Why won’t Mitt Romney come clean on how he really feels about FEMA?

Ed has already covered Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 2011 comments that he’d love to not only do away with FEMA, but also privatize disaster relief, but I find it extremely telling that Mitt Romney (version 2012) really, really really doesn’t want to answer questions about whether he still supports…

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Is this the first Hurricane Sandy-related anti-Obama attack?

According to a report in SFGate.com, a woman in northern Virginia received this piece of attack literature on her doorstep this morning. According to the SFGate.com report, the literature was produced by Americans for Tax Reform, an anti-tax group run by Grover Norquist. You may remember Norquist as a prominent…

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Donald Trump is one class act!

Here’s the response of Mitt Romney supporter Donald Trump in the wake of the devastation wrought upon tens of millions of Americans by Hurricane Sandy. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/263281113416486912 Yeah, Donald Trump is one caring, compassionate, and classy guy!

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When is “storm relief” not “storm relief?” When Mitt Romney’s involved!

As I asked in the title of this entry, when is “storm relief” not “storm relief?” The answer is simple…when Mitt Romney’s involved! On Monday Romney’s campaign announced Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would focus their efforts Tuesday on helping people affected by the wrath of Hurricane Sandy, earning the…

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Mitt Romney: We don’t need no stinkin’ FEMA

OK…I apologize…I got carried away with the paraphrase in the headline. What Mr. Romney actually said is the federal government should pass disaster recovery on to the states or even better on to private enterprise where ever possible. So those of you on the east coast who have lost power,…

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