Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Hargrove / Politics So Hurricane Katrina Wasn't An Emergency, Congressman Blackburn?
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Did a double-take when I heard this one. Unless I'm hallucinating, our very own Congressman Marsha Blackburn seems to be saying, for all the nation to hear, that we shouldn't be crying "Emergency!" every time we have a Hurricane Katrina. Last time I checked, that particular hurricane was the costliest in history, and one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States. So that doesn't qualify? Aren't the Hurricane Katrinas that befall this country the best times to consider "special appropriations" when our citizens are, you know, stranded and dying due to forces of nature beyond our control?
Update: Blackburn didn't mean it. "Clearly she misspoke," her flack Claude Chafin says. "Her thoughts were moving faster than her speech."
Update II: Democratic Party chair Chip Forrester piles on. "Her clueless remark either indicates she is misinformed about the legislation or insensitive about the tragic loss of life that occurred in Mississippi and Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina. Mrs. Blackburn should apologize not only to everyone who suffered a loss during that tragedy, but she should also apologize to every Tennessean who has suffered losses as a result of devastating tornadoes and flooding that occurs here in the state from time to time."
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Probably more of a heinous choice of words than a heinous mindset here, since her point seems to be that emergencies shouldn't be an excuse for special appropriations that "circumvent the pay-go rules."
Of course, Musha had no problem with special appropriations when the Bush administration used them every year for Iraq war funding so those hundreds of billions wouldn't "count" against the budget deficit.
But Musha is not about debates. Musha is about one-way soundbites.
By the way... "our" congressman? Better smile when you say that, pilgrim.
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"By the way... "our" congressman? Better smile when you say that, pilgrim."
The same smile you expect when you say Our President?
"Our president" would be correct, Emmett. See, here's how it works. There is one president for the whole country. (State nullification efforts don't work on that score.)
But there are 435 different Congressional districts, and so a Congressman/woman is your representative only if you live in their district. If you live in Nashville, where the Scene is published, Musha is not your congressman.
Alles klar?
The examples CongressMan Blackburn used were all true emergencies that would call for special appropriations unless there are funds earmarked for natural disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis.
Fox:
Musha says your facts are irrelevant to her rant.
Besides, facts will just confuse her base.
Technically, it is illegal in Tennessee to have a girlfriend when you have a wife.
That said, arguing as if someone really suggested that McNair's blood alcohol level justified his being shot, is a straw-man argument. You argue against the weak argument that nobody actually made, in order to seem to be scoring a point, but it just makes you look dumb. There are no bonus points, either, for the gratuitously graphic description of the actual murder.
Truth is better than fiction: you just can't make it any better than Marsha, Marsha, Marsha and Sarah Paleface.
Good lord...and we are thinking of moving to this state (which I love, by the way.)
We live in Ohio and we have John Boehner...
Are there no more intelligent people in this country?
what do you expect from a woman repo from brentwood---pawn of rich--real women think shes a joke
I guess Blackburn is so busy making her trips over to the C Street Bible Classes that she forgot that Christian Americans do not shun fellow Americans during catastropic events like Katrina. But then, after learning about the goings on among the boys at C Street, maybe Marsha is going over there looking for a little action.
