Posted on 09/05/2011 7:41:29 AM PDT by icwhatudo
Did these fires just break-out? Is he personally going to be on the fire line cutting breaks? That is one lame-ass excuse!
Juxtapose that with Hurricane Irene when Obama was declaring federal disaster areas before the storm even made landfall.
BS you weren’t being sarcastic as that post is your usual idiotic blather.
WTF does the size of Alaska have to do with this topic? There is only 710,000 people who live there. The area of the fires has way more people in the direct vicinity than the entire state of Alaska. Two have already died. So either add something useful to the discussion or STFU!
Please do not take my comment as personal in nature. I was just commenting that when someone does the right thing... even if for questionable reasons... it is the right thing. His record and his words will not be exempt from this coming debate. He may end up wishing he had attended.
LLS
Correct priorities on Gov. Perry’s part...
It’s all politics with him. He also dallied around with with doing his job during the oil spill until James Carville ripped him a new one. That dumbass has been the biggest disaster ever on all of us.
Yours is such a crass statement.
There have been some ongoing fire situations with the drought, and the State of Texas has continued to become more and more susceptible to risks as the drought goes on. Governor Perry has already been addressing the ongoing situations we have had for months now.
However, the wildfire situation you are seeing now just got substantially worse late last night. We all watched it unfolding and turning into a completely different level emergency late last night, watching it on Twitter, Facebook friends and family, and the local Texan Freeper message board.
The hope was that the firefighters could get the largest one, especially in Bastrop, TX (east of Austin / west of Houston) contained quickly, and that there would be SOME advancement on its containment last night, but the noble fire fighters and EMS personnel that have been battling this latest outbreak of wildfires are quickly becoming outnumbered by the flames.
Unfortunately, today's situation is now showing quickly developing problems which are stretching the available resources from within the state and which are overwhelming local fire fighters and local EMS personnel.
I would assume Governor Perry is seeing that the quickly escalating situation as it has become today now calls for him to be in his executive role to get more help for this developing emergency.
What does the size of Alaska have to do with anything? Alaska is huge and mostly uninhabited. So what?
Please see my post 64. Thanks.
LLS
People are in real peril—and Perry probably should have been back dealing with it sooner.
(But isn’t it convenient that he ends up ducking a likely grilling and exposure in SC re: immigration and gay marriage?
It's sad isn't it. Watching Palin supporters acting like bitter paulbots. Dunno what happened to these people.
I love Governor Palin, loved her speech in Iowa the other day, love what she stands for - but Palin is not the end all be all of politics, and she also has made some critical mistakes if she had any thoughts of running for President. From quitting as governor, to reality TV gigs, to this endless "will I or won't I run" stuff - it's just not been popular at all for most conservatives. I understand why she left her Governor job, and I used to think if Palin ran people would gravitate towards her in the primaries, but it is pretty clear now that people have moved on and that she just isn't particularly popular with most Republicans. Even solid majorities of conservatives and Tea Party supporters just don't want her to throw her hat in the ring anymore.
Governor Palin isn't running. It is not going to happen. She doesn't have the support for it, and her negatives are astronomically high. The public knows her very well, she has near 100% name recognition and she just isn't well liked. Those are the facts and there is no getting around them.
Good grief! And if Perry the opposite you would complain about that too. How small of you to use this horrible fires in Texas to bash Perry.
OH shut up! Your asinine statement is ridiculous.
1st. Hard to tell lately when somebody is serious or just PDSing, sorry.
2nd. FEMA did not help much with the huge fires in Texas this spring, why would anybody expect that they will help now? They did send a USAF plane to fight fires in Mexico while Texas burned at this spring.
3rd. The fires started yesterday and he is getting there fairly quickly. Bastrop is close to our capitol, Austin. I think it will be good for him to be there.
4th. Nice Map. While the land area is huge, the population of Alaska is very small. Alaska has roughly the same population as Austin, TX, for reference Austin would be a smallish dot in the center of Texas on your map.
My front lawn is dead. My garden is dead. My bush beds are dying. The earth has pulled back from my foundation.
After a summer of record breaking 100+ heat and NO RAIN, whole fields are going to waste. Roadside fires are common. Every city is on water restrictions.
After MONTHS of blistering hot stagnant air, the winds have rolled in and are fanning these things. I finally have my windows open for the first time ALL SUMMER.
I don't get it. When disasters happen in other parts of the country, Texans respond with concern and compassion.
But now it's okay to downplay a truly ugly and dangerous situation just so you can throw digs at Perry? I could call you an ugly name, but you just proved it to every Texan on this thread.
Re #66:
Last I knew Rick Perry was not the governor of your state of Louisiana.
Sooner? What are you talking about? The current fires just started this weekend. You are going to have to find something else to bash him about.
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