Definition of Emergency

From firedoglake, I think:

“While extolling the virtues of a balanced budget during a PAYGO debate on the floor of the House, Rep. Marsha Blackburn exclaimed:

Let’s agree that we’re going to have PAYGO enforcement. That we’re not going to cry ’emergency’ every time we have a Katrina, every time we have a Tsunami, every time we have a need for extra spending, that we don’t go call for a special appropriation that allows us to circumvent the PAYGO rules.”

Representative Blackburn? About that children’s story you’re thinking of? It’s okay to cry wolf when there really is one.

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