Rep. Eric Cantor: Spending cuts in exchange for Missouri tornado aid

[TomCADem]

Source: The State Column

Virginia U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor said Tuesday that any spending costs associated with federal disaster funding for Joplin, Missouri, tornado victims must be offset with spending cuts.

The Virginia Republican said “if there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental.”

The House Republican leader is the first to push for spending cuts related to the disaster that has already claimed over 100 lives. Democrats slammed the Republican leader, saying it amounted to “ransom.”

Rep. Billy Long, who represents the district impacted by the disaster, said Tuesday that he is pushing for federal emergency funding. It remains unclear whether he supports Mr. Cantor’s call for spending cuts.



Read more: http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/rep-eric-cantor-spending-cuts-in-exchange-for-missouri-aid/

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But, of course, repealing tax cuts or tax breaks to oil companies is off the table. I guess the Republicans are using the tornado as leverage to push their efforts to privitize Medicare. Will Republicans be held accountable?

[WI_DEM]

1. Well Speaker Boehner what do you think? you are from Missouri

does this idiot speak for you too?

[sasha031]

4. Boehner is from Ohio

[WI_DEM]

6. Whoops my boo-boo.

[sasha031]

8. Poverty in John Boehner's District

For forty years, Tina Osso has worked on food and poverty issues serving nearly all of speaker John Boehner’s 8th Congressional District of Ohio. She came to that work in 1973, when the oil embargo resulted in her losing her job, and she unexpectedly found herself in line at a food pantry, where she began volunteering.

Ten years later, she founded the Shared Harvest Foodbank where she still serves as executive director today. The food bank distributes food to pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, nutrition programs for seniors and children, and operates antipoverty programs as well.
Osso describes herself as “an aging hippie, a political activist and a stand-up comedian wannabe, trying her best to do the right thing at the right time.” But among her colleagues she’s earned a reputation as “a longtime people’s advocate,” according to Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks in Columbus.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/159861/poverty-john-boehners-district

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Not LBN. If fact, they decided to cancel a $1 Billion fund to aid in developing fuel

efficient automobiles.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/24/joplin-missouri-tornado-h_n_866242.html


The Appropriations panel approved the measure by voice vote as an amendment to a measure funding the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other Department of Homeland Security programs for the 2012 fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.

The disaster aid package would be financed by a $1.5 billion cut from a loan program to encourage the production of fuel-efficient vehicles. That means the new spending wouldn't add to out-of-control budget deficits.

[crazylikafox]

7. Great. Pay for climate change created disaster by promoting more climate change.

Typical rethugs.

[Andy823]

9. And once again

The winner is "BIG OIL"! The more money they keep from going to alternative sources of energy, the bigger profits oil companies and speculators can make by screwing the people! It's the republican way!:mad:

[TomCADem]

25. A GOP House Leader Threatening To Kill Aide To Tornado Victims Is Not LBN?

Eric Cantor is not some backbencher. He is the #2 Republican in the House behind Boehner.

[JackintheGreen]

3. Fine. Cut govt. pork to VA first. n/t

[Mz Pip]

5. I wonder how many votes

for the GOP Cantor lost with this mean spirited pronouncement. Does he really think the voters in MO or in any other state that gets hit with natural disasters are going to be ammenable to this?

It isn't the time to be a bully when people are hurting.

Is there any chance this toad can lose in 2012? Is he that popular in VA?

[atreides1]

13. Demographics for his District

The total population of the district is 643,499. Median Age for the district is 37.1 years. 79.1% of the district is white, 16.2% Black or African American, 2.3% Asian and 2.0% Hispanic or Latino. Owner-occupied housing is 72.8% and Renter-occupied housing is 27.2%. The median value of single-family owner-occupied homes is $128,800. 84.9% of the district population has at least a High School degree, 33.2% at least a Bachelor's degree or higher. 13.5% of the district are civilian veterans. 15.9% are of disability status (5 years or older). 4.8% are Foreign born and 6.8% speak a language other than English at home. 68.6% of the district is in the labor force, which consists of those 16 years and older. Mean travel time to work is 26.3 minutes. Median household income is $50,990. Per capita income is $25,861. 4.4% of the population account for families living below the poverty level, and 6.1% of individuals live below the poverty level.


There's always a chance, but that depends on how much support the Democratic Party is willing to give.

[louis-t]

16. He's hoping they won't notice.

People in MO are a little busy right now.

[bongbong]

19. Voting Machines

The folks down at our friendly electronic voting machine companies added a new subroutine called restore_cantor_votes(). It figures any losses in repig votes due to cantor's actions, and adds them to the other Dem votes that were already going to be switched with existing software.

[plumbob]

10. Let's see, I want to be careful. I want to be sure I say what I really mean.

FUCK YOU, CANTOR! FUCK YOU!

[CherokeeDem]

17. Agreed...nt

[Andy823]

11. Here is my dream

Next year we not only keep the WH, add new seats to the senate, but we also take back the house and we get Boehner's seat, Cantor's, Ryan's, and throw in Bachmann's as well! I would be a very happy person if that happened! :evilgrin:

[Plucketeer]

14. That's some AWFULLY high steppin', but....

...if these idiots keep flailing their constituents in the interests of their wealthy masters - there just might be a chance for it to happen! One can hope! :kick:

Edit: I predicted that the GOP's retaking of the house last year MIGHT prove their undoing. They might have gotten JUST ENOUGH rope to hang themselves with! And while it's a bit too early to predict their swinging, they're doing a great job of fashioning nooses for themselves.

[wtmusic]

12. Reprehensible. nt

[AlbertCat]

15. The heartland!

Ahhhh.... those folks who vote GOP idiots in and cry "keep the government out of my life!" all the time.


Well, I guess us coastal populated states will again bail out and subsidize those big empty "Heartland" states again. And why not... because we are one country, and we should help each other. But it's so annoying to help people who don't know who is helping them and pretend to not want or need the help.


Maybe Cantor can "cut" his salary to balance things out.

[Iliyah]

18. Corporate media

is not spouting this, maybe only the night shows from MSNBC and sites like this. Gopers don't care about America.

[Blue_Tires]

20. Isn't Joplin a 'red' district as well?

And the fact that their own representative isn't howling mad with outrage speaks volumes...

As always, it's we the people who lose...

[nyy1998]

21. It used to be Roy Blunt's district but since he retired, it's Billy Long who represents the district

Typical conservative, member of Springfield Chamber of Commerce and the NRA.

[Stainless]

22. Let's start by eliminating all Congressional Benefits & Perks......

Then reduce their salary to $40,000/year!

[kiranon]

23. Start by cutting all of Rep. Cantor's office budget and of others

who think this is the way to go.

[classysassy]

24. Foreign aide yes domestic aide no

Tell Eric to go suck on a lemon,the citizen in Virginia should kick that clown out of office.

[ronnie624]

26. Foreign 'aide' doesn't really help people.

It helps dictatorships that are friendly to U.S. business/political interests.