Wingers loves them some stormy weather!

(photo: Pat Robertson "bringin' in the sheaves."

Sick as we are of having the Sunday morning talk shows (and virtually all other media) walloped by the high winds and swollen tidal surge of East Coast local weather reports, we gotta laugh at the some of the goofy right's reactions to the Big Storm.

Ron Paul:

says FEMA needs to be abolished. On Fox News Sunday, Paul described FEMA as a drain on the economy — a “gross distortion of insurance” that only “bleeding hearts” would support — that “just bail[s] out everybody.”

Wednesday he told a group in a speech:

"We should be like 1900; we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960," Paul said. "I live on the Gulf Coast; we deal with hurricanes all the time. Galveston is in my district."

Pat Robertson

apparently didn't comment on the storm, but we know what he was thinking! Especially after he said on Wednesday’s 700 Club that the earthquake that struck Washington Tuesday “means that we’re closer to the coming of the Lord.” Then on Thursday, Robertson pointed to the damage to the Washington Monument in the earthquake as a Divine Message (and it wasn't a 'like'):

“It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say ‘this is one nation under God.’ Now there’s a crack in it... Is that sign from the Lord? ... You judge. It seems to me symbolic.”

Robertson has long called disasters (both man-made and natural) God's punishments for immoral behavior or signs of The End Times. He never fails to pass the teevee collection plate to help out God's victims.

Glenn Beck

also warned about The Big Guy's Wrath, Hurricane Irene and the earthquake.

How many warnings do you think you’re going to get, and how many warnings do you deserve? This hurricane that is coming thorough the East Coast, for anyone who’s in the East Coast and has been listening to me say ‘Food storage!’ ‘Be prepared!’ […] If you’ve waited, this hurricane is a blessing. It is a blessing. It is God reminding you — as was the earthquake last week — it’s God reminding you you’re not in control.

 The Washington Post wrote that Beck's recommendations about stockpiling might come from his Mormonism: 

Section 78 of the Doctrine and Covenants revelation was given, Mormons believe, to Joseph Smith by God in 1832 and includes the command to “organize and establish a storehouse,” which Mormon leaders have interpreted as a requirement to, when possible, “store and save a one-year supply of food.” The church Web site even includes a Food Storage Calculator “to help you determine your longer-term food storage needs.”

The Republican House budget

pledges to fight socialism and stop big government by making Draconian cuts to the NOAA budget to stop or delay the construction and launch of an extreme weather forecasting satellite.

"Thomas" a caller

to the Rusty Humphries Show, Friday, has no doubt where the blame lays: Clearly, he said, "God is pissed at Obama."

Comments

[Pete]

Paul's the one that got to me. Up to 12,000 people died in 1900 - the deadliest natural disaster in US history, by far - when a hurricane struck Galveston without warning, because we didn't have, you know, that nasty big government operating weather satelites and stuff. He just told his own district that his ideology was more important than killing off one in every 50 or so of his constituents. Wow.

I actually agree with Paul on a number of issues, but his kind of absolutism is very, very dangerous.

[Bixdec]

Fuh!

[Sarah]

I love it, apparently Michelle Bachmann is shooting herself in the foot again and claiming that God has sent the hurricane because He's warning our leaders that we are powerless without His Grace.

[saint rudy]

GOD : Please protect us from all these goddamed religeous nuts.

[Ray]

When is someone going to confront Michell Bachmann and the other republican candidates and tell them to stop looking like fools?

I don't trust any of them. Most of what they say comes off as an act of desperation. None of them come off as credible.

What's it going to take for American voters to wake up?

[Tommy008]

i think Romney would be as smart as Perry on creating jobs, probably smarter. Trump poohpoohs Romney as to the amount of mney he's amassed for his personal networth, but i believe Romney started from not much and turned it into 150 million dollars or more. Trump started with 30 million from Daddy in the early seventies , when 30 million was more like 90 millio in todays money. His 2 billion or a little more of networth is not really spectacular given the forty years hes had to grow it. Ill give Perry a fair shot but im getting the feeling he might turn into a male Bachmann. I think Romney could easily beat Obama next year if the economy isnt turned around. its tiring and ennervating to watch and listen to a narcissist like Obama. The exact opposite of what a leader should be doing to you. Romney projects some positive energy.

[joanie]

What's it going to take for American voters to wake up?

A different message from Roger Ailes.

Tommy, what's your evidence that Obama is a narcissist? And I don't think Romney will beat anybody. Unless the dems all stay home which is entirely possible. I won't but it is with great reluctance I will vote democrat. Great reluctance indeed.

Paul? A stopped watch is right twice a day. That's Paul. He's right by default, not intention.

[macera filmi izle]

Tommy, what's your evidence that Obama is a narcissist? And I don't think Romney will beat anybody. Unless the dems all stay home which is entirely possible. I won't but it is with great reluctance I will vote democrat. Great reluctance indeed.