these are all good attempts to get the money into people and the homes. insurance companies at times are getting in the way. you get something so large, now 16% of new york city is under water. just to give you an example, in a major urban area to have so much under water, subway system, roads, bridges, it s just terrible. i think government in this case is the solution, not the problem. thank you, peter king of new york. we ll be right back after this. t overmany discounts to thine customers! [old english accent] safe driver, multi-car, paid in full a most fulsome bounty indeed, lord jamie. thou cometh and we thy saveth! what are you doing? we doth offer so many discounts, we have some to spare. oh, you have any of those homeowners discounts? here we go. thank you. he took my shield, my lady. these are troubling times in the kingdom. more discounts than we knoweth what to do with.
which is far less than 117 attacks we apparently waged in the region in 2010. and according to memos obtained by the washington post, top government officials in pakistan have secretly collaborated with the u.s. on many of these attacks. while the u.s. has officially said that very few civilians have been killed in these strikes, human rights organization, amnesty international, released a report last week in which they found that between july 2012 and may of this year, drone strikes in pakistan have claimed the lives of at least 30 civilians. however, the view of many americans continues to fall in line with that of representative peter king of new york. as far as the use of drones, the fact is, every war, there is collateral damage. unfortunately, innocent people are killed. but the efforts the u.s. takes
rafik raymond s mother, this was a mistake, an accident. i doubt that this grandmother was targeted. but somebody was targeted. it was a very deliberate act. it s why we abhor weapons of mass destruction, because you can t you can t account for you can t prevent the damage, the death, of innocence. several republicans and that is what s happening here. i have observed the targeting process. and people involved are very well-intentioned. they want to protect america s the safety of americans back home. but it is just rife with the possibility of error. several republicans like congressman pete king are at ease with the way the program is loosely managed. but since it s relatively cheap, comparatively accurate and without risks to american
republicans. none. zero. peter king, i mean, if that s the best we ve got, then he s not very moderate. what i think there are, however, are a few pragmatists, who understand that the party is going over a cliff, and they re going to get taken with it when it goes. but i m just astonished by the cowardice of, for example, the former treasury secretaries that i knew and have worked for who didn t say a single solitary word about defaulting on the debt and potentially bringing down the entire world financial system. yeah, you were calling out former republican treasury secretaries to say, hey, guys, can anyone maybe come out and say, this is a bad idea, to go through the debt ceiling, at least pierce the bubble of delusion that has been building, that this is going to be fine. and no one did. not that i know of. i mean, if they had, i would have trumpeted it to the skies. but, we have quite a few living former republican treasury secretaries, george schultz,
but when the votes were tallied, just one other so-called moderate, charlie dent of pennsylvania, voted with peter king. a dramatic win for the tea party that cleared the way for the shutdown. so much for the preservation caucus. but the government shutdown and the democrats pushing speaker boehner to bring a clean cr to the floor, the speaker pushed back. there are not the votes in the house to pass a clean cr. but according to whip counts from nbc news, the washington post, and others, the speaker was dead wrong. the huffington post reported there were up to 29 republicans who favored ending the shutdown with no strings attached. it s called arithmetic. the votes are there. all 29 could have voted with king and the democrats to avert a shutdown, but members like devon nunez and darrell issa and tom cole took the easy away out and let the country suffer. members like john runyan and lew barletta sat on their hands and let the suicide caucus hijack