natural disasters

Hurricane Irene is continuing to gain steam in the Atlantic and is now predicted to reach Cat-4 status late Thursday, right before it hits the eastern seaboard of Florida. It will continue up the coast and weaken to a still strong Cat 3 as it hits Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia. Here is the current path projection from the NHC:

This storm has the very real possibility of causing serious damage. Given the struggling economies of the states, it's a safe bet that they will request federal aide to recover. That makes me wonder about a representative from one of the targeted states, Eric Cantor.

Remember back in May when Joplin, Mo. was flattened by an EF-5 tornado? An entire U.S. town was devastated, but when it came time to help we saw Eric Cantor use the disaster to push a poetical agenda. 

The No. 2 House Republican said that if Congress doles out additional money to assist in the aftermath of natural disasters across the country, the spending may need to be offset.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said “if there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental.”

Here we go with more of the dumbasses on the right and their constant search for a new outrage. This week it appears to be the fact that Obama played golf this weekend, and it’s his 10th round in as many weeks. Here’s Gateway Pundit:

It's the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Dear Leader was able to squeeze in another game of golf this weekend.
The Hill reported:

I wonder if Obama ignored any presidential daily briefings say “Bin Laden determined to attack” while golfing? What American cities did we lose to natural disasters while Obama enjoyed a little off time?

And the craziness doesn’t stop there:

Thankfully, his last name is not 'Bush,' or the state-run media would be merciless.

That link Gateway Dumbass posts goes to a Michael Moore video. Now Michael Moore is “state-run media”?

True Gateway takes his breaks rather often also. Here he is enjoying a beer between blog posts:

After Bush won the 2004 election he vowed to unite our divided country. Well
in a way he has:

Governors of both parties said Sunday that Bush administration policies
were stripping the National Guard of equipment and personnel needed to
respond to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, forest fires and other
emergencies.

 Tens of thousands of National Guard members have been sent to Iraq,
along with much of the equipment needed to deal with natural disasters and
terrorist threats in the United States, the governors said here at the
winter meeting of the National Governors Association.

The National Guard, which traces its roots to the colonial militia, has a
dual federal-state role. Governors normally command the Guard in their
states, but Guard members deployed overseas in support of a federal mission
are under the control of the president.

The governors said they would present their concerns to President Bush
and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday. In a preview of their
message, all 50 governors signed a letter to the president opposing any cuts
in the size of the National Guard.

Article continues

here.

With hurricane season rapidly approaching and predictions of it being another
bad one, this should really be a major concern. Bush vowed to fix problems
exposed on the federal level after the Katrina report came out last week. One of
the major problems was a lack of National Guard troops available to respond.
Sadly we all know he won't listen to the warnings and try to get our National
Guard home were they belong.