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rick perry Archive
What’s up with Perry hair-patting a guy?
Posted on September 23, 2009 | 5 Comments
Moderate Texan Backlash Against Hate Talk, Secession
Posted on September 21, 2009 | 6 CommentsIs Kay Bailey Hutchison’s surprise showing in a recent poll an indication of a strong backlash among moderates against the politics of hate and threats of secession from Rick Perry...
I Thought We Were Seceding?
Posted on September 15, 2009 | 5 CommentsWhadya know, Texas is going to get $10 million a year in health care money from the United States government, the one Rick Perry and his tribe want to secede...
Texas Political Guidebook — Chapter Two
Posted on September 13, 2009 | 3 CommentsTexas is a place bursting at the stock-pens with proud and determined individualists who live by the motto: conform, or I shoot. To those not fortunate enough to have lived...
Texas Political Guidebook — Chapter One
Posted on September 11, 2009 | 7 CommentsThe first thing you need to know if you’re going to do politics in Texas is that the laws passed by the Legislature haven’t gotten any better since they took...
Raising the Truth: Texas General Decries Perry, Racism
Posted on September 11, 2009 | 8 CommentsRetired Brigadier General Tom Daniels of Fort Worth, a Vietnam veteran and pilot who served in the Pentagon under President George H.W. Bush, notes the recent spike in racist talk...
Old Moneybags: GOP Cashes In On Your Insurance Money
Posted on September 11, 2009 | 2 CommentsInsurance companies steal us blind with their premiums and then won’t reimburse us for our seeing-eye dogs. And, if you wonder why Texas leads the nation in the number of...
The Executioner’s Song
Posted on September 9, 2009 | 2 CommentsGreat gods, now they are turning to Texas for advice on health care reform. This is about as useful as asking the executioner for advice on memorable last words. You...
Let Them Eat Teabags
Posted on September 9, 2009 | 17 CommentsThere’s nothing quite as sad as the spectacle of people wearing teabags on their hats while demanding that their health and the health of their children and neighbors be sacrificed to the gods of insurance industry hellfire.Dog Day Afternoons: Kay and Rick On the Porch
Posted on August 19, 2009 | No CommentsThey are like two old show dogs sleeping on the front porch of a Classical Revival mansion while their owners sip Kentucky bourbon and bestir themselves with tales about the...