GOP pork threatens Galveston and could be nonfunctional

But, nonetheless, Bush, Tom DeLay and Kay Bailey Cheerleader all favored building a hazardous biomaterials lab — a major one, with majorly hazardous critters like Ebola — on Galveston Island.

Hurricane Ike has already shown just how stupid that decision was:

“It’s crazy, in my mind,” said Jim Blackburn, an environmental lawyer in Houston. “I just find an amazing willingness among the people on the Texas coast to accept risks that a lot of people in the country would not accept.”

Now, among the safety features, they include shutting down all experiments 24 hours before a hurricane landfall.

But, if it were built somewhere else…

You wouldn’ have to do that!

The claim that politics had nothing to do with the location is laughable.