We cats have launched a petition at whitehouse.gov that our good friends in the Obama Administration probably find irritating — and that many of you may also think is in poor taste. But here it is: We're against any federal disaster assistance going to the state of Oklahoma.
We don't care how correct and concerned Rachel Maddow is being about today's tornadoes, and that Oklahoma's teabagger Governor has already asked President Obama for help, and that the President has promised it. We are sorry that our federal tax dollars are going to this cause.
Yes, it's about Superstorm Sandy relief. (Three of five Oklahoma Congressmen voted against it.) Yes, it's about the teabag vilification of a decisively elected Democratic President. Yes, it's about denial of global warming. And yes, it's about Oklahoma refusing $50 million in federal money to implement Obamacare.
They won't accept subsidies for preventive healthcare, but they want emergency relief? Sorry, but that logic escapes us.
(And as one of our more sympathetic correspondents has pointed out: If the roles were reversed — and the Rushoids and the Freepers and their Republican friends believed in climate change — just imagine what they'd be saying about God's message to people who built suburbs without basements in them.)
You know what? Oklahoma gets back $1.35 for every dollar it sends to Washington. If the Sooner State dislikes the federal government so much, we cats say, let our tax dollars go to pay for wildfire relief in California. Here's the petition if you'd like to sign it.
(IMAGE: Superstorm Sandy. And now, sequestration is wreaking havoc on victims of this storm. Thanks for nothing, GOP.)
1 comment:
Any funding should be conditioned at least on full explanation from the House and Senate members regarding their position on the goper pledge to abolish the Department of Commerce (and the National Weather Service therein). Perhaps the tornado relief funding could be taken from the federal money going to OK to fight drought-driven wildfires and the drying up of massive amounts of farmland. Any disaster funding should require Medicaid expansion FIRST be fully funding with a wholehearted state embrace of Obamacare.
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