McCaskill tells GOP leader that Joplin shouldn't be 'political football'

McCaskill tells GOP leader that Joplin shouldn't be 'political football'

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UPDATED: Thursday with comments from Sen. Roy Blunt

WASHINGTON • House Majority Leader Eric Cantor endured criticism on blogs this week when he said that aid to Joplin in the aftermath of the devastating tornado would be offset by budget cuts.

Cantor, R-Va., told reporters on Monday that "if there is support for a supplemental (appropriation), it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental."

Today, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., directed some of her words to Cantor in a Senate floor speech reporting what she had witnessed touring the tornado wreckage in southwest Missouri.

"With all due respect to Congressman Cantor, I have a hard time believing that if this were in his congressional district, he would be talking about how additional disaster relief would not be available unless we found some other programs to take it from," she said.

"It must be available. This must not be a political football. We must provide the assistance. That's what federal tax dollars are for, is to provide assistance when there is no assistance available to communities and states because of the wrath of Mother Nature," she added.

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remark: did it ever occur to anyone that teabaggers care nothing for Joplin or for Missouri? ever occur to Claire and others that caving in to budget demands and cutting programs might have negative side?

will the voters in Joplin remember the GOP next election and their screwing? probably not