Contradictions

        This is for all those who have stooped to everything but specifically blaming the President for the heavy rains that have caused flooding in Louisiana:

        The President declared a disaster within hours of being presented with the facts re: flooding in southern and central Louisiana. FEMA is, and has been, on the ground, and more than 85,000 have applied for emergency aid. This disaster has flooded TV news as well. Contrary to Mike Huckabee's assertion that "If the President came down , cameras would come with him, etc...." Hey, arse bag they've been there almost since hour one and are ubiquitous (look it up Huckleberry) on network news. Comparing this to Katrina response and FEMA inaction, makes the Obama administration's response and competency shine like the sun when compared to Bush and "Brownies"  ineptitude.

        What I find most remarkable,  coming from Huckabee and his far right Neanderthals, and as Trump will doubtless show today (8/19),  is the feigned concern for people whom they wouldn't cross the street to piss on if they were in flames. The implication now, smearing Obama for not coming to the flood zone, which is  wider and much more difficult  to define than NOLA post Katrina, that Federal disaster funds should pour forth like water, is in direct conflict with these same talking heads' positions when and if those same people needed affordable health care.

        Let me use reductio ad absurdum here: If you didn't (or couldn't)  buy federal or private flood insurance, yet insisted in living in the floodplain of a major river, it's ok,. we're here to help, have $33,000 dollars. (FEMA max). We know it's a natural disaster, but this one's on us. We also agree and are well aware that you failed to protect your house by buying flood insurance, either because you didn't think it could happen to you, or as likely, because it was expensive and you simply couldn't afford it. The lesson here and in New Orleans , 2005? We would be billions ahead helping subsidize flood insurance, but only if people buy it!

        Now let's take another natural disaster, not related to where you should or should not have built your home - Cancer. Where's FEMA to help with costs? Even if you did absolutely nothing to place yourself in harm's way, but couldn't afford to buy health insurance, tough noogies,  You lose. You must fight the bureaucracy via Medicaid vice using the Insurance you can't afford. Unless of course you availed yourself of the Affordable Care Act, which of course Huckabee and his cast of mindless morons loathe and never wanted to be an option for you.

        So a quick recap; if you're sick and poor, screw you, says the Far Right who hates the ACA. If you're wet and poor, however,  hold on, we're coming! If you are sick, you need a doctor, but don't look to us (the Far Right) to help, because we hate universal health coverage.  But  if you're wet, in Huckabee land, even if you could have afforded flood insurance, federally subsidized, by the way, just like health coverage under the ACA for those who can't afford the entire cost,  we gotcha, but it doesn't count if the President doesn't personally come and see you. Really? This may be the most mind numbingly contradictory political point of view ever. Property owners with National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policies are receiving government subsidies to live in areas with high flood risk. This might well be called "The Affordable Flood Insurance Plan" and it runs at a deficit in many years.   

        One wonders if this is as I painted it or if these frauds simply see a chance to smear the President and are so caught up in their own vile partisan sniping that they fail to see the inherent hypocrisy of subsidizing flood insurance but not health care. As Father Duffy told Timmy during the debriefing after Michael Davy passed an entire  cheese sandwich through his nose, "It's a mystery, my son!"