{"id":3167,"date":"2013-08-05T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2013-08-05T00:45:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T00:45:47","slug":"fema-shifts-gears-on-west-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3167","title":{"rendered":"FEMA shifts gears on West relief"},"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>The Federal Emergency Management Agency, once the bogeyman in Texas, has changed its mind and will expedite federal aid to help West, Texas rebuild after the devastating fertilizer plant explosion this past fall.<\/p>\n<p>It interests me that Gov. Rick Perry, who tore FEMA a new one when it first denied the federal disaster declaration, hasn\u2019t yet actually thanked the feds publicly for it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/02\/us\/texas-fema-plant-blast\/index.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/02\/us\/texas-fema-plant-blast\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/02\/us\/texas-fema-plant-blast\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perry instead praised the state effort in appealing that decision, as reported by CNN. I get that the governor is proud of the state\u2019s effort to persuade the feds to change their mind. It is to the state\u2019s credit that it was able to move the federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>How much harm would it do, though, for the Republican governor to say a good word about the Democratic administration that enabled FEMA to do the right thing?<\/p>\n<p>I guess it would do a lot of harm, given that Perry well could be positioning himself for another run at the presidency. He can\u2019t look too, um, <em>friendly<\/em> toward those dreaded Democrats.<\/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>The Federal Emergency Management Agency, once the bogeyman in Texas, has changed its mind and will expedite federal aid to help West, Texas rebuild after the devastating fertilizer plant explosion this past fall. It interests me that Gov. Rick Perry, who tore FEMA a new one when it first denied the federal disaster declaration, hasn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FEMA shifts gears on West relief<\/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":[540,1393,1716,1722,3370,3951,5231],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-disaster-relief","tag-fema","tag-fertilizer-plant-blast","tag-obama-administration","tag-rick-perry","tag-west-tx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","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=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}