Socialism remainder day just happened! Rick Perry: taxmonger, stuffed shirt, hollow corpse, transparent W retread, gold-plated phony #968,756

They used to call it tax freedom day -- the date each year when working people have put in enough man-hours at their jobs to account for the taxes they'll owe on the next April 15. I've renamed this occasion more honestly, above -- how do you like it?

Last I was keeping track, this moment arrived around May. Now it's in mid-August. What can they possibly pull to keep it from reaching New Year's Eve? Here's a site that has yet another ripe name for it:

Happy Government Cost Day!
http://drscoundrels.com/2011/08/14/happy-government-cost-day/

...........The above site sends occasional (maybe daily) mailers. Some links in them are good, lots are horrible. In the latter class was another on Monday that stands in accidental, unintentional condemnation of the neocon, pseudo-conservative Republican establishment. It read:

Rick Perry – Declaration Video For Those Who Missed It

This isn't an endorsement - but many people missed hearing this - and while he had some rah rah speechifying, he also had some interesting information interspersed that you might not get to hear on the MSM.

http://drscoundrels.com/2011/08/14/rick-perry-declaration-video-for-those-who-missed-it/

"Interesting information?" What, please? Did I nightmare it, or is Gov. Perry simply checking off the motions all the Republican Superboy lookalike presidential hopefuls go through about now? Pat the state you're in and pet its shiny new governor, go rah-rah-rah for the military (note, his TOP priority) against a background of so-called American flags, show off the wife and kids, use God, bash the sitting president, quote Margaret Thatcher, punctuate the entire mix with non-specific references to freedom, make it sound like everything is about money or war, spew clichés without end.... "we gotta create jobs", "our best days are ahead", "God bless the USA".... tell me, "is that all there is?"

I need serious reassurance that this isn't the Twilight Zone. Will somebody call me up right now and tell me we're not about to break for a Ford Fairlane commercial? The ominous fact is that Perry looks and sounds like a synthesis of the two Bushes, Mitt Romney and maybe Christopher Reeve. Surely he is deliberately trying to ape W's reedy, swaggering, fakely Southern tone? (Inconsistently droppin' final g's, sometimes droppin' and not dropping them in the same sentence -- shades of Obummer's affectation of a "soul" accent according to what audience he's addressing.) Perry even takes a political cue or two from Slick Willy! Surely it's possible to imagine Slick delivering the entire same speech?

I'm seriously wondering whether he didn't simply ask W to pull a speech out of the back file drawer for him to repeat verbatim with minor doctorings for the new age of the bogus president and artificial terror problem.

This nothing but pure pandering and showboating -- but wait a minute, it's doctoral in its prostituting of trigger words and concepts. It has to have been written in the depths of the Cabal, maybe even at Skull and Bones headquarters. Perry makes only one appropriately vague campaign promise in his own right, as if the System finally fears the public are starting to keep track. Specifics:

*From 18:00 on he proclaims that change will never come from Washington but will come from rank-and-file Americans from all across the fruited plain. "We are Americans," he brags, "We fix things," clappa clappa clappa, cheer stomp yell. Is he subliminally telling us never to expect Washington to abandon its present insane course, even if he gets elected?

*Everything he says from that point on is about what "we the people" are going to do to redeem the country, making himself not a presidential candidate but merely another (hah!) grassroots citizen righteously irked about the state of things. Where previous hopefuls (Reagan consistently) have used the first person plural to signify unity among their team or staff, the royal "we" is now used to represent the sheeple and declare to them that they are suddenly going to become a great fighting force after have taking Bushevism and Clintonomics and the Obummer cult on the chin -- twenty years of Demo-publican rape with little meaningful resistance.

*It is in THIS vein that he promises job creation, innovation in science, technology and math, et al. -- the exact same stuff any Dummacrat hawks these days. We are surfeited if not killed with scientific progress -- that's what ameriKa does have in vast abundance even as it runs out of everything else, including morals. As for job creation, would somebody inform us as to where the Constitution calls for the fedgov to do any creating or innovating whatsoever?

*Finally at 21:50 -- well into the last sixteenth of his rant -- Perry says what he himself is going to do: "work every day to try to make Washington DC as inconsequential in your life as I can", leaving himself a Mack Truck-sized out at both ends of the sentence like G.H.W. Bush with his "no new taxes" BS.

Bizarrely and ominously, Perry began this part of his rant by decrying "the injustice that half of ameriKans pay no taxes." Don't worry, they gave him the same wild, hooting acclaim as ever. It's further evidence that ameriKa never elects a President but rather a glib, telegenic cardboard cutout. The crowd acts as if they'd never been made fools of by Bushes, Reagan, Nixon, or any of the many more recent non-presidential RepubliCON Superboys that have crowded the political arena.

I'll believe that Perry cut spending in Texas when somebody shares some credible facts and figures on it. Unbelievably, he praises Israel and gets yet more enthusiastic hoots and applause. His warmongering and jingoist gloating over ameriKa's treatment of the rest of the world marks him as a man in need of shock treatments, and his audience ready for a padded cell. Every time he refers to the squatter in the Oval Office as president, he loses whatever credibility he's built up in between. Obummer is not the president -- there isn't any at the moment.

It's relevant what stuff the politicians are spinning at any given time. And since we're true conservatives in an age dominated by pseudocons, we're going to use this space to do all the exposing we can of in particular the Republican Pezidential candidates' crimes against truth. (I say "we" legitimately -- you send PC-busting material and I enshrine it here.)

All right, some of you think I'm being unkind or narrow? Then tell me, please: How is it possible for a Republican Texas governor to solicit ameriKa's votes for president without mentioning immigration even once, aside from a typically noncommittal mention of "borders"?

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