Someone should ask the folks on Staten Island how FEMA is working out for them

Gosh Clive, what do you think of Barack "the liar" Obama?

The most racist 0blamer supporter since Reverand Wright chips in with his ysual uninformed drivile

Gee, Clive, are you talking about the broke FEMA? Hmmm...words are useless if you can't back them up.

"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you." That line has been around a very long time.

It depends on whether you are Red state or Blue state.
Ask the folks in Texas about FEMA.
Ask the folks in Kentucky about FEMA.
Where Obama has votes to buy, FEMA comes in.
Where there is no advantage, forget it.

All is politics.

The ground reality, and I can say this with confidence, is there isn't any "love" for FEMA, American Red Cross, Andrew Cuomo, Shelly Silver, et al, in Freeport, Long Beach, Point Lookout, the Rockaways, Staten Island, etc. In fact, seeing all these politicians on the air, or, in actuality hearing them on the transister radios, is only infuriating people in these areas more.

Clive should pay me a visit on Long Island, and I will give him a ride and ask him to stand on a soap box in the middle of Long Beach, Long Island to sing his praises for FEMA and the government. He will be lucky if he is pelted only with four-day rotten tomatoes by the time he's done.

I guess Clive is unaware of Staten Island as well. Or even lower Manhattan. FEMA ain't doing the trick and the mayor the NYC is sloughing off his responsibilities. He'll blame FEMA at some point, but right now he's not doing his job while depending on them.

They. Can't. Do. It. It's not that they set out to be horrible, it's that it's an impossible task for a federal agency. It needs to be state and local. I'm so sick of these stupid columns slobbering over an organization that has proven itself not up to the task again and again.

Mitt "The Myth" Romney? Unreal!

Premise in article that most want to privatize most, if not all, federal services not substantiated. Article should be returned to author by editor for revision.

I despise all these lefty lairs- all-of-them! the only "myth" is the one that surrounds their bast**d child Barry whats ever his name is.

Mitt the Myth? Your one-sided prejudice isnt showing, is it?

Did you forget Barry Soetoro, the Liar, the Marxist, the Con Man, the Phony, the Doper, the Drug Dealer, the Incompetent, the Mistake-prone idiot(My Muslim Faith, Navy Corpseman, 57 states, I'll balance the budget, I'll be transparent, and of course....Libya!).....did you forget all that? Or do you morons want our great nation to continue to suffer under this group of incompetent fools like Barack Hussein Obama, Mmm mmm mmm, and his pal Joe Bite Me and that Pig in a Pant Suit? HUH? Wake up!

It's amazing how the people of the uppa US are helpless and whining for everything from big brutha, and resorting to crime at every opportunity. Contrast this with the tsunami in Japan 2 years ago. This Sandy thing is nothing in comparison and NYC is already falling apart. So much for liberalism.

FEMA is the embodiment of incompetent, bloated, useless bureacratic disaster - without a hurricane.

Come on people - this was a Cat 1 storm and is only a problem because there was WAY too much construction directly on the coast in areas where it is very predictable that a storm will wipe out ANY structure every 20-50 years. This is like building on a railroad track and being shocked when the train comes. Just a scheduling issue, WHEN not IF.

The article is obviously biased baloney from an idiot.

I think that the storm has helped cement the sense of dependency in those areas most affected. Certainly states like NY, MD, and NJ now cling even more tightly to Big Government - confusing the federal government photo ops with the actual state and local emergency efforts. So those states are likely to go even more for Barry than before. So we can expect to see the national numbers swing more in Barry's favor but most of that would be padding the margin of victory in already very blue states.

However VA was only brushed and should stay in the Romney column. Romney should still carry all the southern swing states - VA, FL, and NC. However, the storm may cost him NH as it was only leaning in his favor. PA now looks out of play: The people in greater Phili have probably filled their collective diapers over the past several days. The Holy Priests of Climate Change have also added to the storm hysteria - and many now claim that the storm could have been avoided if we had only had more wind farms in place - and of course Barry is the wind-farm president.

Uhhh, as Rush has been pointing out today, for all the Leftist heart-flutter over Big Government, what has been the one most-praised action Obama has taken? It's -- gasp! -- waiving the FEMA screening process. That is, the big, right step by gov't has been getting gov't out of the way!

#16: The storm, more so the storm response, may hurt Obama not help him. If people [especially highly-dependent types] find "gov't help" falling badly short of what's they need, it may push down already tepid interest in voting, even turn some voters to Romney.

I know it is possible but is it likely that Obama got Bloomberg's endorsement by threatening not to help New York City?

I heard on Rush today that Christie endorsed Obama. Did I hear that correctly? If so, was he threatened by Obama?

Will we ever know? Maybe, if Romney wins.