GOP Rep: "We're Not Going To Cry 'Emergency' Every Time We Have A Katrina"

Media Matters:

While speaking on the floor of the House on July 22, 2009, Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) shockingly exclaimed: "we're not going to cry 'emergency' every time we have a Katrina."

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[zlohcuc]

Don't overlook the obvious here, this is an elected representitative that conceivably reflect the mores and opinions of the electorate. Until they install a differnt representative, you have to believe this is how the majotity her constituency wants to be represented.

[BayouBorn]

WTF, How dare you use such a tragedy as a political prop; its disgusting. I was there when your President GW didn't do a got damn thing. Katrina for the people who lived through it was an emergency ; hell it was a catastrophe.

My family was trapped in there attic for days had to be chopped out of the roof. My uncle had a heart attack from the ordeal and had to be flown to a hospital, my cousins were trapped at the Evacuation Site that Bush Forgot ; one of my brothers was missing for 6 months... How dare you.

[luziannagirl]

BayouBorn, I am so sorry about you and your family's tragic experiences, hardships, and heartaches of the last few years.

Everyone I know either experienced such tragedy directly, or in some way helped those who did. Everyone. Way too many fellow Americans just do not realize how heartbreaking it is to see dozens of people with nothing, not even the raggedy, muddy, stinking clothes on their backs, walking down the interstate. Or living in their cars by the hundred in a Wal-Mart parking lot. They don't realize how vast the devastation was, and how hard it is to come back when your entire world and support system is destroyed and dispersed.

Give yourself a positive shot-in-the arm when you can---listen to Garland Robinette on the radio, catch a free Brown Bag concert downtown, eat a cold snow ball, drop a line in at Seabrook marina & catch a specked trout, visit Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" homes in the 9th Ward. Sit at Cafe Du Monde, have some cafe au lait & beignets, and watch all the delighted tourists from around the world. I hope you haven't left the area.

We Louisianians are a tough lot, and we're coming back. New Orleans is coming back. Don't give up.

[David Christensen]

Oh course you're not going to cry emergency every time...you certainly didn't when Katrina hit.

[lmvd3]

In response to her comment: Well, you had better!!!

[DimBulb2]

another whackadoodle
how do they find all of them?

[LegalKate]

Marsha is unfortunately my congresswoman. Our district is one of the most gerrymandered districts in the country. Her district runs from 10 miles south of Nashville in Brentwood, -one of the wealthiest areas of TN, straight up 50 miles north to Ft. Campbell, KY, home of the 101st Air Assault (Army) in Clarksville, TN. I live 30 miles north of Nashville in Ashland City, a town of 3500 factory workers who are laid off. She does not come to visit in between the Wealthy of Brentwood and the Army in Clarksville. We might as well not exist. I work in Nashville because as a paralegal, there are no jobs in my area. She does not represent the majority of her constituents.

She is a co-sponsor of the birther nonsense as well as being anti-choice, guns and bibles, and of course, bleached blonde hair. She talks in that sickening "Sweet Tennessee" speak as in "my goodness gracious, I did not mean to say that". As a native Dallasite, I am used to the Rethug rednecks, however, TN makes the redneck bible-thumpers of Texas look liberal.

Why TN is a red state makes no sense. It is primarily a factory state. Our unemployment is nearly 10%. We have a Democratic governor, Alexander and Corker (wealthy, wealthy, bible thumpers) for senators. But hey, all is not lost - we have the new "guns in bars" law here because we all know guns, rednecks and liquor causes zero problems.

Go figure.

[LegalKate]

Pretty weird.....­I posted under one screenname at 1:54 pm this afternoon and it did not show up. Then at 9:02 pm this evening, I posted under my other s/n and low and behold, both showed up! I posted the second time thinking I had committed some TOS violation. Sorry if you recognize my long posts as being the same person, because it is. I just really wanted HuffPo readers to understand how crazy the Rethugs can be and explain the gerrymandering issues. I know many others in the country have the same gerrymandering problems with their so-called representatives.

[brijit]

It's all that blonde hair bleach killing Republican women's brain cells. Now if we could only figure out what's wrong with the Republican men we might be able to start working on a cure.

[FrozenNorthObserver]

Repubs were put on earth to give pond sc um somebody to be mentally superior too

[iawill]

Another GOPer without a clue! Her remark leads me to believe that she felt G.W. Bush and Brown were justified in ignoring the aftermath of Katrina for a week until the people of this country cried "outrage" because of the inaction. Her voters need to take heed, that she may feel the same way when like conditions come their way! She will probably tell them to "stop whining" and deal with it!

[sheaintsayin]

"She will probably tell them to "stop whining" and deal with it!"

Or, "Go shopping..­."

[DimBulb2]

let them eat cake?

[JennieB]

You didn't cry emergency the first time! Her local police, fire departments should have the same motto when responding to emergencies in her neighborhood.

[taddles]

The definition of an emergency is Katrina. How stupid do you have to be to be a GOPer these days?

[Mr-Larry]

Who ya gonna call?

Ghostbusters!!

Every day the GOP sinks lower and lower into the muck. Its sad. They used to stand for somethings worth debating. Now they remind me of the patients in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Is there a political party there any more?

[Allocator2008]

Unfortunately it is people like this that give a bad name to fiscal conservatism. Personally, I support the general idea of PAYGO, not having more spending in a budget than you have revenue coming in for a given year. Anything less than that is irresponsible, and lowers the standard of living, by driving up interest rates, inflation, etc. We are seeing the effects of that today.

HOWEVER, if Memphis were hit by a tornado, you bet your butt this Congresswoman would want federal assistance.

Dialing down the military budget in my book would be a good way to free up money. We are still stuck in Cold War mentality. Reduce the military industrial complex, and you reduce a lot of spending, spending that could go back to taxpayers and also go towards "emergencies" like Katrina.

I also personally like FAP, proposed by Nixon, which unfortunately was too conservative for Democrats and too liberal for Republicans. But that would have cut costs while at the same time still helping those in need. Another example of how when people put petty partisanship over and above workable solutions, the same old arguments continue ad infinitum.

[Decipherer]

The biggest takeaway about this and all the other bizarro stories with which we are bombarded on a daily basis is the fact that the GOP women are every bit as wacked-out as GOP men.

In that sense, the Republican party has achieved real equality -- no gender discrimination between those found at the bottom of the barrel.