Kay Bailey Hutchison: Obama Has A 'Bias' Against Texas

[sasha031]

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is messing with Texas, the senior senator from that state alleged. Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison acknowledged that Texas does depend heavily on taxpayer funds –- a paradigm at odds with the state's rights braggadocio that frequently emanates from its capital in Austin. But still, Hutchison said, she felt that the Obama White House looked down, if not stigmatized, the Lone Star State. "I see a bias in this administration against Texas… yes, I do see it in this administration, absolutely. We didn't get the help in the wildfires that I think any other state would have gotten," said Hutchison. "I think if you look at the things that have not happened in Texas, I think it is pretty clear that there is a bias against Texas. Even in the border issues we are not getting the help we should have from the federal government to secure the 1,200-mile border we have with Mexico. So I do think that a lot of the rhetoric has rubbed the administration wrong, and we have had to fight hard for our fair share."

This acute distrust with the Obama administration is nothing new for prominent Texas Republicans. The Gov. Rick Perry, who is a rumored GOP presidential candidate, has hinted that the state would be better off seceding from the United States.But is it detached from or belied by actually policy? In 2007, during the waning years of the Texan President George W. Bush's administration, the state received roughly 94 cents for every tax dollar it sent to the federal government. From 2007 through 2009, that number was only slightly less: 92 cents.

While there was, indeed, controversy over the government's decision to deny a federal disaster declaration during recent wildfires in the state, the Obama administration has poured in more money towards border protection than its predecessor. The idea that the president's team is denying stimulus funds from conservative locales, moreover, ignores the procedural underpinnings for how that money is rewarded. (It's not the politics of the region, its their ability to effectively shift federal money into readied projects.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/10/kay-bailey-hutchison-obama-bias-texas_n_874782.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008

[onehandle]

1. Brain cells have a 'bias' against Texas.

Best used, mostly used elsewhere.

(not an attack on everyone in Texas, but on the voting majority and elected majority)

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Well, Certainly Against Kay

She's a dolt.
GAC

[no_hypocrisy]

2. It's the other way around.

[marmar]

3. ............

[JVS]

4. Persecution complexes are bigger in Texas.

[still_one]

5. Wasn't it your boy perry who want texas to get out of the union? /nt

[MineralMan]

6. Well, I'm certainly biased against Texas politics and politicians

in a general way. I'd assume that President Obama feels much the same.

[Mz Pip]

7. Perry should ask

for corporate donations instead of government hand outs. :sarcasm:

[Fleshdancer]

8. And when TX cuts funding to the dept that fights the fires...

right after the wildfires took place, then the politicians look pretty damn stupid for crying about not getting fed funding. Idiotic and heartless hypocrites.

[tishaLA]

14. And Perry tried to have 252 of 254 counties declared disaster areas

after the fire, despite the fact that 252 weren't effected.

And yet the administration gave the state grants to cover 75% of the firefighting costs.

[Fleshdancer]

17. Wow, I didn't realize he tried to declare that many counties

So basically it was a set up from the beginning to find a way to bitch about this administration. Color me not surprised.

[City Lights]

9. Quit yer whining, Hutchison.

:nopity:

[northoftheborder]

10. Well, as a Texan, I say the state gets what it deserves from Washington.

Perry has gone out of his way to be difficult, arrogant, and impudent towards "big guvment". KBH is wrong in her spin about some of her allegations. She is biased towards the vast majority of Texans, herself, for supporting issues harmful to the state's people, (as opposed to the state's large industries).

[firehorse]

11. Texas, like Alaska, wants its government subsidies and wants to be separate at the same time

[gratuitous]

12. Gee Kay, not like when you had your own in the Oval Office, is it?

Maybe you should run . . .

[Arctic Dave]

15. It is my understanding that Texas has the second largest state budget reserves

in the nation. Use some of that money if you want to get things done.

[kestrel91316]

16. Kay, TX has a bias against President Obama and anybody else with

more than 3 neurons to rub together, and anybody with any melanin in their skin.

[Llewlladdwr]

18. I don't know about Obama...

but DU certainly seems to have an anti-Texas bias.

[w8liftinglady]

19. Texas Republicans have a bias against Texas citizens

We lead the nation in uninsured adults and children,minimum-wage workers, and teen pregnancy.
Our esteemed state senate is debating even MORE cuts to the schools,poor and elderly.
I used to think kay was a moderate republican.She is a self-centered,selfish tool just like the rest of our "Xtian" Republican politicians.

[emulatorloo]

20. Just shut up, KBH. You are as fact free as Liz Cheney, and just as hateful.