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I hesitate to politicize this inevitable horrific storm, but for all intents and purposes, I have to tell you that even in the face of disaster, Willard is still out of touch. I mean, really, even Fox News is reporting on Sandy's 900 mile path and what does the republican candidate for president say? He says:
I know that right now some people in the country are a little nervous about a storm about to hit the coast.Some people, Mitt? A little nervous, Willard? A storm?
There is an estimated 60 million people in the direct and indirect Sandy's path. And no one knows exactly what will happen when she hits. What they do know is that Sandy is own her way in from the east and will collide with a nor'easter coming from the west. While I am not a meteorologist, I have sense enough to know that when hurricane and nor'easter are used in the same sentence to forecast the weather as A STORM is probably not an adequate word to use. And that would make anyone in their right mind more than A LITTLE NERVOUS!!!
But, in all fairness, I suspect Willard's handlers probably wrote that out for him and made him swear not to go off script. And I suspect he was hurried off the stage before taking questions about disaster relief. I'm sure he forgot what he said, but I'm sure he stands behind whatever he said.
So, unless he does one of his proverbial flip-flops, Romney would leave it up to the
KING: What else, Governor Romney? You've been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I've been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it's the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we're learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that?
ROMNEY: Absolutely. 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. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.
Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut -- we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we're doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we're doing that we don't have to do? And those things we've got to stop doing, because we're borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we're taking in. We cannot...
KING: Including disaster relief, though?
ROMNEY: We cannot -- 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, knowing full well that we'll all be dead and gone before it's paid off. It makes no sense at all.
For All Intents & Purposes, So Glad You Stopped By!
HeB
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