Fear Runs Americans in 2005 or Only Bush could cause gas shortages in Texas!

As I watched the traffic snarls leaving Houston ("fleeing the wrath of Rita" as I recall hearing) I thought...this is all so unnecessary. What is it about the government telling us to fear everything, and then like children, we hide beneath the covers from the boogie man? Did Texans need a bigger evacuation than New Orleans just to prove they're better, bigger, and by golly more patriotic?? The facts don't prove out the case for panic the government spewed out to the people of Houston. Here's why. Houston, unlike New Orleans is 50 feet or so above sea level. Houston doesn't have water on all sides. Houston is a city mostly built in the latter part of the 20 century on solid ground. Houston's federal dole has not been cut to the bone by the current administration (thanks in part to Tom Delay). Houston's infrastructure is newer, it's roads and highways are a result of 50's and 60's planning, not pieced together over the last 3 centuries. Oh, and the bushistas are heavily invested in Texas oil and gas so are more likely to protect and rebuild it quickly. So why did the feds move more quickly to "panic" everyone when Rita (class 3 hurricane, not class 5) moved closer to Houston? And then, when the storm turned, to "protect" the people of Houston, why didn't the news get to them more quickly? Why did this exercise result in the deaths of people trying to run?? Because the current asshats in the whitehouse feast on fear. I'm not saying for a minute that a cat 3 hurricane wouldn't have caused some nasty damage had it come ashore over Galveston, it didn't come ashore there. And there is damage and there are displaced people in rural Texas and Louisiana (again). But it came ashore closer to Orange Texas, a small city on the TX/LA border, but that just didn't make juicy news. This was the lastest opportunity for the cowards in the whitehouse to pretend to "protect and serve". This exercise was an attempt to "show" that it really is the fault of the Louisiana officials (many Dems) not the feds that what went wrong during and after Katrina wasn't the fault of the bushistas. This is similar to how the asshats in the whitehouse tried to couch the Katrina disaster by saying "Well 4 hurricanes hit florida and things didn't go as bad as they did in New Orleans so it must be the state officials, not us". The difference between New Orleans and Florida is that W takes care of those who got him the job and fuck the rest of us plain and simple....oh, and the governor of Louisiana isn't named bush! And why at the 11th hour did Smirky the Chimp say "I'm going to Texas"? Was he going to get on his pony and lead the charge to stop the big bad wolf?? Or was he still pissed about not completing his vacation and wanted to grab a couple more days?? Now that the storm has passed and unlike New Orleans, Chimpy won't have to stand stage center and assure americans that "We will stay as long as it takes..(thank god somebody told him him to skip the 'cut and run' part of the speech) it will be interesting to see just how this plays out. I think there should be an investigation into this staged event immediately after the media circus ends about Katrina (with Rove assuring everyone that Bush had nothing to do with anything naturally). And finally, if Houston had been kicked to shit by this hurricane, would there have been any question that it would be rebuilt? So why did the msm keep that question about New Orleans on the front pages for a week? Slow news days...I doubt it.