On Morning Joe, everyone agrees what Romney said about FEMA was stupid and the government should

[politicaljunkie41910]

remain in control of disaster relief. Even Joe says that Romney was laim to have said that and FEMA is one of the things that the federal government does right, and that he's been involved in FEMA coordinations meeting, and the people were truly professional and that's the kind of thing you need in a national emergency, yada, yada yada. Enter Mike Barnacle to say, well this is typical of candidates to say one thing on the circuit and another once they get in office. Barnicle says even President Obama did it once he was sworn into office and received certain security briefings, said "Whoa" and then took a different position than what he was says while campaigning. (And incidently, he didn't provide anything specific.)

This has to be Barnicle's lamest moment. To compare Businessman Romneys proposition that Disaster relief should be relegated to the states, with the thought that President Obama might be exposed to information received in classified security briefings after becoming President that provided him with new information on threat assessments or our nation's vulnerabilities which might make him take a different position than one he espoused on the campaign circuit is just assinine. I feel like I lose brain cells, just listening to Barnicle.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Bush disliked FEMA for the same reasons Romney does: it violates conservative principles

They can pretend that this was some kind of meaningless one-off, but we saw what happened when the last conservative with a dislike for FEMA got into office: he gutted FEMA, put some know-nothing flunky in charge of it as a patronage appointment, and generally considered major natural disasters to be a state and local matter. And many hundreds of people died needlessly for those decisions.

Dead people floating in water in a major American city.

That's what you got last time you had an anti-FEMA conservative in office.

Make no mistake: Romney believes just as Bush did that FEMA is an unnecessary agency, ripe for cuts. He actually means what he tells you when he tells you the conservative line.

[Bad Thoughts]

7. He liked it when FEMA agents handed out checks in Florida

He hated when FEMA had to house and feed people.

[wildeyed]

11. Great post.

Should be an OP, you make a great point. People need to remember Katrina and what happened last time a president who hated FEMA was in charge.

[AlinPA]

2. That Morning Joe is a stupid program. The hosts are all fools.

[faithfulcitizen]

6. Man, so true...get some new faces for crying out loud.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

9. And yet dozens here hang on his every word

[Faith9326]

10. I agree

I hate how everyone on that show acts like they know everything. It's so annoying.

[Vidar]

3. Romney is ripe for a thousand cuts (cf Chinese torture).

[GeorgeGist]

4. Plagiaristic journalists

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[CTyankee]

5. Barnicle doesn't know what he's talking about! It's just a meme they repeat on that show

over and over again. Joe started saying it and now Barnicle mouths it.

All I wanted to say to Barnicle today was: "Were you there, Charlie?"

[reflection]

8. The lesson to be learned is that

Romney just has a fawning, worshipful view of the private sector that isn't validated by reality. There are some things the private sector does well and some things the government does well. But this current crop of Republicans has a viewpoint of government similar to that of a shambling Frankenstein's view of fire. YEARRGGHHH... GOVERNMENT BAD!

Throw in the rank hypocrisy of Mitt's sucking from the government teat his entire life and the whole dynamic becomes even more revolting. I swear, if this piece of dog crap is elected I will probably throw up in my toilet next Tuesday just thinking about the opportunity this country will have squandered, merely to remove a black man from office.