Michigan governor: solve Flint water crisis instead of laying blame

[jpak]

Source: Reuters

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said on Friday he wants officials to focus on solving problems around lead-contaminated drinking water in the city of Flint instead of laying blame as he said some have been doing.

"There are a number of folk out there that are spending their time mainly on the political side and the blame side," he said at a meeting in Flint of local and state officials responding to the crisis.

Snyder's comments came a day after liberal group Progress Michigan released emails showing high-ranking state officials knew about an increase in Legionnaires' disease in Genesee County, where Flint is located, and a possible link to the contaminated water almost a year before the governor said he got information about the outbreak.

Snyder, who has repeatedly apologized for the state's poor handling of the crisis, previously said he did not learn of the rise in Legionnaires' cases until last month.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/michigan-water-idUSL2N15K2CG

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Pathetic racist republican coward - to your mommy's basement tout suite

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

1. Ahh, yes

Can't blame Obama, Democrats, or welfare people? Then let's all just try to get along!

Assholes.

[elmac]

2. The money House repugs wasted trying to repeal Obamacare,

now at over $75,000,000, would have been a good start toward fixing the Flint problem.

"according to CBS, the grand total, with 50 attempts to repeal, is now at $75 million of your dollars"

[safeinOhio]

3. Solve the Problem,,,,,

like you repubs have solved our road problems......pass it on to the next elected group. Term limits allow this.

[captainarizona]

4. I thing charles manson said the same thing

so did bernie madoff!

[TeamPooka]

5. WE need to blame you to get you out of the way of blocking the replacement of infrastructure

like you've been doing ass hat.
You broke it so we'll break you motherfucker.

[dhill926]

6. fuck this guy...

[Feeling the Bern]

7. Translation: Waaaaaaaaah! People are holding my feet to the fire and it's not fair

Think of the worst victim of all: my political career!

You vote for Republicans, you get Republican policies.

[StevieM]

8. I disagree. I would be fine with Snyder placing blame if not for the fact that he was lying.

He is trying to act like this is not the direct result of his administration and the emergency manager law.

In reality, had Snyder not been in office none of this would have happened.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

26. And this exact same condition is happening right now all across America, the water YOU DRANK

today may well be contaminated.

Erin Brockovich was on Real Time last night and she talked about this epidemic.

[blackspade]

9. Hey, Snyder! Then shut the fuck up and get to it.

What a whinny turd. This is his fuck up and now he wants others to fix it so he can blame them.
What a tool.

[llmart]

11. What a legacy he's leaving now.....

He probably thought he'd ride off into the sunset or his gazillion dollar mansion in Ann Arbor and pat himself on the back for all the wonderful things he did (not), but he'll live with this for the rest of his life. I hope to God it haunts him every.single.day.

[geomon666]

10. Normally I'd say "You solve it".

But do we really want this piece of shit in charge of anything any more? So I say to Governor Snyder, step down so someone can fucking fix your mess.

[llmart]

12. Sort of like Obama...

having to come in to fix all of Dopey Bush's mistakes. When will voters stop putting these crooks in office?

[lastlib]

13. We can do BOTH at the same time, Ricky!

(watch your head, or we'll have it on a platter. In fact, we insist on it.)

We'll just blame you AND go on solving the crisis--preferably WITHOUT your sorry arse in our way!

[houston16revival]

14. Gee

I heard it was criminal and not political

Don't know who to believe

The poisoned people

Or the perps

[notadmblnd]

15. Resign Dick!

[Jack Rabbit]

16. That reminds me of something from my long distant youth . . .

Please advant to about 40:40 . . . the exact words I remember are at 41:34.
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If you really want to see how far America has fallen since 1974, watch the entire thing. Imagine a Republican today saying that the nation is at peace with every nation on earth as if it were something of which to be proud.

[CanonRay]

17. They never want blame when they are to blame. n/t

[ananda]

18. Don't worry Snyder -- we can multitask!

Resign now!

[roamer65]

19. Fuck you, Dick!

Not Rick...Dick...like Dick Nixon.

[winterwar]

20. He doesn't want the blame

Because he's responsible for this mess. Prick Snyder.

[hobbit709]

21. The Party Of Responsibility has yet to accept any responsibility for any of their actions.

[Midnight Writer]

22. Thank God for the Conservative Republicans. Always solving; never placing blame.

[packman]

23. Let's move on - nothing to see here

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[lark]

24. Freaking children hurting coward.

Don't look at how this happened, forget that I made these heinous decisions just to make $$ for myself and my cronies. It doesn't matter now that you all know this happened. Let me alone so I can continue to screw others, that's the repug, err, American way, sayeth Snyder by his actions. He's also not fixing the issue and isn't trying to fix the issue, just applying some cosmetics to it.

[marble falls]

25. Says the guy whose responsibility is it for having done it and to fix it.....

More words and no program.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

27. Well Rick it IS political when something happens as a direct result of your political belief that

govt should be shrunk and drowned in the bathtub - preferably one full of stinky brown toxic water. Political factor in this that dmn well better be up for discussion: the 2011 Epa report on how to treat Flint river water was ignored by emerg mgr, state environmental and private firm that designed the system - they thought they didn't need to follow no stinkin fed regulations. I wonder how much the Epa's lack of stepping in to enforce theregulations was negligence and how much short staffed due to continual budget cuts/defunding. This is classic radical right modus operandi - defund public services and programs and then use the resulting chaos, bad service, and ineffectiveness as a reason to get rid of it altogether.

Wewill probably start seeing more consequences of the last 40 yrs of this philosophy being implemented on state, local, and fed levels.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

28. Determining responsibility is not "laying blame."

Finding which culprits caused the problem is the first step in prevention of future problems.

[The Second Stone]

29. There's no reason the people can't do both

The blame belongs on Rick Snyder and his Koch brothers policies.

The problem can be solved by making them drink only that water for the rest of their lives.

[radhika]

30. Republicans don't solve problems for everday folks....

They just ensure their big money friends won't chip in for the costs of remediation.

[Ed Suspicious]

31. I think we can find time and energy for both.

[olddad56]

32. how about solve the problem and hold those responsible accountable.

[NCjack]

33. Governor Rick Snyder: Unworthy -- Resign

[tabasco]

34. The party of accountability

they call it.

[Phlem]

35. How the fuck does Rick Snyder still have his job.

He should be gone, yesterday.

The thing about this situation is now there is precedence.

Look everybody, you can fuck up your local population and send people to the hospital by polluting the public water system and there will be no consequences and still keep your job.

He needs to be gone, period end of story.

[Retrograde]

36. I don't see why we can't do both at the same time

Snyder can accept responsibility and figuratively and literally clean up the state. Oh, wait - that requires him to be a decent human being who's actually interested in serving all the people...