Two things you don't want to hear


“We’re from the government. We’re here to help.”

GW and His Hairness Rick Perry were back as “Pancho and Lefty (Righty)” today as they looked at the utter destruction of Southeast Texas from Hurricane Rita.

GW: “Whoa, Rick Doodle. Look at that sumbitch. It sure is a torn-up sumbitch”
Rick: “That is a torn-up sumbitch, for sure, Mr. President.”

And so it goes.

I’m getting my rags together to return to Beaumont but GW and Rick apparently don’t want me to go home, according to the remarks Bush made this afternoon to the press:

“Again, the Governor has got a plan to make sure people don’t come back too early. He’s listening to the local judges and the mayors. Obviously, we want people to come home as quickly as possible. We want them to be able to do so in an orderly way. And when they get home, they find that there’s a — you know, as best as possible, power and water.”

Just what is the plan that the governor has? Are highway patrol and National Guard ringing the entire damn perimeter of eastern and southeastern Texas? I don’t know, I’m beginning to get just a bit ticked off at how much everyone and their brother who don’t live in the areas hit by the storm harp so rampantly on how those of us who live there should be kept out. Tell me how it is for our own good again? If I can survive without any undue burden on the authorities or Entergy Corp. or Halliburton then what difference will it make for me to live at home without any electricity? It just makes me want to get back home all the more.

If I was cynical (Me? Surely not!), I might think Gov. Goodhair was doing a little political posturing by visiting the Beaumont area for the third time since Rita hit. Just like when he was Lite Guv under GW, Ricky is borrowing from the GW play book o’ tricks by repeatedly making a show at the disaster scene. It is politically wise, not just because Perry is running for governor again next year. Some crap is sure to hit the fan over miscues made by the state in their disaster response to Rita.

Sure to be cussed and discussed will be the nightmare of the evacuations from the metropolitan areas. Also, I predict some heat over the missteps made in evacuating nursing homes from those areas. The latter issue in which I speak includes how the state tried to commandeer ambulances whose operators had long-standing agreements with nursing homes for just such emergencies. It threw the situation into chaos for awhile during that period of evacuation.

So lest you think that everything went smoothly and the state and federal governments are functioning like a well-oiled machine in the Rita aftermath, I invite you to read the fine print in some of the stories coming from around where I live. Or else, I have some prime real estate to sell you in Cameron Parish.

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