COMMENTS:
* We don't have the ability to provide people in Flint with cleandrinking water? Total, unadulterated bullshit! They HAD clean drinking water, the governor's hand pick emergency manager (which I now see means "a person who manages to make emergencies) decided pinching pennies was more important than providing clean water to the city's citizens.
* It is politically incorrect to accuse Republicans of preferring to poison people if it means more profit. Mostly because it's true, but to say so is rude.
* Wingnut translator-------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's you-know-who's fault.
* There was an old joke about a rich man who was hit up for charity. He responded by enumerating the difficulties in his immediate family, mother ill, father out of work, sister pregnant and unmarried. The punch line is "and if I'm not giving any of them any help why should I help you?" So goes the RWNJ philosophy. Bridges out, poisoning kids, electrical grid a shambles...
* So, let me understand this - the same guy who was qualified to be Flint's Emergency Manager is also qualified to be the School Manager in Detroit? How are the job descriptions in terms of skills and experience in any way similar? Close friend of the Governor's no doubt.
* Blaming others for the ills they caused is a Republican hallmark. Sarah Palin is blaming President Obama for her son Track's domestic violence binge. I wish I were making that up, but I'm not.
* Charlie, it's simple. Michigan Rs poison the water provided to the mostly poor and minority residents of Flint because the Black Guy in the White House and his party spend too much time trying to do something about the Climate Change Hoax. Got it now? Sheesh.
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Behold: The Most Absurd Scapegoat Yet for the Flint Water Crisis
This is some next-level wingnuttery.
By Charles P. Pierce, January 20, 2016
So the president was in Detroit today, just a hop, skip, and a rivulet from Flint, where the water is still too poisonous for human consumption. Meanwhile, back in Washington, showing the impeccable timing that has become its hallmark, the Congress sent a bill to his desk that would have gutted federal clean water regulations. The president vetoed it from here to there, giving the miseries to, among other people, my new friend, Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa.
"Too many of our waters have been left vulnerable," Obama said in a veto message to Congress. "Pollution from upstream sources ends up in the rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and coastal waters near which most Americans live and on which they depend for their drinking water, recreation, and economic development." Congressional Republicans tried to use a rarely invoked law known as the Congressional Review Act to overturn the regulation. But they're far short of the two-thirds vote necessary in each chamber to overturn the veto. It passed 53 to 44 in the Senate and 253 to 166 in the House. The sponsor of the resolution, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said she would continue to look for ways to undermine the rule. "We all want clean water," Ernst said in a statement. "This rule is not about clean water. Rather, it is about how much authority the federal government and unelected bureaucrats should have to regulate what is done on private land."
There is a legitimate discussion to be had about fine-tuning this particular regulation, but that wasn't my new friend Senator Ernst's ideas. She was in favor of doing to the Clean Water Act what she used to do to the family hogs. You see, it should remain an established principle that you and your pig farm upriver should not be allowed to poison my kids and my chickens down here.
But the GOP made it a priority to block the rule. Republicans and business advocates say it extends federal reach over puddles, wet areas and other water and land that was never meant to have federal control. Farmers, developers and other land users say that the rule would require federal permits for simple, everyday tasks like digging ditches and spraying pesticides.Meanwhile, in other water news, I'm sure that you'll be shocked to learn that the real culprit in the Flint water crisis was…political correctness!
NAUERT: You know, one more thing. You say that the government has misplaced priorities. Not in terms of where their spending money, yes, you say that. But also focusing on some things that they shouldn't spend their time on. Tell me about that.
AESCH: Well, you look at the debate that we want to have over climate change for example, while we don't have the ability to provide people in Flint with clean drinking water. You know, coming here today, as we all did to the studios, we had a one in nine chance of driving across a bridge that is structurally deficient, and we simply can't continue to have these --
NAUERT: And you also go on to say that we're spending too much time on PC stuff.I speak fairly fluent wingnut, and I don't have the faintest idea what these people are talking about.
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