Wasted Money

According to an article by Peggy Fikac in the City/State section of today's Houston Chronicle, Texas taxpayers have been billed more than 3.3 million dollars for travel expenses accumulated by Rick Perry's security detail during his frequent trips out-of-state (most of which have been directly or indirectly connected to his presidential ambitions).

This is what is commonly referred to as pissing money down a rathole.

Borderlines

El Perrito is obviously planning another run at the presidency in 2016. This week he mobilized the National Guard to seal off the border, or so he says.

Most Republican voters, especially those in Texas, are ignorant yahoos who are easily manipulated by meaningless symbolic gestures. Until the GOP base finally gets a clue, grifters like Rick Perry, Rafael Cruz, and Danny (Goeb) Patrick will continue running their shell games 24 hours a day, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year.

Get Zipped

El Perrito has added abortion to the agenda for the special session of the Texas legislature, not surprising since that POS has become totally predictable.

I've decided the best solution to the controversial problems facing this state is a law prohibiting all men from engaging in any sexual activity involving two or more human beings. Perrito and the other worthless dominionist assholes in Austin should get on the stick and make male abstinence mandatory, with violators subject to fines of 50,000 dollars and a minimum 12 months imprisonment. For conservatives, this ends abortion, curbs gay marriage, and slashes the number of brats on food stamps and Medicaid. For me, it reduces the number of future Republicans. It's a winner.

Dawn of the Dead

Perry does his zombie impression for one of his fans as he awaits his inevitable defeat in the next primary. Maybe his real future lies in low budget horror movies.

Answered Prayers

WTF political news for Tuesday

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A recent poll shows pizza guy leading the pack, with Romney close behind and Perrito way down in fifth place behind Newter and Grandad Ron Paul, but still ahead of the vanishing lady, Michele Bachmann. Perrito is pulling single digit support. Among GOP tea people, the godfather of pies is the numero uno choice, which makes perfect sense. Those fucking lunatics believe the way to improve the government is to pack it with people who have no government experience and no apparent understanding of how American politics are supposed to work. That's a perfect description of pizza dude. Perrito is a career politician, and even though his time in office has been spent in Texas, I guess the tea people believe he has too much experience to be effective.

Meanwhile, Perrito is still spending most of his time on camera going after Mittenful. Someone needs to tell him his real problem is the pie guy.

Spineless

It was just a matter of time until Romney's religious beliefs became an issue in the GOP primary and now they have, according to an AP article. Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church in Dallas and Bryan Fischer of American Family Association attended the Values Voter Summit and managed to get anti-Mormon bigotry into the discussion. According to the AP, Jeffress introduced Perry and later told the press that unlike Perrito, Romney's not a Christian.

This could've been an excellent opportunity for Perrito to rise to the occasion and take the issue off the table with a bold public statement, but that would've required some intestinal fortitude -- and Perrito is a gutless weakling who even tries to avoid taking questions from the press.

Poor Michele

Talking Points Memo cites a Fox News poll showing that new GOP frontrunner Perrito has claimed the lead in the race by siphoning off Bachmann's support. It now appears that Perrito has the ultra-hardcore religious fanatic vote nearly all to himself. Another one bites the dust.