What’s sad is that Governor Rick Perry feels the need to renounce the one good thing he’s done as governor of Texas. Rather than apologizing for executing an innocent man, he’s apologizing for mandating that girls get immunized against Human papillomavirus (HPV). I’m sensitive about compulsory immunizations, but the law did have an opt-out. HPV is the cause of most cases of cervical cancer, and it’s entirely preventable. Governor Perry stood up to the slut-shamers and endorsed the vaccine. Now his first order of business as a presidential candidate is to flip-flop on this issue.
“I obviously made an error in not having a conversation with the people of the state of Texas rather than just kind out of the blue an executive order. There was a better way to do that, I realize that now. One of the things I do pride myself on, I listen. When the electorate says hey that’s not what we want to do. We backed up, took a look at what we did. I understand I work for the people, it’s not the other way around.”
In addition, he basically threatened to lynch Ben Bernanke if he prints any money between now and the election.
Will Versailles now disavow their weekend tire-swinging?
I think the answer is yes. Look, Karl Rove, the WSJ, etc., want no part of Rick Perry.
But CNN’s Republic analysts Alex Castellanos und Erick Erickson both seemed wowed by Perry last night. So much so that I believe both say it’s now only a two person race — Perry and Romney, with Goodhair about to put the Mormon in the rearview mirror, in no small part due to the religious factor. Bachmann they view as only a summer fling.
I believe that’s right. It’s Romney v. Perry, with Bachmann about to get knee-capped in a big way.
Sadly, I agree. If Perry wins, I expect Rubio to be his VP.
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The sob Bush never read the legal papers involved with execution orders, he let Ashcroft make the decisions. Bush did the hard work and checked the box: DENY. Perry is so much worse …
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I have a big problem with his strong ties to Merck. I find it hard to believe that he made that decision because it was good for women.
http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/5546651.html
The facts and the contribution record are on your side. Women were incidental to crony capitalism.
Au contraire Booman, Le Perry, il a bien entame sa course au presidentiel.
You see, what Perry has brilliantly staked out as his bottom line appeal, the sine qua non of reactionary politics, is that he is the biggest dick on this table. He’s got no problem dropping trou and lettin the big dog eat. He’s a man with a tempered steal ballistic cylinder in his pants.
So that’s why he did the obligatory conservative corndog fellatio picture for the press?
What is this obsession with fellatio and corn dogs? It’s really disgusting, folks. Sometimes eating a corn dog is … just exercising a moment of dietary suicide, NOT a repressed sexual issue.
It makes people on the left look like lunatics, really.
Rick Perry, 2012: I’ll Only Eat You Once
C’est vrai, il y an tranch du pate qui est a premier vue assomant. Premierement il s’agit du sens ridicule de toute signification presidentielle en l’Amerique. Toute candidature s’enforce au role du bonhomie universelle.
But really, eating junk food at a fair is not that big a deal. I don’t care what he eats or where he eats it.
So, the question is How to make that into a negative? He is obviously a guy who 1) is the BSD 2) is the BBSD and 3) will do anything to make other BSDs look tiny and shriveled.
BSD: Big Swingin’ Dick – a term from finance, where all the BSDs alternate between making insanely risky financial moves without fear of consequences and making other look shriveled and tiny.
This cowboy “my gun is bigger’n yur gun” crap is idiotic, of course.
And you criticize my comment. Of course it’s idiotic. That’s why the lampooning of the pictures of these guys appeals.
And just where did the financial gurus get that image? Have you ever deconstructed business jargon? It plays on anxieties about male-male rape. Not the playact kind. The real kind.
For Bachmann, it’s a reference to the 22 foster kids, stylist husband, and hardnosed anti-gay, anti-woman rhetoric. It raises the question, “What is there about this family that is slightly creepy?”
That’s about right, tp. However…I get the feeling that it’s a basically a pharmacologically driven hard-on and that he has a difficult time coming. I think he’s going to droop what the going gets hot and heavy.
Romney, on the other hand, is a classic, plodding RatPub male. Clomp clomp clomp. Not too many mistakes, lots of money, straight to the nomination orgasm. Romney with a Cheney/Bush I-like pimp as VP would be right out of Republican Central Casting.
If Paul doesn’t carve them both up in the primaries, of course.
Watch.
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Are you saying that Donald Rumsfeld and Douglas Feith are betting on the wrong horse?
Hope springs eternal…
AG
So Perry wants to lynch life-long Republican Ben Bernanke, who was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve by fellow Texan George W. Bush, for doing the job of managing the money supply according to the principles of Milton Friedman. Money supply-driven stimulation. Which is strange because the Fed is creating money by repurchasing federal debt.
The Fed is a convenient whipping boy because it is not well understood by ordinary people. Nor is the fact that the money is created by banks loaning more than they have. The Fed really acts as a brake on printing money. When it eases, it is taking the brakes off a bit.
You need no more evidence of that than the experience with credit default swaps, which if fully realized through defaults would have soaked up $100 trillion in obligations. Where would that $100 trillion have gone? Into the pockets of the folks who bought the credit default swaps. And thus $100 trillion would have entered the economy had the banks had no reserve restrictions or had the Fed underwritten the issuance of $100 trillion in loans to banks from its reserve power. You see how the who credit default scheme was an attempt to create a money supply beyond the control of central banks. That happened before. In the 1970s, there was the “Eurodollar” crisis that had to do with dollar-denominated transactions beyond the control of the US Federal Reserve. Which is why you now have coordinated actions by central bankers.
Gold doesn’t do it either. The restriction of gold on the money supply was one of the contributing factors leading up to the Great Depression. Once the depression in fact started, exclusive focus on monetary policy led to the disastrous easing of the money supply that lead to hyperinflation in Germany. Whether this was a deliberate attempt to devalue their World War I reparations obligations is something for you to decide.
We have a Republican party that is all politics and no, zero, nada, zilch policy. A campaign party that thinks governance illegitimate. A party that wants people to work for free, for banks to print the money, and all industries to be unregulated in their operations. And in denial that the US has been there before and is already there once again.
Cue Steven D’s sig here.
Heh…
Report: Paul Ryan ‘strongly considering’ a 2012 presidential bid
Friend who wrote that piece I posted about the President and the debt ceiling deal? He’s thought Ryan was going to run for a while. This will be very interesting, and blow all calculus out of the water.
A guy who won’t face his own constituents in a open town hall meeting is going to run for President? Shades of Nixon and his scripted town halls.
http://www.osborneink.com/2011/08/libya-the-end-is-nigh.html
Encouraging. But it’s not over yet.
One instructive thing about the way the TNC troops have handled themselves. There are towns that have strong pro-Gaddafi loyalties and still do. Instead of trying to take those towns with the massive loss of life on both sides that would create, the TNC troops bypassed and isolated those towns. The strategy is that the fall of Gaddafi will allow them to reintegrate the towns into a TNC regime. The suspicions are that Gaddafi loyalty is purchased.
What is known is that Zawiya is in immediate need of a field hospital as continued shelling by Grad rockets from the east (towards Tripoli) is claiming civilian and TNC casualties. And there have been unverified rumors that many of the Gaddafi regime officials have been quietly leaving for Tunisia or elsewhere.
The firing of rockets at Brega is an important sign of the regime’s desperation.
I’ve been saying throughout this episode – while confused people kept talking about a “stalemate” – that territorial gains are not the important factor in this war. I’m not going to get too high over the seizures of cities (although the strategic significance of Zawaya is very real), because what really matters is one side losing the material ability to stay in the fight, and then collapsing.
The shelling of Brega – is a desperate move, and indicates something about the regime’s position.
The last refuge is Sirte, which lies between Brega and Misrata. It is Gaddafi’s hometown. And has a large military installation. If the regime doesn’t fall with the capture of Tripoli, that’s where they most likely will be, but with a no-fly zone how they’ll get there will be a problem.
A flight with no knowledge that Gaddafi is on board will be shot down. A flight will knowledge that Gaddafi is on board will be forced to land in EU territory. Where Gaddafi will be bundled off to the Hague. And there are persistent rumors of UN-sponsored negotiations between the Gaddafi government and the TNC.