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Tornados? Death? Destruction? Who Cares? Kasich Refuses FEMA Funding.

Cell phone footage of tornado damage to Moscow, Ohio, March 2, 2012. Despite the Republicans' continual insistance that climate change isn't a real phenomenon, the tornado season started a full month earlier than most years in the Midwest. To date, there have been 46 confirmed deaths. Wide swaths of the Midwest have been destroyed, leaving American people to pick up the battered pieces of their lives and rebuild.
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As Floods And Fires Mount, House Forbids FEMA, Coast Guard From Preparing For Climate Disasters

US Politics / Liberal : The Wonk Room (2 years ago)

FEMA is assessing damage caused by tornadoes in Massachusetts powered by record June heat. While officials throughout the U.S. Department of Homeland Security scramble to deal with a torrent of extreme climate disasters, the Tea Par... Read Post

Ohio GOP governor turns down federal disaster aid for tornado destruction

US Politics / Liberal : AmericaBlog.com (last year)

Ohio's GOP governor, a former rabid Republican congressman, John Kasich, is definitely playing politics, and I wouldn't put it past him to be doing anything he can to keep the economy from growing until after the election. You see, ... Read Post

Oklahoma tornado kicks off GOP fight over disaster relief

US Politics / Liberal : Daily Kos (7 hours ago)

Sen. Tom Coburn's premature insistence that any disaster relief funding for his home state after this week's devastating tornadoes be offset has kicked off a big fight in the GOP. Most other Republicans have said they don’t need off... Read Post


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