Originally published at: Turmoil at FEMA Adds to the Revolt Against Kristi Noem - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Kristi Noem faces intensifying public scrutiny over her leadership of the Department of Homeland Security. Criticism of the former South Dakota governor has focused on her handling of the killing of Alex Pretti by a federal immigration agent and her oversight…
Now Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and the rest of the southern states are complaining about the lack of FEMA support after the snow and ice. Should have voted for The Black Woman. Then you would have had FEMA support.
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Removing Noem would be an unmitigated disaster for certain hair/make-up artists, wardrobe mistresses, set designers and film crews.
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Kristi Noem and Sarah Palin: Separated at Birth??
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Disbursing reconstruction money and funding disaster planning is just really boring when you could be cutting Instagram videos wearing a big cowboy hat.
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Delays have also affected FEMA’ efforts to reduce the impact of future catastrophes. A Grist analysis found that the agency’s net spending on resilience grants declined over the past three quarters, even as climate-driven disasters intensified nationwide. The nonprofit news outlet NOTUS identified a $1.3 billion backlog of such allocations, the primary source of federal funding for states and cities seeking to harden infrastructure. FEMA terminated another climate resilience program last year, though a court has ordered it to reinstate that program.
In 2001 while I was still working for the federal Government, I handled a termination claim on a contract for maintaining and repairing levees that were protecting New Orleans.
A termination claim is where the Government decides something it has purchased is no longer needed and terminates the contract for convenience which “in the bis” is refereed to as a T for C. Basically, the Government pays for any completed work and the cost of any work in process.
Now I should not have to recount what would happen a few years later with unmaintained and unrepaired levees protecting New Orleans. But what I do need to mention, and why this is happening again, is that Democrats decided to “be forward looking” and not make Republicans pay a price to “doge” programs put into place by Democrats and terminated by Republicans to give tax reductions and subsidies to billionaires.
SO HERE WE ARE.
I do not know what harm will come with the criminal looting of our treasury and shear incompetence and lack of understanding what Government does by the Trump administration but note in hind sight it is very obvious the harm the Jr. Bush did.
Assuming we still have a democracy and Democrats get back into power, will they give, as Obama did for Bush and his crooked and incompetent gang, a free pass or will Republicans pay a political price. Currently, Republicans are loyal to Trump and backing all his crimes and shear stupidity because they are more afraid of what Trump then they are Democrats and history.
I don’t blame them.
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I tend to give President Obama a fair amount of slack, considering the nightmare financial disaster Bush, Republicans, and enough Democrats dumped in his lap, along with gigantic cock-up they left him in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the consequences and aftershocks they left behind from their greed, stupidity, shortsightedness, and hubris.
And none of us can even begin to imagine the pressures and the ugly, ugly, ugly crap he got for having the temerity of being a black man AND the President of the United States.
You’re right, this time the Democrats need to make these people pay a price. Not just political, but financial. And not just financial, but a historical price. A really steep price on all fronts. They’ve killed, murdered, innocent people, who knows how many, going back to that oathbreaking traitors approach to Covid. I was watching a remake of Papillon the other night, Trump and Miller and Noem and Homan and Rubio et effing al would think that’s how we should treat our prisoners.
But their Bible would tell them to be your Brothers keeper, to treat those you are responsible for with decency and compassion.
I don’t think shooting a defenseless Alex Pretti 10 times IN THE BACK is quite what Christ had in mind.
I try to imagine what life now would be like had HARRIS won the last election..the horrors of the current ADMIN. could not have been imagined..yet..here we are
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