republicans saying we need to do disaster resistance for joplin. as our resident conservative, eric says yeah we can do that but only if we find other cuts immediately to offset that. now i think eric cantor and other republicans voted for the katrina aid. why are we holding hostage the poor people of job joplin, missouri so we can show spending restrain at the same time. i saw this more as a rhetorical statement. cantor got a kwemt as weekly briefing. he dealt with it in about two sentences. it was a rhetorical tilt about how members of the prt prty defined what republican kes do. two years ago this is something ron paul would say. we can t aid of a disaster. can t build of a disaster unless we cut other spending. cantor is not saying i have drawn a line in the sand and we