{"id":290,"date":"2013-04-24T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/24\/perry-has-it-wrong-on-west-blast"},"modified":"2013-04-24T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T21:09:00","slug":"perry-has-it-wrong-on-west-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Perry has it wrong on West blast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I agree totally with Paul Burka\u2019s assessment of Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s effort to cover his own backside in the wake of the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/perrys-response-west#.UXgNuV0k5qo.twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/perrys-response-west#.UXgNuV0k5qo.twitter\">http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/perrys-response-west#.UXgNuV0k5qo.twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perry said that more state inspections of the plant wouldn\u2019t have prevented the explosion that killed 14 people and injured dozens more. Burka asks a simple question: Just how does the governor know that?<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me the governor is lapsing back into his less-government-is-better-government mantra, which is kind of the tea party theme in states across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Perry needs to start asking some difficult questions about this tragedy and stop relying on CYA platitudes that fail to get to the root of anything. <\/p>\n<p>President and Mrs. Obama are going to visit the region Thursday to pay their respects for the victims of the blast. I\u2019d give anything to be a fly on the wall when Gov. Perry and President Obama meet to discuss this matter. I\u2019m wondering if he\u2019ll tell the president to instruct federal agencies to butt out of efforts to repair the lives shattered by that horrific blast.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree totally with Paul Burka\u2019s assessment of Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s effort to cover his own backside in the wake of the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion. http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/perrys-response-west#.UXgNuV0k5qo.twitter Perry said that more state inspections of the plant wouldn\u2019t have prevented the explosion that killed 14 people and injured dozens more. Burka asks a simple question: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perry has it wrong on West blast<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}