This is the same bs over and over. Whether Obama or Trump...same thing. The other side will always find fault. As a native Texan with history down there, most obly care about the people. As Sandra Bullock said "There are no politics in eight feet of water….I’m just grateful I can do it,”

This shouldn't be about politics. Texans are coming together. Other states are coming together. This shouldn't be about tearing people apart. It shows people come together

all the local authorities were Democrat!

But yet your ready to condemn him and have no idea what he will do..

I was taught to let what others do speak for themselves... yea it is a ole South Way... Call me a Redneck or what ever one want to say, but a mans word is a mans word till proven wrong.. When and if you can prove it that he did not give the million as promised then and only then will I back down!

That was fast!

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/273907/

Michael S.
Yesterday at 4:53pm

It is a tale of two cities – both subjected to disasters of historic proportions, both large and modern port cities, and both disasters happening under a Republican administration - but that seems to be where the similarities end.

With Katrina and New Orleans, even though the real disaster was caused by the breaching of a federally designed, constructed and maintained levee and state/city maintained pumps - the media coverage was far more rabid and harsh against the sitting president, there were multitudes of fabricated tales designed to enhance the sense of failure of FEMA and take the heat off the local and state led Democrat government, and it seems to me that people simply abdicated their own responsibility to take care of their own safety to government and simply waited for government to come to rescue them. At the time of Katrina, the population of the greater New Orleans area was almost 1.3 million people - 1833 people died.

In after Harvey Houston, there was little to blame on government even though there are some who have tried to blame the Democrat mayor for not issuing a mandatory evacuation notice, complaints about lack of zoning regulations and many on the left are trying to make tendentious claims that the Republican led state government or FEMA acted too slowly - but overall, none of those claims have gained traction. It seems most of the people in Houston got out or at least were better prepared to take care of themselves. When Harvey hit, population of the greater Houston area was around 6.5 million - to date, the death toll from Hurricane Harvey stands at 44.

Why is there such a difference - in almost every aspect, especially in news coverage? I remember how Katrina dominated the news coverage for months with national network anchors camping out in NOLA for what seemed like years. Correspondents were filing breathless reports about the disaster and there was endless debate in Congress about rushing increasingly large amounts of money to Louisiana. Hollywood stars helmed benefit shows raising money for the storm victims. Kanye claimed Katrina response was slow because Bush hated black people. Houston is a 51% minority populated city, so where are all the stories about racial hate that in 2005 were so de rigueur?

Where is all of that now?

It sure isn’t because the media now loves Trump and the GOP.

Could it be because being a Texan has less to do with skin color and more to do with a tradition of self-reliance and grit? Could it be because the people of Houston have no time to pray to government for salvation because they are too busy saving themselves – and their neighbors? Could it be that they didn’t care whether government approved of how they rescued people, they just got it done?

Texas really is different. It isn’t a place, it is a state of mind. Texas became the last refuge of the rugged individualist spirit, exemplified by cowboys and wildcatters, by statesmen like Sam Houston and patriots like Davy Crockett. When Texans ran out of land to explore, they created Mission Control, the place from which we explore space. Every astronaut who has left Earth’s atmosphere has been a Texan by proxy. The phrase, “Houston, we have a problem” is a universal colloquialism for something that must be overcome.

But being a rugged individualist doesn’t mean you don’t care about others – it is who you are, not what you do. It means that instead of waiting for a government operated boat to come by and pick you up, you gas up your bass boat and go find people who need your help. It means you act first and worry later. It means you are a member of what I call the DGASWYT movement – the Don’t Give A **** What You Think movement.

Texas still is what America used to be before we allowed the politicians to tear us apart.

God Bless Texas.

Over here (again, sorry ) but you just know in a disaster the first words that come from the opposition are "to little, to late "
They almost say it before the event!

Not at all. I am not condemning him, Just advising people dont put him up as some exception for something he has yet to do, just because he pledged to. He is not know for charity.

I was taught that words are just words without action.

I can prove that he HAS not given what he promised because his spokesperson was already backing down from saying where it WILL(future tense) come from within the last 24 hours.

Trumps 'word' has been proven wrong on too many occasions for me to put much stock in it without action that follows.

not I my friend, I Cant think of a disaster , besides Katrina, that didnt get handled on the same protocol/timeline.

I dont chalk it up to this side or the other, just the enormity of a situation that people do the best they can in.

Oh, don't get me wrong, any disaster is coped with, it's the opposition trying to undermine them, that is what I see from what's being posted.
From how it's been reported here they are doing everything they can.

Texas is a great country.

I agree. I believe people from ALL sides are showing strength in working together and helping with what they can.

you're preaching to the choir here.. we learned the hard from the last 8 years of lied and misdirections...

MM, been fishing lately?

Texas strong!

...that says it all

IT says people can put words on top of random photos,,lol

and have meaning

not really

see,,



just random photos and some anonymous persons random words on top

i think the Dogald did more than obarry...