Rick Perry asks Obama for a ‘quick turnaround’ on federal aid after explosion

[eggplant]

111. Nope.

I'm assuming that each homeowner's insurance will cover their own losses and will then attempt to collect from the company's insurer. It will be in their best interest to settle with the homeowner quickly so they can turn around and be first in line to collect from the likely limited insurance the company holds.

As for your "what's the big deal with asking for a little compassion" question, I would *love* for the government to be more compassionate. I'd love for welfare to pay enough to actually live on. I'd love it if unemployment benefits didn't expire. I'd love it if there was completely socialized medicine available to all. But *I* don't run the government, and neither do you. It works (or doesn't) by compromise. And some of the people who have to be reckoned with are penny-pinching assholes who don't want to spend dime one on anyone but themselves.

Which, not ironically, includes Gov. Perry and his ilk. You don't like it? Take it up with the Rs in congress.