Budgeting Disaster Relief for Oklahoma

[ClydeR]

Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma vows to filibuster any federal disaster relief for tornado victims in Oklahoma unless the aid is offset by cuts to the budget elsewhere. Coburn is being consistent with his position when other parts of the country were struck by disasters. We can only hope that Okalhoma's other members of Congress will also be consistent.


Coburn was against the Sandy relief package, as well as 2011 legislation to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster fund. His office has noted that the 1995 aid for victims of the Oklahoma City bombing was balanced by cuts to unspent appropriations. However, he did ask for expedited FEMA aid in 2007, when an ice storm hit his state.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) also voted against Sandy aid. So did Oklahoma Reps. James Lankford, Jim Bridenstine, and Markwayne Mullin, all Republicans. Reps. Tom Cole and Frank Lucas, both Republicans, voted for the Sandy relief.

The Moore, Okla. tornado destroyed an area a mile wide and 20 miles long; 51 people have been confirmed dead. President Obama declared a major federal disaster late Monday and ordered federal aid.

More... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/21/tom-coburn-tornado-aid-must-be-offset/)

[ClydeR]

Uh oh. Looks like Inhofe is flipping. At least the three members of the House haven't flipped.


Inhofe: Tornado aid ‘totally different’ from Hurricane Sandy aid

More... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/21/inhofe-tornado-totally-different-from-hurricane-sandy/)

[Jarvan]

Uh oh. Looks like Inhofe is flipping. At least the three members of the House haven't flipped.

Yeah.. they almost always do when it's their people. One reason why agree or disagree with Coburn, you got to respect a man that sticks by his beliefs even when it could cost him an election.

[Latrinsorm]

I'm not sure how stubbornness compels my respect, or spitefulness. It is precisely the ability to compromise that makes a man noble.

[~Rocktar~]

I'm not sure how stubbornness compels my respect, or spitefulness. It is precisely the ability to compromise that makes a man noble.

No it isn't.

[Latrinsorm]

You are my son and you have always known my mind.

[ClydeR]

I'm not sure how stubbornness compels my respect, or spitefulness. It is precisely the ability to compromise that makes a man noble.

Noble? If there were a word for the opposite of noble, then that's what it would be. Nobility is making a plan and sticking to it no matter what.

"But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand." --Isaiah 32:8 (New International Version) Don't look it up in any other translation, especially not the King James Version, because this is the only one that gets it right.

[Latrinsorm]

Of course there is such a word: nonnoble, not to be confused with nonnable (and certainly not nnghable).

[Jarvan]

I'm not sure how stubbornness compels my respect, or spitefulness. It is precisely the ability to compromise that makes a man noble.

So if a US military person is capture and tortured, and they "compromise" by giving up secrets, they have acted in a noble manner. Whereas if the person stubbornly refuse to give up secrets, they are not noble?

Good to know.

[Latrinsorm]

See, it's posts like that that make me want to revisit my theory that you're a deep deep deep cover troll. Who else would respond to a Braveheart quote by referring to capture and torture?