After starbursting the Teabaggers, the Quitter came down to Texas where she appeared with the Secessionist at a book burning campaign rally on Sunday.
Both of their practically fact-free speeches could be reduced to two words: gubmint bad.
“How long will the folks in Washington keep spending money that they don’t have on solutions they haven’t thought through for problems they don’t really understand?” Perry said. “I suspect the answer is, they will continue to do that until every American is dependent on the federal government for every need.”
Tough talk for a man who depended on the federal government to fix his own house.
And here’s the Quitter, making shit up as usual.
“When Washington came calling with money for expensive programs that Texas couldn’t afford, he told them, ‘Thanks, but no thanks. We’re doing just fine without you,’ ” she said.
No — Perry didn’t say ‘Thanks, but no thanks.” Just like the Quitter did, when Washington was doling out stimulus checks, Perry took the money. And he used $12B in stimulus money to balance the state’s budget despite claiming, as the Quitter did, that Texas had a “surplus.”
And this little detail is just the cherry on top of this deliciously hypocritical wingnutty sundae.
Supporters lined up three hours before start time at the Cypress-Fairbanks school district’s $73 million Berry Center, a massive taxpayer-funded complex that includes a football stadium, auditorium, conference center and arena.
I doubt the crowd — or Ted Nugent — noticed the irony.




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With Perry and Palin in the room together at the same time, I’m surprised every lightbulb in the joint didn’t burst simultaneously.
Did Nugent swing in on a vine wearing a loin cloth made from a small animal he killed himself? WooHoo Gittyup!
Palin is a political lap dancer.
I gotta quibble with your wording here, BT.
Perry is *a* Secessionist.
Palin is *the* Secessionist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI
Secessionist Sarah, indeed. 1st Doo’, Traitor Todd, was a member of the Alaska Independence Party from 1995 to 2002, and Sarah Palin in 2008 told the AIP she “shares your vision.”
Any Democrat with this baggage would not survive in American electoral politics.
fluffer
Maybe Ted Nunbnuts will provide security so they won’t need the gov to do it.
Wow some nice hate filled ramblings here.
On a serious note, I am very curious why Palin pisses you guys off so much. According to the liberal blogs/press/etc, she is a know-nothing political hack that has absolutely no power in the modern day political arena. Yet reading the posts here and watching MSNBC on occasion, your side is absolutely obsessed with her. What’s up??
Well, it’s rather like the fascination that humans have to watch a train wreck as it is happening.
Should be pretty obvious: we love to laugh at her.
Thanks, Cliff!
Good point.
You don’t understand because you only got it half right.
“she is a know-nothing political hack
that has no power in the modern day political arena.“There are people on Medicare with a terminal illness who will cheer when someone says the government needs to reduce the debt by cutting entitlements. They will never be convinced otherwise, either.
It’s stupifying, but it’s the sad awful truth.
The roots of Palinism and in fact the GOP’s anti-government stance were explained nearly thirty years ago by key Reagan Revolutionary Lee Atwater:
Sow the Southern Strategy wind, reap the incoherent Palin whirlwind.
IMO, it is for the same reason that so many of us around here bitched endlessly about Bush and Cheney and Rummy…
It is astounding to me that someone so ill prepared to lead in every way can rise to power. It is astounding that with Sarah Palin, the horror of the Bush/Cheney years could likely be repeated.
Bush won twice. Sarah Palin is George Bush in drag.
Texas? So much for the theory that the Devil went down to Georgia.
BT, do you know whether it’s true that Palin, in her “Tea Party convention” speech, actually called for “another revolution?”
I only heard this reported once, and no commentary. Just wondering.
I am hearing/seeing Perry spoken of as (gag) “the next President” way too often. I can’t believe the rest of the country would vote for him…..but then, I under-mis-estimated his predecessor, and I wouldn’t want that to happen again.
I confess that I am feeling the same way about Obama.
Oh, you only wish she didn’t have any power. She has plenty of power — to split the Republican party wide open. The power to actually give the GOP a boost electorally? Eh, not so much.
we know she’s full of hot air ,but there are many out there that believe her crap.
Alas, we were going to get Third Wayers no matter what on the Dem side. Edwards was doomed, though we didn’t know it at the time, and HRC and BHO are pretty close to being identical on policy; Obama’s main health care difference was in opposing mandates in the HCR proposal, and guess what? Mandates are a centerpiece thereof.
Wow, that’s harsh. No fan of Obama, here…but I could never put the two in the same league.
Still-fresh, painful memories of the havoc wreaked by an earlier lightweight, inarticulate dilettante.
I think it’s funny that Palin is called a political lap dancer and fluffer right across from the GRITtv video of Feminism, the Super Bowl and the Media.
You are certainly correct about the Third Wayers.
The fact that Obama did not promote the agenda he campaigned on was a disappointment. What surprises me is that he has not even been an effective advocate of the corporatist policies which appear to comprise his actual agenda.
OT – TPM reporting that Rep John Murtha has died.
Oh, my!
Obama is much better educated than Palin or most of the Bushies. I deem him unfit to lead strictly on the basis of his performance since assuming office.
Yep. Banner headline now up on msnbc.com
RIP Mr. Murtha.
R.I.P. Rep. Murtha
To pile on a bit, I believe it was H.L. Mencken who, when asked by an irate patriot why he lived in this country if he couldn’t see or write anything good about his fellow citizens, replied by asking her why people go to the zoo.
Apologies to zoo inhabitants – I mean no comparison.
Sad to hear about Rep Murtha, he’s been on my mind since I heard about his hospitalization. An educated guess is that he contracted MRSA after his surgery.
Here is a sign from the rally LMAO
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t2gcapXTnuM/S3BsAVU9fjI/AAAAAAAAEMw/7crBOHhFef8/s1600-h/homescholers.jpg
Gov. Perry is just a neocon liar who is pro Wall Street and anti main street.
I hope that Gov. Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison both get crushed in the Republican primary for Gov. by Debra Medina.
DEBRA MEDINA is the real deal for Texas and could be the start of something really big for future governors. She is anti Wall Street and anti war. Blue Tex check her out.
Of teabaggers, Abe Lincoln would have said;
“You can fool some of the people, ALL of the time”… ;^)
— cool site; Balkingpoints ; incredible satellite view of earth
That’s awesome — where’d you find that?
I suspect photoshopped or prank.
Possibly but I can speak from experience that infections are not totally uncommon after gall bladder surgery.
I believe I read that he’d had laparoscopic surgery. Mine was in ’82 where they were moving from the roughly foot long incisions to the five inch incision I had. The lower half became infected (primarily I believe due to it being at a teaching military hospital where the surgeon passed the needle to a young doctor just out of med school in his internship and had him complete the stitching)
And big difference between having the surgery and infection at age 30 versus having it at age 77
You know, normally I enjoy the lunacy of Texas politics. But this year it seems particularly evil.
Obvious Photoshop.
BT, Sorry to hear that Texas is Alaska’s Little Sister State.
“Gubmint bad. Vote for me.” Because there’s nothing like a little cognitive dissonance to get the rabble roused.
Teabagger seccessionists all profess to hate the gubmint, while constantly taking advantage of gov’t services at every chance. It’s like those 9/12 Teabaggers who whined about there not being enough Metros in Wash DC to get them to their rally (attended by at least 28 gadzillion of them) in enough time to shriek and scream about the sourges of bad gubmint.
The rightwing mind has no truck with cognitive dissonance or facts, because, as we well know: facts have teh eeevul librul bias.
But, ugh, the thought of Rick Hair Perry & Sarah Grifter Palin together holding an anti-gov’t rally in tax-payer funded complex … sheesh, it’s wonder that complex didn’t collapse due to the vacuum of those 2 giant yet remarkably vapid egos.
I have a great suggestion for Perry & Palin: if y’all hate gov’t so much, then STOP having anything to do or say with or about it!!! (yeah: won’t hold my breath).
Yep. And it should be noted, also, that Alaska gets more gubmint cheese than any other state.
palin is right when she stated obama should invade iran
we should invade iran.
they have more oil than iraq
this country is an empire we should start admiting that we are an empire
to deny that we are an empire is denial at its greatest level
we are a capitalist nation that has wars for profits and steal resources for profits from third world nations desguised as nation building so little girls can go to school in afghan or the iraqis can vote.
only pure ignorance would believe such a fairly tale.
that is the capitalist agenda: wealth generaton for the few.
to state other wise is having little knowledge of capitalism
but americans have been brainwashed to believe capitalism and patroitism are synonyms.
and have been told nothing of a social democracy.
in my day it was capitalism or communism now capitalism or socialism.
the captialist agenda is fear mongering. it works like a charm in a dumbed country that believes the media is telling them truths.
americans the media are bed with the capitalists. why? $$$$$$$$$$$$$
the capitalists will not rest until they have 99% of the wealth of this nation and if they could do it 99% of the wealth of the world.
capitalism is greed gone wild.
few will understand my words very few.
MRCA or c-diff – there’s more than one way the hospitalization alone can kill you.
Perhaps correct punctuation and capitalization would help.
“How long will the folks in Texas keep voting for people that don’t have solutions, and haven’t thought through for problems they don’t really understand?”
there, fixed it for you ricky…
(no offense to texas, but y’all did elect bush and perry for your guv’nors)
And she showed up in Texas with her notes still written on her hand. She not only had to write down three points, but then she used indelible ink. And she wants to start a war with Iran. At least she thinks that if Obama did, he’s have a chance at re-election, so she clearly thinks that would be jim dandy. What a horror she is. Of course, if the MM stops paying attention to her, they get criticized for ignoring this failed political candidate, who couldn’t hack those tough Alaskan politics.
Perry got less than 40% of the popular vote last time.
She may be a “brand,” but the issue is a relating nationwide scam – crammed down our throats and forced into our eyes at every turn. How could those “15 minutes” ever end when the dominant media serves to propagate this joke upon us as if they have no journalistic responsibility regarding the credibility of a subject being reported on? http://seaclearly.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/palinesqued/
Kinky for Governor! (May the God of Your Choice Bless You)
Sarah charming is breeding cynicism by preying on the fears of those that are not yet desperate. You’ve gotta hand it to her.
She is crack personified.
Oh, hell yes hahahahahahahahahaha
OMFG we have a new classic teabagger sign…Right up there with Get a Brain, Morans! and No Pubic Option!
Had to read twice, but agree. Um…I think.
English isn’t this commenter’s first language, come on. Reads like a comeback at moonbattery dot con.
I tried to post soft-toned antiwar arguments and criticism of America’s health “care” system over at moonbattery. They immediately burst into monkey shrieks and death threats, one even told me to go have a sex party with my deployed infantryman son. (They don’t care about the troops, nope, they want to see Obama’s birth certificate.) I was banned on my second visit. Also found myself unable to post at ANY right wing blog, which shows me how interconnected they are.
How about mentioning how tolerant “us people” are, instead of following along in a breathless state of blind protect-Palin readiness?