I thought Rethug governors were the great hurricane kings

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There are scathing reports on the mess on the Texas Coastline two months after Ike.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-ike_02tex.ART.State.Edition2.29ae1f9.html
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced it will fully fund six more months of Hurricane Ike debris removal, assistance far short of what Texas Gov. Rick Perry has demanded.

PAT SULLIVAN/The Associated Press
PAT SULLIVAN/The Associated Press
A pile of porcelain and concrete in Smith Point, Texas, is among the heaps of trash that need to be removed from areas hit hard by Hurricane Ike. Many Texas coastal communities remain devastated, trashed with the remnants of destroyed homes and businesses.

After September's massive storm, Mr. Perry requested that the federal agency pay 100 percent of the costs for 18 months of storm recovery – what it did for Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. Normally, FEMA would pay 75 percent and local governments would pay 25 percent, a cost that Mr. Perry says would bankrupt storm-slammed counties.

But in a phone call the night before Thanksgiving, officials from the White House and the Department of Homeland Security notified the governor that they would fully fund just six more months of debris removal.
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Rachel just spoke about an AP report today

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Dec01/0,4670,FEMAapossMess,00.html
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A 30-mile scar of debris along the Texas coast stands as a festering testament to what state and local officials say is FEMA's sluggish response to the 2008 hurricane season.

Two and a half months after Hurricane Ike blasted the shoreline, alligators and snakes crawl over vast piles of shattered building materials, lawn furniture, trees, boats, tanks of butane and other hazardous substances, thousands of animal carcasses, perhaps even the corpses of people killed by the storm.

State and local officials complain that the removal of the filth has gone almost nowhere because FEMA red tape has held up both the cleanup work and the release of the millions of dollars that Chambers County says it needs to pay for the project.

Only a hundred yards or so of the 30 miles of debris in Chambers County has been cleaned up, because the project has been slowed by negotiations over who is responsible for what.

Along the rest of the Gulf Coast, thousands of homeless families are still living in tents, trailers and motel rooms, and hundreds of businesses are lying in near-ruin.
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Looks like FEMA and her Rethug governors fugged up royally.

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[Suich]

1. This article was in the Seattle Times today.

"Only a hundred yards or so of the THIRTY miles of debris????????" That's insane!

[malaise]

2. When Rachel read that I had to find the article

Insane is a kind word. Maybe it's time for KO and Rachel to take a trip.

[gratuitous]

3. Well, I think this is working out very well for them

Where's Barbara? She should get her pasty flabby ass down there to tell all the Gulf Coasters how swell things are for them.

[malaise]

4. I think she's in the hospital having a

swell time.

[hendo]

5. "Looks like FEMA and her Rethug governors fugged up royally."

Since when do governors have control over FEMA?

[malaise]

6. I wasn't the one who went on TV claiming that

Rethug governors are better at hurricane recovery than the poor Governor of Louisiana. They all boasted about their amazing preparations.
Let them sort it out with FEMA - after all they too blamed the Democratic Governor and not FEMA for the NOLA fugg up.

[truedelphi]

7. Sadly the M$M continually supports the notion that the mayor of NO screwed up and

The Democratic Governor of LA screwed up - with never a mention of the fact that while we send in planes to airlift food to countries facing tsunami and other damage, we sent in "trucks" to attempt to reach NO and other coastal areas.