Perry's office: "TX is not LA. You won't see that breakdown here"

[rainbow4321]

Nice slap in the face..he needs to STFU.


http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3361863


Gov. Rick Perry declared the state a disaster area today in anticipation of Hurricane Rita hitting Texas and personally asked President Bush to approve federal aid to affected counties.

Perry's request for 100 percent federal reimbursement for counties that respond to the disaster came as federal Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials moved into the state to help.

A FEMA official is already at the State Operations Center, which went on full alert status today with 34 state agencies on site around the clock, said Perry spokeswoman Kathy Walt.

"FEMA has already been part of this. They have offered whatever support we need,'' Walt said. "Texas is not Louisiana. You won't see that breakdown occurring here.''

[Moloch]

1. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I hate Texas.

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[txindy]

11. Uh-huh

:eyes:

[txindy]

7. Thanks

:eyes:

[Im with Rosey]

3. It never ceases to amaze me

just how disgusting and repulsive some of these idiots can be. It certainly helps that he is in Texas, that he's a repub and that the emperor doesn't want his numbers to go any further down the toilet. Someone needs to smack him upside the head!

[txindy]

4. Let him talk. Then the folks in LA can point out they did those things too

But were ignored by Junior and FEMA. Let Gov. MoFo help sink this administration. Let the public see that Junior (if he does, indeed, respond) is biased when it comes to who gets his attention.

Let the public see it all.

[Im with Rosey]

5. Point well taken.

[jimshoes]

27. While they're putting the full court press

on for Texas, how much will the already affected areas in NO and Miss. suffer from the attention being drawn away? Besides it's too late for these guys, their organization stinks and everybody knows it.

[ikojo]

31. The so called opposition party needs to point out

how quickly Bush is responding to a hurricane that has yet to happen when TEXAS is threatened versus how he and his minions reacted to Katrina.

[xray s]

6. Sure he can say that now

Bush isn't on vacation

[MadMichDem]

12. ...and Rove is out of the hospital and Cheney is off vacation....n/t

[Cha]

8. What a fucking asshole thing to say..

especially when bush was out getting photo ops in Arizona, and Calif. when Katrina was hitting. There was no leadership from Washington for days. Didn't Newsweek say they were infighting over who was in charge?

And bush took the money that should have gone to the levees to Iraq..so governor fuckning perry's office ..Go Fuck Your self via dick cheney.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Rick "Do you know who I am" Perry is an asshole in more ways

than one.

[schrodingers_cat]

9. Grandstanding a**hole........

Wonder what kind of plate he'll be eating his words off of.

Be safe all of our fellow DUers out there on the Texas/LA coast!!!! Gather your loved ones, be prepared, and get to a safe place. Mother nature can humble the strongest of us, as we've seen.

[yankeedem]

10. But shouldn't Texas be funding their own levees

and storm protection barriers? Why do they always look to big government? Why should we have to pay for their lack of planning?
:sarcasm:

[Igel]

15. Galveston's running under it's own powers,

and built its own sea walls.

And, in other news, Perry did exactly what Blanco did.

And FEMA's saying the same things. Except that FEMA already has a very large presence in this neck of the woods.

[txindy]

23. Exactly right. Blanco did just what Gov. MoFo has done.

We need to point that out early and often, even here, apparently.

[AspenRose]

38. *snicker* "governor MoFo."

:yourock:

I am embarrassed to admit he attended my alma mater....

[rainbow4321]

KBH: "one state should not have to foot the bill for the whole country."

And let's remember KBH's comment here when she and other TX officials turn to the feds and other states for help in the next few days...KBH, don't be putting your hand out for any money after bitching about helping LA.



http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8CO92300.html

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said getting money to reimburse Texas for the costs associated with accepting thousands of sheltering thousands of evacuees is going more slowly than she thought and has kept her scrambling for days.

"I'm trying to slap this horse on the back and make to go faster and it's about to buck me off," she said. "I hope that people realize that one state should not have to foot the bill for the whole country."

As costs for responding to Katrina mount, Republicans — pushed by conservative members — have begun looking for ways to offset the costs, essentially by cutting spending in other programs.

DeLay and Senate leaders said the cost of Katrina recovery may not be as much as previously suggested, in part because money provided in the most recent spending bill for Katrina recovery is not being spent as quickly as expected. "Everybody believes we are talking about much less than $200 billion," Hutchison said.

[Justitia]

20. see my post # 17. Sorry KBH peed on the carpet. -eom

[malaise]

13. Tell him his fucking former governor

still hasn't picked up the dead in New Orleans.

[henslee]

14. He better watch out for karma.

[Silverhair]

16. He has some natural (Non-political) advantages.

With the exception of Galveston and Padre Island, pretty much all the cities have multiple evacuation routes, or they are far enough inland that they do not need to be evacuated.

Almost all the cities are well above any storm surge so the worst that you can get is a situation like the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

So evacuation is not the great problem that it was in New Orleans.

The New Orleans problem was caused by the levees breaking. If they had not broken, Mississippi would be getting all the news coverage and life loss in New Orleans would have been low.

So unless the Galveston levees are breached, then there will not be a N.O. sized problem, even if he does nothing.

A Mississippi sized problem is likely.

[Justitia]

17. There's my asshole governor, saying stupid things - again.

Sigh.

Please don't listen to Guv Goodhair, none of us in TX do.
Apologies all around, as usual.
May I pre-emptively apologize for my idiot senators as well?
I'm certain they will follow up Ricky's pithy remarks w/some moronic stmts of their own.

:eyes:

BTW dumbass governor, in case you haven't noticed, your predecessor shows no special love for his "adopted homestead state".
He treats us like shit too, just like the other 49 states & DC.
I wouldn't hold out any hope for a special phone line or anything.

Idiot.

[rainbow4321]

18. KBH has already fulfilled her part of stupid comments....

see my KBH post upthread.

[Justitia]

21. ha, ha - great minds...just responded to your previous post. -eom

[Silverhair]

34. Somebody in Texas must listen to him. He got reelected. NT

[Justitia]

39. Nah, he just filled the "R" slot & ran against Tony Sanchez.

That's all it took to get elected guv of TX last time.

Everybody still thinks he's an idiot. 'Course, for the repubs, he's THEIR idiot, for now anyway.

[SillyGoose]

19. What a typical smug republican assh*le. eom

[napi21]

22. My son commented "Bet Shrub won't look the other way when it involves

Texas!" I agreed, but I want to see how he's going to handle the Pr problem when it becomes conspicuous to everyone that he and his crowd really did ignore La, Ms, and Al.

Same as ub us little Bro's state of Fl!

[Initech]

24. What a douchebag.

So FEMA is ready and willing to help Texas but completely ignores Lousiana? What a douchebag.

[demo dutch]

25. Oh La di la!! Wait until a Cat 5 hits!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

26. Gov Goodhair is an idiot

Please, except my apology for his stupidity. Even many republicans in Texas are ashamed of this clown, and that's saying alot. However, I'm sure the repugs Cornyn and Hutchinson will be swift to praise themselves, FEMA, Perry and * when this is over.

Feel free to share you love of Goodhair, here's his contact info.

There's a comment form on the page along with phone, fax and snail mail information.

http://www.governor.state.tx.us/contact/#contactinfo

[HeeBGBz]

28. What's with the shithead comments from Texas and Florida government ?

Like you really think you could do better???

Smug, repulsive, corporate buttmonkeys.

[boston bean]

30. These fuckin people are the lowest form of life. Nothing, Nothing

is beneath them.

[rainbow4321]

32. They may be using this as an excuse to get evacuees out of TX

They are not just sending them to another part of TX..the evacuees in Houston are being sent to Arkansas!

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/05/rita/3362112

Hurricane Katrina evacuees, mostly from Louisiana, waited inside and outside Reliant Arena throughout the day for cabs, buses and airport shuttles to take them away.

Behind Reliant Arena, volunteers worked to keep together the evacuee families who opted to make the trip to Fort Chaffee, Ark., via chartered commercial planes. Red Cross volunteers and law enforcement officers escorted evacuees from the arena door to buses waiting outside

Stressing that neither Houston nor the two shelters, the George R. Brown Convention Center and Reliant Arena, are safe to ride out a storm of Rita's predicted size, officials offered the transportation to Arkansas as well as continued one-way airline tickets to other points in the country or transfers to smaller area shelters.

Harris County Judge Robert Eckels said Reliant Arena could perhaps withstand a Category 2 hurricane, but Hurricane Rita is expected to hit the central Texas Coast as a Category 3 storm on Friday night.

[alarimer]

33. He's wrong

Houston for one is a lot like NO. Galveston even more so. Lots of poor people, many of them African-American. Low-lying areas prone to flooding. The major difference between Texas and LA is the Governor of Texas is a Republican. I believe the fact that Blanco is a Dem played a role in the response.

[SaintLouisBlues]

35. And you are right!

Models show 'massive devastation' in Houston
Damages could cost up to $50 billion -- 10 times Allison's cost
By ERIC BERGER
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle


SPECIAL REPORT
• Are we ready? If the big one hits, what will happen in the Houston-Galveston area?

Houston's perfect storm would feed on late summer's warm waters as it barreled northward across the Gulf of Mexico, slamming into the coast near Freeport.

A landfall here would allow its powerful upper-right quadrant, where the waves move in the same direction as the storm, to overflow Galveston Bay. Within an hour or two, a storm surge, topping out at 20 feet or more, would flood the homes of 600,000 people in Harris County. The surge also would block the natural drainage of flooded inland bayous and streams for a day or more.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3046592

[alarimer]

36. They don't calle it the Bayou City for nothing

I hope this storm hits a lesser populated area than Houston. It will be a mess either way but the Matagorda/Pt. Lavaca area has a smaller population to evacuate. Houston/Galveston is huge; although Houston itself is 50 miles or so from the coast. Areas have been subsiding for years- flooding will likely be a problems. If TS Alison can do it, imagine a much larger storm surge, like the article suggests. I live in Corpus, well away from the coast so I could probably stay. I think widamage might be the worst I would face. But I haven't yet decided, the models seem to converging on the middle coast.

[joanne]

37. Strange how these Repukes

dont bother to mention things are terrible in Mississippi too. Many citizens still waiting for help.

It just doesnt get the news attention that NO does.

[AnnieBW]

40. Shoot them nig...um...looters!

Yep, we shoot dem nig..um... looters down here in Texas!

[demo dutch]

41. What an ass, you can't even begin to compare the two areas!

If FEMA treats TX the way it treats MS, then lots of people will be just as unhappy!

[Bridget Burke]

42. But all the current efforts are being organized locally....

TV coverage is reporting plans made by City & County governments. Like staged evacuation from the worst areas--with buses available to transport the carless (& their pets).

Nobody down here cares what Bush or Perry has to say.

[Arkana]

43. Of course you won't, for several reasons.

1) Because Rick Perry has an (R) after his name, George and Co. will go to the ends of the earth for him.

2) George and Co. are desperately trying to repair his image after the Katrina fiasco.

3) Texas is W's declared "home state," even though he's actually not really kinda from there.