Posted on 09/06/2011 2:13:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A thousand homes and 100,000 acres have burned in just a week. A friend of mine who lives just outside Austin was forced to flee with her family last night as the flames encroached, and not until this afternoon did she learn whether her home had survived. (It had.) Go figure that this guy thinks he should do his job rather than gladhand people on the trail for a few days.
Presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he does not yet know whether he will attend Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate…
“I don’t know. That’s a fluid situation at the moment. Again I go back to we’re going to be taking care of the folks here … We’re really focused on the events at hand and the other side of that is we’re pretty good at multitasking,” said Perry on CBS’s “The Early Show” Tuesday…
“This is not the time to be talking about politics. There’s another 14 months ahead to talk politics. Right now I’m substantially more focused on making sure that these people … folks all across this state are being taken care of. Getting out of harms way, saving lives is the big issue for me right now,” Perry told CBS.
Serious question: Is there a single person whining at him for missing DeMint’s forum who wouldn’t also be whining if he had attended the forum that he had shirked his duties as governor?
“It’s obvious that Rick Perry is skipping the DeMint forum because he knew he was going to be asked tough questions about his previous support for gay marriage in New York, as well as his policies in Texas in favor of illegal immigration,” says one representative of a rival camp. “He’s looking for a reason to not actually be compared to the other candidates,” says an official in another camp. “He was grasping for a reason not to show.”
There are eight more debates scheduled before the Iowa caucuses, three of which will be held within the next 15 days. Plenty of opportunities left to quiz him about immigration, an issue on which he is in fact very vulnerable, and on gay marriage and the Tenth Amendment, which won’t hurt him at all given his appeal to evangelical leaders. Ultimately he’s the only one who suffers from having to miss these things since every absence gives Romney and Bachmann a chance to shine unhindered and to attack him without fear of retort. They may have no choice tomorrow night: According to NBC’s new poll, Perry leads Romney by fully 15 points, 38/23, with Bachmann a distant fourth (behind Ron Paul) at eight percent.
Lol, yeah, I need to be smarter like you? Maybe you're behind on the news, but the latest is Perry has decided to go to the debate, as I thought he should all along. No reason why he shouldn't leave for a half day.
Link in #215.
I was responding to cripplecreek.
Have you ever handled a fire situation?
Perry will participate if he is able. If not, he won’t.
You must be a big fan of Perry’s since you are all over the forum.
I will tell you this: Perry is superb at handling crises. Ask anyone involved in Hurricanes Ike, Rita and Katrina.
I saw how Obama handles crises: he could not even drag himself away from the Hawaii beach when an islamist was trying to blow up an airplane at Christmas. Obama said nothing about the islamist terror murder attack in Fort Hood.
The country desperately needs leadership who can deal with severe problems.
1000 Texas families lost their homes in the past 3 days, and FEMA just showed up today to see if there is some kind of problem they need to help with. Texas is a tinderbox and has been all year. Perry has been fighting the Obama FEMA since spring to try to get aid for the fires.
I don’t think the MSM has covered the flooding appropriately (information blackout) in the Northeast due to hurricane Irene or what’s been happening with the drought and wildfires in Texas. Just an observation. Extremely odd.
I was responding you and only made one point: that later in this thread several said he plans to go to the debate. And the link in #215 says that now he is going to the debate.
Thanks for the link but it is dated today and the time I watched, about 15 minutes, they said nothing about how long they have been going on. However, I live right in the middle of it all so I know. There have been isolated fires for about a week. One in Leander burned about twenty-five trailers in a trailer park. It has not rained in this area and much of Texas since early March.
Now the situation has suddenly gotten worse. Fires are popping up all over the state, big ones, and the wind was making it much worse. Perry is coordinating the state police response, the Texas Department of Wildlife, various fire departments, the national guard and he has asked for assets from Ft. Hood which is just up the road. There are planes and helicopters from several agencies that must be managed, fire equipment from many agencies, personnel from many agencies, etc. There are a lot of people involved.
You're not the lone ranger there in Texas.
CA and other states have been there done that, except worse in CA with extreme conditions, such as Santana devil winds, generating fire tornadoes, with wind driven fires going up and down 10,000 foot mountains, sheer cliffs, with ever changing winds, forest of 200 foot tall trees turning into firebombs.... Fires you can't outrun with burning embers starting spot fires miles ahead of the lines, with spot fires erupting *everywhere*, winds so bad, aircraft are grounded, fires and winds so bad, even the best firefighters can only stand and watch as they occasionally, just can't keep up...With ash raining down for weeks.
This can happen every nearly every year in some places.
Best of luck to ya!
Thank you for your concern. For a good update about the fires, visit the Austin-American Statesman http://www.statesman.com/ website. Even this uberliberal rag is giving good coverage to the dire and deadly fire situation in Texas. It is a bad situation.
Your post is despicable!!
Not sure where you are in this thread or on the latest news, but according to a new thread linked in #215, Perry now plans to attend the debates. I’m sure Perry will stay in touch with developments back home and give any guidance needed.
The fires in Texas have been very destructive and I recall Obama refused disaster relief for some of the earlier fires a few months back. The remnants of TS Lee dumped several inches of rain in much of the southeast which was getting very dry, but not near the dangerous state as in Texas.
Not to play one-upmanship when people's livelihoods are at stake but this fire season, 3,500,000 acres have burned in Texas. I have seem much of what burns in California firsthand. Mostly weeds and brush that needs to be burnt off occasionally as part of its ecology. The fires in Texas are burning pine forests, hay fields, live oak and post oak forests, and agricultural land.
We are not defending Perry against anything but your disinformation. Your facts are wrong and you’re misstating the situation. That you persist after several corrections makes your entire effort suspect.
Who are you supporting, Obama or one of the other Republican candidates? You sound more like a liberal but so do so many other Freepers during this campaign. It is discouraging to see supposed conservatives act like liberals.
I like Cain, Palin, Bachman, and Perry. My participation in these discussions is just to correct the misstatements made by supporters of one candidate about another. There are many. I am disappointed that many Freepers act like Democrats.
You are correct. It would be the same as those who try to discredit Sarah by calling her a quitter. They try to turn a selfless, honorable action into a weakness.
Correct -- and he did so, Texans remember, even as he sent aid to Mexico on account of their fires, and moved government contracts from Texas to other, "battleground" states -- such as Wisconsin, in the case of the MRAP vehicles being built by Stewart & Stevens in suburban Houston.
I'm using logic. Since Newt and Rick were terminated because they were running for president in order to prevent a conflict of interest, it would leave Fox News open for wrongful termination lawsuits if Fox News allows Sarah to continue to work while she runs for president. Also, the executives at Fox News suddently met with Sarah after she started her bus tour, an event that looked suspiciously like a campaign event. After the meeting, Fox News said that they were not changing her status. If Sarah did not assure them that it was not part of a presidential campaign, they would have needed to suspend her just as they suspended the others.
But I find it interesting that the people that defend Sarah as the most ethical person in the race rush to defend her on technicalities. If Sarah knows that she is running, she has a moral and ethical obligation to tell Fox News - to continue to accept a paycheck, while knowing she would not be eligible if she was truthful about her intentions, would be dishonest and unethical, even if it might be technically legal. I thought Sarah was supposed to be above such technicalities...
You are correct. I am way behind the curve on this thread. I am responding to much earlier comments. Sorry. I am caught up now.
Let me know the specific policies that Sarah is proposing in her speeches.
Well that's interesting.
Not-very-wet winter, quite dry spring. Lots of fires. Fire warnings flying for months in some counties. Then a big wind gets power lines arcing and dropping sparks into the grass, or (as someone noticed the other day) Bozo hooks up a hot smoker, smoking furiously away, to drag over to his brother-in-law's house, and drops ash from his cleanout door on the side of the road, mile after mile. Guy like that should be good for three or four roadside fires under circumstances like these.
The average daily high temperature in Houston for the month of August, according to Reliant Power Company, was 101o F. The average, not "we hit it every other day, or two days out of three".
Let me know the specific policies that Sarah is proposing in her speeches.
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