Burnt Orange Report

Even More Hillar-ity: OMG Perry is TEH SOCIALIST!!11!1!!

By Jim Dallas

Via Taegan Goddard, the Houston Chronicle reports on a letter being circulated by the Hutchison camp in which Comrade Rick once said something nice about Hillary-care:

Perry's letter falls far short of actually being an endorsement of Clinton's health care proposal. But it was written at a time when some commentators already were describing her plan of government-sponsored HMOs and health care cooperatives as "socialism."

Perry was state agriculture commissioner at the time, a position he had won in 1990 after switching from the Democratic to the Republican Party.

"I think your efforts in trying to reform the nation's health care system are most commendable," Perry wrote.

Perry asked Clinton to take special notice of the health care needs of farmers, ranchers and people in rural areas as she worked on trying to overhaul national health care.

"Again, your efforts are worthy, and I hope you will remember this constituency as the task force progresses," Perry said.

Clinton's efforts at health care reform failed. Perry has since described her plan as "a government-run, one-size-fits-all health system."

I think we should start empanelling a House Un-Texan Activities Committee before it's too late...!

Really, this is getting pretty sad, with Hillary-loving socialist sodomite elitist Democrat-Party types* like KBH, Granny Strayhorn, and Comrade Rick running (or threatening to run) in the Republican primary. I think I'm going to go down to the liquour store today so that I can make sure I'll have enough liquid courage to laugh, giggle, err, survive through these next few difficult months.

* I am, of course, kidding.