Hilarious and incisive Obama impersonator "gonged" by Republocrats

There was mention of this phenomenon at DrudgeReport or somewhere... and what a gas it is!

Reggie Brown 'Obama impersonation' at RLC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hfIrag8eXI

Not owning a TV or having any use for Republican anything (except the Ron Paul campaign) this was a complete surprise to me. A pleasant shock that such "racial" humor is allowed nowadays, especially at a GOP function when the GOP lives, eats and breathes to woo minority voters..... the reason is of course that Obummer is a DEMOCRAT.

Whoa, if you watch the entire show, you'll see the GOP brass did in fact stop him in mid-performance -- but only when he dared to start chaffing RepubliCon presidential hopefuls. This is a defining moment: Republoids sure can't take it (as with all tyrants, no humor allowed when it comes to their own foibles and blind spots) but they love to dish it out (shrieking defamation of whole countries, followed by bombs, tanks and "democracy").

Could anybody in the giddy Republican Leadership Conference audience have had a clue what a psychological spot quiz was upon them during this act, and how spectacularly they failed? It's possible, I suppose -- sort of like snow starting to fall in Death Valley.

Ironically the comedian, Reggie Brown, is from Chicago and of mixed parentage just Obama. Fortunately, he lacks the GOP tribe's self-importance and took the slap with grace and even stayed in character. Equally good, "Young Turk" Cenk Uygur (not one of my favorite pundits) saw fit to let him finish the Sarah Palin jokes he was doing when they yanked him off stage:

Reggie Brown Obama Impersonator Finishes His Jokes That Were Cutoff At Republican Leadership Conf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8fZsANmWGo&feature=related

Liberal nitwits have predictably cluck-clucked about the political incorrectness of it all. This footage is fun in spite of it:

Barack Obama impersonators
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhWmCTOWOU

..........Speaking of videos, here's a nice ironic one for sharing with people you know who refuse to face reality re the jackbooted thugs, etc.:

Anonymous; "This is what our freedom has become"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNsdN5lRbqg

...........This just in. You, being a true conservative, unlike the NewsMax staff, will welcome exposure of Palin's inanities as much as the others' -- not to mention NewsMax's own PC tsk-tsking!

Media Ignore Biden, Obama Gaffes While Targeting Bachmann
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/gaffes-obama-bachmann-biden/2011/06/29/id/401948

............A further exposé of the media's treatment of Dr. Paul is especially galling:

http://www.journalism.org/numbers_report/are_media_ignoring_ron_paul

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Rick Perry. continued: the information gets worse by the minute

On Monday I wrote my uncensored opinion of the TX governor here. Afterward I saw this video for the first time

John Stewart Bashes the Media Over Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EY5Ofcxjs0

................in which a liberal media darling suddenly, stunningly, brilliantly, hilariously rips the media's face about its treatment of Ron Paul in poll results. This is major major -- it shows the System is feeling the heat, and even the stars are seeing the injustice of their industry.

Stewart aptly compares Perry to "W" and other top-level frauds, as I had -- feeling at the time that I was the only one perceiving it. Well, a funny thing happened at tonight's third-Tuesday PN meeting! I was halfway through reading my blog post from Monday on Perry and thought to ask who in the audience had seen his speech announcing his run for the Presidency, one of the BIGGG deals conservatives have been a-quiver about in some time.

What do you think? Not a person in attendance had viewed the speech! I rate this a tribute to their mental health, even though it left them no clue what I was talking about half the time.

The following assessment of poseur Perry came in via email. It turbo-charges the subject.

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GOVERNOR RICK PERRY; THE NEXT PRESIDENT? Not if I can help it.

Please start your Rick Perry biography lesson with this video:
Why do the Chinese LOVE Rick Perry? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LFRDvkNz0U&feature=player_embedded

As the longest-serving governor (10 yrs) in the US and the longest ever in Texas, Perry has a substantial
history (25 yrs) and has taken positions on a host of controversial issues. I believe that many of the statist/corporatist rhinos will lean toward Perry eventually. Why? Because he is ALL ABOUT commerce, commerce, commerce. And I don't mean JOBS. I mean imports and THE DEATH OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURING.

Some of the research I have done is listed in the first link here:
www.redstate.com/izoneguy/2011/08/14/seventeen-17-things-that-critics-are-saying-about-rick-perry/

Or http://peskytruth.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/rick-perrys-negatives/

Most of my research you won't find in any of the lists:
Perry's traceable actions toward a North American Union (and immigration)
• Texas Transit Corridors are NAFTA Superhighways causing massive land grab and toll road taxes as
$30 billion in toll road debt in 10 years as Perry sells off Texas ’ public infrastructure to private monopolies:
www.texasturf.org
• Never heard of the TTC? This super highway system comes from the west coast of Mexico,
up through Texas, to a Mexican run inland port in Missouri, to bring you Chinese goods
by the supertanker full. China+Texas corridor=Perry unleashing the death of American manufacturing:
www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/TreasonAbounds.html
• NAFTA Super Highway Debate Inflames Texas Governor's Race
www.infowars.com/ articles/ nwo/ nafta_superhighway_debate_inflames_tx_gov_race.htm
• Perry is a longtime, unwavering supporter of the NAFTA (now NASCO)Superhighway and related infrastructure projects. These pave the way for the Bilderberg-supported North American Union (NAU) proposal that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
• Austin lobbyist Dan Shelley has been one of Governor Perry's aides and Cintra's inside man.
http://www.corridorwatch.com/ttc_2007/CW00000059.htm

• Texas-Transit Corridors: “They are fighting powerful interests, some in public view and others behind the scenes. Visible proponents are Texas Governor Rick Perry, Texas Department of Transportation and a Cintra, a Spanish company.” www.freedomadvocates.org/articles/sustainable_development/here%27s_why_we_fight%3a_why_you_need_to_become_vocal_local_20080624308/

• By Patrick Wood: Rick Perry Tied to Agenda 21, globalist policies www.augustforecast.com/2011/08/16/rick-perry-tied-to-agenda-21-globalist-policies/>
• He wants to use Texas Teacher & State Employee Retirement Money on risky TOLL ROADS:
www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=4969ing
• Perry signed the Texas Dream Act in 2001 giving in-state tuition to illegal aliens:
www.infowars.com/rick-perry-and-tuition-for-illegal-aliens/ and • Rick Perry signed legislation in 2001 allowing some illegal immigrants to pay in -state college tuition.

www.usnews.com/ news/ articles/ 2011/ 07/ 25/ rick-perry-stands-by-texas-dream-act

• A Texas governor should protect Texas from Illegal immigrants: www.washingtonindependent.com/ 114712/ rick-perry-flip-flops-on-immigration

• Perry has been critical of the illegal immigration legislation in Arizona signed into law by Gov. Brewer. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/rick-perrys-immigration-journey-could-haunt-presidential-race.php
• Rick Perry is all in support of sanctuary cities
• What about his part in the FLDS/San Angelo, TX land confiscation under the guise of Child Protection Services (CPS)?
• Minutemen will protest if Perry goes to Iowa http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/08/13/minuteman-leader-well-protest-if-rick-perry-comes-to-western-iowa/ • Rick Perry on IMMIGRATION (and links to other un-researched topics) www.issues2000.org/governor/Rick_Perry_Immigration.htm

• He cannot win based on his immigration policy: communities.washingtontimes.com/ neighborhood/ conscience-conservative/ 2011/ aug/ 15/ rick-perrys-immigration-problem/

TOO FRIENDLY WITH MUSLIMS
• Rick Perry: The pro-Sharia Candidate?
www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/10/rick_perry_muslims
• Text of Gov. Rick Perry’s Remarks At Opening of Sugar Land Jamatkhana and Center
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10798/
• University of Texas and Aga Khan University Establish Historic Partnership
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/3149/
• Perry to Visit Middle East to Dedicate Texas A&M Engineering Facility
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/2274/

• Will CAIR-endorsed Rick Perry's 'pandering to Muslims' problem be a problem for his GOP candidacy? http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/will-cair-endorsed-rick-perrys-pandering-to-muslims-problem-be-a-problem-for-his-gop-candidacy/

FISCALLY UNSOUND
• Perry has spent Texas into debt:
www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/mar/04/bill-white/white-says-texas-debt-has-doubled-under-perry/
• Helped to kill anti-TSA groping bill
http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2011/07/special-thank-to-campaign-for-liberty.html
• Supports No Child Left Behind Act and Dept. of Education
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/4392/
• Texas Enterprise (Slush) Fund: http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10202/
• He has 24 billionaire backers:
http://blogs.forbes.com/clareoconnor/2011/07/20/rick-perry-for-president-meet-24-billionaires-whove-backed-him/
• Perry was born poor but is now a savvy real estate investor thanks to his friends:
1) http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/state-politics/20100725-murky-land-deals-mark-gov.-rick-perry_s-past.ece
2) http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/perry-watch-well-timed-land-deals-built-rick-perrys-financial-portfolio/
• Perry on www.AmericanThinker.com: www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/perrys_problematic_pals.html
• “Rick Perry’s Army of God” www.texasobserver.org/cover-story/rick-perrys-army-of-god
One observer even labeled some of them “cult members" : www.newswithviews.com/West/marsha216.htm

• His own people want to impeach him: impeachperry.indytexans.org

WHO RUNS RICK PERRY: GLOBALISTS OR BANKERS? Same thing.
• Videos on Perry working for bankers: www.infowars.com/rick-perry-is-the-bankers-answer-to-ron-paul/
• Ron Paul has called for an investigation into Perry’s Bilderberg trip, and violating the Logan Act www.americanfreepress.net/html/perry_bilderberg_271.html called “Texas’ Perry Bilderberg’s Ace in the Hole?”
• The 1st foreign policy advisors Rick Perry turned to were Bilderberger neocons Donald Rumsfeld, Doug Feith and William Luti. http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/07/rumsfeld-involved-in-rick-perr.html or www.infowars.com/ bilderberg-convenes-as-rick-perry-hinges-on-2012-run/
• A case for impeaching Perry as governor: http://impeachperry.indytexans.org/tenreasons.php
• Instituted state CHIP program for Texas; Supports Sobriety Check Points (anti-4th Amendment) Perry
supported SB 298 bill in 2009; Supports the Patriot Act; Vetoes Texas Eminent Domain Bill; Signs Hate
Crimes bill; Bilderberger toady (2007) for United Nations, NAFTA; CAFTA; Trans Texas Corridor: in other words anti-Constitution. www.stuffedsuits.com/news/national-politics/721-fraud-rick-perry-is-political-herpes

• The Burnt Orange Report exposes Rick Perry:
www.burntorangereport.com/diary/10951/rick-perrys-coverup-and-corruption-a-ten-part-series
• Rick Perry Exposed | www.democratichub.com/RickPerry
• The Texas lobbying campaign won funds for programs that Perry now says he opposes as fiscally irresponsible intrusions on state responsibilities: http://news.yahoo.com/rick-perry-aggressively-pursued-federal-aid-now-decries-095000694.html

• Since 2000, more than 40% of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign funds have come from groups and individuals who donated $100000 or more each. www.usatoday.com/ news/ politics/ 2011-08-11-texas-republican-rick-perry-money-fundraising_n.htm

• Funny, didn’t Ron Paul say that first? Rick Perry on the Federal Reserve: http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/category/rick-perry/

GENERALLY A BAD CHOICE
• What does Dick Morris think about Perry? www.dickmorris.com/blog/whos-up-whos-down-in-gop-field-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/ He was wrong about Romney winning 2^nd in Iowa…that would be RON PAUL. So Perry didn’t even go to Iowa. I like Morris but he is overly flattering of UN-favorite Gingrich and underestimating Paul.

• Ron Paul Trounces Rick Perry In Presidential Poll http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-trounces-rick-perry-in-presidential-poll/ This is why the republican party of Texas cancelled the "Texas straw poll"

• Iowa was crucial for Perry, but he stayed away because he knew he’s lose: Five Questions About Rick Perry www.nationalreview.com/articles/274629/five-questions-about-rick-perry-ramesh-ponnuru?page=2

• The Gardisil scam (www.texastribune.org/texas-people/rick-perry/facing-new-scrutiny-perry-walks-back-hpv-decision/) and http://news.dienerconsultants.com/ct/6534898:9611739558:m:1:168709020:C78A8C10A8821DFB552871B1A383995E and www.realclearpolitics.com/ articles/ 2011/ 06/ 04/ rick_perrys_gardasil_problem_110089.html
• His support of TARP (http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/01/was-rick-perry-for-the-bailout.html)
• He made Cs and Ds at Texas A&M University www.huffingtonpost.com/ 2011/ 08/ 05/ rick-perry-college-transcript_n_919357.html or www.outsidethebeltway.com/rick-perrys-grades/
• Perry said that gay marriage should be left up to the individual states and that he would allow states to set abortion policy if Roe v. Wade were to be overturned. I support state rights but moreso, rights of the unborn.
See what Rick Santorum has to say about this:
www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/santorum-blasts-perry-denver/

• Is Perry the Christian he thinks he is? www.theatlantic.com/ politics/ archive/ 2011/ 08/ is-rick-perry-as-christian-as-he-thinks-he-is/ 243616/ •Ten things Rick Perry doesn’t want you to know: www.thinkprogress.org/ politics/ 2011/ 06/ 10/ 241830/ top-10-thing-texas-gov-rick-perry/ • Perry would rather you don’t read this: www.redstate.com/ erick/ 2011/ 06/ 17/ rick-perrys-scandalous-skeletons-come-out-of-the-closet/
• Why Perry could have a hard time: www.csmonitor.com/ USA/ Elections/ President/ 2011/ 0610/ Texas-Gov.-Rick-Perry-for-president-Why-he-could-have-a-hard-time

• Vetting Rick Perry: www.redstate.com/aglanon/2011/08/17/vetting-rick-perry/

• Texas Governor Rick Perry's camp is prepared to tackle what they say are unfounded rumors dating back to as early as 2004: www.huffingtonpost.com/ 2011/ 06/ 20/ rick-perry-gay-rumors-_n_880969.html

• Huckabee doesn’t even like him: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61140.html

•How much should someone earning $1 million donate? www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/governor-rick-perry-charity_n_922890.html

• Perry wrote a book “Fed Up” : The Ten Weirdest Ideas In Rick Perry’s ‘Fed Up’: M. Yglesias reviews it: http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/15/295427/295427/

• Medicine: www.michellemalkin.com/ 2011/ 08/ 16/ rick-perrys-bad-obama-style-medicine/

• www.thenation.com/ article/ 162821/ rick-perry-biggest-little-hypocrite-texas

•14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would be a Really, Really Bad president:
www.infowars.com/14-reasons-why-rick-perry-would-be-a-really-really-bad-president/

#1 Rick Perry is a “big government” politician. When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion. That is not exactly reducing the size of government. So: Which state's governor has actually presided over a reduction in the size of government? As much as we all would like to see government shrink, no state has reduced spending from year to year. In fact, the average increase in per-capita state spending from 1987-2007 was 306 percent.

Much of this growth is Medicaid-driven. Further, Texas is a growing state, adding three U.S. Congressional seats with the latest census. Although there are always opportunities to limit state spending, basic services such as education simply must grow with population. Because Texas is a balanced-budget state, one good measure of its spending is the total tax burden per capita. In that, Texas ranks best of all 50 states. Even while keeping the tax burden lowest of all states, Texas managed to salt away more than $9 billion in the state's "Rainy Day" fund. Most governors have limited control over state spending. Given his constitutional constraints, how has Rick Perry measured up?

In the 2011 regular legislative session, Gov. Perry refused to go along with lawmakers' desire to tap the Rainy Day fund. When the regular session ended and the legislature had failed to pass a budget, Gov. Perry held his ground in the subsequent, 30-day special session until legislators put forth more than $800 million in spending reductions. So, in the worst economy in 30 years, Texas still balanced its budget without a tax increase. Gov. Perry's hard line on behalf of taxpayers made this possible.

#2 The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932. If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.

Gov. Perry has more accurate numbers in his state's favor. The Tax Foundation, which is technically nonpartisan but a favorite of conservatives for its hard line against tax increases, ranks Texas 49th in state debt per capita and as a percentage of state GDP. It's useful to note that California is a "basket case" precisely because of overspending while its population shrinks and businesses flee to other states. Texas can hardly be called a basket case, and increased spending and debt can mostly be attributed to keeping up with the demands of state growth, such as highways, education, and other services.

#3 The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. So what would the U.S. national debt look like after four (or eight) years of Rick Perry? Like the spending-growth accusation, this one must be put in the context of all states. According to MainStreet.com's report, "The Most Debt-Ridden States in America," Texas ranks as the 3rd Least Debt-Ridden State (9thslide)

#4 Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system. If you really do deep research on this whole Trans-Texas Corridor nonsense you will see why no American should ever cast a single vote for Rick Perry.

This doesn't really add up to a criticism that can be rebutted. In general, references to "foreign companies" smack of xenophobia; our economy (including American icons such as Wal-Mart) would fail immediately without international trade and investment. As for "free" roads, there is no such thing. Taxes or tolls pay for road-building and maintenance. The only question is, "Who pays?"

Texas has an excellent record in this. Users of our first major toll highway, IH-30 between Dallas and Fort Worth, paid it off well ahead of schedule, and IH-30 is now a non-toll road. The enormous cost of urban land acquisition was borne only by those who needed to use the road first. Now everyone traveling that route reaps the benefits. Texas is the second-largest state in the union by land mass, and its growing, major cities are situated hundreds of miles apart. It will always have transportation issues unlike any other state's, and these will require creative solutions.

Toll roads and the Trans-Texas Corridor idea certainly have been controversial. On the other hand, Texans have paid the same motor-fuel tax (20 cents/gallon) since 1991, and a very low vehicle-registration fee (about $60 annually) for decades. There is no other road-use tax levied on noncommercial vehicles. How can the governor

be faulted for exploring all options for meeting the state's transportation needs without raising those fees?

Ultimately, Gov. Perry signed the bill killing the Trans-Texas Corridor. How many politicians are willing to let reality knock down a grand idea they have supported? We could use more humility like that in our officials. Finally, the invitation to "deep research" cannot mean simply Googling the web for the thousands of ill-informed opinions posted by anonymous, partisan, and financially interested parties. We have legislatures and public meetings for getting to thebottom of hotly contested issues.

#5 Rick Perry claims that he has a “track record” of not raising taxes. That is a false claim. Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor. Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.

The Texas governor has no authority to raise taxes or fees. Only the state legislature can do that, with the governor's consent or though an override of his veto. Without a source or even a specific tax cited, this accusation sounds rather wild. On Texas' recent record, the Tax Foundation does not agree with your assessment. Texas ranks 45th of 50 states by State-Local Tax Burden per capita. Its rank when Perry assumed the governorship? Also 45th.

The governor can, as noted above, threaten to veto the state budget (or use the line-item veto) in order to check the legislature on its spending. Within his constitutional powers, Gov. Perry has has very effectively toed the taxpayers' line on taxes and spending.

#6 Even with the oil boom in Texas, 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas does. That makes Texas … average. Why is that a reason not to vote for Rick Perry? Furthermore, consider that a state's unemployment rate can look better or worsedepending on how many of its workers hold "recession proof" government jobs. Bigger government, fewer layoffs, lower overall unemployment. It is no wonder many of the

blue states have weathered this recession better.

Texas' government is small compared to other states', so by rights, its unemployment picture should be relatively worse. In reality, Texas is actually doing quite well, with its unemployment rate square in the middle of all states. Nobody has reason to cheer in this economy. Yet, Texas leads the nation in job creation, nearly ten times the pace of its nearest rival. Companies are moving to Texas at a record pace. Gov. Perry understands first-hand the value of a positive business climate.

#7 Back in 1988, Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president. In fact, Rick Perry actually served as Al Gore’s campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year. In 1988, Sen. Al Gore ran for president as a Southern, relatively conservative, pro-life Democrat. (We need more of those in Democrat-controlled districts and states

to help conservatives win close-call votes in our legislatures.) As Vice President Gore demonstrates today, people change. Parties change, too. (Ultimately, Sen. Gore lost the nomination to Gov. Michael Dukakis, whom Perry did not support.)

Let us remember that Ronald Reagan was a Democrat for decades — and a union president, no less! Former U.S. Sen. Zell Miller, a lifelong Democrat, gave a keynote speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention that had delegates cheering on their feet. These men were conservatives, abandoned by their party.

So it has been in Texas. The term "conservative Democrat" lived much longer here than in most other places. Like many southern states, Texas took more than 100 years to elect its first post-Reconstruction Republican governor. Its legislature remained in Democrat hands until 2003.Party labels matter, but what matters more is a candidate's conservatism. No one has ever called Gov. Perry a "liberal" because it doesn't jibe with his record.

[Note: Perry was a democrat: www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2081596,00.html]

#8 Between December 2007 and April 2011, weekly wages in the U.S. increased by about 5 percent. In the state of Texas they increased by just 0.6% over that same time period.

With no source cited, it is very difficult to discern what this statistic is supposed to tell us. For example, if most of those wage gains were eaten up by progressive state income-taxrates (as many of us remember from the 1970s, with its inflation- driven "bracket creep"), then Texans may have fared quite well — by paying no

state income tax. Another possible interpretation is that Texas' population is growing at a pace that dilutes wage gains. More people seeking work here, more downward pressure on average wages. That they are finding work is the saving grace of that possible explanation. Further, and more to the point, how did this abstruse comparison become one of "14 reasons why Rick Perry would be a really, really bad president"?

#9 Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation. The following is from an opinion piece that was actually authored by Barbara Bush earlier this year….

• We rank 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates. An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.

• We rank 49th in verbal SAT scores, 47th in literacy and 46th in average math SAT scores.

• We rank 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.

First, with all due respect for the former First Lady and her efforts to expand literacy in America, part of her article was predicated on the false choice between (on the one hand) spending all that administrators want to pend, and (on the other) cutting the number of teachers, increasing class sizes, eliminating scholarships

for underprivileged students, and closing several community colleges. None of these measures were on the table this year; rather, they're the sort of bugaboos raised by the government-education complex every time the electorate looks hard at its ever-increasing budgets.

Second, since when have fiscal conservatives ever believed that high teacher salaries make an education system better? That actually sounds more like a union talking point.

Third, conservatives like me would like to see a reduced federal role in public education. Gov. Perry's support for home schooling in Texas suggests that he understands that education is — first and foremost — the responsibility of parents. Education can be delegated by parents to private or public entities, but ultimately

it is up to those same parents to ensure they are getting the service they've contracted for.

As for the state's record, Texas is among the top states for "Best Public Schools in the Country,"according to Newsweek. Ultimately, government schools' performance isn't an accurate measure of a governor's performance. Not least because the Texas State Board of Education is elected by the people, not appointed. Most school districts are administered locally.Cherry-picking statistics without controlling for demographics or other important factors also tells us little.

#10 Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007. Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters. Substituting "conspiracy theorists" for "voters" makes that statement correct.

#11 Texas has the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage out of all 50 states. The statists at Think Progress have made this their leading critique of Gov. Perry, aided and abetted by the leftists who control Austin's only newspaper. It is curious that those who reflexively defend the minimum wage also decry its actual use. But the critique does not include any analysis to help readers understand the statistic. Nor does it acknowledge that when comparing 50 states, all of them can't be average. Is "no jobs" better than "some jobs"? Would Gov. Perry's detractors prefer that minimum-wage employees have make-work government jobs that pay more than minimum wage? Or would they rather have workers unemployed and dependent on welfare?

#12 Rick Perry often gives speeches about illegal immigration, but when you look at the facts, he has been incredibly soft on the issue. If Rick Perry does not plan to secure the border, then he should not be president because illegal immigration is absolutely devastating many areas of the southwest United States.

To say, "Look at the facts," then cite no facts, invites us to see what we want to see. No one doubts the seriousness of the illegal immigration problem. We feel it acutely in Texas. Patience is running thin here. Everyone wants someone, anyone, in a position of power to "do something."These desires sometimes run up against very real limits on state power. Everyone is waiting for the outcome of Arizona's bold test. If the Supreme Court eventually rules against the federal government, we can expect other states (including Texas) to follow suit. In reality, there isn't much that individual states or their governors can do to"secure the border." That's within federal jurisdiction.

But states can act within their 10th Amendment rights to protect their citizens from harmful consequences of illegal immigration. Here are the most recent immigration-related bills signed into law by Gov. Rick Perry:

SB 1 (82-1), Verifying Citizenship of Applicants for Drivers Licenses. Provisions added to Senate Bill 1 in the Special Session codify portions of a Texas Public Safety Commission rule requiring applicants for new, renewal, or duplicate licenses to prove either U.S. citizenship or legal immigration. SB 1 also links the expiration

of legal immigrants' drivers’ licenses, provisional licenses, or occupational licenses to the date of the expiration of their legal immigration status. These changes are particularly important not only because they will help ensure that non-citizens are prevented from voting (especially in light of the passage of SB 14, the voter

photo ID bill), but they will also prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining drivers licenses, and assist the work of law enforcement officers and border security officials,who will be able to ascertain the immigration status of anyone they detain.

SB 1009, Notification of Foreign Students Leaving a Course of Study. This helps ensure that federal immigration authorities are informed whenever a foreign student leaves a course of study at a public institution of higher education in Texas. In many cases, enrollment in such a course is the basis on which a foreign student

was legally admitted to the United States. It is vital, therefore, that ICE be made aware whenever a foreign student leaves a course as this may invalidate his residency in the United States.

Gov. Perry also added an initiative to this year's special legislative session which would have withheld state funds from "sanctuary cities," wherein local, leftist politicians have openly rebelled against state and federal immigration laws. The legislature's two houses failed to agree on a final bill. Gov. Perry took

significant political risk by endorsing this measure.

Here in Texas, there has been no groundswell of dissatisfaction with Gov. Perry's position on illegal immigration. Indeed, conservatives everywhere need to be on guard against Democrat-led efforts to split the party with this issue. They have done so successfully many times in the past, conveniently raising immigration concerns

just before elections only to stymie real efforts to address them. The political left always wins at this game, and America always loses.

#13 In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less. By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000. Again, what is the significance of this, and what is the source?

#14 Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade. Perry would have put parents in a position where they would have had to fill out an application and beg the government not to inject their

child with an untested and unproven vaccine. Since then, very serious safety issues regarding this vaccine have come to light. Fortunately, lawmakers in Texas blocked what Perry was trying to do. According to Wikipedia, many were troubled when “apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck’s hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff

Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work.”

In this case, it could be argued that Gov. Perry did the wrong thing for the right reason. Cervical cancer killed more than 4,000 American women last year, many at a relatively young age. Gardasil was, in fact, tested and proven effective before the FDA prior to its release on the market. The people of Texas had reason to resist Gov. Perry's choice of action, and, through their legislators, they rebuked him. The executive order is now moot.

Some of the nation's greatest conservative leaders have said and done things that confounded their supporters. Barry Goldwater came out in favor of abortion. Phil Gramm voted to establish the Department of Education. President Reagan, an avowed advocate of federalism, signed a bill threatening to withhold highway funds from

states unless they changed their drinking age to a federal standard. No officeholder has made the "right" call every single time.

The question for conservatives is, "Has the candidate established a strong record of conservatism in votes, deeds, and words?" The answer is "Yes." In sum, be careful whose assessment you take at face value. In 2008, the left teamed up with RINOs to find some “fatal flaw” with every candidate except Sen. McCain,

who went on to become Barack Obama’s dream opponent.

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COMMENTS FROM Julie Lang IN TEXAS: “His last race. ..Perry refused to debate his challenger, former Houston Mayor Bill White. He rightfully received a lot of criticism for that. Perry also refused to meet with the editorial boards of the major newspapers. It looked like he was ducking the issues and the big questions. Maybe he was -- the state budget deficit was much higher than he claimed during the campaign, something White frequently pointed out. White also warned voters that Perry had his eyes on a presidential run and he wouldn't be as engaged with Texas. Spot on.

We have an absentee governor right now as an historic drought and heatwave grips most of our state. Towns are literally running out of water as water sources have dried up and Perry is traipsing the country for his own ambition.

Ironically, Perry is excellent during natural disasters, which is why it's so irritating that he's not actively engaged here with this one, getting water trucked in to towns that need it and working on solutions. Recall that in the days following Hurricane Katrina, Perry coordinated an effort to bring hundreds of thousands of Katrina survivors to Texas. Within a few days, he had the transportation, shelters, volunteers and everything in place. It was brilliant.

In the past, he's also been very hands-on when it came to storms and disasters within Texas. When hurricanes threatened, he had the Texas National Guard mobilized, equipped, and ready to help. This is the type of experience and responsiveness that would make him a good president.

But the tendency toward flip-flopping and avoidance is problematic. His opponents will have a field day with it. It will be interesting to see if his talents, charm, and persistence will be engaging enough nationwide to attract massive, die-hard support that will shut down the naysayers. Perry is capable but he's often puzzling, too.

Asheville on the march; conservatives throw themselves in the sewer over Ron Paul

Tuesday night saw a good attendance and a riveting meeting of the Asheville Patriots, the Patriot Network affiliate in that mountain city of the Tarheel State. We touted Dr. Davis highly leading up to the occasion, but nobody was disappointed in his jam-packed store of information.

Being a health professional, Doc is able to comment not only on the political but the science and medical aspects of what the System is attempting to do to us. An unusual number of questions were fielded from the audience -- almost as many as the total topics covered, so it seemed. He agreed to come back another time and when I asked how many were ready to go on the the most politically incorrect with his next appearance, there was a unanimous show of hands!

Doc brought five or six attendees including a South Carolina state legislator. That was novel and of course most welcome. As things stand now, our speaker next month will be Greenville's own Professor Steven Yates. He has made a smash success presenting his latest book, The Four Cardinal Errors, at at least two Atlanta PN meetings.

...........The Republican establishment grimes itself up more every day, or should one say every hour? Now that their owners see their own game is up soon, they're pulling out all the stops and openly showing themselves traitors to the Constitution and Bigoted/hateful/discriminatory/prejudiced wild animals. In particular, of course they're porcine about Ron Paul. When they're not doing their best to destroy his reputation they stonewall him -- it's a tossup as ti which is worse. Their mutterings and gruntings sound exactly like a styful of angry swine.

This just in -- does it take the cake for communist propaganda? Can this really be happening -- Dr. Paul "the least conservative member of Congress running for President on the GOP side"??? WHAT are people smoking?

Behold, a screed from a bouncy, jingoistic site called Conservative Bytes. It is nauseating and emetic, but please have a look and tell me if it couldn't have just as easily have been written but a liberal Dummacrat. Are you read for it? The neocon warmonger Israel-kissing big-government GOP establishment truly is indistinguishable from the Dummacrats by now. It's no metaphor, no hyperbole, no joke -- they are united in hatred of the only man who's been worthy of the presidency in most people's lifetime.

Is life so cheap that they'll throw a great man like Dr. Paul over.... for what? It's entirely possible that he's the last real human being that will ever be allowed anywhere near the job. the word "conservative" has truly been scrubbed of all meaning now! I'm not sure I even want to apply it to myself, but to let the barbarians steal it is just as unthinkable!

You're not going to believe the book and the author for which there's a popup before seeing page one of this link -- Dick Cheney's In My Time. May it be your distinct pleasure to click the "X" and watch him and his tome disappear as they so richly deserve.

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The Conservative Case Against Ron Paul
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2007/06/15/the_conservative_case_against_ron_paul/page/full/

The "weird news" category: Tycoon sues for a massive IRS audit but can't get one

.........among other tempting tales of tyranny, taxes and timely tomfoolery from around the world. Warning: some are pretty gross:

Newsoftheweird.com:

Tennessee State Rep. Julia Hurley apologized in July and said she would pay for the refinishing of her desk in the legislative chamber after it was revealed that she had carved her initials in it during a January session. "It was like one in the morning on the last day of the session," she told WSMV-TV. "I wasn't thinking straight." Rep. Hurley, 29, who has a daughter, 14, unseated a nine-term incumbent legislator in 2010 with a campaign that touted her time as a Hooters waitress. "If I could make it at Hooters," she wrote in the restaurant's magazine, "I could make it anywhere." [Knoxville News-Sentinel-AP, 7-12-2011]

California's state and local governments are rarely discussed these days without the pall of budget cuts looming, but apparently the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is safe because it is spending a reported $1.5 million to move a big rock in from Riverside, about 60 miles away. It's a 340-ton boulder that the museum intends to display above a sidewalk ("Levitated Mass"). The move will require a 200-foot-long trailer with 200 tires, with one semi-tractor pulling and one pushing, at night, maximum speed 8 mph. [KNBC-TV (Los Angeles, 6-15-2011]

Georges Marciano, co-founder of the clothing company Guess? Inc. and ostensibly in no trouble with IRS, nonetheless demanded in 2009 that the agency audit him over the previous several years. IRS turned him down, and he sued the agency in federal court in Washington, D.C., but in July, a judge rejected the case, declaring that federal law and the U.S. Constitution do not give anyone a "right" to demand that IRS collect more taxes from them. (Marciano perhaps hoped for IRS to uncover cheating by his former employees and accountants, whom he thought were stealing from him. Paying higher taxes might have been worth it if the agency had made it easier for him to sue any cheaters.) [The Blog of Legal Times, 7-5-2011; Los Angeles Times, 12-15-2009]

In May, following near-record floods in fields south of Montreal, Quebec, farmer Martin Reid made sure to apply for his fishing license because he had learned the hard way that when his land gets flooded, he cannot remove the fish washed onto it unless he is a licensed fisherman. After flooding in 1993, Reid and his father failed to secure a license and were fined $1,000. A second offense brings a fine of $100,000. [London Free Press, 5-27-2011]

The elegant, expansive, gleaming new glass-and-concrete indoor stairway at the Common Pleas Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio, opened recently, to mostly rave reviews for its sense of space and light, creating the feeling of walking suspended on air. However, as Judge Julie Lynch and other women soon discovered, the glass partitions at each step make it easy for perverts to gawk from underneath at dress-wearing women using the stairs. "(Y)ou're on notice," Judge Lynch warned her sister dress-wearers, "that you might want to take the elevator." [Columbus Dispatch, 6-8-2011]

Pablo Borgen has apparently been living without neighbors' complaints in Lakeland, Fla., despite general knowledge that he is, according to sheriff's officials, one of the area's major heroin traffickers, bringing in tens of thousands of dollars a month. Following a drug sting in June, however, neighbors discovered another fact about Borgen: that he and some of his gang were each drawing $900 a month in food stamps. Formerly indifferent neighbors were outraged by Borgen's abuse of benefits, according to WTSP-TV. "Hang him by his toes," said one. "I've been out of work since February (2008). I lived for a year on nothing but ... food stamps." [WTSP-TV (St. Petersburg), 6-15-2011]

It's good to be an Arizona State University student, where those 21 and older can earn $60 a night by getting drunk. Psychology professor Will Corbin, operating with National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grants, conducts studies of drunk students' memories, response times and decision-making processes through extensive questioning -- after he has raised their blood-alcohol level to precisely 0.08 percent (which Arizona regards as presumed-impaired for drivers). Students are served one type of vodka cocktail, three drinks' worth, in a bar-like room on campus, and after 15 minutes to let the alcohol be absorbed, the questioning and testing begin. (At the end of the night, taxis are called for the students.) [Arizona Republic, 7-22-2011]

New, on the News of the Weird Food Cart: (1) grasshopper tacos (at San Francisco's La Oaxaquena Bakery, but pulled in June by local health authorities, who were concerned that the bakery was importing Mexican insects rather than using American ones); (2) cicada ice cream (at Sparky's Homemade in Columbia, Mo., but also yanked off sale by local health authorities in June); (3) maggot-melt sandwiches (which are just what you suspect -- cheese and dead maggots -- at the California State Fair in July). [KGO-TV (San Francisco), 6-7-2011] [Kansas City Star-AP, 6-7-2011] [Sacramento Bee, 7-8-2011]

In June, officials of California's Alvord Unified School District announced that their brand-new, $105 million high school, Hillcrest, would remain unused for the coming school year (and perhaps beyond) -- because the budget-strapped state does not have $3 million to run the school for a year. (In any event, it costs $1 million per year just to maintain the building to prevent its deterioration.) [USA Today, 6-21-2011]

News of the Weird has mentioned various overseas prisons where crime kingpins serve time in relative comfort (through bribery or fear), but according to a June New York Times dispatch, Venezuela's San Antonio prison (which houses the country's drug traffickers) is in a class of its own. San Antonio's four swimming pools frequently host inmates' families and "guests," who lounge with barbecue meals and liquor. Paid "bodyguards" pass the time shucking oysters for alpha-dog-inmate Teofilo Rodriguez. DirecTV dishes serve the cells. Drug-smuggling via guards is so prevalent that Venezuelan locals actually visit the prison to buy the surplus (which they carry out because guards only "search" them upon entering). Rodriguez's enforcement is backed up by an openly displayed arsenal of guns. Said a Russian drug trafficker-inmate, "This is the strangest place I've ever been." [New York Times, 6-4-2011]

Cliches Come to Life (Bureaucrats' Edition): In November (2005) in Murfreesboro, Tenn., U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employees Joseph Haymond and Natalie Coker were charged with taking kickbacks on the purchase of 100,000 rolls of red tape (that is, red security tape used on packages of VA medications).

Budget cuts forced the closure of two of the three firehouses in Chillicothe, Ohio (pop. 22,000), and even that station failed a state fire marshal's inspection in March. Because the station's own alarm system was broken, the chief was required, until the new system is installed, to assign one firefighter per shift to be on full-time patrol at the station, walking around the grounds constantly, upstairs, downstairs, looking for fires. [Columbus Dispatch, 3-30-2011]

"Common sense lost its voice on this one," concluded a Wethersfield, Conn., city councilman, lamenting the local school board's having spent at least $630,000 to "resolve" an ethics complaint against the board's chairwoman -- all because her son had improperly taken a $400 high school course for free. The town's ethics board conducted more than 60 hours of hearings over 11 months, incurring $407,000 in legal expenses, and finally voted, 3-2, to uphold the complaint. (However, the ethics board ordered only that the chairwoman reimburse the $400; the school board then voted to pay all her legal expenses.) [Hartford Courant, 6-10-2011]

In June, as five young men gathered around the Mount Tabor Reservoir near Portland, Ore., one urinated in it, thus "contaminating" the 7.2 million gallons that serve the city, and, said Water Bureau administrator David Shaff, necessitating that the entire supply be dumped. Under questioning by the weekly Portland Mercury whether the water is also dumped when an animal urinates in it (or worse, dies in it), Shaff replied, certainly not. "If we did that, we'd be (dumping the water) all the time." Well, asked the reporter, what's the difference? Because, said Shaff (sounding confident of his logic), "Do you want to be drinking someone's pee?" [Portland Mercury, 6-15-2011]

Title IX of the federal Civil Rights Act requires universities to offer "equal" intercollegiate athletic access to females, even though finding that many serious female athletes is difficult on some campuses. The easiest subterfuge, according to an April New York Times report, is to pad women's teams with whimsically enlisted females -- and in some cases, with males. Said former university president (and Health and Human Services Secretary) Donna Shalala, "Those of us in the business know that universities have been end-running Title IX for a long time, and they do it until they get caught." Sample dysfunctional result: When University of South Florida added football (100 male players) a few years ago, it was forced to populate more female teams, and thus "recruited" 71 women for its cross-country team, even though fewer than half ran races and several were surprised to know they were even on the team when a Times reporter inquired. [New York Times, 4-26-2011]

NuttyNewsToday.com:

Nutty News Ely, Nevada - On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government pays them to do it. Federal statistics show that in 2010, just 227 passengers flew out of Ely while the airline got $1.8 million in subsidies. The travelers paid $70 to $90 for a one-way ticket. The cost to taxpayers for each ticket: $4,107. Ely is one of 153 rural communities where airlines get subsidies through the $200 million Essential Air Service program, and one of 13 that critics say should be eliminated from it. Some call the spending a boondoggle, but others see it as a critical financial lifeline to ensure economic stability in rural areas. More

Nutty News Washington DC - At a time when many more cash-strapped Americans are stuck at home instead of vacationing at the beach, President Obama next week will lead an entourage of several dozens to exclusive Martha’s Vineyard island at a cost of millions to taxpayers. While technically he is paying for his estimated $50,000 a week rental of the 28-acre beachfront Blue Heron Farm in woodsy Chilmark, the dozens of U.S. Secret Service agents, communications officials, top aides, drivers, and U.S. Coast Guard personnel with him will be covered by taxpayers as with every other presidential vacation. Obama’s vacation comes at an awkward time because of the economic turmoil roiling the nation and Wall Street. Surveys show that a growing number of Americans can’t afford even small vacations. More

NNT's joke of the day:

A company had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Management said, “Someone might steal from it at night.” So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Then management said, “How does the watchman do his job without instruction?” So they created a planning department and hired two people; one person to write the instructions and one person to do time studies.

Then management said, “How will we know the night watchman is doing his tasks correctly?” So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.

Then management said, “How are these people going to get paid?” So they created the following positions, a timekeeper and a payroll officer; then hired two more people.

Then management said, “Who will be accountable for all of these people?” So they created an administrative section and hired three people; an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

Then management said, “We’ve had this command in operation for one year now and we’re $18,000 over budget. We have to cutback on overall costs.”

So they laid off the night watchman.

Bonus NotW item: gold in the news!

Who Knew? "The streets of 47th Street are literally paved with gold," said one of New York City's gold wranglers, as he, down on all fours and manipulating tweezers, picked specks of gold, silver and jewels that had fallen off of clothing and jewelry racks as they were rolled from trucks into stores. The man told the New York Post in June that he had recently earned $819 in redemptions for six days' prospecting. [New York Post, 6-20-2011]

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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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