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Are republicans upset about this bombing?
Or are republicans using this terrorist attack, as an opportunity to bash B. Obama?
As a liberal I care about the people that got killed, and who the hell did it.
But conservatives use this anti-American act as an opportunity to attack B. Obama.
As a liberal I care about the people that got killed, and who the hell did it.
But this really speaks to the difference between yesterday's right and today's right. Back when I was a Republican, the divide between left and right was much different. Conservatives were proud of being compassionate conservatives. They acknowledged the priority of doing the things government does, including providing for the basic needs of the indigent, and ensuring that our elders can afford to live through their retirement, focusing on achieving these things without pointless waste - doing the same things but just having the government pay less for them. Well all my old compassionate conservative friends are Democrats now, because the Republican Party became a bastion of callously reactionary religious extremism, and self-absorbed greed-worship. As the GOP abandoned basic human decency, the decent humans basically abandoned the GOP, leaving behind only those who care more about money than people.
"The House-passed appropriations bill for fiscal 2012 would cut spending by 2.6 percent from the last budget -- 7 percent below the president's request." - Fox News, September 6, 2011.
"In the 2010 midterm elections, the Republican Party won the majority in the House of Representatives." - Wikipedia
Now, OP, let's try this again: Who's responsible for cutting funding for Homeland Security?
you can blame him for being naive enough to believe that repubs actually cared enough about some issues, such as defense and security as in the past, not to embrace a cost cutting sledge hammer that is the sequester.
He was obviously wrong. this new republican party is so extreme that they will do almost anything to slash big gov. and therefore we will have such incidents as what happened in Boston (or Benghazzi for that matter) that might have been thrwarted if there were no cuts. we will never know, but your conscience is probably somehwat heavy right now if you were one to embrace what the GOP did in regards to the sequester (I know I would be feeling somewhat guilty)...
That bomb unit is part of DHS.
When DHS gets their money they decide what gets cut and what doesn't.
The WH does not make those type of detailed reports.
And it has nothing to do with the sequester.
That money got cut back years ago.
You're pretty idealistic to think if DHS in DC had a few million more that this would not have happened.
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