While turning on the personal charm to keep West River mayors from realizing that she's part of the problem, not the solution, Rep. Kristi Noem makes one of the most bananas statements of the federal government shutdown that she helped cause:
Noem said she has attempted to call agencies such as the Forest Service and Department of Agriculture during the government shut down, but says she can't get her calls returned.
"It's kind of shocking to me that we can't even get a call back," Noem said during the meeting at the Sturgis City Hall [Deb Holland, "Mayors Tell Noem They Are Concerned for Ranchers," Rapid City Journal, 2013.10.15].
Ignoring your own contradictions doesn't excuse them, Congresswoman Noem.
Economics professor Joann Weiner recognizes our Congreswoman's contradictions:
Noem voted against federal assistance for victims of super storm Sandy in New York and New Jersey.
Nevertheless, she’s at the front of the line asking the federal government for money to help victims of South Dakota’s early-October blizzard.
It appears that Noem is against federal spending until she’s for it.
And, that’s her biggest problem. It’s hard to justify spending when your own constituents are hurting when you oppose it when others’ are hurting.
Now that Noem appears to see the benefits of federal spending for ranchers when they are suffering, perhaps she’ll change her vote on the farm bill and allow federal spending for the safety net that provides needed food assistance to millions of low-income Americans when they’re suffering [Joann Weiner, "Rep. Noem Faces Natural and Political Disaster after South Dakota Blizzard," Washington Post, 2013.10.16].
West River neighbors, who got your vote in 2012? And who gets it in 2014?
"Now that Noem appears to see the benefits of federal spending for ranchers when they are suffering, perhaps she’ll change her vote on the farm bill and allow federal spending for the safety net that provides needed food assistance to millions of low-income Americans when they’re suffering"
I doubt it. She'll do what she's told to do. She believes in a safety net for ranchers but not the poor (she probably thinks these people are lazy).
Karma, irony and even stupidity, are often entertaining.
When I was young I challenged my employer on an issue and he gave me some sage advice, an adage I will never forget, "Don't Poop Where You Eat". I cleaned that up a bit for sensitive ears.
As Kristi was in Washington celebrating her victory in shutting down the government her rancher friends were suffering huge losses due to the blizzard.
I watched her on C-SPAN last week calling for passage of the farm bill and to make it retroactive when the government reopened to cover the financial losses the ranchers endured.
With all due respect to the ranchers, what kind of a country are we that we would buy dead cows and add millions of dollars to our debt and yet deny healthcare coverage to millions of living Americans?
Per Kristi's old campaign ad about her children inheriting the debt because of government's reckless spending, if she gets her way with the farm bill, her children will be paying for dead cows for generations to come.
Cory is all of DC shut down? I read where only 17% was. Am I wrong?
Noem would lose a lot of support if there was a capable and competent alternative option.
Is this a shock? Rep. Noem is a puppet for the Republican Party. She does as she is told no thinking on her own.
So Rep. Noem *******ed the federal agencies and now they won't return her call. There's a song about that:
She wants to send him a letter
Just to try to make herself feel better
It said, "Give me"
("Give me a call sometime")
But she knows what that'll get her
Oh, oh, oh, [Kristie]'s cryin'
Van Halen
Poor Kristi! Doesn't she understand that the phones are not being answered? Somebody, please explain it to her!
Bob Mercer seems to be hankering to get his old job back in the Governor's office. In regard to Weiner's article, he laments the fact that Tim Johnson and other Democrats have not joined Krisit in her plaints: "When we see somebody stuck in the ditch, we don’t ask who they are, we just help get them out of the mess, whether it’s Hurricane Sandy or food stamps or the blizzard we’ve come to know as Atlas."
Jim Johnson who operates on an intellectual and moral level that is clearly beyond Noem's grasp, did just that. And to stretch the metaphor, Kristi is in a ditch she dug herself. Let her practice the conservative platitude and pull herself out by her own bootstraps.
The disaster of the blizzard pales next to the disaster that Noem and her tea-sipping compatriots have wreaked on Washington and the nation. Bob does voice the great hypocrisy of the GOP when it comes to who government should help.
I miss Stephanie.
The Washington Post article was very good and the comments were right on. The Teabaggers who are such hypocrites as Noem are exposing themselves to oceans of scorn. If Noem is reelected who will have any respect for her? What legislators will want to collaborate with her?
Has anyone yet requested a Disaster Declaration or whatever needs to occur to trigger a FEMA response?
to Roger: "With all due respect to the ranchers, what kind of a country are we that we would buy dead cows and add millions of dollars to our debt and yet deny healthcare coverage to millions of living Americans?"
Very good! This is a good description of the TP and many Republicans too. Sometimes I think they should all be fenced in "Kochland", aka Kansas, and deprogrammed...well there are a few other thoughts I have, but I will not stoop to that level.
Wayne: on 100 Eyes yesterday Lalley, Montgomery and Ellis all said it has been drafted but waiting for the end of the Republican
shitdownshutdown. Socialism is alive and well when red states need it.I wonder if she is suffering from "Jabber, Jabber" withdrawals?
Whole lot of whine from a posse who buried their blue dogs country wide.
Les (Pat?): thought you were dead.
Hope I didn't send you into withdrawal Lar.
How was rehab, Les?
How "is" rehab Lar. Rehab ain't over till the lady sings. I see yur still on "bored" Lar.
Hey Deb, This is south dakota!!!!!!!! AS long as she hangs her name on the republican ticket she will be re-elected!!!!!!
Turn the Black Hills white: right, Les?
Holy cow, Les! I thought maybe the blizzard killed you off. Get everything plowed out yet? And are you ready to vote for Democrat Corinna Robinson to replace that useless Noem lady?
That was me Lar, thanks for noticing! Great segue from the "blue dog" burial, you got what you asked for.
Blizzard hasn't gotten me yet Cory but we're still off the grid with no timeline for power. I'm not sure where I'm going Cory but the Indies are looking better all the time. Noem's war chest may be to big to fail.
House votes 285 to 144 to end govt shutdown. Guess which side subsidy queen noem was on?
Les, try calling Kristi on the banana phone, see if she can get you some power! I hear from my Republican friends that she's busy "getting the job done" for South Dakota. How voting NO on reopening the government gets any job done remains a puzzle to me, but Kristi could explain it to you.
Just looking at the vote. The repubs who voted in the majority are pragmatic. Kristi is not. After all, this is SD. She has a 26 inch waist and a shiny hip hugger belt buckle. Everything that appeals to a SD republican voter.
Right on, Poly! As I noted in my South Dakota Magazine column this afternoon, South Dakotans want to believe we all look like Reagan. Noem's cowboy outfits resonate with our self-image.
The only MN Representative to vote No was our NUMBER ONE LUNATIC ----------- Michele Bachmann!!!!
She's so absurdly crazy and corrupt that she's not running next year. Just goes to prove, there really is such a thing as Excessive Teabagger Lunacy. I wouldn't have believed it if it hadn't happened in real, honest-to-god life!
You fired your pragmatic voter Polyanna, quit yur bitching.
Didn't Rep. Noem call this the Democrat's shutdown somewhere along the way? Before voting to keep the shutdown going? That ought to make a good contrast commercial for Ms. Robinson. Throw in a sarcastic "getting the job done" claim by the Republan Party to put an exclamation point on the ad.
R pretty much encapsulates the Democratic strategy for 2014. "Getting the job done?"—ha! Play that line over and over, every day, for 382 days....
Banana phone Noem (and her apologists like Thune) cost the US economy over $24 billion from the first quarter of FY 2014 GDP. These Washington republicans are incompetent to govern and must go.
Dear West River Ranchers,
I know your livestock losses are in the tens of millions of dollars. Possibly hundreds of millions. But I just voted to keep the government shut down and for the government to default on its debt. "I could not support this [farm] bill because it didn’t do anything to address our continued deficit spending, which has resulted in a $17 trillion debt.” We simply can't help you. And if your economy has to collapse, I'm doing my part to make sure everyone's economy collapses. On the bright side, my paycheck keeps coming no matter what. Keep toughing it out on your own.
Very truly yours in the spirit of Ronald Reagan,
Rep. Kristi Noem
The best political advice I've read that anyone has given Rep. Noem is to watch John Thune & vote the way he does. Although I don't much like the way Sen. Thune votes, it's good advice for Rep. Noem. When she ignores that advice as she did with the shutdown vote she edges farther out on that shaky limb she's on. She's not as well established in the hearts of the voting public as Sen. Thune is. The limb is cracking.
Fitch, the ratings agency, says that the biggest problem to the American economy is the republican party of NOem. Lets dump them. NO More NOem