GOPer: 'Future Katrina Victims Don't Deserve Emergency Aid'

By Jed Lewison, Daily Kos
Posted on July 22, 2009, Printed on July 23, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://www.dailykos.com//141497/

Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wants to make sure nobody thinks the GOP has even one single ounce of empathy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xnUVrJx1I

Let's agree that we're going to have PAYGO enforcement.  That we're not going to cry 'emergency' every time we have a Katrina, every time we have a Tsunami, every time we have a need for extra spending, that we don't go call for a special appropriation that allows us to circumvent the PAYGO rules. Congresswoman Blackburn, you are wrong. Nearly 1,500 people died as a result of Katrina. The notion that our budget process should forbid providing emergency aid to help save lives in future Katrinas isn't just crazy, it's cruel and inhumane. © 2009 Daily Kos All rights reserved. View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://www.dailykos.com//141497/