Posted on 09/26/2011 9:57:44 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain — fresh off a surprise victory in the Florida straw poll that has re-energized his campaign — broke with House Republicans on Monday and urged Congress to fund the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster-relief program now, regardless of whether they can tie budget offsets to the bill.
"I would make sure that FEMA got the money it needed, and if I had to go find the offsets later, go find it later. Stop playing with people's tragedies — these are real people we’re talking about," Cain said on CNN.
Cain argued that keeping the disaster programs funded now was more important than finding the immediate cuts, and suggested an agreement that would keep the program from becoming a "political football."
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Why can’t we do both? Besides, it’s the rats that are holding this up. We can’t wait until the stars align themselves. The crises is getting closer and closer.
I think I agree with Cain on this one.
America is more generous and expeditious with aid to foreign countries...
Careful Herman. Nothing you do will make the other side like you.
I agree with Grover Cleveland.
What keeps FEMA from being treated as a stand alone bill with nothing else riding on it?
I thought the issue was that the Dems had pushed a bunch of green-jobs crap into the FEMA bill. Not funding the green jobs scam is a fight worth having, IMO.
So I take it that, as long as we have FEMA to come rushing in with taxpayer money regardless of how stupid the risk, we don't need an insurance industry to manage competing risks and we don't need people preparing for risks. Let the Federal government decide what constitutes acceptable risks and bail people out regardless. Right?
Cain should know better.
stop the madness.
I think he knows that already. Let’s say the GOP to be good sports initiates a FEMA-only bill in the House. By the time the Senate gets through with it, it will have a ton of Rat sweeteners in it. This is where Boehner should show America what the Rats did to this serious bill.
New tats and lap dances, bring on the cards!
I don’t.
The problem is the democrats are controlling the story again.
Republicans passed the bill. The democrats are the ones holding it up because funding comes from things like the Chevy Volt any solyndra. We would not be having this problem if Zero and the democrats had come up with a budget.
It’s a winning message if someone would just pick it up and run with it.
I see what he is doing. The Dems are using this as a weapon so he is advising to take the weapon away from them while keeping our side of the issue on the table. Interesting strategic move.
TWC was hammering away at this early this AM.... Interupted the weather to educate us with their “experts” that any shutdown would hurt FEMA and thus all the people who desperately need their (our) money.
TWC sucks.
True, unless the bill puts limits on what FEMA can do with the dough, this is asking for trouble. Obama is not your average fox. He’s not just cunning, he’s evil.
LLS
Prices dems don’t give a rats a.ss about the PEOPLE. I agree. Help the disaster victims now. Learn what battles to pick. This is not one if them
Most Freepers are probably too young to remember the pre-FEMA time when "insurance" was how these disasters were handled.
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