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by Bill Press
Farewell to the
Ironically, what killed the
The central premise of
Take the Times Square bomber. He was identified, tracked down, and apprehended exactly 53 hours and 17 minutes from the time he parked his lethal van at 45th and 7th Avenue. How? Through excellent police work by the
Proud tea partiers, note: All of those police officers work for the government. All of them are paid by our tax dollars. They did an incredible job. Thanks to them, one more terrorist is behind bars. Let those who "hate" government explain why they hate law enforcement officials who are keeping us all safe.
Take the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, according to law, BP is responsible for conducting and paying for the cleanup. But who were the first ones on the scene? The
Again, they are all federal employees, paid by our tax dollars -- and they were the agencies all five Republican governors of the Gulf States turned to for help on April 22, when BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and burned.
Take the recent series of storms and tornadoes that recently hit the South, causing so much death and destruction. When tornadoes swept across Mississippi and Alabama, and when severe flooding struck Nashville, the pattern was the same. Local officials, unable to cope alone, called for help.
Governors in those states did not reject the federal government's help. They actually requested it, and thanked Obama for it. "On behalf of all Alabamians, I thank President Obama for his response to this terrible storm that has affected so many people," said Governor Bob Riley. "The president's actions will help those communities recover more quickly."
One final example. In no state have government-hating Tea Partiers been louder or more active than in Virginia. Conservative Republican Governor Bob McDonnell was elected last year partly on an anti-big government platform. Yet no state profits more from federal largesse.
As reported by The
All of which makes a mockery of the entire
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