06:43 PM (/2E+M)

151 @120 Simply repeal the 17th Amendment.

Posted by: No god But Man at March 23, 2015 06:44 PM (XBF+S)

152 Charles Cooke writes an anti Cruz piece.What a stunner.

Posted by: steevy at March 23, 2015 06:45 PM (KETbL)

153 151 @120 Simply repeal the 17th Amendment.
Posted by: No god But Man at March 23, 2015 06:44 PM (XBF+S)

Issue an EO, why even go down the repeal route

Posted by: MikeH at March 23, 2015 06:46 PM (/2E+M)

154 Charles Cooke writes an anti Cruz piece.What a stunner.

When I want to know who to vote for, a squishy foreigner is the first person I ask.

Posted by: toby928(C) at March 23, 2015 06:46 PM (rwI+c)

155
Remember: State Dept employees refused to their assignments under Bush and they got away with it.

Posted by: Soothsayer's imaginary twitter feed at March 23, 2015 06:47 PM (Bl8Zy)

156 When you vote for the bastards they believe you support them in their actions. I don't happen to support crony capitalism. Picking winners and losers. Making laws at the federal level exactly the same as those at the state level so the prosecution can get a second bite on you. I better slow down.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 23, 2015 06:47 PM (WNERA)

157 It's the Chicago way...

Posted by: MikeH at March 23, 2015 06:43 PM (/2E+M)

Except of course Clinton was the man from Hope. Arkansas.

Democrat corruption does not have a zip code. It is pervasive.

Posted by: blaster at March 23, 2015 06:47 PM (Uo5BP)

158 $1Billion plus in rainy day funds

Which is 0.3% of our state debt

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 23, 2015 06:47 PM (zauWW)

159 When I want to know who to vote for, a squishy foreigner is the first person I ask.
Posted by: toby928(C) at March 23, 2015 06:46 PM (rwI+c)

I'm too busy being POTUS, ask Elizabeth Warren

Posted by: Obumbles at March 23, 2015 06:48 PM (/2E+M)

160 85 All in for Ted Cruz baby.

I am certainly not a SoCon, but...
Posted by: Those guys from this morning at March 23, 2015 06:30 PM

First time I ever donated to a politician.

Posted by: Iblis at March 23, 2015 06:48 PM (9221z)

161 The only stunner is that CW Cooke bothered to exceed 139 characters with his article. If you can't Tweet it, is it really worth thinking? Stuff gets hard and complicated after 140.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 23, 2015 06:48 PM (2cS/G)

162 How does this pass muster with the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment?

Posted by: Beorn at March 23, 2015 06:48 PM (dGF4J)

163 Big Whoop. Make a mitigation plan then take the money. There are no FEMA police enforcing compliance.

Posted by: Deck LDO at March 23, 2015 06:49 PM (84b7V)

164 Speaking of Game of Thrones...

my biggest worry about the 2016 election is that in the race for the throne, or oval office, despite everyone wanting to take down the evil that is the dems (aka Lannisters with their Joffrey puppet), the GOP (which covers the Baratheon brothers, Robb Stark, the Greyjoys, etc) will all go off on their own agendas, all fail, and the Lannisters stay in power. I don;t mind spirited debating factions for the throne, that is a healthy part of democracy, but we need to play it smart, if there is any chance of retaking the throne from the dems. I don't know what that looks like, but mortally wounding all conservative candidates before the primaries is not the answer, I can tell you that.

Posted by: LizLem at March 23, 2015 06:50 PM (yRwC8)

165 163 Big Whoop. Make a mitigation plan then take the money. There are no FEMA police enforcing compliance.
Posted by: Deck LDO at March 23, 2015 06:49 PM (84b7V)

Your local police dept will do just fine, unless they want to give up their fed bennies and that fancy armored vehicle.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 23, 2015 06:50 PM (WNERA)

166 "I can't wait until a Republican president uses the same lack-of-any-authority to conditional all federal dollars for children's health upon governor's certification that abortion is now illegal in their states."

That will never happen, because Republicans are too pussy to use the power of the federal government to execute their agenda.

Good thing you're done with 'em, Ace, and are now supporting Democrats.

Posted by: someguy at March 23, 2015 06:50 PM (3z91g)

167 Good thing you're done with 'em, Ace, and are now supporting Democrats.
Posted by: someguy at March 23, 2015 06:50 PM (3z91g)

Where has he done that?

Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 23, 2015 06:51 PM (WNERA)

168 I didn't get a harrumph outta you!

Posted by: The Guv at March 23, 2015 06:52 PM (1Vkqm)

169 I'm not invested in any candidate, but I found Cooke's post shallow and sophomoric. If that's what passes for deep thought at NRO, they might as well nuke the site from orbit. Yesterday.

Posted by: Physics Geek at March 23, 2015 06:52 PM (llWHs)

170 (btw, I have not been this excited about a candidate for President, Cruz, since the 1980s (yeah, I am that old). Jeff Lord at spectator.org this morning delineates the numerical victory. When I check my finances in the morning I hope to send a contribution. However, I was injured at work today and therefore humbly ask that you add me to you prayers, for swift healing of my finger. Thank God it was not my trigger finger.)
Thanks be to our Creator.
With el cruz before us....

Posted by: No god But Man at March 23, 2015 06:53 PM (XBF+S)

171 if it keeps FEMA out of my state i'm all for it. Fuck em.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 23, 2015 06:53 PM (ucDmr)

172 Any governor who denies climate change in the future, Obama can just whip out their climate change policy and show the press that the governor signed on and took the money.

Why is Obama allowed to use my money to extort a governor that I may not have voted for?

Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at March 23, 2015 06:53 PM (Lp6I1)

173 Completely OT, our governor signed into law today the state bill that allows firing squad as a secondary form of execution should the first form, lethal injection, not be available. Cue the howling on the left...

Posted by: LizLem at March 23, 2015 06:54 PM (yRwC8)

174 165 Really? Police in a Red State are gonna enforce some FEMA grant requirement? Lol. Stop being afraid of Government? The are clowns.

Posted by: Deck LDO at March 23, 2015 06:54 PM (84b7V)

175 First time a hurricane hits Florida or a big twister hits Oklahoma Obama will fold like a cheap suit. No way he is going to allow a public fight while people are suffering on teevee.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2015 06:54 PM (g1DWB)

176 How much does the State weigh comrade?

Posted by: Uncle Jobama at March 23, 2015 06:54 PM (1Vkqm)

177 I think it's time I put a bumper sticker on my car:

Joe Biden - 2015

It's subtle, but it makes a point.

Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at March 23, 2015 06:55 PM (Lp6I1)

178 This is just the Oster being more open about it.
Christy had to kiss the ring to get help for New Jersey and many red states hit by fires and other disasters were ignored.

Posted by: Hillary's Heroic Spanx at March 23, 2015 06:56 PM (i7JE3)

179 The government has essentially been telling scientists for years that if they don't toe the line on global warming, they don't get research funding.

Posted by: Jay at March 23, 2015 06:56 PM (2h6DT)

180 174 165 Really? Police in a Red State are gonna enforce some FEMA grant requirement? Lol. Stop being afraid of Government? The are clowns.
Posted by: Deck LDO at March 23, 2015 06:54 PM (84b7V)

Thank you for setting me straight. I was running amok and needed to be brought back to reality. It was the laughter that did it.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 23, 2015 06:56 PM (WNERA)

181 In case you missed this Sunday:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/mchamcn
In case you missed this today:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/m42j8zd

You're welcome.

Posted by: No god But Man at March 23, 2015 06:57 PM (XBF+S)

182 Republican president could easily, and within his rights, withhold money to sanctuary cities/states.

Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at March 23, 2015 06:58 PM (Lp6I1)

183
175 First time a hurricane hits Florida or a big twister hits Oklahoma Obama will fold like a cheap suit. No way he is going to allow a public fight while people are suffering on teevee.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2015 06:54 PM (g1DWB)

Disaster preparedness not disaster relief. So the state will get the money after the hurricane or tornado hits along with the media blaming the governor for how much damage there was because he "played politics over preparing his state for the increased damage of global warming powered disasters."

Posted by: Buzzion at March 23, 2015 06:59 PM (z/Ubi)

184 I don't remember the precise verbiage, but Ace declared a hill to die on (Boehner capitulation-related, I believe) and then declared himself dead when it came to pass. Presumably he'll get better.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 23, 2015 07:00 PM (2cS/G)

185 This is great news! We can't see any problem with it whatsoever!

Posted by: The Left at March 23, 2015 07:00 PM (7Kbxu)

186
I found Cooke's post shallow and sophomoric.
Posted by: Physics Geek

Well, the chaps in the Boathouse at Oxford thought him tres droll.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 23, 2015 07:00 PM (kdS6q)

187 @177 Binden 2015 Heh

Posted by: Yip at March 23, 2015 07:01 PM (84SRe)

188 To whoever ordered the concern trolling, it's arrived and it smells fresh.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 23, 2015 07:01 PM (JBzwC)

189 Every one of those states should secede. Now. If that pussy wants to start it, let him finish it.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 23, 2015 07:01 PM (ucDmr)

190 It will be a pleasure to burn this administration's legacy to the ground. Never was there a more relentlessly hateful one. A lasting stain on this republic, a permanent memory of ignorance, incompetence, and brute force.

Posted by: Feh at March 23, 2015 07:01 PM (g/zj9)

191 I would encourage Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, etc to apply for hundreds of billions in FEMA grants to install sea-walls to prevent tsunamis from inundating those states, & then sue FEMA when they didn't provide the funds. Keep the dipshits tied up in court for the next millennium.

Posted by: Hibiscuits Credit-Unions at March 23, 2015 07:02 PM (Q819Q)

192 We don't call FEMA the Government in Waiting for nothing.

I miss the good ol' days - when I used to call out these abuses of power as they were in their infancy, but obviously ramping up - and would get the usual "Tin Foil Hat" replies from both Dems and 'Pubs.

Good times. Good times.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2015 07:04 PM (oKFzc)

193 Is there a free-market solution to disaster preparedness?

Not kill all the realtors.
It is called common sense.

Is there a free market solution when s**t happens?
It's called insurance.
Don't have mutual insurance in your state?
Follow the money. Look at when you lost it.

Posted by: No god But Man at March 23, 2015 07:04 PM (XBF+S)

194 I'm neither for or against Cruz at this point.I like him as a Senator,as a candidate it's a wait and see.What bothers me is how many on "our side" jump all over him without giving him a chance.

Posted by: steevy at March 23, 2015 07:06 PM (KETbL)

195 Ted Cruz , Scott Walker, Perry, and Jindal should go together and put on a conference discussing and taking questions why the Federal government is in severe need of pruning. Not a political debate between one another, but a town hall... take questions.. but drive home the message that DC, as it is today is beyond one man to fix... it will take commitment and it will take multiple people.

I think it would be great. Oh and do not include any DC press corps b/c they are part of the problem. How about grab some conservative writers that are under the age of 45 and push the idea that it is time for change and new thinking. Unicorn?

Posted by: Yip at March 23, 2015 07:06 PM (84SRe)

196 Hey, remember "X Files: Fight the Future" and how it was kind of funny that the tinfoil hat theory was that the feds were going to use FEMA to take control? Not so funny now.

Posted by: Physics Geek at March 23, 2015 07:06 PM (llWHs)

197 @5: "But why not just check-mark the plans and move on? Nothing really needs to be done besides lip service, right?"

The term "lip service," when used relative to the government, is pronounced "precedent".

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 23, 2015 07:07 PM (amQXf)

198 This is the part of Science where we stone the heretics.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 23, 2015 07:07 PM (MMC8r)

199

This is such an opportunity for Conservatives.

Good Lord, take this silver platter.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 23, 2015 07:08 PM (IXrOn)

200 OT, but another outrage. The Times of Israel reports that White House Chief of Staff McDonough says that Israel must end "its 50 year occupation" of the West Bank. (Since when does the Chief of Staff make major foreign policy announcements?)

I think of American Jews voting for Obama TWICE--and words fail me.
Posted by: Burke at March 23, 2015 06:23 PM (ugH4u)

You do realize that those same Jews also hate Israel? Being Jewish doesn't automatically fill you with love for Israel or the Torah, for that matter.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 23, 2015 07:08 PM (DGpSC)

201

Isn't it our money?

They are going to use our money to decide who lives or dies?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 23, 2015 07:08 PM (IXrOn)

202 @9: "Alternate post title:

The boy-King Makes Yet Another [Illegal] Decree [Which Absolutely No-One Does Sweet Fuck-All About, Thus Confirming That Americans Really Are Pretty Accepting Of Tyranny]"

Sadly, had to edit that one

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 23, 2015 07:09 PM (amQXf)

203 OT, but another outrage. The Times of Israel reports that White House Chief of Staff McDonough says that Israel must end "its 50 year occupation" of the West Bank.

When do we leave South Korea?

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 23, 2015 07:09 PM (MMC8r)

204 201: Exactly.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 23, 2015 07:09 PM (ucDmr)

205 This was from the Onion, right?

Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 23, 2015 07:09 PM (WNERA)

206 He WANTS a shooting war, so he can declare martial law, only thing that makes "sense" with Barakhenatan the boy-King.

Posted by: acethepug at March 23, 2015 07:09 PM (WK825)

207 >>Disaster preparedness not disaster relief.

Still not buying it. We hit a 60 year low on tornado activity last year and after this winter more and more deniers are springing up. Every friggin prediction these climate alarmists have made has been proven wrong.

I think Obama has just handed Republicans presidential candidates a gift if they are smart enough to use it. This is big government bullshit in the extreme and a prime example of why government needs to be cut.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2015 07:10 PM (g1DWB)

208 I really think the best way to make a point would be for Red States to make absurd climate change preparation requests. Money for underground cities so the population can survive, etc.

All kidding aside, if the Left keep going down this road of fascism, it's not going to like where it ends.

Posted by: McAdams at March 23, 2015 07:10 PM (SJqcE)

209

This is exactly what the left have to resort to.
Blackmail and lies.

This whole idea of climate change has been so rejected that they had to take extreme measures.

These f***ers are crazy. Sorry, for the swear word, but they are absolutely f'ing crazy.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 23, 2015 07:10 PM (IXrOn)

210 Posted by: Yip at March 23, 2015 07:06 PM (84SRe)

That is an absolutely fantastic and brilliant idea. I would love to see Ben Shapiro, for example, ask some pointed questions of the candidates. I trust our side to not sugarcoat issues, nor ask gotcha questions, and model to the MSM how to be a decent journalist. Which means, of course, unless the right person works to get all the stars to align it will never happen.

Posted by: LizLem at March 23, 2015 07:12 PM (yRwC8)

211 If you give government $$ you earned, they will give it to someone who, likely, didn't. (The problem of other men's wives.)
If you give government power, they will use it to f**k you. (The problem of evil.)

Discuss.
Make the rest of us live while you learn from your mistakes, majority.

Posted by: Like, Duh at March 23, 2015 07:12 PM (XBF+S)

212 200 . . . Since when does the Chief of Staff make major foreign policy announcements?
Posted by: Jen the original
_______________________

Well, ValJar is currently quite busy negotiating a treaty with Iran and undermining Shrillary. President Stumblef#$k is heavily medicated and can't bother to look up from the paper dolls he's made from his NCAA Tournament bracket. So why not have the Chief of Staph step in?

Posted by: Furious George at March 23, 2015 07:12 PM (UlJ3l)

213 Every friggin prediction these climate alarmists have made has been proven wrong.

A computer model simply accepts your bullshit assumptions and does the math for you. They don't make your bullshit assumptions correct.

The Statists believe them because they provide a path to the end they want.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 23, 2015 07:13 PM (MMC8r)

214
obama has gone full blown hugo chavez

Posted by: kj at March 23, 2015 07:14 PM (lKyWE)

215 Yanno, we had some ideas for dealing with the agents of an out-of-control King...

Posted by: The Sons of Liberty at March 23, 2015 07:14 PM (amQXf)

216 You leave places like Central Europe, Korea, etc., when you WANT war. The U.S. Forces are Peace Makers just by their presence. No one country would ever go up against us, and they're too fractured to ally against us effectively. It works.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 23, 2015 07:15 PM (2cS/G)

217 Hey remember when Obama said he would use FEMA to make states do what he dictated to do?

No wait, Obama denied FEMA funds for disasters if the states didn't vote for him or were red states?

No wait wait, remember when Obama joked that he would audit his enemies?

Yeah, this coup happened in 2008 but we are really seeing it after 2012. Thanks dumb white leftists and the GOPe. Well played.

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at March 23, 2015 07:15 PM (WGm5T)

218 Life in a dictatorship. Fun huh?
Thanks again to the 52% assholes

Posted by: great big Banana Republic at March 23, 2015 07:15 PM (+kznc)

219 obama has gone full blown hugo chavez

Not yet ... but he will.

And folks - take note of all the Government Employees that willingly go with him. That will include numerous people in uniforms.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 23, 2015 07:15 PM (oKFzc)

220 You ain't seen nuttin yet. I Val Jar and I....well you will see them when we are ready.

Posted by: Obama at March 23, 2015 07:16 PM (WNERA)

221 Time to put FEMA on the Hit List of agencies to be shuttered. Big ole target on FEMA

Posted by: great big Banana Republic at March 23, 2015 07:16 PM (+kznc)

222 well, fires in Texas and Colorado were not helped by the Feds.

Posted by: jb at March 23, 2015 07:16 PM (fXVB6)

223 148
When they can actually prove AGW outside their computers I'll start
paying attention. Until then it is politics dressed up as science.
Fuck'em
Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 23, 2015 06:43 PM (WNERA)

Infidel! I kill you!

Posted by: Zombie Achmed Obama Taste Tester at March 23, 2015 07:16 PM (5CWXs)

224 Didn't the Greenpeace founder just say AGW is bs.

Posted by: HugoStiglitz at March 23, 2015 07:17 PM (Moh0M)

225 What I want to know is:
How is "climate change" even a threat?
All the climate does is change. Chicago used to be under a mile of ice sheet, for crying out loud.
The vikings used to grow grapes in Greenland. The Sahara used to be a jungle.
Who in their right mind can purport to prevent any of this? And what is the perfect temperature? How do we change a dynamic planet in to a static environment?
It such an obvious scam.

Posted by: Thor's feather duster at March 23, 2015 07:17 PM (JgC5a)

226 God is not amused.

Posted by: crusader rabbit at March 23, 2015 07:17 PM (frYU/)

227 Maytag repairman? Pffft!

Posted by: Hill to Die On at March 23, 2015 07:18 PM (fIZMA)

228 17 What Patrick Henry said.

Hint: We're not getting liberty.

Posted by: despair at March 23, 2015 07:18 PM (J6suc)

229 #69: "We're in a ditch, lined up like sardines waiting for the bullet to the neck."

Friedrich Jeckeln would be happy to know his "sardine packing" methods still work.

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 23, 2015 07:19 PM (amQXf)

230 For all intend and purposes, we now live in a dictatorship.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 23, 2015 07:19 PM (rDqRv)

231 225 Obama admin has forced the Pentagon to do study after study of how climate change will effect them and how to mitigate against it.

Posted by: steevy at March 23, 2015 07:19 PM (KETbL)

232 @222... jb nails it. Obama ignored pleas for help with the massive forest fires while they were ongoing and then with FEMA playing games with those that filed for disaster relief. Same for the little town that blew up with the fertilizer place near Waco... can't remember.. This administration and it's bureaucrats are petty and vile.

Posted by: Yip at March 23, 2015 07:20 PM (84SRe)

233 Friedrich Jeckeln would be happy to know his "sardine packing" methods still work.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 23, 2015 07:19 PM (amQXf)

yeah all these Nazi and Holocaust reference are a tad over the top and not in really good taste

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 23, 2015 07:20 PM (rDqRv)

234 Obama already withheld FEMA aide to Texas and Arizona. Fascists got to fascist.

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at March 23, 2015 07:21 PM (WGm5T)

235 Only Peace Duck can fight this outrage... and I would link pictures, but the Google image search leads to Lardygreatfatballs pictures of the DC anti-war protest where Peace Duck was first seen.

Posted by: Peace Duck, Quack! at March 23, 2015 07:21 PM (76HNm)

236 Posted by: Annoying commercial on Rush at March 23, 2015 06:21 PM (z/Ubi)

In all of conservative talk radio, is there even *one* quality advertiser? I can't think of one.

Posted by: despair at March 23, 2015 07:21 PM (J6suc)

237 We're mad as hell and we're not gonna take this any more!

Posted by: States of the New Secession Movement at March 23, 2015 07:22 PM (lG2E3)

238 Since the science in the 70s was we were all going to freeze to death. And they have changed from global warming to climate change. Red state Governors just need to prepare for the new cooler temps. Which means do nothing at all southern states.

Posted by: Robinson at March 23, 2015 07:22 PM (W2Cji)

239 230
For all intend and purposes, we now live in a dictatorship.

Yeah we know and we are doing everything that is still on the table to stop this. When we get veto proof majorities in the HOR and senate AND a republican president this will stop...or slow down...

Posted by: Republican Leadership Waiting For A Hill at March 23, 2015 07:23 PM (WGm5T)

240 @193 Those who are ignorant of the history of Iceland are doomed. Period. Inform yourself, and you have a chance in a stochastic system.
(I will not adduce aesthetics now, but it is involved.)
Where should you live? Where do you invest in the land-they-don't make-more-of-except-in-Iceland?

How was the first settlement in Iceland located?
Do you build a house in tornado alley without study?
Cape Hatteras?
Minot?

Posted by: Leif Ericson's paternal grampa at March 23, 2015 07:23 PM (XBF+S)

241 207 >>Disaster preparedness not disaster relief.

Still not buying it. We hit a 60 year low on tornado activity last year and after this winter more and more deniers are springing up. Every friggin prediction these climate alarmists have made has been proven wrong.

I think Obama has just handed Republicans presidential candidates a gift if they are smart enough to use it. This is big government bullshit in the extreme and a prime example of why government needs to be cut.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 23, 2015 07:10 PM (g1DWB)

And you really think that they at going to let facts get in the way of blaming a republican governor for not being better prepared all because he refused to admit the "truth" of the danger of man made global warming?

Posted by: Buzzion at March 23, 2015 07:23 PM (z/Ubi)

242 Will Goobernor Moonbeam be penalized for building a choo-choo that goes fast instead of sea walls?

Posted by: Hank at March 23, 2015 07:23 PM (/ujVT)

243 A computer model simply accepts your bullshit assumptions and does the math for you. They don't make your bullshit assumptions correct.

The Statists believe them because they provide a path to the end they want.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 23, 2015 07:13 PM (MMC8r)

According to Large computer simulations... Germany won WW2... at least every time I play as Germany in the computer simulation 'Cross of Iron'...

Posted by: BB Wolf at March 23, 2015 07:24 PM (qh617)

244 "Didn't the Greenpeace founder just say AGW is bs."

One of the founders.

However, no one who had any involvement of any kind with Greenpeace in its early years should ever again be trusted on any subject whatsoever. End of transmission.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 23, 2015 07:25 PM (noWW6)

245 Under my rule? FEMA Fun Camps! Take that conspiracy theorists!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton, Big Sistah Loves You at March 23, 2015 07:27 PM (yRwC8)

246 Interpretation: More subsidized/mandated PIV/Wind wasters. That's the only way that shit is getting installed now.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2015 07:27 PM (F2IAQ)

247 Before I dispense Ambien I need to review your medical history a bit further.
Yes, what I thought. Please hand me your firearm permit.

Posted by: Dr Barry at March 23, 2015 07:27 PM (xkhWm)

248 We are all proud of Presdernt Obama and this initiative. What have you idiots done to give the children a better world????

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 23, 2015 07:27 PM (Sd++4)

249 242 Will Goobernor Moonbeam be penalized for building a choo-choo that goes fast instead of sea walls?
Posted by: Hank at March 23, 2015 07:23 PM (/ujVT)

made me laugh

Posted by: Obama at March 23, 2015 07:27 PM (WNERA)

250 Earth First! to given the task of policing, no doubt.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2015 07:28 PM (F2IAQ)

251 Hoooly shit.

This is unreal.

Posted by: SpaceCommie at March 23, 2015 07:28 PM (EOnrD)

252
what if the state has navigable waterways or container ports?

Posted by: kj at March 23, 2015 07:28 PM (lKyWE)

253 I support this idea. No, really. I don't want any money from FEMA or the federal government, or the state, or the city.

There is a catch. I am reducing my taxes by 3 times the amount that FEMA would have paid (I assume only 1/3 of what I pay in taxes every has a prayer of being paid out anywhere to anyone. See, I'm actually generous).

Posted by: Damiano at March 23, 2015 07:28 PM (AEQXb)

254 We will also need to control the state houses and governorships of 34 states...wait WHAT???

Posted by: Republican Leadership Waiting For A Hill at March 23, 2015 07:28 PM (WGm5T)

255 What have you idiots done to give the children a better world????
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 23, 2015 07:27 PM (Sd++4)

Defended The Constitution for one

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 23, 2015 07:28 PM (rDqRv)

256 I'm listening to Cruz's speech... and it struck me that a lot of what he was speaking to, his audience.... college kids, have no frame of reference for. They know little of health insurance... jobs,... the lot. A nice beginning, but it could have a better crowd for that speech OR a tailored speech for college kids about their dreadful future and how to relate to their peers who consistently vote libtard or libetarian.

Posted by: Yip at March 23, 2015 07:28 PM (84SRe)

257 Well, if you need a reason to support Cruz:

@Mediaite: Rep. Peter King Threatens to Jump Off a Bridge if Cruz Gets GOP Nomination http://bit.ly/1BJjCHR

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 23, 2015 07:29 PM (JBzwC)

258 "We hit a 60 year low on tornado activity last year and after this winter more and more deniers are springing up. Every friggin prediction these climate alarmists have made has been proven wrong."

Commiefornia's own Senator Babs Boxer is on record having said at one point that record low snowfall levels (at that time a thing) were absolutely conclusive and irrefutable evidence of global warming.

Boxer is also on the record saying at a later point that record high snowfall levels (at that later time a thing) were also absolutely conclusive and irrefutable evidence of global warming.

So that about wraps it up for the skeptics. Give it up, you ridiculous "deniers". Senator Ma'am has you outflanked.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 23, 2015 07:29 PM (noWW6)

259 This is so beyond illegal and wrong. Just when I think the asshole can't get worse he does. This is why I've cut down on drinking....my liver can't take it for his remaining term.

Posted by: Cheri at March 23, 2015 07:29 PM (ZFPMM)

260 Some kind of language about "pretended legislation" keeps running through my head. Nobody voted for this...

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 23, 2015 07:29 PM (3HxZe)

261 >>> @Mediaite: Rep. Peter King Threatens to Jump Off a Bridge if Cruz Gets GOP Nomination http://bit.ly/1BJjCHR

Promises promises...I'm still waiting for Alec Baldwin to hightail it to Canada for good.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton, Big Sistah Loves You at March 23, 2015 07:30 PM (yRwC8)

262 This is what a white privileged president would do.

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at March 23, 2015 07:30 PM (WGm5T)

263 "I'm listening to Cruz's speech... and it struck me that a lot of what he was speaking to, his audience.... college kids, have no frame of reference for. They know little of health insurance... jobs,... the lot."

Next week, they'll have a visit from Princess Running Joke, who will tell them that she plans to have the feds absorb and write off every penny of their student loan debts. THAT they'll understand.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 23, 2015 07:30 PM (noWW6)

264 Off pantsuit sock!

Posted by: LizLem at March 23, 2015 07:30 PM (yRwC8)

265
did he specify the height of the bridge?

Posted by: kj at March 23, 2015 07:31 PM (lKyWE)

266 Rep. Peter King Threatens to Jump Off a Bridge if Cruz Gets GOP Nomination

Sold.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 23, 2015 07:32 PM (MMC8r)

267 My friends, in red states, we have nothing to fear with Barak Heussein Obama as president.

Oh and BUILD THE DAMN FENCE!!!!argh

Posted by: John McCain, Card Carring Maverick at March 23, 2015 07:32 PM (WGm5T)

268 After her 5th nightcap, will Hillary be ready for that 3 am call? Don't tell me about as ready as choom boy all choomed up.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 23, 2015 07:32 PM (WNERA)

269 Get this: new one

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 23, 2015 07:33 PM (JBzwC)

270 Yeah... nood..... Iranian style

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at March 23, 2015 07:34 PM (84SRe)

271 A state should issue a preliminary report for comment that suggests mitigation take the form of a FEMA camp where surplus population (the real cause of AGW) can be held pending their trial for crimes against humanity. Gulag has a very low carbon footprint.

Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at March 23, 2015 07:35 PM (uPxUo)

272 @117: "Yes, I agree that the GOP has been a progressive socialist party. No argument there.

But the Democrats have gone full fascist. Even Mussolini would be a
little stunned at Obama's (and in the future, Hillary's) audacity and
totalitarianism.

Yes, the GOP has lurched far to the left, and now stands where the Democrats used to stand about 15 years ago. But the Democrats have since then lurched even farther to the left, and are now out in Stalin territory."

Eisenhower sent Federal troops into a State during his administration - the Dems haven't tried that one since Grover Cleveland. So the GOP has been pretty cool with Statist power for quite a while - hell, it was *founded* in part on the idea that Federal power had primacy over State power.

You're also mixing your political metaphors - fascists (like Mussolini) are national socialists. Communists (like Stalin) are international socialists - the two don't really like each other much. The GOP are more the former, the Dems are more the latter.

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 23, 2015 07:35 PM (amQXf)

273 Rep. Peter King Threatens to Jump Off a Bridge if Cruz Gets GOP Nomination
>>>

See we were waiting for the hill the GOPe would die on. What they want is a Bridge. So Obamacare is a bridge start fighting GOPe.

Posted by: Robinson at March 23, 2015 07:35 PM (W2Cji)

274 But it was Bush who hated the people of New Orleans?

Obama could hold back money during the next hurricane and people would still think he was the good guy.

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 23, 2015 07:35 PM (0xTsz)

275 I think Cruz was smart to pick Liberty to announce his run.

He knew it would be a mostly supportive crowd, and he could lay out his overall policy, for now.

Posted by: seamrog at March 23, 2015 07:36 PM (rhMKr)

276 Taxing people for disaster coverage, then withholding such coverage also conjures the phrase "taxation without representation" for some strange reason, too.

Why do these phrases sound familiar?

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 23, 2015 07:37 PM (3HxZe)

277 <y friends if Obama were to hold back funds and assistance to a white red state it would be nothing to fear.

Posted by: John McCain, Card Carring Maverick at March 23, 2015 07:38 PM (WGm5T)

278 I have a fifty that say within the next 18 months Obama declares that FEMA will not assist any area with more than 80% white people.

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at March 23, 2015 07:41 PM (WGm5T)

279 Rep. Peter King Threatens to Jump Off a Bridge

I was always partial to the long walk off a short pier.

Posted by: DaveA at March 23, 2015 07:44 PM (DL2i+)

280 @233: "yeah all these Nazi and Holocaust reference are a tad over the top and not in really good taste"

Democide is rarely tastefully done. It's not here yet, you can see the smoke on the horizon. Every day, the Statists demonize us all a little bit more. It used to be sort of comical. Then it was annoying. Every year, they get bolder and more outrageous. Think of who their heroes are: most of history's greatest mass-murderers. The further down this road we go, the more likely the distasteful outcome.

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 23, 2015 07:49 PM (amQXf)

281 Yeah. Well, check this out. Feds asking banks to report on people withdrawing their own cash.

http://t.co/u9YPwkZJvv

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 23, 2015 07:54 PM (DmNpO)

282 AH hell.

It's Infowars. Damn you, Drudge.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 23, 2015 07:54 PM (DmNpO)

283 @279: "I was always partial to the long walk off a short pier."

Oh, give me a plank that looks out on the sea,
Way-hay and blow the man down
It's a short little walk bound for eternity,
Way-hay and blow the man down

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 23, 2015 07:55 PM (amQXf)

284 Lets integrate databases of the DMV, firearm background checks, healthcare records, IRS and voter registration.
What could go wrong?

Posted by: Barac Peron at March 23, 2015 08:02 PM (xkhWm)

285 The aid in question is for pre-disaster preparedness -- preparing for hurricanes, floods, etc.

Failure to prepare for predictable natural events can/will make that event into a man made disaster.

And we all know what "man made disaster" is an Obama euphemism for _______ism.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 23, 2015 08:12 PM (NaeCR)

286 They can stuff their aid. Bar FEMA from the state. It will make it harder to put us into the "Fun Camps".

Posted by: The Walking Dude at March 23, 2015 08:26 PM (Ez1JD)

287 @285: "And we all know what "man made disaster" is an Obama euphemism for _______ism."

Ooh, ooh, I know - "What is Onanism", right, Alex?

Posted by: Harry Reid, now with 50% less pederasty at March 23, 2015 08:31 PM (amQXf)

288 Wanna know what's awesome about this??? During oral arguments at the SCOTUS for the Obamacare subsidy case, Kennedy raised an argument, that if adopted by the Supreme Court, would make this kind of administrative action unconstitutional (though probably uphold the subsidies). I hope the conservatives prevail in the subsidy case, but there would be a silver lining if they follow Kennedy's argument.

Posted by: Crispian at March 23, 2015 08:35 PM (9wqgC)

289 Yeah. Well, check this out. Feds asking banks to report on people withdrawing their own cash.

They already do this. & if you try to get around it by withdrawing less than the reporting threshold, they'll freeze your bank account & prosecute you for "structured withdrawals" (& you won't qualify for a pro-bono lawyer, because you have money in the bank, & you can't hire a lawyer because your money is frozen).

Posted by: Hibiscuits Credit-Unions at March 23, 2015 10:00 PM (Q819Q)

290 Really now, lets stop fighting abortion. Who is getting all of those abortions after all? Its better than paying for their welfare for 79 years, really. Its not like any of those, from those kinds of communities, are going to really contribute much to society in the bigger scheme of things. They were only going to take up space in jails, not cure cancer. Get real. If God really wants them here, he will put them back onto the wheel and make a better choice for them the next time around.

Posted by: goon at March 23, 2015 10:50 PM (gNTQS)

291 The engineering company I work for helps small communities develop their hazard mitigation plans. The Feds require the States to develop these plans to receive Federal money in the event of a disaster.

What the States do is they push the mandate down to the local municipalities. Here in Georgia, its pushed down to the County level. Each County (with each incorporated jurisdiction) is required to update their plan every 5 years....or they get $0 if a tornado destroys their town.

The State gives grants to the Countys...so the money the State gets from the Feds is dispersed to each County.

The cost of updating the plans can be as little as $15k. The ones I have worked on have been in the $20-$30k range. It depends on how large the county is and how urbanized it is. I mainly deal with rural counties.

This is the perfect example of how the Federal purse can be used to change behavior. Each of these counties doesn't have the 20-30k needed to update the plan...at least not they way FEMA wants them updated...with the data that is required. Small Counties have to hire engineers/planners who can help them.

If they do not get the State grant, they will not be able to afford the cost of updating the plan without passing that cost onto the taxpayers by having to either cut services somewhere or raise the millage rate.

So the Feds have you over a barrel. If you DONT toe the line, you get no money for your plan...if you DONT have a plan, you get no Federal disaster money....so you have no choice...

I guess that means, unless this changes, I will be having to add Global warming-cooling-change-weather to my plans.

That is going to sting....

Posted by: Mike Talley at March 24, 2015 09:11 AM (O72ur)

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