Perry To Announce Presidential Run This Weekend

Politico is reporting that The Gov.  will reportedly announce a presidential run in South Carolina on Saturday.  Perry is to speak at a RedState convention and will make clear his intentions.   After the speech and smoozing with the money people in South Carolina he flies to New Hampshire for a house party with TeaBagger State …

Higher Job Growth in the Public than Private Sector in Texas?

The Gov. likes to brag about how many private sector jobs he has created during his tenure. He boasts that the government doesn’t create any jobs. He even has said that the government can actually run jobs away. The Wall Street Journal, owned by Richard Murdoch of Fox News and which is not known in …

Perry has put on his flip flops

The Gov. who as we all know is an ardent supporter of States Rights and has used the 10th Amendment as reasoning in many of his causes, has now done a big flip flop. The Gov. is apparently trying to appeal to the Religious Right as he gets ready to jump into the presidential fray. …

ACLU requests that Governor Perry disclose use of public resources for “Call to Prayer”

Oh Boy, Oh boy. A few days ago the Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a federal lawsuit aiming to block Perry from participating in “The Response: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis” at Houston’s Reliant Stadium.  The ACLU of Texas has requested that The Gov.  disclose the amount of Texas Taxpayer dollars …

Cutting Medicaid, The Texas way to stop “ObamaCare”

Yesterday The Gov. along with several of the his Elitist TeaBagger supporters in the Texas Legislature slapped backs and smiled for the camera after the singing by The Gov. on the latest assault on the poor in Texas.  SB7 seeks to save $468 million Medicaid dollars over the next two years by expanding managed care, …

Perry states Texans will pay for his security

In our last Post we posed the questions of whether or not The Gov. would require Texas taxpayers to cover the cost of security should he enter the Presidential race.   We also posed the question as to whether or not he would resign as the governorship to run.  Well yesterday The Gov signed the Medicaid …

Governor Perry “Called” to run for Presidency

Over the weekend, while not attending church services, The Gov. received a calling from the almighty to run for the presidency of the very Government he abhors.  Is God really mad at the Republicans?  Is he pitting brother against brother or in this case brother against sister?  Has he called Michelle and The Gov. for …

No go for Texas’ Anti TSA Bill for now

The TSA bill which would ban invasive pat-downs by TSA agents officials failed to get final approval by the Republican Texas legislature before lawmakers ended their special session on Wednesday. Republican Representative David Simpson said on the House floor that this was s not his last effort to stop unreasonable searches and that he is …

Hmm another sign Perry may run

Several news reports have The Gov attending a private fund raising event in Vail Colorado.  The affair put on by the right wing political financiers, the Koch Brothers, was an opportunity for The Gov to let the brothers know how good he was doing for them in Texas or according to his spokesman Mark Miner, …

Texas voters not too happy with Governor Perry according to new poll

A recent poll by Public Policy Polling doesn’t sound like good news to The Gov’s portended presidential campaign.  According to the poll only 33% of voters in Texas think he should jump into a Presidential campaign. 59% are against him taking a shot at the office. What’s worse is that he trails President Obama in …