More of the Crazies are Coming ....

[Seascapes]

Yep, the T-folks.....

The 10 things that Rick Perry don't want you to know...

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...ov-rick-perry/

(1)..PERRY ALLOWED THE EXECUTION OF A LIKELY INNOCENT MAN, THEN IMPEDED AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MATTER:..In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Huntsville, Texas after being convicted of arson and the murder of his three children. Even aftersignificant evidence emerged..showing that arson had not caused the fire (thus exonerating Willingham), Perry refused to grant a stay of execution.

(2)..PERRY WANTS TO REPEAL THE 16th AND 17th AMENDMENTS, ENDING DIRECT ELECTION OF U.S. SENATORS AND THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX:..In his 2010 book..Fed Up!, Perry called the 16th and 17th Amendments “mistaken” and said they resulted from “a fit of populist rage.” The 16th Amendment allows the federal government to collect income taxes, which is the single biggest source of revenue, accounting for..45 percent..of all receipts. The 17th Amendment took electing U.S. senators out of the hands of political insiders and allowed the American public to decide their representation instead. If Perry had his way, the federal government would be stripped of its current ability to fund highway construction projects, food inspectors, and the military, and the American public would not even be permitted to elect their own senators.

(3)..PERRY PROPOSED LETTING STATES DROP OUT OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICAID:..Despite the programs’ importance and popularity, Perry has argued that states like Texas should be allowed to opt out of Social Security and Medicaid. Were Perry to have his way on Social Security, “the entire system would collapse under the weight of too many Social Security beneficiaries who had not paid into the system,”..notes..Ian Millhiser. On Medicaid, in addition to stripping 3.6 million low-income Texans of their health care, Perry’s proposal would actually..hurt, not help, the state’s budget deficit. This is because, as Igor Volsky..writes, opting out of Medicaid would take “billions out of the state economy that goes on to support hospitals and other providers,” while forcing hospitals “to swallow the costs of caring for uninsured individuals who will continue to use the emergency room as their primary source of care.”

(4)..TEXAS IS THE COUNTRY’S BIGGEST POLLUTER, BUT PERRY SUED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR DISAPPROVING OF THE STATE’S AIR QUALITY STANDARDS:..Texas is the biggest polluter in the country, leading the nation in carbon dioxide emissions. However, when the EPA published its “disapproval” of the state’s air quality standards for falling short of the Clean Air Act’s..requirements, Perry..sued the federal government..to challenge the ruling. Perry’s environmental record doesn’t end there. He is a..global warming denier..who called the 2010 BP oil spill an “act of God” while speaking at a trade association funded by BP.

(5)..PERRY DESIGNATED AS “EMERGENCY LEGISLATION” A BILL REQUIRING ALL WOMEN SEEKING ABORTIONS TO HAVE SONOGRAMS FIRST:..In January, Perry proposed requiring all women seeking abortions to have a sonogram at least 24 hours before the procedure. Under the bill, doctors would be..required..to “tell a woman the size of her fetus’ limbs and organs, even if she does not want to know.” Before a woman is permitted to have an abortion, physicians are also forced to provide an image of the fetus and make the woman listen to the sound of its heartbeat. Perry designated his proposal as “emergency legislation,” allowing the bill to be rushed through the legislature. He..signed it..into law last month.

(6)..PERRY GUTTED CHILDCARE SERVICES EVEN AS TEXAS CHILDHOOD POVERTY HIT 25 PERCENT:..Facing a..$27 billion..budget deficit this year, Perry decided to..gut child support services, despite a..report..from the Center for Public Policy Priorities that found nearly one in four Texas children lived beneath the poverty line. Instead of raising revenue like..California, a state facing a similarly sized deficit, Perry scaled back more than $10 billion of child support over two years. As Think Progress’ Pat Garofalo..noted, these cuts were proposed despite Texas’ possession of a $8.2 billion rainy day fund.
(7)..PERRY WAS A STRONG SUPPORTER OF TEXAS’S ANTI-SODOMY LAWS:..Perry was a strong proponent of Texas’s anti-sodomy law that was..struck down..in 2003 by the Supreme Court in..Lawrence v. Texas. Calling the law “appropriate,” Perry..dismissed..the Court decision as the result of “nine oligarchs in robes.” Even after being struck down, Perry supported the Texas legislature’s..refusal..to remove the law from its books.

(8)..PERRY IS A STIMULUS HYPOCRITE WHO LOUDLY CRITICIZED FEDERAL RECOVERY MONEY BUT USED IT TO BALANCE HIS STATE’S BUDGET:..As the nation struggled to avoid economic collapse in 2009, Perry was a..vocal critic..of Congress’s recovery package, even advocating that Texas reject the money because “we can take care of ourselves.” Months later, after Perry was able to balance the state’s budget only with the aid of billions in..federal stimulus dollars, Perry again repeated that he would..reject federal funding, arguing that the government “spends money they don’t have.” Five months later, Perry again took advantage of federal funding to issue..$2 billion..in bonds for highway improvements in Texas. Even so, the state faces a..$27 billion budget deficit.

(9)..PERRY SAID THAT TEXAS MIGHT HAVE TO SECEDE FROM THE UNITED STATES:..One hundred and fifty years ago, Texas and other southern states seceded from the Union, resulting in a bloody Civil War. 148 years later, Perry floated the idea that Texas may again..have to secede..because of a federal government that “continues to thumb their nose at the American people.” Perry was roundly criticized for his proposal, yet he repeated his threat the next month on Fox News,telling..host Neil Cavuto, “If Washington continues to force these programs on the states, if Washington continues to disregard the tenth amendment, who knows what happens.”

(10)..DESPITE HAVING THE WORST UNINSURED RATE IN THE COUNTRY, PERRY CLAIMS THAT TEXAS HAS “THE BEST HEALTH CARE IN THE COUNTRY” :..On Bill Bennett’s radio show last year, Perry claimed..that “Texas has the best health care in the country.” In reality, Texas has the..highest rate of uninsured residents..of any state. More than one in four Texans lack coverage; the national average is just..15.4 percent. As such, there are more uninsured residents in Texas than there are people in..33 states. Despite Texas’s low coverage rates, the state has some of the most restrictive Medicaid eligibility thresholds, and Perry has even proposed dropping out of the program. Texas also has an inordinately high percentage of impoverished children, yet Perry opposed..expanding the successful State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

[scotty]

Looks good to me. PERRY FOR PRESIDENT !!!

Your not making a good case for your cause by citing talking points from a left wing website.

[Cindy]

And that's for ANY politician.

[Bowas]

Originally Posted by scotty

Looks good to me. PERRY FOR PRESIDENT !!!

Your not making a good case for your cause by citing talking points from a left wing website.

Pretty much what I was going to say. Some are so fixated on the status quo, they canot think outside areaa as to why we are in such as mess and it will require doing things differently so we can get different results.
Of course we cannot agree with any one person on all points and positions, but so far, Perry is the closest to being right and has a chance of winning the White house. Ron Paul is my fav but cannot win the White house.

[Amanah]

Cindy - I see you are from Texas, how do you feel about Perry?

Bowas - I also like Ron Paul, why cant he win the White House?

[coadie]

George Soros owns thinkprogress. Seascapes likes George. George has a 50 mullion dollar suit last week in a fornication affair with some teevee star .

If i were a communist, i would let Think progress think for me.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by Amanah

Cindy - I see you are from Texas, how do you feel about Perry?

Bowas - I also like Ron Paul, why cant he win the White House?

I like him as far as Governor, but I think once someone gets to Washington, they have a hard time. It's like they get sucked into some machine, that changes them. The President is really reliant upon Congress, Senators, and Advisers, who do not have the best of intentions for our country, just themselves.

[scotty]

Originally Posted by Amanah

Cindy - I see you are from Texas, how do you feel about Perry?

Bowas - I also like Ron Paul, why cant he win the White House?

Ron Paul has great ideas, but he has no real time line to implement them. His changes would work if implemented over time, he gets too radical when he talks about making these changes in his first two years in office.

[Bowas]

Originally Posted by Amanah

Cindy - I see you are from Texas, how do you feel about Perry?

Bowas - I also like Ron Paul, why cant he win the White House?

The main reason I do not think Ron Paul can get elected is the majority of the electorate has been programmed over the past 30+ years into believing the government as an entity, is there to assist us and and to direct us and is there to tell us what freedoms we have or do not have. As if, the fredoms that are guarenteed by our Creator and penned in our constitution are somehow dependant on IF the government so deems them to be so or not.
We have been programmed to think if the government passes a law (regardless of it's constitutionality) it must be obey.
We, as a nation are not as enlightened as we once were, hence, I fear we may be entering into something of a dark age.
It need not be so, but notice if you will, how close Ron Paul came to winning the straw poll and not much positive press coverage of that fact. That's why, people get their information from the main stream press.
Look at Palin and how she has been villified. Most that do not like her have no real reason why not, just that the media has told them she is not to be liked. I have asked people whay they do not like her and unless they are given enough time to formulate their reasons, they do not have any real reasons, just preprogrammed media driven reasons.

[canam]

What a shocka ss is against Perry, which is why everyone should vote for him. Go back to PMSNBC ss and get some more talking points. Oh and PS the crazies aint coming, there here already in the WH and cabinet .This is for you ss, nice clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZ...eature=related