I know Boston is sexier, but I hope the country doesn't overlook the people of West. One big difference is that I don't know that the public's help is needed for the victims or city of Boston. But that's not the case in West, where about 1/3 of a small town was destroyed and almost everybody lost somebody.
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the Branch Davidian blaze in Waco. I hope there isn't more in store for this deadly week.
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/texas-explosion/ … ?hpt=hp_c3
"...Sixty-six years after the Texas City Disaster, it is finally time for this pathological avoidance of oversight to end in Texas. To understand how deep the state’s regulatory resistance runs, one need only to listen to the state’s attorney general, Greg Abbott, who often spearheads the Lone Star state’s rebuffs to federal imperatives. Earlier this year he was asked what his job entailed. “I go into the office in the morning,” he replied. “I sue Barack Obama, and then I go home. ...” "
With that kind of thinking, no wonder innocent people, who think that someone is looking out for the community's welfare, end up dying in senseless accidents. Full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/opinion/in-the- … tself.html
BTW, sources here in TX say that the final death toll in West is likely to be 14, high but thankfully *much* lower than the mayor's guesstimates.
During his press conference on the situation in West, Perry said, “President Obama called from Air Force One as he was en route to Boston,” Perry said. “We greatly appreciate his call, and his gracious offer of support, of course, and the quick turnaround of the emergency declaration that will be forthcoming, and his offer of prayers.”
Now that Perry needs something, President Obama isn’t such a bad guy.
It’s almost like Perry wants us to forget his 2011 presidential campaign ad where he accused the president of waging a war on religion.
Fast forward to 2013, and Perry thanked Obama for his prayers. So much for that Obama war on religion. I guess that means that when a Republican needs immediate help from the federal government, President Obama gets to be a Christian.
Gov. Perry has railed for years against Obama and “big government,” but his tune completely changed when his state needed federal government help after the tragedy in West.
Rick Perry’s 180 on President Obama reveals the truth about the Republican calls for shrinking the federal government and handing more power to the states.
It won’t work.
States need the federal government, because sometimes fertilizer plants blow up, or natural disasters hit, or the economy crashes. Welcome to the real world.
In the real world after half of the town of West, Texas blew up, Gov. Rick Perry needed President Barack Obama’s help. That is the way our system of government is supposed to work. Despite the flood of verbal political sewage that flowed out of Perry’s mouth since Obama was elected, the president was there when he was needed to immediately respond with help.
President Obama is doing what he is supposed to do as president, but Rick Perry’s cozying up to the president revealed the hypocrisy of the right’s Obama bashing, and what a disaster their plan to shrink the size of the federal government really would be.