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Lying s bag war criminal head flip-flops and now endorses Jimmy Ricky
Cheney Suddenly Discovers There's a Lot to Like About Rick Perry
http://www.thenation.com/print/blog/...out-rick-perry
Robber-Baron Rick Perry's Got $500,000 in AT&T Money That Says America Needs More Media Monopoly
Not only has Perry endorsed the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, he has actively promoted it, writing a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and the other commissioners, in which he argued that: "I believe that this merger will continue to provide for great consumer choice, offer a wide range of service options, and spur continued innovation."
The governor's letter, sent in his official capacity before he announced his candidacy, urged federal officials to adopt "a light regulatory touch" and "business-friendly policies."
Perry, who has tried to present himself as a tech-savvy contender (even if he does not quyote have the language of Twitter and Tweets down), argued in the letter that: “The future rests in wireless broadband, and the federal government's swift approval of the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile would send a strong signal to employers, consumers, and states that our federal government is serious about meeting the communication and technology needs of Texans and all Americans.'
That's not how the Justice Department or consumer groups see it.
So what's behind Perry's different perspective?
Gee, perhaps it is the more than $500,000 [4] that AT&T political action committee has given Perry over the past decade.
Watchdog groups accused Perry of engaging in "pay-to-play" politics, which sounds about right.
It was a Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt," who at the start of the last century embraced the trust-busting program of the progressive era and taught America that monopolies were bad for consumers, compe ion and democracy.
Rick Perry is not a Teddy Roosevelt Republican. And, despite his techie pretensions, he is not a 21st-century Republican, or even a 20-century one.
Perry's an old-fashioned 19th-century robber-baron Republican. And he's writing letters to prove it.
http://www.thenation.com/print/blog/...media-monopoly
Lying s bag war criminal head flip-flops and now endorses Jimmy Ricky
Cheney Suddenly Discovers There's a Lot to Like About Rick Perry
http://www.thenation.com/print/blog/...out-rick-perry
why
he is far from perfect but he seems to be one of the best choices unless another dem is going to challenge the guy in the whitehouse
Texas-Size Recovery
Perry's record is part of a long-term trend. Texas has done well in the jobs department for decades. "This point goes neglected," says Bernard L. Weinstein, professor of business economics in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "Yes, Texas has created more jobs than any other state" in the last two years. "But that’s been true since 1970. For the last 41 years Texas has added more jobs than any other state, and in most years, has led the nation in job creation," Weinstein told us. "So Gov. Perry can claim that these jobs were created on his watch, but they were created on everybody else’s watch too."
The San Antonio-Express News recently pointed out that past Texas governors have done well in terms of job creation, too. The state did even better when George W. Bush was governor; jobs went up 20.3 percent, though Bush's 1995-2000 term also came during prosperous times. "A lot of what we’re doing is growing like we always grew," Lavine, senior fiscal analyst for the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin, a think tank that advocates for low- and moderate-income families, told us, referring to both jobs and the state's burgeoning population. "It’s a longer-term trend in Texas that’s just continuing."
Fact: Despite the job gains, Texas' unemployment rate has gone up.
While Texas has created jobs, the state hasn't created enough of them to keep pace with a rising population and labor force. In fact, if we look at the June 2009 starting point that Perry refers to, unemployment got worse in Texas – going from 7.7 percent in June 2009 to 8.4 percent in July 2011. The national rate, meanwhile, improved – dropping from 9.5 percent to 9.1 percent.
The fact is, neither Texas, nor the nation, is adding jobs at a pace fast enough to bring down unemployment to historically normal levels. And Texas' unemployment rate — while still below the national average — is now higher than that of 26 states.
http://factcheck.org/2011/08/texas-size-recovery/
Perry's Blunt Views in Books Get New Scrutiny as He Joins Race
WASHINGTON - Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, believes that climate change is a "contrived, phony mess." The federal income tax was the "great milestone on the road to serfdom." And the Boy Scouts of America are under attack by "a radical sexual movement."Mr. Perry also thinks that senators should be chosen by legislatures, not the people. And he says that Social Security, the retirement program for the nation's elderly, is a "failure" enacted during a power grab called the New Deal and is "something we have been forced to accept."Those blunt assertions are in two books Mr. Perry wrote while building a deep base of support in Texas among evangelical voters and Tea Party supporters. But the books have drawn new scrutiny now that Mr. Perry, a Republican, is running for president.On Wednesday, Mr. Perry is likely to be asked about some of the statements he makes in the books when he takes the stage in his first nationally televised presidential debate. How he responds, and whether he defends the ideas or distances himself from them, will be an early test of his campaign.On the campaign trail, Mr. Perry talks in broad, vague terms about the need to get America working again. But his words are much more specific in the books.So far, Mr. Perry has stood by his statements in his books while allowing aides to distance his campaign from the writings. His spokesman has called "Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington" a "look back, not a path forward," but when a reporter in Iowa asked Mr. Perry himself whether he stood by his statements, he claimed not to have "backed off anything in my book."Mark Miner, a spokesman for the governor, said Mr. Perry wrote the book to "foster discussion and to encourage his fellow Americans to think about how we choose to govern ourselves." Mr. Miner said that the governor "trusts the American people to govern themselves" and said that principle would guide his thinking during the campaign.But Mr. Perry's own words at the beginning of "Fed Up!" suggest that he did not intend for it to sit on a shelf. "It is not enough to be fed up. We must act," he wrote in the first chapter.Touching a potential political minefield, Mr. Perry unleashes a critique against Social Security as "a crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=836545&f=21
Evangelicals vet Gov. Rick Perry at Texas retreat
Reporting from Washington—
On a remote ranch more than 70 miles west of Austin, Texas, top evangelical leaders from around the country assembled last weekend for a private two-day retreat.
It wasn't a religious revival that drew the group of 200, which included luminaries of the Christian right; it was the chance to hear the personal testimony of one man: Rick Perry.
Inside an air-conditioned tent, the Texas governor and Republican presidential contender was grilled about his beliefs and his record in extraordinarily frank sessions. He responded by describing his relationship with Jesus and pledging to pursue the antiabortion and anti-gay-marriage agenda championed by the evangelical right, according to multiple participants.
By all accounts, he appeared to pass the test.
The event was opened by Leininger, who made his fortune in high-tech hospital beds and other medical equipment and has since started dozens of companies, some of which received state economic development funds under Perry's administration.
In 1998, when Perry ran for lieutenant governor in Texas, Leininger was among those who guaranteed a $1.1-million loan to his campaign, allowing Perry to launch a last-minute advertising blitz that helped him to a narrow victory.
Since Perry became governor, Leininger has given his campaigns nearly $240,000 and donated $100,000 to the Republican Governors Assn., which Perry chaired twice, according to the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice.
Leininger is a major advocate for school vouchers and tort reform and a stalwart opponent of abortion and gay marriage.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,6904433.story
Lol @ the rain of Perry posts.
Not really an atrocity. More like the typical Republican hypocrisy. That's the same dumbass that keeps spewing how he wants to get the government out of the lives of the American people. Yeah right. And what if the legislation did cut down on abortions and some of these new moms need financial help raising that kid in the years to come because they have no support network? We're going to have to hear more ing and moaning from these same morons about government social programs.
No it is an atrocity. I am friends with quite a few people who have achieved great success and came from the gutters. You'd have called for their abortion considering the economic cir stances of the mother. That would've been an atrocity. It's an atrocity because this kind of thing is going on right now.
Perry proposed prison health care privatization
sought to eliminate the independence of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards and fold it, along with two other public-safety commissions, into a single agency.
More recently, he's advanced a plan to privatize health care within the prisons
At the same time, he's been raking in huge amounts of campaign cash from private prison executives and lobbyists. No doubt coincidentally, Michael Toomey, Perry's former chief of staff, is currently a lobbyist for Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison contractor in the country. Also no doubt coincidentally, Toomey was a lobbyist for Merck at the time Perry tried to require all Texas girls to get an HPV vaccination, manufactured by Merck.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/0...28Daily+Kos%29
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Jimmy Ricky is nothing but a corrupt tool for shovelling taxpayer $$ to UCA, in return for UCA contributions. WTF has he done for anybody but UCA?
G.O.P. Candidates’ Stances on Health Care Mask Their Records as Governors
Mr. Perry, by contrast, eschewed direct efforts to expand coverage in Texas and cemented its status as the state with the highest rate of people without insurance.
When Mr. Perry succeeded George W. Bush in December 2000, about 22 percent of Texans had no insurance, second only to New Mexico. After Mr. Perry’s decade in office, Texas now claims the highest uninsured rate, at 26 percent, as well as other distinctions like the lowest rate of prenatal care.
Regardless, Mr. Perry has offered few initiatives to extend coverage. Instead, under the banner of state sovereignty, he has waged a running battle against the ballooning cost and structure of Medicaid, which covers more than a third of Texas children. At various points, Mr. Perry and the Republican-controlled Legislature have cut Medicaid benefits and provider reimbursement rates and made enrollment more onerous.
“The governor believes that expanding government-sponsored insurance is not the answer,” said a spokeswoman, Catherine Frazier. “Nor is requiring people to purchase it. He looks to free-market solutions.”
Any failure to cover more Texans, Ms. Frazier said, is the federal government’s for declining, under Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama, to grant Mr. Perry’s requests to lift federal restrictions on Medicaid eligibility and benefits.
Rather than expanding public insurance, Mr. Perry sought to improve access by revamping the medical liability system. In 2003, he backed a successful measure that limited noneconomic damages against physicians and hospitals to a total of $750,000.
Mr. Perry boasted in New Hampshire last month that the law resulted in “21,000 more physicians practicing medicine in Texas,” attracting specialists to underserved counties.
But three law professors — Bernard Black of Northwestern University, David A. Hyman of the University of Illinois and Charles Silver of the University of Texas — find deep flaws in Mr. Perry’s calculations and conclude that the supply of practicing doctors actually increased at a slower rate after the 2003 changes than before.
In working papers, the researchers assert that tort reform significantly reduced the number and cost of liability claims. But they found no evidence that it slowed the growth of health care costs.
Mr. Perry has railed against the 2010 federal health law as “socialism on American soil” and strongly backs litigation challenging its requirement that most Americans, starting in 2014, obtain insurance.
But his state agencies have accepted nearly $20 million in grants authorized by the act, including $1 million to plan for the new insurance marketplaces known as exchanges. Nonetheless, Mr. Perry this year persuaded the Legislature to shelve a Republican bill to begin the planning process.
“He thought it would hurt our legal challenge to the law,” said State Representative John Zerwas, the measure’s sponsor. “And whether we like it or not, health insurance exchange has become synonymous with Obamacare, and there are political consequences to that.”
Mr. Perry continues to pay a political price for one decision he made to impose a health care mandate — an executive order in 2007 that made Texas the first state to require young girls to be vaccinated against cervical cancer with Gardasil. The order infuriated conservatives, and the Legislature quickly passed a bill to overturn it, which Mr. Perry allowed to take effect without his signature.
The governor, whose former chief of staff was a lobbyist for Merck, the maker of Gardasil, defended his “pro-life decision” in a debate last year. But after announcing his bid for president last month, he began describing it as a mistake.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/us...gewanted=print
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Good ol' Jimmy Ricky, huge help for the greedy docs, etc, while increasing TX uninsured to 26%. And of course, spewing lying bull about "free market" (which offers overpriced coverage refused by the 26% uninsured).
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Which came first... The chicken or the egg?
Jimmy Ricky and his wealthy supporters know the play-to-play game he plays, peddling taxpayer businesses and contracts to contributors. Sequence doesn't matter, except to useless hairsplitters and silly spinners.
Yippee, great for your friends. And what about the other thousands upon thousands of poverty stricken kids who become the same welfare cases dumbass hypocrite right wingers whine about every day because they need help from government social programs to get by? I don't call for the abortion of anything but I recognize that it should be a CHOICE and a private one at that. There should be no government interference whatsoever badgering any female to carry a child she had no intention of having or the means to support. And if the parent(s) do decide to keep the child, struggles to support it and needs government assistance along the way then the rest of the right wing idiots should just shut the up because they can't have it both ways.
A Venn Diagram for Rick Perry: Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme
anyone who says that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme either misunderstands Social Security, misunderstands Ponzi schemes, is deliberately lying, or some combination of those...After all, a Ponzi scheme is a deliberate fraud. Saying that Social Security is financed like a Ponzi scheme is factually wrong, but saying that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme or is like a Ponzi scheme is basically a false accusation of fraud against the US government and the politicians who have supported Social Security over the years.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/...e-venn-diagram
what about the thousands of others? they have a damn life, which is a special thing whether you're poor or not.
and i thinkg they should recieve welfare. it's re ed to think they shouldn't need it to some degree to give them an opportunity.
i don't agree with abortion. in fact i don't agree with the killing anybody unless there's reason (i.e. they pose a danger to lives of others). therefore i dont think it's a women's right to kill it
What? Jimmy Ricky didn't call a prayer meeing, but gonna count on FEMA disaster relief?
Similar to the fire-engine God, the Repugs hate govt until they need it.
"He said the Federal Emergency Management Agency likely would arrive Wednesday and that Texas would seek federal disaster relief. He also said officials were considering seeking military resources from nearby Fort Hood."
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/art...#ixzz1X89zAH52
Where's The Republic of Texas Fire Fighting Brigades?
How Rick Perry Has Been on the Public Dole His Whole Life
Here's a particularly revealing stat that the Perry pixies don't want us to see: On his watch as governor, Texas added more minimum wage jobs than all the other 49 states combined. More than half a million Texans now work for $7.25 an hour or less. He can brag that he's brought Texans down into a tie with Mississippi for the highest percentage of workers reduced to poverty pay.
During Perry's decade, the greatest job growth by far has come from the public sector, which has more than doubled the number of new jobs created by the private sector.
In fact, there would be no Rick Perry without the steady "intrusion" of government into his life.
Local taxpayers in Haskell County put him through their public school system -- for free. He and his family were dry-land cotton farmers, and federal taxpayers helped support them with thousands of dollars in crop subsidies -- Perry personally took $80,000 in farm payments.
State and federal taxpayers financed his college education at Texas A&M, even giving him the extracurricular opportunity to be a cheerleader. Upon graduation, he spent four years on the federal payroll as an Air Force transport pilot who never did any combat duty.
Then, in 1984, Perry hit the mother lode of government pay by moving into elected office -- squatting there for 27 years and counting. In addition to getting regular paychecks from taxpayers for nearly three decades as a state representative, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor and governor, he also receives platinum-level health care coverage and a generous pension from the state, plus $10,000 a month for renting a luxury suburban home, a covey of political and personal aides and even a publicly paid subscription to Food & Wine magazine.
So when this taxpayer-supported lifer flits into your town to declare that he will slash public benefits and make government "as inconsequential as possible," he means in your life, not his.
Perry literally puts the "hype" in hypocrisy. Forget his tall tales and political B.S. -- look at what he actually does.
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/152316
Perry Accused Of Distorting Redistricting Map To Weaken The Latino Vote In Texas
The state has a four-decade history of violating minority voting rights that has required court intervention, Jose Garza, a lawyer for the Mexican American Legislative Caucus of the state Legislature, said today in federal court in San Antonio.
“Whether the Legislature was controlled by Democrats or Republicans, it didn’t matter,” Garza told a three-judge panel. “Redistricting was always done on the backs of minorities.” [...]
The majority-Republican Legislature redrew congressional district maps after the state grew enough to gain four seats in Congress, adding almost 4.3 million residents since 2000 according to the 2010 census. [...]
If the new map is approved, “the Legislature’s blatant racial gerrymandering will effectively prevent minority voters from having any meaningful impact on congressional elections for the next 10 years,” lawyers representing Travis County and Austin said in court papers.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...vote-in-texas/
'bouts in the end who will the Repugs turn the fake vote counting machines to?
Pitbull or Jimmy Ricky?
And will they be the twosome ticket?
I bet it will be blue-state, plutocrat, born-wealthy Willard and some unknown jerk from a sunbelt and/or red-state redneck bubba as VEEP.
Our state is on fire and Rick Perry is M.I.A.
Boutons > DMX7
pathetic
Jimmy Ricky bailed out somewhere to hustle back to flaming TX, do overflies, and spew banalities to the media. It's his "3 AM" call.
Rick Perry slams feds for slow fire aid, after huge cuts to quicker state response
While 30 or so Texas Forest Service and Texas National Guard helicopters fight the fires, Perry also said he was frustrated by the slow response to his requests for military equipment from Fort Hood as well. That request must be approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, then the Department of Defense, a process Perry said is taking far too long, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
“It’s more difficult than it should be,” he said, according to the Statesman. “When you have people hurting, when lives are in danger, I don’t care who owns the asset.”
But while Perry complains about the feds’ response, he and Texas lawmakers have also been called to task for huge cuts to state firefighting resources passed earlier this year. The two-year budget that took effect last Thursday includes a 75 percent slash to volunteer fire departments — from $30 million to $7 million — and a one-third cut to the Texas Forest Service. State Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) said this year’s fires near the capital city underscore the need to better fund the emergency-services districts stretched thin at the outskirts of Texas’ growing cities.
Texas’ 879 volunteer departments are the first line of defense against wildfires for much of the state. The forest service, with 230 firefighters and 15 trucks, provides statewide support. After that, help comes from the federal government and other states.
Those resources have been strained this year, which has seen six of the 10 worst fires in Texas history. Nearly half the land burned in U.S. fires this year is in Texas.
‘No financial impediment’
But the politicians who crafted Texas’ current budget say the state will have no problem paying to fight these fires.
The forest service saw its budget cut from $117.7 million to $83 million, but the Texas Legislature threw it an extra $121 million this year, to cover its firefighting costs over the last two years, the Houston Chronicle reported. Much of that came from the state’s rainy day fund, Senate Finance Chairman Steve Ogden (R-Bryan) told the Chronicle.
http://www.americanindependent.com/1...state-response
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