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Subscribe to RSSThe Hill calls out House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on disaster relief: “Cantor's insistence that federal disaster aid be offset elsewhere in the budget runs directly counter to his position in the past when the money went to help his Virginia district. In the summer of 2004, after Tropical Storm Gaston slammed into Richmond, Cantor was on the front lines of efforts to secure millions of dollars in federal assistance to clean the wreckage and repair damaged infrastructure. Although the funding was not offset, Cantor cheered its arrival.
“‘The magnitude of the damage suffered by the Richmond area is beyond what the Commonwealth can handle,’ Cantor said in a press release at the time, ‘and that is why I asked the President to make federal funds available for the citizens affected by Gaston.’”
The White House piled on: “Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Carney said the federal government’s priority should be to respond to the disaster. He also noted that Cantor (R-Va.) hadn’t demanded offsets when the Bush administration rang up ‘unprecedented bills.’”
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You new this would happen, Eric.
Now go wipe the egg off your face.
This guys a real piece of @!$%#.
Eric: "Those thousands of people suffering storm damage? The hell with 'em- this can be their Waterloo. We need to keep money for the wealthy in the pockets of the wealthy."
Cantor, what a bought and paid for loser. Vote him out.
Cantor THINKS HE IS POTUS. He was elected from a small district in VA. He will be the main reason the Baggers lose the House in 2012.
Shocker: Mike ‘Heckuva Job Brownie’ Brown Agrees With Eric Cantor On FEMA Offsets
by Jon Bershad | 1:40 pm, August 30th, 2011
It seems like one of the basic tenets of the American identity that’s been defined in the past few centuries is that we help people in need. It’s what we do. Sometimes it may completely backfire and sometimes we may have some ulterior motives, but that’s who we are and who we always have been. But what happens when we…can’t. With FEMA’s disaster-relief fund looking to be dangerously low, that appears to be the problem. Recently, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor took it upon himself to be the bad guy in this story, proposing that any additional funds (like those for Hurricane Irene) should be offset by set spending cuts. Unsurprisingly, this hasn’t been an entirely popular notion, however, there’s at least one guy who agrees with him; former FEMA administrator Mike Brown who discussed the proposal today on Fox News.
Brown is, of course, the “Brownie” in “Heckuva job, Brownie,” a man who will forever be linked with the disasters of Hurricane Katrina due to FEMA’s failings at the time and an unfortunate comment from President Bush (although, in the grand scheme of Bush nicknames, he could have done worse). He’s also a guy who knows a thing or two about the agency and its financial problems, saying today that “We have to start making these hard decisions facing the fiscal reality that the country is broke.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/shocker-mike-heckuva-job-brownie-brown-agrees-with-eric-cantor-on-fema-offsets/
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Is this where you’re getting your Disaster Response advice from Mr. Cantor
Might want to rethink your choice there Bunky.
After all we know how that turned out.
H@llava job there Brownie.
IR, Again Cantor must keep to the Republican script. He is willing to be the fall guy. The partisanship around FEMA funding is appalling. Another hurricane starting in the Atlantic, and Republicans stay with the "starve the beast" ideology. Meanwhile, flooding continues, houses ,infrastructure severely damaged...
Hope voters are watching in Virgina and throught the country.
What a 2 - faced putz! Give me the money and the he!! with everyone else. And he also had shorts that the US would default on its debt so he could make a killing in the market - So much for upholding the US Constitution - a true compassionless human being.
one can only hope what some of us see others will also see. the hypocrisy of the gotp when it comes to what they do and don't do when it is a republican president versus what they have and have not done when it is a democrat who is president. fema and disaster relief have always been a given, it is the right thing to do and it is what we americans do for one another. not now though.
one has been told our entire lives, "life is not fair." well, this president - this democratic president elected by an overwhelming majority of americans in this our representative form of government - has been handed crisis after crisis giving the gotp event after event the ability to hold hostage and get what they want. the worst economic downturn since the great depression waiting for him when he took office from these guys; government shutdown, debt ceiling, now disaster relief.
one would almost think, like robert johnson, the republicans had made a pact with the devil.
Cantor is nothing more than a little rat bastard weasel.
Each of you do realize that in 2004 when this hipocrit Cantor requested federal funds for his district; Obama wasn't president. He and the rest of the GOP/TP's goal is to cause as many problems as possible for the president; not caring what happens to the American people or the country. I hope the people in Virginia are paying attention and remember in 2012.
Good. It's about time Republicans started getting called out on this kind of taking-necessary-things-hostage crap.
Eric Cantor is a sanctimious BAST**D...his and the whole Republican Party/TEA Party goal is to defeat the sitting President at all costs...and to HE*L with what happens to this country or its people...it is past time that the voters of this country put aside partisan politics and elect real leaders...people who will do the right thing for the right reason for this country and the world and quit grandstanding for the cameras and the extremists out there.
I wish his state would recall him or vote him out. He is insane. Go Democrat this time.
He better not hold up money for these people. He sure never held up money for the wars they did not have.
What a loser. Kick him out!!!!
Cantor taking heat? Couldn't happen to a better little @!$%#.
Having survived THREE hurricanes in my lifetime (Andrew BEING THE WORST, Floyd and Isabel), I can tell you FIRST HAND on how people will feel an EXTREME sense of loss due to the fact that everything they had acquired in their life was suddenly ripped from them; and the need to feel safe and receive aid for their family is even more prevalent.
But that DOESN'T matter to people like Eric Cantor, who are WILLING to use the citizens who have suffered much from the storm and the earthquake as a bartering chip and leverage in order to get the Democrats to give in to the GOP/TP's demands for MORE tax breaks for the rich at the cost of severely cutting social programs.
Only a sick, depraved, vile AND despicable person would EVER consider such a dishonorable act.
As for Mike Brown "COMPLAINING" about how the Obama Administration went about dealing with Hurricane Irene: GIVEN how HE AND THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION handled "Katrina", he is the LAST DAMN PERSON to EVER criticize ANYONE on ANYTHING about handling a natural disaster!!!!!!!!
Here's an incompetent Yahoo trying to gain attention and he got it! Cantor is really who's in charge since the TEA party rendered the GOP mute and demoralized. This "do nothing-inhibit the president" Congress will again do nothing as their entire concentration is to stymie the president and kill every bill passed by the last Congress. This Congress has been taken over by the confrontational TEA party, rendering the GOP defunct and useless! I say we do away with Cantor district, Cantor's office, his wages and perks and benefits and use that money to fund a portion of the infrastructure destroyed by this hurricane!