As Texas burns, Osama fiddles

His government is hurting his friends, too - equal opportunity misery:

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As Texas Burns, Firefighting Aircraft Grounded by Feds

Written By : Dave Blount

Here’s what the federal government is doing about the historic wildfires that have been devastating Texas — grounding firefighting aircraft:

Nearly half of the federal government’s firefighting air tankers are sitting idle at a California airport, grounded by the Obama administration in a contract dispute just weeks before wildfires swept through Texas killing a mother and her child, and destroying 100,000 acres. …
The U.S. Forest Service terminated the contract with Aero Union five weeks ago to operate seven P-3 Orions that are critical to the agency’s firefighting mission, leaving the federal government with 11 tankers under contract to help battle more than 50 large uncontained wildfires now burning nationwide.
That’s down from 40 tankers used by the Forest Service just a decade ago, according to Rep. Dan Lungren (R.-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Administration, who is challenging the decision to dismiss the largest provider of heavy air-tanker support to the federal government.

Again we see that the only areas in which our explosively expanding federal government shrinks are those few that pertain to its legitimate responsibilities.
Due to Obamunist “transparency,” the government isn’t saying why it abruptly canceled the contract right before the start of the fire season. We do know that Aero Union passed its annual inspection.

Eventually the grounded aircraft will be replaced by inferior planes that — like Comrade Obama’s Darth Vader buses — come from Canada. These require more downtime and carry a smaller load of fire retardant.
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Lest you think this is aimed at Texas alone, in retaliation for actually doing what Osama claims his policies should do, California is being burned, too, and there are not enough planes to go around.

I wonder if anyone could show bias in WHERE the few remaining tankers are sent?