Perry's Closet Full of Bones?

[ducks]

boutons is worried about perry in ten pages he must have posted 40 times

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72 Percent Disagree With Perry That Social Security Is A ‘Monstrous Lie’

new CNN poll shows that 72 percent of Americans think Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) characterization of Social Security as a “monstrous lie” is “not accurate.” That view is even held by 69 percent of Republicans, 67 percent of conservatives, and 59 percent of Tea Party supporters. Social Security has quickly emerged as a key issue of the GOP presidential primary, with the other candidates attacking Perry for his opposition to it at last night’s debate.


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/13/317723/cnn-poll-monstrous-lie/

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Jimmy Ricky as disastrous, destructive Pres would definitely us Human-Americans miss dubya terribly, but Corporate-Americans would be thrilled.

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http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/653/duckscam.jpg

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Beaners Beware!

Rick Perry, a Lousy Amigo

Perry signed into law a voter ID act, which is likely to disenfranchise poor and minority voters. He approved a redistricting plan that undermines the voting strength of Latinos. His top priority in the last legislative session was pushing a failed "sanctuary cities" bill, aimed at making life harder for undocumented immigrants. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro called Perry's recent record "easily the most anti-Latino agenda in more than a generation, without shame."

So what changed? Perry's ambitions. Now that he's seeking national office, he's throwing Latinos under the bus to gain support from the Tea Party and far-right conservatives. And things look even worse when we review the results of his 11-year tenure as governor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raul-a-reyes/rick-perry-a-lousy-amigo_b_959113.html?view=print&comm_ref=false

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Perry’s 235 Executions Cost Texas Taxpayers Over $700 Million

Self-described fiscal conservative Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) apparently doesn’t mind spending extravagantly when it comes to putting people to death in the state of Texas. Nona Willis Aronowitz reports in Good that in Texas, a death penalty case costs taxpayers an average of $3 million, or “about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years.” That translates to over $700 million for the 235 executions Perry has overseen as governor. That’s not including the exorbitant cost of maintaining 310 inmates on death row — Texas will spend $15.5 million on those prisoners this year alone.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/09/14/318159/perrys-235-executions-cost-texas-taxpayers-over-700-million/

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Of course, that $700M is pocketed by somebody, not "lost".

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How to Create More Jobs By Lowering Wages: Texas and America

Posted: 9/14/11 08:51 AM ET

Perry and Romney can duke it out over who created the most jobs, but governors have as much influence over job growth in their states as roosters do over sunrises.

States don't have their own monetary policies so they can't lower interest rates to spur job growth. They can't spur demand through fiscal policies because state budgets are small, and 49 out of 50 are barred by their constitutions from running deficits.

States can cut corporate taxes and regulations, and dole out corporate welfare, in efforts to improve the states' "business climate." But studies show these strategies have little or no effect on where companies locate. Location decisions are driven by much larger factors -- where customers are, transportation links, and energy costs.

If governors try hard enough, though, they can create lots of lousy jobs. They can drive out unions, attract low-wage immigrants, and turn a blind eye to businesses that fail to protect worker health and safety.

Rick Perry seems to have done exactly this. While Texas leads the nation in job growth, a majority of Texas's workforce is paid hourly wages rather than salaries. And the median hourly wage there was $11.20, compared to the national median of $12.50 an hour.

Texas has also been specializing in minimum-wage jobs. From 2007 to 2010, the number of minimum wage workers there rose from 221,000 to 550,000 -- that's an increase of nearly 150 percent. And 9.5 percent of Texas workers earn the minimum wage or below -- compared to about 6 percent for the rest of the nation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state also has the highest percentage of workers without health insurance. Texas schools rank 44th in the nation in per-pupil spending.

The Perry model of creating more jobs through low wages seems to be catching on around America.

According to a report out today from the Commerce Department, the median income of U.S. households fell 2.3 percent last year -- to the lowest level in fifteen years (adjusted for inflation). That's the third straight year of declining household incomes. Part of this is loss of jobs. Part is loss of earnings.

More and more Americans are retaining their jobs by settling for lower wages and benefits, or going without cost-of-living increases. Or they've lost a higher-paying job and have taken one that pays less. Or they've joined the great army of contingent workers, self-employed "consultants," temps, and contract workers -- without healthcare benefits, without pensions, without job security, without decent wages.

It's no great feat to create lots of lousy jobs. A few years ago Michele Bachmann remarked that if the minimum wage were repealed "we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."

I keep on hearing conservative economists say Americans have priced themselves out of the global high-tech labor market. That's baloney. The productivity of American workers continues to soar. The problem is fewer and fewer Americans are sharing the gains. The ratio of corporate profits to wages is the highest it's been since before the Great Depression.

Besides, how can lower incomes possibly be an answer to America's economic problem? Lower incomes mean less overall demand for goods and services -- which translates into even fewer jobs and even lower wages.

In short, the Perry (and Bachmann) model of job growth condemns Americans to lower and lower living standards. That's nothing to crow about.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/how-to-create-more-jobs-b_b_961789.html?view=print&comm_ref=false

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Jimmy Ricky as father of a "Texas Miracle" is one big fat lie (well, he is a Repug). There's no father and no miracle.

TX was quite immune to the housing bubble because TX has fairly strong (GOVERNMENTAL!!) lending regulations.

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After Claiming Government ‘Doesn’t Create Any Jobs,’ Perry Brags: ‘I Helped Create A Million Jobs’

[President Obama] has failed to create jobs by relying on bigger government. I’ve helped create a million jobs during my tenure as Governor of the state of Texas.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/14/319277/after-claiming-government-doesnt-create-any-jobs-perry-brags-i-helped-create-a-million-jobs/

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Perry Engages in Ridiculous "Red Scare" Politics

TIME: Now that you've been in the race for while, do you feel pressure to temper some of your rhetoric, like calling the Obama administration socialist?

PERRY: No, I still believe they are socialist. Their policies prove that almost daily. Look, when all the answers emanate from Washington D.C., one size fits all, whether it's education policy or whether it's healthcare policy, that is, on its face, socialism.

I realize that the Texas governor's intellectual capacities are, shall we say, limited, but his comments here are strikingly dumb.

As a substantive matter, the Obama administration isn't pushing top-down, one-size-fits-all policies in education or health care -- Perry seems to have just made that up -- but even if we put that aside, the more significant problem is that the GOP's presidential frontrunner has no idea what "socialism" is.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/666898/perry_engages_in_ridiculous_%22red_scare%22_politi cs/

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Jimmy Ricky is proving himself dumberer and dumberer ever ytime he opens his talking-point, unoriginal, programmed mouth.

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"Rick Perry of Texas: Rick Perry is qualified to be President in the same way that Olive Garden is qualified to be Italy"


In Rare Public Statement, God Tells Pat Robertson to Shut the Fuck Up

http://www.borowitzreport.com/wp-content/uploads/god.jpg

http://www.borowitzreport.com/

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How bad is poverty in Rick Perry's Texas?

Texas governor Rick Perry is running for the Republican nomination on his economic record. But what is the state's record on poverty?

Texas governor Rick Perry is running for the Republican nomination on his economic record. But what is the state's record on poverty?

They're coming to Texas because they know there's still a land of freedom in America, freedom from over-taxation, freedom from over-litigation and freedom from over-regulation, and its called Texas. We need to do the same thing for America

half a million Texans earn at or below the typical national minimum wage of $7.25 per hour - that's around one in ten of all hourly-paid workers in the state. And that proportion is higher than the US average.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/sep/15/texas-poverty-perry-wages-cppp/print

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siap:

http://twitpic.com/show/iphone/6hh45e

[JoeChalupa]

Now that just.. :lmao .....aint' right.

[Nbadan]

Texas unemployment inches closer to the national average..

Rick Perry’s Texas Hits Highest Unemployment Percentage In 24 Years
Ryan J. Reilly September 16, 2011, 4:00 PM


While Rick Perry has been touting his record of creating jobs in Texas as a key reason he’d make a great president, it turns out employment numbers aren’t so peachy in his homestate either.

NBC’s Michael Isikoff reports that the Texas unemployment rate “increased to 8.5% in August — the highest level in more than 24 years and more than twice the rate when Perry took office in December 2000.”

That’s still below the 9.1 percent average nationwide. But remember how the latest national figures showed zero job growth? Well Perry’s Texas lost territory, shedding 1,300 in August. The private sector added 8,100 jobs, but the public sector lost 9,400.

“Texas is not immune to the effects of the national recession,” Ray Sullivan, Perry’s chief spokesman, told NBC. “Yet Texas continues to outperform the rest of the country and is still home to roughly 40% of the net new jobs created nationwide since June 2009.”

Talking Point Memo (http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/rick-perrys-texas-hits-highest-unemployment-percentage-in-24-years.php?ref=fpb)

Probably because Perry is so busy campaigning he has no time to create another million jobs....

[Nbadan]

Pulling over rick Perry

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[Wild Cobra]

Pulling over rick Perry

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So why is this anything? Looks like something anyone would try.

Also, why is 22 seconds clipped out?

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Taxing The Poor In Texas

w Yglesias on Aug 15, 2011 at 3:16 pm

Incidentally, you might be thinking about Rick Perry’s complaint that poor people and retirees don’t pay enough in taxes and wonder how Texas is doing on that score. Unfortunately, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy data on Texas tax structure (PDF) doesn’t let me look at retirees. We can, however, see that among the non-elderly, Governor Perry has done a great job of soaking the poor:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/texastaxes-1.jpg

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/15/296079/taxing-the-poor-in-texas/

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Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession

Last night, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Perry showed similar disregard for the truth in claiming that he never suggested Texas might secede from the union:

HANNITY: Some people said, well, you used the term once “secession.” That’s not anything—is that something you believe?

PERRY: No, and I never used that term, at all.

HANNITY: Then why was it reported so heavily?

PERRY: I have no idea to be real honest with you, because it was never a really factual piece of reporting. It was shouted out by an individual at an event—at a Tea Party, actually—and I said “listen, America is a great country. We have no reason why we would ever dissolve this union.”

Perry is technically correct that he never uttered the word “secession,” but he did say that “when we came into the nation in 1845, we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation. And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want. So we’re kind of thinking about that again.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/09/22/325842/rick-perry-no-truth-on-secession/

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cheerleader Jimmy Ricky will be backing off and lying about his thoroughly debunked TX miracle and bubba-suckering utterances from his asshole.

[EVAY]

Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession

Last night, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Perry showed similar disregard for the truth in claiming that he never suggested Texas might secede from the union:

HANNITY: Some people said, well, you used the term once “secession.” That’s not anything—is that something you believe?

PERRY: No, and I never used that term, at all.

HANNITY: Then why was it reported so heavily?

PERRY: I have no idea to be real honest with you, because it was never a really factual piece of reporting. It was shouted out by an individual at an event—at a Tea Party, actually—and I said “listen, America is a great country. We have no reason why we would ever dissolve this union.”

Perry is technically correct that he never uttered the word “secession,” but he did say that “when we came into the nation in 1845, we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation. And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want. So we’re kind of thinking about that again.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/09/22/325842/rick-perry-no-truth-on-secession/

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cheerleader Jimmy Ricky will be backing off and lying about his thoroughly debunked TX miracle and bubba-suckering utterances from his asshole.

He won't back off from his Tx miracle because that is the basis of his candidacy. But I am genuinely surprised that he backed off the secession business because it was so widely reported at the time.

I don't think the other candidates will use it against him though, because although they want to take him down a peg, this sort of thing would really guarantee that if he DOES get the nomination (which I think a lot of them believe he will)...this could REALLY kill him in the general election. I don't think they want to risk that.

Though again, Romney just might. This is Romney's last shot.

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Documentary exposes ugly truths of capital punishment in Perry’s Texas

In the years that followed, the Texas Forensic Science Commission would attempt to review the case, only to see several of their members dismissed by Perry and replaced with his political allies.

One of those allies, John Bradley, the district attorney for Williamson County, was adamant that the commission should not discuss whether the science of fire investigation had changed between 1992 and 2004. He succeeded in effectively shutting down the commission's investigation into the Willingham case, heading off a scandal for Perry in the midst of a pitched re-election battle.

Bradley, however, caused so much of an outcry by commission members that even Texas Republicans couldn't stomach it, and he was not confirmed by the Texas Senate to continue as chair of the commission. Nevertheless, he appears to have done his job, and earlier this month Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) prohibited the commission from investigating any case prior to Sept. 2005, ending once and for all the official inquiry into the Willingham case.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/23/documentary-exposes-ugly-truths-of-capital-punishment-in-perrys-texas/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Perry lies again about Texas Gardasil scandal, claims woman he met after signing executive order lobbied him to pass it

http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/Rick_Perry.jpg

During the recent Republican presidential debate in Orlando, Fla., Perry tried once again to defend his infamous Gardasil blunder, this time by telling the heart-tugging story of a woman he met and got to know who had cervical cancer. He told the audience and viewers Thursday night that the reason he signed the executive order was because the woman lobbied him to do so.

"I got lobbied on this issue," said a calm and composed Perry. "I got lobbied by a 31 year old young lady who had stage-four cervical cancer. I spent a lot of time with her. She came by my office. She talked to me about this program. I readily admitted we should have had an opt-in (for the mandate) but I don't know what part of opt out most parents don't get. The fact is I was on the side of life and I will always be on the side of life as a governor and as president of the United States."


A charming and sweet story, really -- except for the fact that it is not true. According to ABC News, Perry signed the vaccine executive order before he met the young woman, not after, as he claims. The woman did, according to reports, lobby in favor of upholding the executive order after it had been signed (which the legislature eventually overturned), but she did not play a role in Perry's original signing of it.

Unlike the petty issues that typically bog down the presidential campaigning process, Perry's Gardasil scandal is gravely serious and needs to be exposed. After all, the vaccine that he pushed is implicated in causing thousands of serious and permanent injuries, and potentially hundreds of known deaths, which is a far cry from his empty rhetoric about "being on the side of life" (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/).

http://www.naturalnews.com/033671_Rick_Perry_Gardasil.html



He's too stupid and unreflective, but Jimmy Ricky ought to have black, sinking feeling about his chances to get the nomination, let alone the White House.


Poll: Perry Wins Texas but Not Convincingly

A new Public Policy Polling survey shows that 45 percent of Texans approve of the job Perry is doing as governor, while 48 percent don't approve of his work in Texas.

"Rick Perry still isn’t particularly popular in his home state of Texas,”

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Poll-Perry-Wins-TexasNot-Convincingly--130236283.html


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I guess if the votes of all the wealthies and Corporate-Texans who helped and were helped by Jimmy Ricky were each worth 1M Human-Texans vote, Jimmy Ricky would win TX by a landslide.

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Rick Perry Is Officially Blowing It

The key here is that the Republicans who influence mass opinion in the party seem to be noticing this, and speaking out.

The GOP base had strong, deep reservations about Mitt Romney, the only other heavy-hitter in the race, so if Perry could satisfy their thirst for purity while demonstrating competence as a candidate and campaigner, he'd be well-positioned to unify the party and run away with the nomination.

But he is failing at both tasks. His performance in last night's debate and thescathing response it has stirred from conservative opinion-shapers offers a vivid illustration of what's going wrong for Perry.

It turns out, though, that Perry has his share of potentially disqualifying ideological baggage too. In a previous debate, his decision as governor to mandate an HPV vaccine for teenage girls led several of the no-shot conservative candidates (led by Michele Bachmann) to pile on, decrying this supposed violation of parental rights and endorsement of teenage sexual activity. The fringe candidates may not have helped themselves much, but they did succeed in seeding doubts about Perry among the religious conservatives who account for a big chunk of the GOP base.

In last night's debate, a different Perry vulnerability attracted more attention: his support for allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at Texas colleges and universities. When the question came up, Perry was defiant: "[I]f you say that we should not educate children who come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart." This led to another pile-on, with Rick Santorum calling Perry "soft" on immigration and Romney claiming that the tuition break was a magnet for illegal immigrants. Perry's posture may be smart politics back in Texas, where Hispanic voters make up a considerable share of the electorate, but when it comes to the national GOP's Tea Party base, it's a serious sin.

By itself, the fact that Perry has vulnerabilities on his right is not necessarily a campaign-killer, especially given the history of Romney, his main opponent. But a much bigger problem is also coming into focus: Perry is a terrible debater who is slow on his feet and has some basic policy blind spots -- and it's starting to rattle Republican opinion leaders.

as has been his custom, he seemed far less focused and energetic as the night wore on. But Romney was sharp and on-point the whole time. He offered his own share of incoherent nonsense -- see, for instance, his response when Perry mentioned that a new edition of Romney's book had scrubbed a reference to making the Massachusetts healthcare plan a national model -- he knew how to sell it. Unlike Perry, Romney was confident and polished, feigning confusion over why anyone would challenge his conservative credentials and insisting he'd been a model of consistency.

This has got to be a scary combination for Perry. There are already polls showing that he'd fare markedly worse against Barack Obama than Romney.

http://www.alternet.org/news/152515/rick_perry_is_officially_blowing_it?page=entire



http://www.alternet.org/news/152515/rick_perry_is_officially_blowing_it?utm_source=fee dblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet

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What TXans' low taxes AREN'T paying for:

Texas plans for water needs, but slow to implement

Texas is well-prepared to meet the water needs of its rapidly expanding population - even when Mother Nature lays down a harsh and lengthy drought.

The price tag on the plan: $53 billion. State money allocated: $1.4 billion.

http://m.miamiherald.com/mh/db_42940/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=vzPm0tbb

Just like declining/peak oil is a huge windfall for oilcos, scarce water will be a huge windfall for for-profit water companies. No surprise that VRWC world-wide is aggressively buying municipal water companies.

Jimmy Ricky and his Repugs know how to take care of his contributing businessmen. Sucker Human-Texans with low taxes, then let Corporate-Texans suck them dry.

Kiss your thirsty, drought-intolerant St Augustine "nah nah, nah nah nah nah, good-bye"

Water in TX:

http://texas.sierraclub.org/press/factssupply3.pdf

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Perry Praised No Child Left Behind Under Bush, Now Claims He Was A Vocal Opponent

And I was also vocal against No Child Left Behind. It gets back to the federal government has no business telling the states how to educate our children.

Perry may think now that the federal government “has no business” in education, but in 2002, he was very happy to do business with the U.S. Department of Education, applauding No Child Left Behind and bragging about the funds Texas would receive under the law:

“Texas was a model for President Bush’s No Child Left Behind legislation, and we continue to lead the nation in innovative solutions to improve our schools,” Perry said. “The U.S. Department of Education’s stamp of approval means we can move forward with our plan to improve early childhood education, dropout prevention, teaching excellence, science education and our schools’ use of technology.” [...]

On Jan. 8, Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, which authorizes federal education appropriations and increases the emphasis on accountability. Texas is set to receive $2.3 billion for K-12 education under the act, an increase of $397 million over the state’s current appropriation.

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/83-83/7482-focus-protest-wall-street-impoverished-more-than-60-million-people

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These Repugs asshole have no shame, will tell any lie, fuck anybody to get power and wealth.

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Texas Doctor On Perrycare: ‘This Kind Of Thing Happens In Somalia’

Dr. Katherine Yudeh King, a pediatrician at Ben Taub General Hospital, which serves a large uninsured population, said one of her patients, a 15-month-old boy, died from dehydration due to diarrhea because his family brought him to the hospital too late, assuming they could not afford care.

“This is the type of thing that happens in Somalia and other developing nations, not something that should happen in Houston,’’ said King, one of the founding members of Doctors for Change, a group that advocates for universal health care in Harris County.

nine other indicators of the state’s dilapidated health care system:

1) Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people in the country – 24.6 percent – and the number of uninsured that has grown by 35 percent during Governor Rick Perry’s 11-year tenure.

2) Overall health care quality for Texas is poorer than in every other state, especially when it comes to preventive, acute, and chronic care, as well as care for diabetes.

3) Texas places 39th among the states in the percentage of adults over 50 who receive recommended screenings such as mammograms and colonoscopies.

4) A fifth of Texas’ pregnant women receive no prenatal care in their first trimester.

5) 16.8 percent of children are uninsured, more than all but one other state, and only half of Texas children have a medical provider who knows them and coordinates their care. More than a third of them have not received recommended medical and preventive care within the year, and immunization rates are low as well.

6) Texas also ranks last in the country in the percent of children who receive needed mental health care.

7) The state cut two-thirds of the funding for women’s health clinics and underfunded Medicaid by almost $4 billion, in addition to cutting hospital reimbursements.

8) Perry vetoed a bill in 2001 that would have expanded Medicaid services and added cancer screenings such as Pap smears to women’s health services. In 2003, Texas tightened the eligibility requirements for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and as a result, 237,000 children were kicked off its rolls, said Garnet Coleman, a Democratic state representative from Houston who has served in the Texas Legislature for 20 years and is a member of the House Public Health Committee.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/09/26/328198/texas-doctor-on-perrycare-this-kind-of-thing-happens-in-somalia/

[Wild Cobra]

So Boutons...

You want the government to protect people from their own ignorance?

[boutons_deux]

strawman

I want Human-Americans to have access to medical care, without checking their bank account first (if they even have one). America is unique among industrial countries is forcing this decision on 50M uninsured, who are so mostly because they have medical conditions and/or incapable of paying exorbitant insurance rates.

[Wild Cobra]

strawman

I want Human-Americans to have access to medical care, without checking their bank account first (if they even have one). America is unique among industrial countries is forcing this decision on 50M uninsured, who are so mostly because they have medical conditions and/or incapable of paying exorbitant insurance rates.
You have the strawman.

Out of the near hundred million families across the USA, you can always find at least a few examples of what ever you want.

What is the frequency of such stupidity?

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If you don't have money, then hoping your or your child gets well without using out-of-reach medical care is not stupid.

[RandomGuy]

I want Human-Americans to have access to medical care, without checking their bank account first (if they even have one). America is unique among industrial countries is forcing this decision on 50M uninsured, who are so mostly because they have medical conditions and/or incapable of paying exorbitant insurance rates.



You have the strawman.

Out of the near hundred million families across the USA, you can always find at least a few examples of what ever you want.

What is the frequency of such stupidity?

Um, how is not being able to afford insurance or health care "stupid"?

[RandomGuy]

If you want, I can present the study of personal bankruptcies again that shows medical bills as one of the leading causes of bankruptcy.

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a majority of all personal bankruptcies are due to medical bills.

That's why the dubya Repugs forced personal bankruptcies through a bankruptcy/financial consultant to see if the bankruptcy was avoidable (real reason: to avoid banks, etc creditors from losing money). Result? Almost every personal bankruptcy was waved thru as unavoidable, with the person being out several $100 for the "advice".

and many/most? of medical bankruptcies are by people who had health insurance.

[Wild Cobra]

Um, how is not being able to afford insurance or health care "stupid"?
Are you intentionally misreading my statements?

Lack of health care insurance doesn't mean you don't get seen when you need to be seen. Hospitals cannot turn you down for valid problems.

The stupidity is not doing what is right for a sick child.

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"Hospitals cannot turn you down for valid problems."

only taxpayer-funded medical facilities are required to take in anybody without insurance, but they will still bill you, even if you can't pay, and if you can't/don't pay, they can turn it over to the collection hyenas. And for a scheduled procedure, public facilities refuse you if you have insurance.

for-profit hospitals can turn anybody down, and they do check if you have insurance.

[boutons_deux]

Perry Appointees May Raid Public School Funds To Give Oil Refineries $135 Million Tax Break

Public education — along with Medicaid, women’s health care, and the Texas Forest Service — was gutted in the budget Perry signed this year. But the governor’s hand-picked appointees on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality look likely to raid another $67 million from public schools to give Big Oil a tax break:

Three commissioners appointed by Gov. Rick Perry may grant some of the nation’s largest refineries a tax refund of more than $135 million — money Texas’ cash-strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

The refund would mean more pain for some communities after a year in which state lawmakers had to grapple with a $27 billion shortfall and slashed spending on public schools by more than $4 billion. Nearly half the refund would be taken from public schools, and those in cities where the refineries are based would be hurt the most.[...]

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is evaluating 16 requests for the refund, which concerns a piece of pollution-controlling equipment. If granted, the refund total for those requests could add up to more than $135 million, according to county tax data and application documents analyzed by The Associated Press. What’s more, agency documents show that if the commission grants the requests, at least 12 other refineries that have not sought a refund also could qualify.

The commission has signaled its support for the refund in the past, and Perry has indicated he will fully support the $135 million tax break at the expense of public education. One of the companies that stands to profit the most from the refund, Valero, just happens to be one of Perry’s biggest all-time contributors. Valero, the company that has most persistently lobbied for the refund, could get more than $92 million from the commission. Perry has received more money from the company than any other politician in the country except one.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/26/328524/perry-appointees-raid-public-school-funds-to-give-oil-refineries-135-million-tax-break/

[boutons_deux]

Perry Appointees May Raid Public School Funds To Give Oil Refineries $135 Million Tax Break

Public education — along with Medicaid, women’s health care, and the Texas Forest Service — was gutted in the budget Perry signed this year. But the governor’s hand-picked appointees on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality look likely to raid another $67 million from public schools to give Big Oil a tax break:

Three commissioners appointed by Gov. Rick Perry may grant some of the nation’s largest refineries a tax refund of more than $135 million — money Texas’ cash-strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

The refund would mean more pain for some communities after a year in which state lawmakers had to grapple with a $27 billion shortfall and slashed spending on public schools by more than $4 billion. Nearly half the refund would be taken from public schools, and those in cities where the refineries are based would be hurt the most.[...]

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is evaluating 16 requests for the refund, which concerns a piece of pollution-controlling equipment. If granted, the refund total for those requests could add up to more than $135 million, according to county tax data and application documents analyzed by The Associated Press. What’s more, agency documents show that if the commission grants the requests, at least 12 other refineries that have not sought a refund also could qualify.

The commission has signaled its support for the refund in the past, and Perry has indicated he will fully support the $135 million tax break at the expense of public education. One of the companies that stands to profit the most from the refund, Valero, just happens to be one of Perry’s biggest all-time contributors. Valero, the company that has most persistently lobbied for the refund, could get more than $92 million from the commission. Perry has received more money from the company than any other politician in the country except one.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/26/328524/perry-appointees-raid-public-school-funds-to-give-oil-refineries-135-million-tax-break/

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Jimmy Ricky and TX Repugs helping Corporate-Americans screw Human-Americans

Windstorm Over Texas

http://www.twiatruth.com/

[RandomGuy]

Are you intentionally misreading my statements?

Lack of health care insurance doesn't mean you don't get seen when you need to be seen. Hospitals cannot turn you down for valid problems.

The stupidity is not doing what is right for a sick child.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Am I intentionally misreading your statements? No.

Are you intentionally writing paragraphs with little coherent throught that are hard to decipher and grammatically fuzzy?

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In Case You Missed It: Perry Enjoys Accepting Additional Federal Funding For Texas’ Medicaid Program

Texas’ request for a waiver for rerouting “federal funds the state would otherwise lose — an undesired consequence of expanding managed care — to subsidize hospitals’ uncompensated care costs” and finance “projects to help the uninsured” won’t make any real improvements in the state’s dilapidated health care system but could be enough to burnish Rick Perry’s conservative credentials with the Republican base. As Weaver puts it, “The initiative’s warm reception by Democrats and consumer advocates, and the federal funds it seeks, could add up to a political liability for Perry. His 2010 book, Fed Up!, rejects any whiff of federal money — and the rules that come with it.”

I would add that the waiver request and the federal governments initial approval of the project suggests that 1) the federal government is far more flexible in allowing states to design their Medicaid programs than Perry often suggests and 2) this is only the latest example of Perry thwarting his “anti-Washington” image and requesting additional federal funds.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/09/27/329310/in-case-you-missed-it-perry-enjoys-accepting-additional-federal-funding-for-texas-medicaid-program/

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Rick Perry’s Budget Cuts Will Leave 49,000 Teachers Without A Job And 43,000 College Students Without Financial Aid

Perry’s education “standards” — exemplified by $4 billion in budget cuts to education for the upcoming budget cycle — will force schools to lay off as many as 49,000 teachers and will leave at least 43,000 college students without financial aid:

Faced with a $15 billion budget deficit this year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed off on $4 billion in cuts to education in the 2012 and 2013 budgets. The Texas State Teachers Association estimates that as many as 49,000 teachers may be laid off as a result of the cuts and 43,000 college students will lose all or part of their financial aid.

Indeed, scholarships for 29,000 low-income college students will be completely eliminated. What’s more, Perry’s axe to the education budget has forced local school districts to impose fees on school programs and services for students and families, universities to find outside money to continue high-level research, and some universities to consider imposing higher tuition or fees on students.


http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/29/332152/perry-budget-cuts-teacher-financial-aid/

[ducks]

what people still want hand outs
no body thinks they can take care of themselves
alot of lazy selfish assholes out there

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49K teachers are employees, not Welfare Queens.

Helping kids pay for college (as long as its not PayDay loans and other capitalist/equityfund mafia loan sharking) has been a bedrock American principle for many decades.

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Dave Weigel explains why Rick Perry failed so miserably in this weekend's Florida straw poll:

http://www.motherjones.com/files/images/blog_perry_debate_grin.jpg

Walking through the walls of the Orange County Convention Center, you hear these words and phrases over and over again.

Perry. Immigration. Illegals. Tuition. Illegals. He didn't do as well as he could have. Why?

Almost every conversation I walked into was on the question of why Rick Perry approved a law that let young non-citizens get in-state tuition rates at Texas schools, and why he had characterized the program's critics as heartless.

Obviously this is a huge deal with the Republican base. But I think Perry's real problem is that Thursday's debate badly shook up a GOP establishment that was pretty uneasy with him already.

But there was a bigger problem: Perry looked like he didn't think he needed to even care about any of that stuff. He muffed his attack lines because he hadn't bothered to study them. He wasn't prepared for the tuition fight because he figured that he could just repeat the same old explanations and flash his thousand-watt smile at the audience. He didn't know what to say about Pakistan because he figured any sort of good ol' boy BS would do. It always has before, after all. So he's apparently spent the past month doing....nothing.

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/09/rick-perrys-sarah-palin-problem-0

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Rick Perry Gave Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars To Subprime Lenders

Just as the largest banks began receiving public cash, they aggressively ramped up risky lending. Within four years, the banks were out of business and homeowners across Texas faced foreclosure. In the end, the state paid $35 million to subsidize it. [...]

As Perry offered $20 million in grants to Countrywide and $15 million to Washington Mutual Inc. — each blamed for having a major role in one of the country’s most serious recessions — he took in tens of thousands of their dollars for his gubernatorial campaign.

Both of these companies blew themselves (and many, many homeowners) up via subprime loans, and helped subprime lending increase significantly in Texas:

The AP analysis found that Washington Mutual, Countrywide and their subsidiaries boosted risky lending in Texas within a year after receiving grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund. In 2004, only one out of every 100 Washington Mutual loans in the state was originated to homeowners with less-than-perfect credit. The next year, that figure rose to more than one in four.

In a 2004 speech, Perry “called Countrywide a good employer and said state government subsidies would help other such companies move their businesses to Texas.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/03/334081/perry-subprime-lenders/

[EVAY]

Rick Perry Gave Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars To Subprime Lenders

Just as the largest banks began receiving public cash, they aggressively ramped up risky lending. Within four years, the banks were out of business and homeowners across Texas faced foreclosure. In the end, the state paid $35 million to subsidize it. [...]

As Perry offered $20 million in grants to Countrywide and $15 million to Washington Mutual Inc. — each blamed for having a major role in one of the country’s most serious recessions — he took in tens of thousands of their dollars for his gubernatorial campaign.

Both of these companies blew themselves (and many, many homeowners) up via subprime loans, and helped subprime lending increase significantly in Texas:

The AP analysis found that Washington Mutual, Countrywide and their subsidiaries boosted risky lending in Texas within a year after receiving grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund. In 2004, only one out of every 100 Washington Mutual loans in the state was originated to homeowners with less-than-perfect credit. The next year, that figure rose to more than one in four.

In a 2004 speech, Perry “called Countrywide a good employer and said state government subsidies would help other such companies move their businesses to Texas.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/03/334081/perry-subprime-lenders/

I was unaware of this. I wonder if any of the other Republican candidates will pick up on it as a challenge to his "Texas Miracle" claims.

Even if the Republicans don't pick up on it, if Perry gets the Republican nomination, I would expect the Democratic national committee to make hay of it...giving 'enterprise loans' to companies that were hurting their customers.

I am surprised that no one on this board has brought up the flap over the weekend regarding the hunting ranch with the 'n' word name in its title that upset lots of folks and got him some more bad press. That is the sort of thing that just won't go away, imho.

[Bender]

what people still want hand outs
no body thinks they can take care of themselves
alot of lazy selfish assholes out there
fixed the syllable count for you:

People want hand outs
Nobody cares for themselves
Those selfish assholes

[ElNono]

fixed the syllable count for you:

People want hand outs
Nobody cares for themselves
Those selfish assholes

Thanks :lol

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"giving 'enterprise loans' to companies that were hurting their customers."

dubya's OCC blocked 19 states, including the Sheriff of Wall St Spitzer (later taken down), who tried to stop predatory lending. Do you really think that Repgs give a shit about what happens to Human-Americans?

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Rick Perry’s New Apostolic Reformation Allies Advocate Burning Books, Native Art, and Scripture

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/09/30/wagners-2007.jpg?t=1317661159&s=2

“I wonder what new doors to evangelism might be opened in sophisticated, tolerant, politically correct America if Christians started expressing their faith by encouraging those who possessed artifacts of magic or unclean books to burn them publicly?”

"Top NAR leaders, including C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, Ed Silvoso and, Chuck Pierce, have repeatedly emphasized in their writings the need for believers to destroy or neutralize, by burning, smashing, or flushing down toilets, objects deemed to be unholy, including profane books and "idolatrous" religious texts (such as Books of Mormon), religious relics (such as statues of Catholic saints, the Buddha, or Hindu gods), and native art (such as African masks, Hopi Indian Kachina dolls, and totem poles.)

According to New Apostolic Reformation doctrine, objects to be destroyed include those associated with Mormonism, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hinduism, eastern religions, Christian Science, native religions, and Baha'i."

C. Peter Wagner lays out his view on the "Dominion Mandate" which, according to Wagner, "has to do with control" as well as "rulership", "authority", and "subduing".

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/10/03/rick-perry%e2%80%99s-new-apostolic-reformation-allies-advocate-burning-books-native-art-and-scripture/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet

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I heard some NAR asshole on NPR going on about Japan worshipping the devil (the sun). Thses fuckers are stone-cold psychopathic crazy.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/03/140946482/apostolic-leader-weighs-religions-role-in-politics

[DarkReign]

Hinduism, eastern religions, ...and Baha'i.

You seriously cannot be more out of touch than this.

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Rick Perry's Intelligence Overreach

Why'd the Texas governor go to such great lengths to maintain control of a statewide law enforcement database?

On the campaign trail, Texas Gov. Rick Perry decries the invasive and profligate ways of big government. Yet in Texas he oversaw the creation of a massive, federally funded intelligence database that hoovers up everything from driver's license information to victims' statements to bogus leads that may be falsely incriminating. The system, known as the Texas Data Exchange (TDEx), has drawn the concern of civil liberties advocates, not least because of Perry's aggressive efforts to consolidate control of this sweeping intelligence vault within his own office.

In late 2005 [2], Perry began directing his homeland security office to set up the database. Lawmakers and privacy advocates soon grew anxious over a host of problems plaguing the system. Early versions kept no record of what a particular user did when he was in the system, says Rebecca Bernhardt, the former policy director of ACLU Texas, who was part of a team pursuing reform of TDEx. "You don’t want anybody…to have unsupervised ability to go into TDEx, change names, take things out, put fake things in, and not have an audit trail of who made those changes," she explains.

TDEx also contains every last shred of information that police officers dig up, including tips, false leads, and victims' statements—a vast amount of information that could unfairly implicate people.

Legal watchdogs in Texas, including Scott Henson, who writes a blog following criminal justice issues in Texas called Grits for Breakfast [3], say that Perry put the system in place chiefly to take advantage of money from the federal Department of Homeland Security. Texas has received at least $1.7 billion in federal Homeland Security grants since 9/11 as part of the US government's overall $31 billion [4] investment in state and local law enforcement.

Perry wanted TDEx to be managed by the Texas Department of Information Resources, which is housed in the governor's office [5]. But for the database to receive Homeland Security funds, federal laws [6] stipulated that it be run by an official law enforcement agency. So, as the Texas Observer reported [7] in 2007, Steve McCraw, Perry's homeland security chief, simply designated the DIR office as an official law enforcement body [8].

Perry's end run sparked outrage in the Texas Legislature. At the start of the 2006-07 legislative session, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, joined by the ACLU, sought to force Perry to hand over control of TDEx to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Democratic state Rep. Jessica Farrar was a key figure in the fight to reign in control of TDEx. The homeland security office, she says, "was a political office…We have a statewide law enforcement agency, and that's where [TDEx] should've naturally gone." (Perry's office did not respond to a request for comment.)

http://motherjones.com/print/135572

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Jimmy Ricky's gang could obviously modify anybody's records and extort/blackmail/intimidate any political opponents, exactly like homo/transvestite J. Edgar Hoover did for decades with FBI goons.

At least Barry made a promise of open government. The Repugs are more honest by never saying they will have open, transparent, freedom-of-information govt.

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Why Is Texas' School Budget Being Cut to Give Big Oil a Tax Refund?

the politicos are expected to hand out some $135 million in tax refunds to the oil giants. Where will that money come from? Nearly half would be ripped right out of the local school budgets that were already decimated by Perry's $4-billion cut this spring in state funding for local districts.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/678242/why_is_texas%27_school_budget_being_cut_to_give_bi g_oil_a_tax_refund/

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Jimmy Ricky's idea of "shared sacrifice" :lol

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Flood-Gate: Perry Officials Try to Hide Sea Level Rise from Texans with “Clear-Cut Unadulterated Censorship”

“We Live in the State of Denial, the State of Texas” Censored Rice University Oceanographer John Anderson Tells Climate Progress

In one of the most flagrant recent instances of scientific censorship, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) refused to publish a report chapter unless all mention of climate change and its impact on sea level rise were eliminated. The author — Rice University oceanographer John Anderson, a leading expert on sea level rise with more than 200 publications — refused. As a result, TCEQ killed his chapter in The State of the Bay, a regular publication of the Galveston Bay Estuary Program.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/12/342210/flood-gate-perry-sea-level-rise-censorship/

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Repug "science" is UCA science, is "Christian" science.

[Wild Cobra]

Flood-Gate: Perry Officials Try to Hide Sea Level Rise from Texans with “Clear-Cut Unadulterated Censorship”

“We Live in the State of Denial, the State of Texas” Censored Rice University Oceanographer John Anderson Tells Climate Progress

In one of the most flagrant recent instances of scientific censorship, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) refused to publish a report chapter unless all mention of climate change and its impact on sea level rise were eliminated. The author — Rice University oceanographer John Anderson, a leading expert on sea level rise with more than 200 publications — refused. As a result, TCEQ killed his chapter in The State of the Bay, a regular publication of the Galveston Bay Estuary Program.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/12/342210/flood-gate-perry-sea-level-rise-censorship/

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Repug "science" is UCA science, is "Christian" science.
Maybe if they tried talking about realistic sea level rises instead of the levels they try to scare people with, they might get published.

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yeah, like let's not scare people with talk about peak oil/declining oil/declining discoveries.

[Wild Cobra]

yeah, like let's not scare people with talk about peak oil/declining oil/declining discoveries.
The story was about rising sea levels. The tale is that it is censored. It appears to me that the censorship is valid since they wish to say the sea levels will rise four times historical levels.

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everything about global warming SEEMS false in your UCA-shiller universe.

You and others here really ought to contact Kock Bros about getting compensated.

[Wild Cobra]

everything about global warming SEEMS false in your UCA-shiller universe.

You and others here really ought to contact Kock Bros about getting compensated.
Even the IPCCC came around and acknowledges their assessments of sea level rise was wrong.

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so the low-lying islands aren't seeing themselves start to disappear ? I'm so relieved

Even in Maryland, high tides are pushing the Chesapeake onto waterfront streets. and the worst is yet to come. GFY, denier liar.

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Startling Images Of Vanishing Himalayan Glaciers

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/10/12/342415/startling-images-of-vanishing-himalayan-glaciers/

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Rick Perry’s Revolutionary War ‘History’
October 12, 2011

Exclusive: The stupidity of the Republican presidential field seems to know no bounds, with Gov. Rick Perry’s putting the American Revolution in the 1500s and joining Rep. Michele Bachmann and the Tea Party in messing up the history of the nation’s founding, notes Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

For people who supposedly revere the Founding Fathers and the Constitution, the Tea Party and its favored candidates seem to know little about the actual history of the Revolutionary War or why the Constitution was written.

Instead, the Right has spun an upside-down narrative of America’s founding era, much as the Right’s pervasive media has created false narratives about almost everything else, a disturbingly easy process given how ignorant some Americans are about their own history.

The latest example of this garbled history came from Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday night when he placed the Revolutionary War in the 1500s, a couple of centuries before America’s Declaration of Independence in 1776 – and even before the first permanent English settlement in the New World, Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry

“Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom,” Perry lectured. “As a matter of fact they were very much afraid of that because they’d just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will.”

Perry’s “history” lesson followed a similarly loony account from Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, who – while pandering to Tea Party voters in New Hampshire – told them, “You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord.”

Of course, the Revolutionary War battlefields of Lexington and Concord are in Massachusetts. (Bachmann may have gotten confused because there is a Concord, New Hampshire.)

But the Tea Party’s rewriting of America’s founding narrative is more cynical than the know-nothingism of Perry and Bachmann. The Right has made a conscious effort to distort U.S. history into something that would have made the southern Confederacy proud, by wrapping its desire to maintain slavery inside the prettier trappings of the phrase, “states’ rights.”

The Confederates of yore and the neo-Confederates of today reinterpretted the Constitution as a document providing for a weak central government that must submit to the supremacy of the states. That bogus historical claim was the core point in Perry’s bungled “history” lesson on Tuesday night.

To push this revisionist history of the Constitution (under the guise of “originalism” or “strict constructionism”), the Right ignores what the Founders were up to when they convened the Constitutional Convention in 1787. They were set on replacing the weak central government in the Articles of Confederation with a strong one in the Constitution.

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Jimmy Ricky is the classic Repug, an ignorant, under-educated, hick simpleton from TX, with more shoots-pooh that brains, and willing to screw anybody and everything to enrich and protect BigOil.

[Wild Cobra]

so the low-lying islands aren't seeing themselves start to disappear ? I'm so relieved

Even in Maryland, high tides are pushing the Chesapeake onto waterfront streets. and the worst is yet to come. GFY, denier liar.
I'm not saying the sea isn't rising. I'm saying it isn't rising as fast as they want put in the material.

[hitmanyr2k]

Like I said two months ago....


As of right now Rick is the male version of Sarah Palin '08...crap governing skills and dumber than a sack of hammers. Everyone is ooohing and ahhhing over the new guy but once his record and half-truths are put under a microscope and he gets the real heat and scrutiny of the national stage Rick Bush's campaign is gonna fold like a cheap lawn chair.

The sad part is he's not even on the national stage yet where the real heat is. I didn't think he'd show so much stupidity and fold this quick in the primaries. I'm waiting on that ultimate meltdown in 2012...if he makes it.