meanwhile these jerks mess with peoples lives yet again. wait untill it happens to them

He knows there happens to be enough money left in the kitty to cover the needs of his constituents without needing to make an additional appropriation. How convenient for him. Those poor suckers who have to deal with floods or earthquakes or hurricanes or massive wild fires etc. down the line when the pot is empty after his state gets what it needs now are just out of luck.

funding it! So when another tornado hits Illinois or Missouri, they can grandstand again against all that 'pork'!

"Mr Coburn and James Inhofe both voted in September 2011 against a bill to provide $7 billion to help finance the Federal Emergency Management Agency's relief fund. Mr Coburn had unsuccessfully sought to reduce other federal programmes to pay for it. He and Mr Inhofe also voted against a $60.2 billion aid plan for victim of Superstorm Sandy earlier this year. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10073828/Oklahoma-tornado-Republican-senator-defends-stance-on-Fema-funding.html

that money can be used fir disaster aid.
see how coburn likes that

Modern conservatism is an abstract academic exercise that fails whenever it is put to a real-world test. So they get angry when they have to stand amongst the rubble of their "ideas" with the cameras on.

-Laelth

of recorded history's "worst natural disasters."
We have caused so much destruction to our planet and ecosystem that our world must try and cleanse itself of the wounds.
Each disaster will worsen. It may be too late to restore balance in nature. If not, it will take many years of real work to possibly have an inhabitable planet for future generations.
IMO, we haven't seen anything yet.

Not by a long shot, as there's been DOZENS of tornadoes that have been more violent and killed far more people, than the 24 who died thanks to the 210-mph twister in Moore on Monday, as bad as that may have been, And your opinion that EVERY disaster will worsen or that "we haven't seen anything yet", is just that, an opinion, and nothing more.

Yes, AGW is an issue, and YES, we need to keep working on it. But if I may be allowed, the mass media has GOT to stop sensationalizing shit so much every time something like this happens. It may be good for ratings, but it is BAD for everything else, including helping people to understand the reality of climate change.

and explain his bullshit directly to the fine citizens of Moore.

Wait until the medical bills come due! Then the Guv can tap dance against the ACA.

That would be another fine town hall. Obamacare is bad because......!

Those bootstraps may yet find another use!

and going on about their friendship,shared faith, the close relationship their wives have, the works. Calls Tom honest, principled and courageous.
"The people of Oklahoma are lucky to have someone like Tom representing them in Washington — someone who speaks his mind, sticks to his principles and is committed to the people he was elected to serve."
http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/tom-coburn/

Who here agrees with this?

"Sticks to his principles"..... as long as he knows there's funds in FEMA. And what ya wanna bet, he'll be touting his deft ways of public service in getting the funds that Moore needs??? Phony friggin' sleight-of-hand artist!

That's probably why he wrote that.

But I do wish he would call him out on this, though.....

Seriously, if Oklahoma keeps electing him after this, I would question their sanity.

When our elected Reprsentatives seem to prosper and thrive on spewing BS to "We the People," who gave them the job to Repesent "We," devote all of their time and our money on doing absolutely nothing and all of their time on gotcha scandals. Coburn along with his fellow D.C. Cohorts lack integrity, and are so spineless that they can only survive by totally agreeing and fully supporting each other to the detriment of those that elected them.

Many supporters of the BS'ers, are of the belief that their Reps are more educated and smarter than they and fail to realize that their Reps are just simply better BS'er.

New rule:

As long as the GOP keeps the sequester in place there will be NO offsetting funds for anything to provide disaster relief.

..... talking points about off setting the spending w/ cuts to other programs. Hell, they
hadn't picked up all the dead or had rescued the living but still Tom opened his mouth
at a time when the only response would have been, "How can I help?"

You're a hypocrite. You voted for the wars Bushco told lies to start, and didn't insist on any offsets at that time. You didn't seem to care what they were going to cost in the end, or how we were going to pay for them.

YOU are what is wrong with Washington. YOU are part of the problem.