Eric Cantor to Tornado Victims: "Fuck you!"

House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor (Fascist-VA), is threatening to withhold emergency funding for tornado-ravaged areas in Missouri and Oklahoma unless they are immediately off-set by cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Let's get one thing straight:  The argument from those on the tea-bagging right that the American government needs to balance it's checkbook the same way a typical American family balances theirs doesn't sit well with me.

In this immediate case (denying disaster funding), I would argue that when emergencies hit the typical American household, Americans generally don't hold back on the rent or the groceries, but rather, they put the emergency charges on their credit card or, short of that, borrow the funds in some other way.  Either way, in most cases Americans take on additional debt to get them through the emergency.

For Cantor to hold emergency funding hostage for the purposes of political theatre is beyond vile, and proves yet again that the tea-bagging Fascists in the Republican Party have no desire to govern responsibly.