| The Republican buffoonery and ravings about the U.S. budget are pretty hilarious considering that Rick Perry, David Dewhurst and the Texas GOP has yet to cope with its own humdinger of a fiscal fiasco. In fact, it is only very recently that Perry was somehow forced to find the courage to admit that his $30 billion shortfall exists.
It is clear that the GOP national heavy hitter and GOP Message Fabricator in Chief Frank Luntz is hard at work in attempting to distract the public from the mind numbing fiscal failures and stupidity wrought by the GOP. He must have issued talking point commands to Rick Perry and all Republican governors that read something to the effect:
"In order to draw attention away from the consequences of your own fiscal recklessness and irresponsibility, attack Washington for doing what you did."
Within hours from now the usual suspects at Fox Faux Fixed, the propaganda arm for the GOP, will no doubt parrot Luntz's talking points. We've seen this Republican pattern of deceit and disinformation before. It is as predicable as the the sun's rising each morning.
There is a reason why Frank Luntz's talking points are recited over and over 24/7 on Fox and among the GOP. Apparently the Koch brothers now own and run the GOP. Hence the Luntz issued tea party/libertarian mantra of no taxes, no regulation and more for me, me and mine and less for everyone else.
Earth to the Governor.
Stop your finger pointing, Governor and get your own house in order before running off at the mouth lecturing Washington and other states about fiscal responsibility. Maybe you should put your money where your big mouth is and move out of your government run tax payer funded $10K monthly mansion. Show us how you, Sir, can tighten your own bloated belt. And please cancel your subscriptions to taxpayer funded fancy magazines about wine and gourmet foods. This last gesture seems fitting given that many families in this state can barely afford to provide three healthy meals a day for their children. Were it not for federal breakfast and lunch school programs many children in Texas would have little to eat at all.
Stop your lies, too, Governor, by telling the rest of the nation that Texas is the envy of the nation when you are about to cut economic safety nets out from under those who need them the most. If this sort of policy is the new benchmark for Republican values maybe you ought to rename yourselves the Party of, for and by the Mean and the Self-Obsessed.
Maybe the Governor should also explain to taxpayers who pony up his salary why the so called energy capital of the U.S. Texas couldn't keep on the lights and the heat during a terrible winter storm that plagued the entire state earlier this month. Is this another case of Rick Perry cronyism and self-serving opportunism run amok? Or is it yet another Enronesque shenanigan to drive up energy prices?
I would also like to know why Rick Perry and Comptroller Susan Combs persecuted Amazon, over sales taxes of all things, to the point that it is moving out of Texas. Chalk up more lost jobs thanks to Rick Perry.
Stop blaming Washington for your screw ups, Governor. And please stop running around the country shooting off of your mouth before putting on your clothes. Even your supporters are getting tired of looking at you in your underwear, Mr. Perry.
Below are a few choice comments posted by readers of the Houston Chronicle article about Rick Perry.
The LIAR has spoken!
Rick Perry is the last person who should be lecturing anyone about balanced budgets.
Yeah, Perry we all see how this 'balanced budget' thingy is working for Texas. If we were balancing Texas' budget how did we suddenly lose 15-32 billion? Funny, we don't even know how exactly much we lost.
Perry is quickly becoming a male Sarah Palin!!!!! Do as I say, not as I do! The guy who couldn't balance a checkbook, let alone a budget, is now demanding that the fed balances their budget. Yep, Perry is a definite member of the BBB. Birthers, Baggers and Buffoons!!! What an absolute joke this moron is, a joke to not only Texas but to the whole world!
Rick Perry = World's biggest gas bag!
Dear Rick, Try balancing your greed with compassion before you come round dictating to the rest of the country, OK?
Perry is trying to out due Palin with cognitive dissonance. What a moron.
Neat - start with your own house, Dumbo. Maybe you can concoct something with the Annoying Orange to that will force the federal government to balance Texas' budget. Since there was a budget surplus (federal) in 2001, followed by 8 years of a massive deficit, two wars, Medicare Part D, and TARP, the Republicans should address their own issues first.
IMPEACH PERRY 2011!!!!!
Texas is the Egypt of America. We have mad men representing us. "Texas needs to clean up its house before cleaning others."
Gov. Perry, Please just shut up. Cleanup your crap before talking crap.
Wow this from a X al gore supporter and leader in Al Gore campaign for president...Rick Perry is a Bush clone but even worst than Bush...THIS GUY IS A TOTAL LOSER...and i voted for this dumb MORON...HE IS OK FOR THE TOP Texas POST BUT ...NO WAY ON GODS GREEN EARTH would i vote any ticket with this MORON on it.
YES, RICK PERRY, TEXAS IS SETTING A GREAT EXAMPLE FOR THE COUNTRY:
Texas has among the highest rates of child fatalities from abuse or neglect.
Compared with the average American child, Texas children are 35 percent more likely to grow up poor, 93 percent more likely not to have health care access, 16 percent more likely to drop out of school and 83 percent more likely to be born to a mother who received late prenatal care, or none at all.
Texas comes in dead last (50th) in percent of population over 25 who have a high school diploma. 46th in SAT scores, and 49th in teacher pay.
Texas ranks last in the percentage of people without medical insurance. It also ranks dead last in the number of covered children, 49th in level of payments for the Women and Infant Children (WIC) program, but 1st in the number of teenage births. Texas ranks 3rd in number of people living in poverty and 50th in homeowners insurance affordability.
Air pollution emissions, CO2 emissions, amount of volatile organic compounds released into the air, amount of toxic chemicals released into water, amount of carcinogens released into the air - all number one!
Texas ranks 49th in revenues collected per capita, and 50th in revenues spent. The state also ranks 44th on tax progressivity, meaning although it collects less taxes overall, more of a share comes from the working class.
So clearly, Texas DOES have a spending problem. It doesn't spend enough on its own citizens.
Of course Rick Perry is not very popular in Houston. The Governor received fewer Republican votes in 2010 than did down ballot judicial candidates. Rick Perry is not very popular in Dallas, either. Urban areas don't particularly care for the three Bs. The birthers, the baggers and the buffoons.
Area Houston mothers of elementary school children are mobilizing and joining forces in order to pressure Rick Perry to use the rainy day money to support public schools and accept $830 million in federal aid for teachers.
Save Texas Schools.
Texas Democrats across the state have work to do. Let's get started.
Now would be a good time.
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