Secessionist Gov. Rick Perry now seeking federal stimulus funds.
Secessionist Gov. Rick Perry now seeking federal stimulus funds.
In March, Texas Gov. Rick Perry rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would have expanded unemployment benefits for Texans. Perry argued at the time that accepting the stimulus dollars would force the state to expand eligibility to include thousands of low-wage workers — including part-time employees like single mothers, college students and senior citizens — which Perry bemoaned would burden tax payers with “higher taxes and expanded obligations.” When explaining the decision, Perry told Fox News, “this was pretty simple for us.” But now Perry is reversing his decision. Texas has asked the federal government for a $170 million loan to ensure the state is able to continue paying out unemployment benefits:
Texas is now asking the federal government for a $170 million loan so that benefits keep getting paid.
“This is nothing out of the ordinary. We’re following protocol that we put in place,” said Governor Rick Perry.
Texas has asked for this loan only one other time, in 2003. This year however, the decision is getting extra attention after Governor Rick Perry rejected federal stimulus money that would have replenished the fund.
Texas is expected to request $650 million, roughly $100 million more than Perry initially rejected. At a “tea party protest” in April, Perry trumpeted his decision to reject stimulus dollars from the Obama administration. “I believe the federal government has become oppressive,” he said, adding that he might even consider seceding from the Union.
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Perry is a hypocritical moron, and hopefully will not be re-elected.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:52 pmTexans trend toward the fascist side.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:54 pmRick is all hat, no cattle.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:56 pmSecessionist Gov. Rick Perry now seeking federal stimulus funds.
– - Kay Bailey Hutchison is just gonna kick your ass in the governor’s race, Rick.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:57 pmWho wants to bet that the teabaggers will not hold a tea party to protest Perry’s request for those dirty federal dollars?
July 16th, 2009 at 12:59 pmOh hell no.
Don’t give this guy a damn dime unless he signs a loyalty oath.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:59 pmDoes Perry need the money to finish the Texas governor mansion? What a load of bullshyt Perry is.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:59 pmAIO says:
Rick is all hat, no cattle.
Rick is all hair-spray, no coiffure…
July 16th, 2009 at 1:01 pmThe only problem is, Kay Bailey Hutchison is an assh0le too.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:01 pmAIO says: Rick is all hat, no cattle.
What hat?…Oh, there it is. I was looking at the wrong end.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:03 pmI guess the bill for the tea has arrived on Perry’s desk.
Loan ‘em the money, but tack on a high interest rate. These ‘pubs don’t have a good history of fiscal responsibility or acknowledging real debt.
PEACE
July 16th, 2009 at 1:09 pmMaybe his salary should only be paid in Confederate Dollars
I mean, really, let’s see just how committed he is.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:10 pmI’ve long ago accepted this kind of clownish behavior by the repubs. It’s not even surprising anymore.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:12 pmAll I can say is WTF?
July 16th, 2009 at 1:14 pmTwo points here:
Perry has been “pallin around” with Sarah too long. He’s starting to sound like her:
Thanks, but no thanks…err ok, thanks.
I live in Bryan / College Station, Texas. The other day, our newspaper had a poll asking who the readers are supporting for Republican Governor Candidate. Perry is getting approximately 70% of the vote. These people live and breath Limpball and Hannity…it’s really a scary place.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:14 pmI agree with RantingTommy. Pay Perry in Confederate currency, including the loan for unemployment benefits. Then Perry can secede and have no federal money ever again, since it’s so socialistic and liberal. Then Texans can defend the border with Mexico themselves. Then NASA, which is a FEDERAL agency, can move out of Texas and take all the money it brings to Texas.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:16 pmConfederate dollars! RantingTommy, that is hilarious and, unfortunately, seriously logical at the same time.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:19 pmThere’s only two things that come from Texas — steers and…
Ah, fugeddaboudit…
July 16th, 2009 at 1:19 pm“This is nothing out of the ordinary…”said Governor Rick Perry.
Ain’t that the truth. It’s par for the course for flip-flopping, dishonest, tantrum-inclined Perry.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:24 pm“I had my fingers crossed…” — Helmethair Perry
July 16th, 2009 at 1:24 pmGive the money to Perry’s successor.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:25 pmThe worst thing to happen to Perry is that the taking of the funds gets a lot of airplay on tv and radio. That would humiliate him.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:26 pmWhy is it that Perry fails to understand what every school child knows: “….one nation, under God, indivisible…”? All that is left is hypocrisy at a level that the word ceases to have meaning and a new term is required, something like: “hyperpocrisy”.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:27 pmWhen Republicans deride Democrats over sexual indiscretions, they are cheating on their spouses.
When Republicans vote against same sex marriage, they are picking up same sex partners in airport bathrooms.
When Republicans are protesting high taxes, they are practicing fiscal irresponsibility.
Republicans cannot be trusted with power ever again. Vote Republicans out of power at all levels of government before they destroy America.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:28 pmAs fred g sanford said after donating his number winnings to friends:
July 16th, 2009 at 1:30 pmSorry, this bank is closed.
tony and lido
Why would we give money to a state that doesn’t even have an income tax? They want to have our cake and eat it too.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:30 pmIn other news, Texas Governor Perry anounced today that $170 million dollars of federal tax money will go toward one of the largest “shovel ready” projects in the state….the Bush Lieberry.
Really, with all the secessionist talk coming out of Texas lately I’d say they are too big of a “flight risk” to loan hundreds of millions of dollars to.
Texas=welfare state
July 16th, 2009 at 1:31 pm22. pags 2 says the worst thing that could happen would be for this to get a lot of publicity.
You say that like its a bad thing ????????
I say to do this in such a way to show these windbags for what they are. They did it very gracefully to Kyl and McCain with a letter to the governor asking if he really wanted to stop the money.
With Perry, make sure they showboat the money going to Texas penny by penny.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:34 pmWhy reject the stimulus $ and then request a $170 million loan? Perry was concerned about having to extend the unemployment benefits from the stimulus $ when it runs out in 2-3 years. He should have accepted the stim $ and waited until the unemployment benefits ran out to borrow the money. But, of course, from his point of view, the loan is not creating a burden on the taxpayers.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:34 pmPlausibly from the desk of Texas Governor, Rick Perry:
All right, that’s it! I just can’t stand any more of this! Yeah, that’s right, I’m outta here! You better believe it, too! Just watch me go!
Oh, by the way, do you think you can see your way through to spotting me cab fare?
Smooches,
July 16th, 2009 at 1:35 pmRicky
A recent Texas Governor’s Tracking poll published in D magazine(June 2009) shows Rick Perry is 12 points ahead of Kay Bailey Hutchison who is running against him for the upcoming Governor’s race. 12 points ahead!
On June 13, the same publication stated on their web site:
“She will officially announce next month. That means she will resign. And that means the governor will appoint a new United States Senator. So Hutchison’s opponent will appoint Hutchison’s (temporary) replacement.”
So get ready America! This lunatic will be given the chance to send another rabid lunatic conservative to the Senate.
I’m saying please, go ahead and secede already! It will give me a change to request political asylum in the United States of America!
July 16th, 2009 at 1:35 pmKay Bailey Hutchenson jumping into the Governors race has caused Perry to tone down his hard right message. Funny how that works.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:37 pmNo, you have to remember that his base are Republicans. He knows how to play them. This is standard operating procedure for Republican politicians these days. First he makes himself into a big hero by turning down the federal dollars. All of the dumbass rednecks cheer him. Then, when their unemployment money runs out, he goes running to Washington to get help for the same dumbass rednecks who cheered him for turning it down in the first place. Now, he is a hero again for helping his base of unemployed trailer park white trash. These knuckleheads can’t connect the dots between the two related events, so they don’t see any hypocrisy.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:41 pmWhat is the best thing ever to come out of Tejas?
An empty bus!
July 16th, 2009 at 1:43 pmi think the answer should be “no” until governor perry is seen on the national news on his hands and kness begging for the funds. afterall, turnabout is fair play. it was on the national news that he decried federal spending and was screaming for secession.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:44 pmPerry = Palin in pants.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:44 pmAgainst it before he was for it!
July 16th, 2009 at 1:46 pm“Texas is now asking the federal government for a $170 million loan so that benefits keep getting paid.”
since it’s a loan, let governor perry go to bank of america and apply for a loan and pay the interest on it.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:47 pmOff the subject but are there any updates on the birther soldier nut case? I thought oral arguments were suppose to take place today?
July 16th, 2009 at 1:47 pm.
I see comeuppance.
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July 16th, 2009 at 1:47 pmWell, the “protocol” that *Perry* put in place was to secede from the Union.
What happened to that now??!!
July 16th, 2009 at 1:48 pmThere should be a condition: He has to go on Fox News, apologize to the citizens of Texas, the US and Obama, and say, “I was wrong”.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:48 pmOT but on the subject of repulsive individuals:
July 16th, 2009 at 1:50 pmCatherine Crabill, the Republican Party’s nominee for Virginia’s 99th District in the House of Delegates, gave a speech at a recent political event …
“We have the chance to fight this battle at the ballot box before we have to resort to the bullet box,” Crabill said. “That’s the beauty of our Second Amendment rights … Our Second Amendment rights were to guard against tyranny.”
#35 Bozo, sorry I didn’t see you beat me to the punch.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:50 pmBuckarooBanzai,
July 16th, 2009 at 1:53 pmi’m quick like that :P
Everyone that is registered to vote in Texas join me in
July 16th, 2009 at 1:55 pmre-registering as a republican. Then vote for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson in the republican primary so Rick the Dick Perry will lose and not make it to the general election.
dear governor perry,
at what percent interest would you like the loan of my tax dollars?
sincerely,
July 16th, 2009 at 1:56 pma citizen of a blue donor state.
Why is everyone talking about Kay Bailey Hutchinson like she is some sort of moderate? She is a lock step right-wing extremist, who thought George W. Bush walked on water.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:01 pmI wish Texas would secede from the U.S..
Then we could invade them under the guise of protecting them against Mexican terrorists and take all their oil.
And we could get all our money back from Bush.
And he couldn’t do anything about it because he wouldn’t be a U.S. citizen any more.
But then, that doesn’t sound like a very nice thing to do, does it?
July 16th, 2009 at 2:03 pmWhat should happen to Perry and what will actually happen are two different things. The people with common sense will see him for what he is, a buffoon and a braggart. The rest of the people will vote for him because he mouths the things they want to hear. At best, the media can play up his stupid statements. The media does not have to make him look like a clown; he has already done it to himself.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:04 pmOne good thing about right-wing Republican terrorist cells is that they operate right out in the open. If the FBI ever decides to start rounding up Republican insurgents, they should be easy to find.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:07 pmBadmoodman says:
Secessionist Gov. Rick Perry now seeking federal stimulus funds.
- – Kay Bailey Hutchison is just gonna kick your ass in the governor’s race, Rick.
Somehow, rooting for Hutchison to beat Perry seems a lot like…. you don’t like the hammer someone is hitting you on the head with, so you ask them to use the other hammer. It isn’t going to hurt less…
Neither Hutchison nor Perry deserve to be elected to even dog catcher. Lets hope the voters of Texas wake up and elect a Democrat, or at least someone with a brain. LOL
July 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pmActually, we wouldn’t have to invade them. As soon as they declare independence, the Mexicans will annex back what they still consider to be 1/3 of their country. Just like the farce with the bailout money, Perry will come running to Washington begging for us to save them.
After we save them from Mexico, I think we should make them a colony, and take their oil.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:14 pmI see Tracist has no comment on the Governor’s “change of heart”.
I guess it really IS nothing out of the ordinary for a Republican. Why tax when you can borrow?
July 16th, 2009 at 2:16 pmshoeless says:
Why is everyone talking about Kay Bailey Hutchinson like she is some sort of moderate? She is a lock step right-wing extremist, who thought George W. Bush walked on water.
Granted, Hutchinson is a Republican. I can’t think of a single positive thing to say about her. But after scrutinizing her record for many years, I can tell you she is nowhere near the rabid lunatic Perry is. And she is a lot more intelligent than he is.
In an ideal world, a DEMOCRAT would win the election. But this is Texas. That says it all!
July 16th, 2009 at 2:17 pmralph the wonder locust says:
I see Tracist has no comment on the Governor’s “change of heart”.
That’s why it is rapidly being voted off the island. I vote down all off-topic posts by trolls. I like this new system. We can get rid of the trolls who have nothing to say and keep the ones who can actually debate the subject at hand, even though there are very few of them.
Anyone want to bet that T5 starts whining about it’s “free speech” when it gets voted off the island?
July 16th, 2009 at 2:22 pmI don’t know the details of Hutchinson’s record, but I know she sure loves her some George W. Bush, and I know she voted for anything he wanted.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:22 pmTracy__5 says:
Why do people consider unemployment benefit extension economic “stimulus”?
Oh, I don’t know moron. Could it have something to do with people having money in their pocket to spend? If I run out of my unemployment benefits in six months and still have no job….guess what. I won’t have any money to spend and stimulate the economy.
T5 – you are without a doubt one of the most ignorant trolls that has ever shown up on TP.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:24 pmBecause unemployed people spend that money and it stimulates the econmoy dumbass.
Tracy, you work in Dallas. Why haven’t you condemned Perry’s hypocrisy and his desire for dirty federal money?
July 16th, 2009 at 2:24 pmBilbo, we both smacked Tracy down at the same time. That’s got to leave a mark.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:26 pmThe truly sad thing is that the conservative-biased media has so thoroughly brainwashed the Fixed News Channel crowd that a move like this on the part of Perry will never be told to them. It must be hell being “fat, drunk and stupid” like so many southern redneck Repignofascists are (with apologies to Animal House fans).
July 16th, 2009 at 2:26 pmDon’t give them a dime until they recall their treasonous Gov.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:36 pmTracy actually told me that he lives in the alternate reality and it is better than the real world, I sh!t you not! In Tracy’s reality President Obama is the evil one for offering money to Texas. But, he will not acknowledge that Perry has gone begging for federal money, because it does not fit his alternate reality.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pmshoeless says:
Bilbo, we both smacked Tracy down at the same time. That’s got to leave a mark.
I doubt that T5 will even notice. Like all Republics, it doesn’t pay any attention to anything that doesn’t fit it’s myopic views.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:43 pmTracy, are you ignorant, or are you just lying again. Only about 10% of the stimuus money has been spent so far. God, you are a stupid, lying POS.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:45 pmTracy, do you know what the subject of this thread is?
July 16th, 2009 at 2:51 pmSo why should I pay taxes when they’re going to states when their governors repeatedly talk about secession? That doesn’t sound like something of a risky investment.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:52 pm…er, I meant to write it DOES sound like a risky investment, sorry.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:53 pmTracy__5 says:
“Only about 10% of the stimuus money has been spent so far.”
Exactly. Which is why unemployment extension benefits, something that always needs to be done when a recession start, are really not true economic stimulus hence their zero effect on stimulating the economy. Get it?
So you don’t know much about data samples, either?
July 16th, 2009 at 2:54 pmIn W’s book “A Charge to Keep” he refered to Kay Hutchinson as his “longtime friend” even back when he was running for governor.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:59 pmNo Tracy, you are wrong. We have an economy based on consumer spending. Now people out of work with no money. can’t spend any money to stimulate the economy. Oh, only 10% of the stimulus money has been spent because it does take some time to get this budgeted out to the states, then the states have to budget the money out how they see fit, and you have idiots like Perry who reject the money, thus not allowing it to have any real effect here in Texas. The stimulus package is intended to be a long term economic support package not a “magic bullet” quick fix.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:08 pmThese people are R E P U B L I C A N S. This is T E X A S we are talking about.
In that context, NONE of these people are worthy of holding elected office. In the real world, you are forced to choose the lesser of evils. Every republican voted for everything Bush wanted for 8 years. Bush lies, Perry lies, Hutchison lies, Pete Sessions lies, John Cornyn lies, Tom Delay lies……..it’s in their DNA to lie and be scums.
If a Democrat decides to run for Governor, I will join his campaign and help as much as I can. But in Texas low expectations are the name of the game.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:13 pmLike all people who live in alternate reality, Tracy cannot connect the dots. To people like him, life is a series of random unrelated events.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:27 pmtracy,
say a guy makes 35k a year and spends it all.
say that guy now looses his job, there is now 35k less in the economy.
say that guy get’s unemployment benefits of only 18k a year.
There’s now only 17k less money being spent instead of 35k less.
say the guy does find a job and his unemployment runs out. Now the economy has lost 18k more, totaling 35k less spent into the economy.
The point is to replace part of what used to be flowing from the employee into the economy while that newly ex-employee finds work again.
The point of the unemployment benefits extension is to make that guy’s benefits last longer, thus giving him more time to find a job before we loose ALL of his spending in the economy.
Now, as for the whole “argument” that “unemployment and govt spending doesn’t create jobs”… well, it’s false. period. The money spent on unemployment benifits buys food, which employs grocery baggers, clerks, stockers. It pays for rent , which puts money in the pocket of the landlord and his various employees that are needed to take care of the house or apartment. It means a phone service of some kind which allows the phone company to pay their employees.
You see, every single penny that you, me, or any joe in the world spends, goes into someone else’s pockets as pay (yes, proffits do get spent eventually). THAT is the market flow of money. Where an individual get’s the money that they spend on ANYTHING does not matter. This is what we call the money flow, and it’s rate of movement between entities is it’s velocity.
If too many people loose their jobs and have no savings or other sources of income, it causes a steep decline in the velocity of money in the markets. This drop in velocity and quantity means the phone company has to fire people to make ends meet, the landlord has to fire staff, the grocery tore has to let people go. This creates MORE unemployed people, which in turn reduces the amount of money flowing through the markets even more.
So you can see now how when unemployment rates get this bad that it’s important for our government to step in and help create jobs by giving individuals money on which to buy the basics of living with. If we didn’t, we would ALREADY be in another depression. SO unemployment benefits is the fastest and best way to soften the economic throttling of the markets and to slow down that decline into a depression.
Ok, now that we understand economics 101 from the perspective of the employee, we can understand that for Perry to have rejected the initial mostly free money from the fed for unemployment insurance, he has worked to PUSH US closer to the brink of a depression. He’s effectively making the argument that unemployment insurance isn’t necessary for the economy to recover.
So now that he’s asking for money he’s tacitly admitting that the unemployment payments are necessary to stave off rapid economic collapse.
This is what we call hypocrisy. Saying one thing then acting differently.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:39 pmSo the bottom line seems to be that Perry wouldn’t accept the stimulus dollars for unemployment benefits because it would “obligate” the taxpayers for higher taxes and (other?) expanded obligations. Well, paying interest on a loan, even larger than the original stimulus dollars for that purpose) is somehow supposed to SAVE the taxpayers money? First of all, any obligations or strings attached to the stimulus dollars for unemployment benefits were on the one-time basis, and the states could decide whether or not to change their formulations permanently after that time. Evidently, these Republicans are terrified that their citizens might actually demand better protection in the future….oh dear, democracy is so “messy.” Whereas paying interest on a loan…well, that has no potential of either raising taxes..or putting the state into greater deficit, right? The citizens of Texas will hopefully finally see through the smoke and mirrors thrown up by these so-called newly populist governors. The bottom line is that unemployment insurance is financed by a tax against businesses (with guidelines). Interest on a federal loan, however, is paid by citizens as well. In other words, the citizens of Texas will now help fund unemployment insurance through personal taxation. Ah…the Republican’s dream. All profit to business, all costs to the citizen.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:52 pmTejas: Either secede or shut up. Preferably, both.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:53 pmTracy__5 says:
“The money spent on unemployment benifits buys food, which employs grocery baggers, clerks, stockers.”
And keep those people employed, but it doesn’t create a new one.
“SO unemployment benefits is the fastest and best way to soften the economic throttling of the markets and to slow down that decline into a depression.”
I agree but tell us how it creates new jobs.
“So you can see now how when unemployment rates get this bad that it’s important for our government to step in and help create jobs by giving individuals money on which to buy the basics of living with.”
You aren’t creating jobs. You are preventing more people from losing that one they already have.
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ok, I misspoke above and intended to say “saves” instead of “creates” in that last paragraph. My apologies. These saved jobs are a DIRECT consequence. The jobs creation comes from the INDIRECT consequences as described below.
Economies create new jobs when excess money (profits) is used to start a new product, or business. Now, the fact that this money is still flowing, the natural profits from the flow can be used to create new businesses just like in the normally positively growing economy. Jobs are created in the exact same way as before. Thus, by preventing the severe deceleration, and thus preventing a profitable business from becoming unprofitable, the benefits ARE helping to create new jobs indirectly.
So, the argument is can we claim that indirectly created jobs is a result of the saved jobs? I and most others believe that this is a resounding YES.
Welcome to the fun of economics. It’s a very tangled and ephemeral system that is hard to trace and understand.
July 16th, 2009 at 4:01 pmTracy_5 – You aren’t creating jobs. You are preventing more people from losing that one they already have.
First of all, this is bad how? Secondly I don’t know who said unemployment benefits buys food which keeps baggers, etc. employed. Yes…but far more than that. The food industry is huge, and if people spend less and less in the markets, every industry connected to those markets suffer. And more jobs are lost. Those unemployment benefits also go to pay for other basic living expenses, like rent and utilities. Don’t pay for those, and landlords can’t make their own mortgage payments and go into default on their loans. Utility providers don’t get paid, so they 1) cut people off of services which in some climates can kill them, and 2) raise prices for everybody else who finally can’t pay for them and 3) lay workers off to maintain their profits if they are publicly owned. I could go on and on how the economy is further negatively impacted by not providing unemployment benefits. To turn down stimulus money in a time of recession (please people…this is a depression now), in exchange for spreading the costs downstream to non-business owners is truly nuts. We are in serious trouble, not just in the U.S., but world-wide right now. The conservatives’s ideas and programs brought us to this point, and their ideas will not resolve it. Maybe it’s too late to save it. Perhaps the world is far more complicated than it was during FDR’s time. And perhaps the economic disaster is so far-reaching that we are unlikely to ever recover a system that we all recognize. And frankly, perhaps it’s time for that new paradigm, because the old way of thinking has led to disaster. You know, there’s a reason the scriptures state, “The love of money is the root of all evil.”
July 16th, 2009 at 4:08 pm…
goodbye trace,
have fun at red state.
:)
July 16th, 2009 at 4:30 pmI thought Texas had or has an 8 billion dollar “rainy day fund”. DUH,, it’s raining right now asshat. Tap into your fund, start some state income tax and leave the rest of the other 49 states to keep our tax moneys. What an idiot, but hey, i’ll bet you texans re-elect him. Hell, you gave us “W”. I’d put nothing past you idiots.
July 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pmIf Perry thinks that he can get around paying benefits to the poorest single mothers, college students and senior citizens by turning down stimulus dollars so that he wouldn’t have to meet the stimulus criteria and then get the money anyway by calling it a loan, then I sure hope that he is out of his ever loving mind. I don’t think he’s such a great loan risk. I think he should have taken it as stimulus. California wasn’t allowed to borrow money from the Feds during their time of crisis and Texas shouldn’t either.
July 16th, 2009 at 5:54 pm“Secessionist Gov. Rick Perry now seeking federal stimulus funds.”
A rat sooner or later has to return to its rathole. This is in the case of Perry. Perry had his chest puffed up along with the Party of No refusing the stimulus funds. Now that the economy continues to sink and his state is in financial trouble, what does he do? Crawl from under the sewer pipe and have his hand out for the stimulus money. Man, Perry and the Party of No are looking more clownish everyday.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:09 pmKARMA!!!!
July 16th, 2009 at 7:00 pmI say we don’t give them the money, because they are costing us more money by asking for $100 million more than initially offered.
July 16th, 2009 at 7:07 pmGood Hair Perry is such a natural KKKonservanazi hypocrite.
I hope he runs as the republiKKKan candidate.
I remember when Good Hair made his secession speech. I know KKKonservanzis were so proud that they even volunteered to move to Texas to guard the border and throw out the Obama United States. When I explained to one KKKonservanazi idiot that when and if Texas would ever do anything like that, it will quickly fall by the wayside because TAXES would go through the roof. Texas receives quite a huge chunck of money from the Fed just for military that is stationed in Texas.
The KKKonservanazi’s little balloon burst. He mumbled something and wondered away.
Now, Good Hair is asking for money after he made a show of turning it down.
The KKKonservanazi republiKKKans are such hypocritical idiots.
“WHEN FASCISM COMES TO AMERICA, IT WILL BE WRAPPED IN THE FLAG CARRYING A CROSS.” Siclair Lewis.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:48 pmIn Texas if one puts a pig’s bladder on a stick he gets to be governor. As far as I’m concern the republiKKKan was conceived by parents who either inter-marriage by first cousin-to-first cousin or the well water had too much lead in it.
Republikkkans are now hanging on by a thread and the thread is by lying, falsifications, pointing fingers, joining up with other KKK members. It’s finis waloo for them. They are now known as the Party of No, going nowhere, nohow, not much, nada, nothing, pura cagada, kaput, etc.,.
It reminds me a rodeo I once participated in central New Mexico. The announcer in introducing the entries remark:
July 16th, 2009 at 10:06 pm“Ladies and Gentlemen, here come the cowboys, the cowgirls and the cowgadas (Texans). Cagadas (or the English version cowgada) to the Mexican vaqueros means cattle manure.
My, my. Perry the tex-ass clown decided that Texass should come back into the fold as a sovereign State. I guess all that booing and shouting at him back in the fourth of July convienced his arrogant tex-ass to refresh his thinking in more realistic terms.
And to think that we have to live with these damn tex-ass trash!
July 16th, 2009 at 10:19 pmTracy__5 says:
“First of all, this is bad how?”
I didn’t say it was bad.
“I could go on and on how the economy is further negatively impacted by not providing unemployment benefits.”
I agree that not providing these benefits hurt the economy further.
Tracy’s comment got a -7 rating, which I find a little strange. Seems to me that her acknowledging that both saving jobs and a recognition that a failure to provide unemployment benefits hurts the economy further is a GOOD thing. I’m mystified by a negative rating like this for what appears to actually be some growth on the commenter’s part (considering the history of previous comments). People CAN change, you know?
July 16th, 2009 at 11:08 pmI have always disliked Perry for many reasons. How about Palin coming to TX to campaign for him? Well, the reason I wrote: I have seen a billboard on the hwy between Dallas and Ft. Worth that asks citizens to chip in to help rebuild the Gov’s mansion that burned in the not too distant past. This really chaps my hide. These no new taxers, ugh. The way I remember it . . . there was one guard in a shack by the mansion and the alarm and communications did not work! Well, when you CUT TAXES and keep cutting them until you have only one guy in a shack with lousy, faulty eqpt . . . what do you expect? I won’t send a dime!
July 17th, 2009 at 1:05 amPerry is playing to the far-right wing-nuts in Texas, because he is a right-wing nut and he is counting on them to win the GOP primary. I agree with texasrick, areas like Byran/College Station are far-right, (I’m a lawyer and I’ve appeared there) I agree with krystalview too, but the big cities in Texas are turning more blue for sure: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio. Austin is as liberal as Boston. I live in Houston and lots of people want to see a Dem in office, because they’re sick and tired of the Texas GOP, and very sick and tired of their religious nonsense. I don’t know if Dems can do it this time, but eventually Texas will go dem. Even many former Republicans just can’t take it anymore.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:09 amPalin is supposed to come to Texas and campaign for Perry. If she gins up the angry right-wingers and goes Palin as usual, she may motivate people to support the Dems. I am hoping for a good Dem candidate.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:24 amI would have though that this clown would have already seceded. What is he waiting for. Ther are other states who probably want Texas to go already so that those federal facilities in Texas can be moved to other states. You know, federal facilities like:
NASA’s Johnson Space Center located in Houston
Federal Banks
Federal Correctional Institutions
Federal Highway system
Federal Public Health Institutions
Military Major Bases/Installations such as:
- Army (Fort Bliss, Red River, Fort Hood, Fort Sam Houston)
- Navy & Marine Corps (Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, Kingsville Naval Air Station
- Air Force (Randolph AFB, Brooks City, Lackland, Sheppard, Carswell, Dyess, Goodfellow, Laughlin)
- Coast Guard (Corpus Chrisit, Galveston, Houston, Port Arthur)
Federal Buildings (Ft. Worth, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, McAllen, Texarkana, Terrell, Abilene,(just a partial list because these buildings are in most cities in Texas))
- All U.S. Post Offices
- All United States Courthouses
- All federal law enforcement agencies
I also wonder what Texas is going to used for currency since the United States currency can’t be used?
I for one can’t wait for Texas to leave the Union. We should declare it a national holiday.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:33 amA couple of things:
1. Perry bankrupted the unemploument fund by arbitrarily lowering the employer tax when things were going good, against all advice. Now he’s having to beg for it.
2. You don’t register by party in Texas. All primaries are open, you can vote at either one.
3. The reason Texas is Republican is because of all the people who came here from other states. We are making progress, though The House of Representatives now has only two vote republican advantage.
4. Perry is the only governor who got caught blowing a male lobbyist in the state capitol and got away with it. His wife will be a rich divorcee as soon as he is out of office.
5. Perry was elected last time with only 39% of the vote, due to multiple candidates.
July 17th, 2009 at 6:27 amgeez – he hasn’t seceeded YET???? make it a condition of the ‘loan’ – take this final payment and go already!!
July 17th, 2009 at 8:20 amtexasrick says:
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…I live in Bryan / College Station, Texas. The other day, our newspaper had a poll asking who the readers are supporting for Republican Governor Candidate. Perry is getting approximately 70% of the vote. These people live and breath Limpball and Hannity…it’s really a scary place.
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All the more reason to deny the loan and starve ‘em out… (Sorry, nothing personal rick)
July 17th, 2009 at 9:26 amGee Tracy 5, guess you aren’t speaking to the same people we are, who are getting their hours cut back and have been for months. And Harris county went Blue, so maybe by 2012 intelligence will out.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:21 pmAlso, Texas matches others with dumbest representatives, so Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Michelle Bachman, to name a few, we don’t have the corner on the market of idiot representatives.
Sorry, one more thing, Texas doesn’t hold the market on racism either, wonder where Pat Buchanan is from.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:23 pmA 96 year young lady, Texas historian, said “back in the day, Republicans were called radicals.” Was true, is true today.
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