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October 05, 2015 04:41 PM UTC

Americans Die, @ColoSenGOP Yucks It Up

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SS El Faro, American cargo ship believed sunk.
SS El Faro, American cargo ship believed sunk by Hurricane Joaquin.

NBC News reports on the increasingly desperate search for the SS El Faro, an American-flagged cargo ship lost at sea during Hurricane Joaquin somewhere between Florida and the coast of Puerto Rico:

A cargo ship missing since Thursday with 33 crew members board was believed to have sunk 15,000 feet in the teeth of Hurricane Joaquin, which began strengthening and moving closer to its path almost as soon as it set to sea…

The Coast Guard planned to focus on findng “people in the water,” Fedor said. “We are not looking for the vessel any longer.”

The 790-foot ship, the El Faro, was likely swallowed by the Category 4 hurricane two days after it left Jacksonville, Florida for San Juan, Puerto Rico. When it set off on Tuesday, Sept. 29, Joaquin was just a tropical storm with wave swells of 7.5 feet and sustained winds of 65 mph.

Hurricane Joaquin.
Hurricane Joaquin.

The Chicago Tribune reports on damage assessments just beginning to take place in South Carolina, after moisture from Hurricane Joaquin collided with a cold front headed southeast across the United States to create a “1,000-year flood event.”

Charleston Mayor Joe Riley said he’s never seen flooding as bad in his 40 years as mayor.

“This was a record storm,” he said. “You know the amount of rainfall that we have experienced is unprecedented. I feel very fortunate that we were able to get through this as well as we have.”

At least seven weather-related deaths have been reported since rains began spreading over the Eastern Seaboard, which appeared to dodge the full brunt of Hurricane Joaquin as it veered out to sea.

It’s an horrific situation for the families of American merchant sailors awaiting word on the fate of the El Faro, and the citizens of East Coast states who have lost their lives in this massive storm. Coloradans still recovering from 2013’s devastating floods along the Front Range have some idea of what folks down there are going through today.

But unfortunately, the Colorado Senate GOP Majority Office is rather short on empathy.

While most of America, especially official America is expressing condolences to the families of the dead, the official Twitter account for the Colorado Senate Republican Majority is laughing it up–about a supposed “hurricane fizzle” that they think discredits those darned “climate alarmists.” Never mind that the storm appears to have killed several dozen Americans, on the El Faro and on the East Coast. To the Colorado Senate GOP, that the hurricane’s most damaging winds have moved away from the coast after sinking an American ship and killing Americans in South Carolina “rains on [the] parade of ‘extreme weather’ hucksters.”

In short, the Colorado Senate GOP’s desire to score political points via Twitter has now trumped common decency at a very basic level. Does Senate President Bill Cadman approve of this? Because it surer than hell reflects on him.

And in an objective, nonpartisan sense, it’s really disgusting.

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19 thoughts on “Americans Die, @ColoSenGOP Yucks It Up”

  2. Disgusting. I don't think getting this kind of response when an entire cargo ship crew is dead and at least 9 people in S. Carolina are dead in a thousand year storm that dropped 19, in some places more than 20, inches of rain so shortly after Jeb!'s "stuff happens" response to the latest mass murder on a college campus is a coincidence. 21st century Repubican pols are just slimy creeps.

  3. They are a global embarrassment  

    This one of the most frustrating aspects of climate denialism, which is almost exclusively a Republican phenomenon at this point. People on the right can’t help but think of climate change as an environmental issue, which it obviously is, but it’s also a political and security issue. There’s a reason the Pentagon considers climate change one of the gravest and most imminent security risks facing the country and the world. Droughts, superstorms, resource competition, border disputes, infectious diseases, food shortages, and yes, refugee crises, will define our political future if current climate trends continue.

    1. That's the truth. Like Rush, hatemongering grump old rightie in chief, they go directly to the meanest, smallest, nastiest, coldest response at hand automatically and so pleased with themselves for being such total dicks. 

  8. Now, the thing to do is to make everyone we know aware of just how obscenely callous these creeps are. Especially your nut-case Limbaugh-enthralled uncle. You know, the one everybody in the family hopes won't turn up for Thanksgiving this year.

  10. Beachfront property: they are just drooling at the thought of CO having so much beach front property some day. And the geographical dislocations from places like S and N Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana will drive up the prices even further. 

    Win!

  11. Whoever tweeted this on behalf of all Republicans is just so wrong in so many ways.

    The tweet is offensively callous. 

    The extraordinary rain that fell on SC was fueled in large part by Joaquin. I wouldn't classify this as a "miss" any more than the severe flooding in the Northeast caused by Irene.

    If 20 inches of rain doesn't count as "extreme weather", I'd like to know what does. 

     

    1. The South Carolina death toll is still rising as a direct result of flooding caused by the rains generated by "fizzled' Joaquin. Nobody can pedict with certainty the path that a hurricane will take.

      The official spokespersons of the Colorado GOP, if the Colorado GOP (or any other 21s century state GOP or the national GOP) had an iota of class, human decency or credibility remaining to it's name, should have gone to work on a statement expressing relief that the path changed to the extent of not causing more devestating, heartbreaking death and damage than it did and promising to support the people of S. Carolina with more than prayers, instead of jumping straight to composing a sarcastic put down in defense of their denialist dogma, regardless of whether or not there is a connection between this hurricane and human influnced climate change. Just for the sake of simple decency.  

      Shameful and revolting. And for those who will say Obama and the Dems are politicizing school shootings, they are certainly not making cold, sarcastic, snippy remarks about them or dismissing them as "stuff" that happens, nothing anyone should try to do anything about. And there is a need for "politicizing" when political action is needed. Not the same at all, though Modster can be counted on to say it is. Don't know what happened to AC.

      2. Really sorry about not catching all my usual mistakes. That would be "devastating" and "influence" and I know I've missed all kinds of type-os etc lately. But it's just so time consuming to go through everything so carefully and I'm not getting those mistakes underlined in red anymore. I can still edit but with nothing to highlight errors it takes too long and I miss stuff. This site is the only place I have that problem.

  12. And Lindsey Graham, after voting "no" on the disaster aid for the upper East Coast after Sandy, had the brass balls to go poor-mouthing to his colleagues today for disaster relief for his constituents. That's gonna dog him until he drops out of the Republican clown car.

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