Gov. Rick Perry is upset that The Sacramento Bee has used an editorial cartoon to skewer his business regulation policies. So reports The Houston Chronicle, and other outlets, Saturday morning.

The Chronicle reports that Perry wrote the Bee telling the newspaper he was disgusted. Perry claimed he welcomes healthy public policy debate but “won’t stand” for mocking the tragedy in West, Texas. He just confirms what we know: Perry embarrasses intelligent Texans. Perry no more welcomes healthy debate than he has the power to censor a newspaper, a medium which, by the way, he shunned by stonewalling editorial boards across Texas in his last run for governor.

It was a horrible week in West, Texas, a small town a little north of Waco along the Interstate-35 corridor. The explosion of what is believed to be anhydrous ammonia leveled a large part of the town and took the lives of, at last count, 12 Texans.

What caused the explosion and who is at fault are yet to be determined.