Archive for the ‘Rick Perry’ Category

November 2nd, 2011

I’ve watched the Rick Perry video, and didn’t pick up so much as a hint of inebriation.

October 26th, 2011

Mitt Romney just discovered that he can’t get the nomination without endorsing vicious union-busting measures. But the reason he ducked on Measure 5 in Ohio is that Ohio voters hate it. And he can’t win the election without carrying Ohio.

October 19th, 2011

… is Caligula’s horse Incitatus, no longer the gold standard for distinction beyond merit.

October 7th, 2011

… goes, not to Rick Perry - though his integrity is so minuscule you’d need an electron microscope to see it - but to Mitt Romney. How low to the ground do you have to be to allow your ancestral faith to be insulted and not hit back?

September 16th, 2011

Texas unemployment rises to 8.5%, the highest in 24 years.  (h/t TPM). Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, clearly a basket case due to liberal policies, the unemployment rate has dropped to 7.4%, the lowest in two and a half years. It should be mentioned that Texas job losses stem from public sector reductions.  Since public sector workers like [...]

September 12th, 2011

Perry’s op-ed on Social Security, boldly headed “I am going to be honest with the American people,” calls boldly for “a conversation” on Social Security without actually being bold or honest enough to contribute anything to that conversation but some predictable talking points.

September 8th, 2011

That’s Rick Perry’s brand of logic: government is incompetent, and the State of Texas death-penalty machinery is infallible.

September 6th, 2011

Some Episcopalian rector really doesn’t like Rick Perry.

August 31st, 2011

If Mark has his way, Rick Perry’s assertions that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme will not get thrown down the memory hole.  Unfortunately, our last Ponzi scheme is already hurtling downward. If you think about it, a large part of American (and global) prosperity rests on a real Ponzi scheme: the financial system.  I’m actually [...]

August 30th, 2011

So says Rick Perry. Think he’ll be saying that a year from now, if he’s the nominee?