New York Representative Peter King has gone off the deep end over the funds New York will receive to fight terror from DHS. The press has wrongly labeled the funds a “cut”, when in fact the funding is for one-time purchases and each year is determined independent of the previous year. There are no contiguous programs to fund here, thus there cannot be a “cut”. Chris Mathews threw him some pathetic softballs on his show the other day, allowing King to show himself for the pandering fool that he has become.

MATTHEWS: Republican Congressman Peter King of New York, of the New York area, is the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. And he said today that the Department of Homeland Security has declared war on New York City.

Congressman, how did this happen? Your city, New York, was the hardest hit in history by terrorism, and yet it?s been cut for anti- terrorism funds. How?d that happen?

KING: Chris, this is absolutely indefensible. The Department of Homeland Security changes the story by the hour. There has never been one allegation of even one penny being misspent on any of the counterterrorism money in New York.

This is 100% false. New York has squandered and wasted almost $10 billion in anti-terror and 9/11 funds.

Newsflash to Mr. King: New York is not at war here, America is at war. Bin Laden has said that they want to attack us in our “heartland”. They aren’t interested in just terrorizing New Yorkers, as much as the New Yorker ego might wish it to be so. They want to terrorize all Americans.

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