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This all happened just today in South Carolina during Perry's multiple stops. Perry said he would strip the health-care law by executive order.
He criticized the Obama bus -- even though the eventual GOP nominee would likely get one of their own from the Secret Service. "[H]e had his big ol' bus, his big ol' $1.2 million bus, made in Canada," he said.
He said Obama "has killed more jobs in America than I think any president in the history ... certainly in my lifetime." He said Obama’s economic plan "shouldn’t count on luck" and called him an "excuse maker as Commander-In-Chief."
"The president this week he said that we had reversed the recession, but you know over the last six months we just had a run of bad luck," Perry said. "Um, our economic plan shouldn't count on luck."
He said, "The Obama administration recently referred to food stamps as an economic stimulus. Food stamps are not the solution; they are a symptom of the problem."
And he had a small Texas-centric gaffe, saying, "It has been a whirlwind over the past seven days, as we've moved across Texas. It was awesome.... " The audience corrected him. He said, "I mean, yeah, we covered that much country." And added, "It felt like we were going from El Paso to Beaumont, when, in fact, we were going to New Hampshire to Iowa and back to New Hampshire and then here."
He talked again about evolution, when a woman congratulated him on his comment that evolution was theory. He said, “Well, God is how we got here. God may have done it in the blink of the eye or he may have done it over this long period of time, I don't know. But I know how it got started."
And he again talked about using Predator Drones on the U.S.-Mexico border. This is the second time he’s said this, but the government is already using them for surveillance.
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Am I first, Am I first Am I first?
Rick Perry is a dope.
Easy, there, you. Someone will start to question your occupation or something.
First to get in a comment. How can we ever respect you again??
Are you serious? lol
Let's recap shall we?
Bus Certificate *check*
Job Killing *check*
Food Stamps *check*
Evolution *check*
Where in his busy day did he mention anything about job creation?
Poor people need to pay more taxes, it's an "injustice". Check
Bernanke is a traitor. Check
Blew kisses to Romney. Check
This just in. Obama triple bogeyed the 9th.
"It felt like we were going from El Paso to Beaumont"
Settle down Rick.....East to West on IH10 in Texas is 900+ miles. Yikes and on a federally built interstate highway system!
JoAnna, you surprise me -- I had no idea you were such an avid golf fan and follower of the game. How did Rep. Boehner do on the course today? President Bill Clinton? Gov. Kasich? Or are you so blinded by President Obama that he's the only golfer you follow these days? I might gently suggest that you get out on the course and get in a game yourself -- fresh air, some physical activity -- it helps through difficult times.
JAS1, see, he did need the vacation.
Ohh, followed by a double on the 10th.
Too focused on his poll numbers.
Thanks for the reminder sweetie!
Then there's this classy stunt from the House drunk;
How sweet of you kate - so Obama's a golfer today, eh?
I thought being the president was a 24/7 thing.
So how about you kate, given the goings on in the economy today, yesterday and such you good with him kicking back on the golf course, or do you think he should have busted out his big jobs plan?
Any rational reason for him to delay rolling it out?
But you raise a good poit - what's Reid up to? Think he's gotten that budget together yet?
"Ohh, followed by a double on the 10th."
Mmmm Hmmm- as Radar O'Reily would say: "ahhh.....that's HIGHLY significant".
You go, Smiff.
[This just in. Obama triple bogeyed the 9th.]
[Ohh, followed by a double on the 10th.]
And here we're told women aren't supposed to act "desperate"...
We don't...
All bets are off on mutants...
The military doesn't respect Obama. Check
Obama don't love Ah-Mare..Ka. Check
First Read is a lovefest of liberal bloggers, every day, day in day out. Same few. Reminds me of pack mentality...sitting in wait.
What a Busy Buckaroo! Too much of a bad thing. I threw up a little in my mouth.
IT, what did you expect ? If you want some real conservative rants, go on over to a Fox news blog. There are a few conservatives here, but most who end up here either have learned to play nice or end up banned. We try not to feed too many trolls.
dirp101,
Did you say banned? Banned or learn to play nice. The only time you get banned is if the Libs-R-Us decides you should go. Meanwhile they just censor your comments by checking the advertising box.
You see Feisty is still here, enough said.
You should know - you're the one who got off reading a private chat cover to cover...
Can't keep your eyes off his balls, eh JoAnna?
Now, now, girls (I think) play nice. :-)
I get a chuckle out of both of your postings and would not want to see you suspended or banned.
So far I've only seen a few trully bottom dwelling trolls actually banned. Most get ignored to the point where they go away.
*smirk* David you are nasty today.
Except (thanks to the crappy format of Newsvine) they resurrect themselves in a matter of minutes...
Yes Feisty and I have all of them tucked safely away.
Well GOODEE for you!
MY, aren't you special... lmao
When you're feeling frisky - do you pull them out & reread them over & over & over again?
Speaks volumns for your character... you're like a typical thief in the night raiding someones panty drawer...
Sniff Sniff!
Sure Feisty anything you say, its amazing the crap you come up with.
Later days better waves, I am off to see the sunset.
What is the deal about Obama's vacation, he's not taken as much as Reagan nor Bush. It isn't like he does not have meetings with advisors, I noticed Congress is on vacation as well.
Facts: they are useful
Great post Amy...soooo insightful. Your the dope!
Nah JFK..She was have some fun! Progressives do know how to have fun don't ya know? Now please return to the bottom of the gene pool with the rest of your cowardly, gun toting, bible thumping, mouth breathing banana conservative republican "patriots".
What's so very insightful about this comment? Please provide some insight JFK2112. PLEASE make me believe that you have an IQ higher than you age.
JFK, that should be "you're" meaning "you are" not "your" providing evidence that you need to study grammar.
If Obama is picking out buses he shouldn't be President. The secret service ordered I believe.
Everything's bigger in Texas, they say.
Including holes of the ass-variety. What did Mr Perry say back when GWB had the same bus, made in the same 'foreign country'? Not much? Who would have guessed.
Listen Rick- Remember how well the "Aqua Buddah' nonsense wore thin enough during Rand Paul's run that it actually helped him? You don't?
Good. Carry on, then.
Um, I think Bush rented the bus, and his campaign pid for it.
Obama BOUGHT the bus, with taxpayer money. Borrowed money, in fact.
See the difference? No? I'll spell it out again.
Bush. Rented. Campaign funds for a campaign trip.
Obama. Bought. Taxpayer funds for a campaign trip.
Got it?
Gee nojo still repeating conservative lies? Please go back to the Jersey Shore....Snooki and "The Situation" are about your speed and more honest and smarter than you.
Obama. Secret Service Bought. Also will be used by Republican nominee. Got it?
No...in No Joe's world the Secret Service is not capable of making decisions regarding security independent of the President. The rest of us understand otherwise.
Acutally RV1/Obama Bus One (or whatever) was not bought or ordered by the President or the White House, but by the US Secret Service. They realized DURING the Bush Administration that the major candidates for President would be utilizing the buses, so they wanted to be sure they were secure. Utilizing the buses became popular in the '90's and almost standardized in the 2000's. Now almost every campaign has one. With the requirements needed ot make it secure taking so long to develop, I'm sure this was at least 5 years in the making.
CAN anyone find out what the procurement time frame was on these ?
Since Barack Obama is the President of the United States (and not just some schmuck from Texas or Minnesota who might *heaven forbid* be a nominee) he does get US Secret Service protection whereever he goes. Now I know many TeaPublicans would prefer Barack Obama not have Secret Service protection, but, its actually required that it be offered to the President. I don't even know if he can refuse it.
"Obama BOUGHT the bus, with taxpayer money. Borrowed money, in fact."
You did know, didn't you, that the eventual GOP contender will get one just like it? And that the Secret Service, not the President, bought it?
Suuuurre you did.
"Taxpayer funds for a campaign trip."
Yep- just lilke the day GHW Bush went to Indianpolis in the 90's with all the entourage, cargo planes, armoured vehicles, all of it, to plant a small ash tree downtown. THEN, he goes to the convention center a few blocks away, and holds a big GOP fundraiser for some Indiana politicians. Paid for with YOUR tax dollars, because the trip was to 'plant a tree'.
I bet you think Obama invented this kind of thing, don't you?? What are you going to complain about next- he ordered the large coffee instead of the small??
Gosh it so much fun watching the Lefties make themselves into pretzels over excuses for that stupid bus of Obama's. It was a Top Ten idiotic moment for The Obama, and that's saying something.
Yeah sure Buzz, everyone gets to use the bus. Just got to get on the sign up sheet.
Maybe they used Obama Money to buy the bus? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI
There are two buses.
The eventual GOP candidate getting one JUST like Obama's is the new meme that was invented to counter the criticism this wildly extravagant purchase engendered.
The first, lame, argument was that ALL future presidents could use it. When didn't work, they came up with a new talking point.
It's all baloney.
As to the Secret Service buying it- did not take long for Obama to figure out who to blame, did it? You think some Secret Service agents were sitting around one day, just talking, and one said, "wow - what if Obama decides to go on a bus tour of the Midwest at the same time as the Ames straw poll, to try to counter any momentum the republicans build up? Shouldn't we buy a bus, just in case?"
Cause, I'm thinking, nope. Never happened.
Obama wanted a bus, and the Secret Service is in charge of making sure it meets security specs. There are plenty that do- ask Bush. Ask Clinton.
Not good enough for Obama. Maybe he's afraid he'll get cooties from a rented bus?
Anyway, your attempts to deflect the profligate waste of this bus are failing, big time. See, nobody believes any of the hoo haa you guys are tossing in your lame attempt to somehow vindicate this latest debacle of the idiot you call the "smartest guy in the room".
He actually might be, considering the collection of nitwit's he's assembled for his cabinet- but put him in the average kindergarten class, and not only is he the dumbest, he's also the least mature.
Even five year molds know that you can't go around blaming others for your own mistakes and bad decisions.
Next Obama wants a Batmobile.
Translation of what "No Joe" just said...
"LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA...I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
Are you talking plain old household mold, the penicillin variety or Jello? lol
Either your spelling SUCKS or you were lying about your shiny I-Pad...
My money's on the lie - it's a SURE bet!
[...make themselves into pretzels over excuses for that stupid bus of Obama's.]
Hmmm...seems the only ones making getting all bent over the bus are you, HoJoBloMo, and Schpanky the ambulance chaser...you three are like Moe, Larry, and Curly (or in Schpanky's case...Shemp...the FAKE STOOGE).
[Maybe they used Obama Money to buy the bus? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI]
Wow...you've posted this like what...a half dozen times over the last two weeks?
But you still won't answer whether or not you cashed G.W.'s BushBucks check...now why do you think that is, Smiffy?
Says someone who can't see her own reflection in the mirror...
It's so much fun watching the Righties talk petty nonsense, they've been making themselves into pretzels all week over a bus and a vacation. Which further proves they've got nothing else, no big GOP plan to solve problems and they can't even find a GOP candidate they like. Which candidate will be the new best thing next week?
P.S. It is NOT President Obama's bus, it belongs to all of us.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan emphasized that the bus wasn't purchased solely for the president and would be used for other dignitaries in the future.
He said the agency has not previously had buses in its fleet and was overdue to get some since it's had to protect politicians traveling by bus for decades.
In the past, the service has had to lease buses and retrofit them for that purpose.
www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Obama-Bus-1-1Million/2011/08/15/id/407431
Psst: Jody, 26%, 39%.
But yeah, we are the ones turning into pretzels. Sure we are.
The identity of the eventual nominee is not important, that the person will be anybody but Obama (hereinafter "ABO") is all that matters.
"Gosh it so much fun watching the Lefties make themselves into pretzels over excuses for that stupid bus of Obama's..."
Gosh it [sic] so much fun watching the zeros make themselves into pretzels over this whole bus thing in the first place..."
[Next Obama wants a Batmobile.]
I bet he already has one, and it goes...
...na-na na-na na-na na-na Smifffffffyyyyyyyy...Smifffffffyyyyyyyy...Smifffffffyyyyyyyy...!
What do you call 1000 Rick Perry supporters at a fund raiser banquet?
The Low-Class Southern Suburban Bigotry Committee.
Well congrats JAS1.
Not only did you get Drive By back, you are also no getting some attention from my little doggy.
How lovely for you.
now enjoy. I know you will.
...which, of course, explains why the Spanker gets all jacked up about the polling results which say that a nameless, faceless generic Republican beats the President right now.
Never mind, of course, that the GOP Nominee will eventually have a face and a name.
That they will Noid.
Let's just hope the is some residual value left in the stock market by then and Obama has laid out his super awesome jobs plan.
I have never seen so many nut jobs so concerned about a bus. My God, this is crazy talk. W. Bush is responsible for thousands of deaths, and you right wing nut jobs bitch and moan about a stupid bus.
Here's the skinny on the two buses the Secret Service bought last year.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-tour-bus-made-america/story?id=14324892
As the article states, the SHELL is made in Canada. The company in Tennessee (who has nothing to do with the Provost company out of Canada) turned it into a BUS.
Another case of the Right Wing Trolls spewing forth misinformation, what else is new?
" I don't know. But I know how it got started.""
In another statement, Mr Einstein Perry proclaimed "it could be if it was, but if it wasn't it might- then again on the other hand, either yes or no, I don't know. Now, if you will all just leave me alone, I'm gonna go on over to Michelle's house, and have some of that birthday cake she has left over from celebrating the King's birthday"
DBO... *chuckle* good way to end the week.
And Perry wants to be President? What a bag of hot Texas air. Too stupid to even know that his comments were debunked days ago but hey, if the base wing nuts like it...... He just offended the folks in Tennesse who made those buses.
...and your a big ole' bag of ...... from Iowa. Those buses were made in Canada. The company is HQ'ed in Tenn.
Read sometime wingnut.
You got it Jody. Michael Steele just said on Hardball Chris that facts don't matter.....play to the base (the profoundly ignorant base) about their feelings!
Teapublican base, don't inform them, don't tell the truth, push the lies that they FEEL!
More Texas hot air blowing toward Iowa.
Facts: they're useful!
OK- I went back and read the story again. Lots of paragraphs where he ridicules Obama, but where are all the ones where he lays out his record, and his great plans?
[...but where are all the ones where he lays out his record, and his great plans?]
God is holding them for "safe keeping"...
Truth is, Perry doesn't have any plans except maybe to model America after Texas!
Damn sure as hell better than modeling it after Iowa. I probably couldn't live here anymore hence being that overwhelming African-American population in Iowa. Half of them are on the football teams.
Great point DBO - a plan. Maybe he's got a super secret, can only divulge it next month kinda plan.
Those seem to be what all the cool kids got these days.
Oh, and his record has been layed out, as has Obama's, hence the 26%/39% "ABO" sentiment.
ITM, what are you talking about?
That twant of Slick Rick is soooooooo off the charts with his Ah-mare...Ka....
We get along pretty well with the African Americans here in Iowa. We do have a problem with dim wits and half-wits that wander down from Minnesota on occasion to celebrate deceased rock-stars' birthdays, tho'
dbo: what do you think about no wits from Texas ?
@ In the Middle, just what is it you're in the middle of? Never mind, I don't want to know! LOL
By the way, racist much?
Oh... leave him alone... lol
He's three years into his court ordered anger management classes and as you can see it's not doing a damn thing for his 'sunny' disposition...
And what ever you do - don't get him started on his shyt & azzhole dialogue! ;o)
Oh brother...I just hope Perry doesn't corner some poor little kid and tell him God will make him go blind if he twiddles his noodle...
...or just maybe Perry will pull a "Putin"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgu9GxRg1V8
Heel.
You have lost focus little doggy. DOn't make me tie you to a tree in the backyard.
Here's the problem...even if you tell the wing nut tea bagg'rs that, for instance, Obama is already using them there drones on the Mex'co b'rd'r, they'll still think he's not because Perrywinkle said so....why? Please tell me T-bags!
Yep and should them illegals get through they are now home free.
Immigration laws? We don't need no sticking immigration laws.
3 to 5 percentage points just got flushed. Ah, the consequences of pandering. Excellent.
[Yep and should them illegals get through they are now home free.]
WHEW! At least your post wasn't about that goddamed bus...you're coming along, ambulance chaser...
Spanky: Maybe you should tell that to Perry. He sort of likes them. He complains about them, but does nothing about them. Talk about Afros in Iowa. Did you ever see the number of Hispanics in Texas? Land of the red necks.
Also, how does Perry, or anyone know for a FACT that God put us all here? My religious teachings tell me and most people who ever spent a second in Church, know that we have FAITH in that God put us here...no one on this green earth knows anything about how we got here for a FACT...it's either based on THEORY [i.e. science] or FAITH [i.e. religion] neither being the same of the other.
what the heck does that religious rant have to do with Darwin? Really people, pick up a book or something once in a while. You're as bad as Perry.
Rick Perry: "Y'all know what the problem is? It's those lazy unemployed people not paying no taxes" They don't need no healthcare either, just lay some hands on em, speak some tongues and voila! Problem solved, Texas style.
I heard some Tx. nut case on the radio say that after the civil war, the north installed their own Governors in the southern states and that some states including TX. passed a law that the leiutenant governor actually ran the state and gov. Perry was only a figurehead. I wonder if there is any truth to it. That would certainly take the responsibility off Perry for anything that happened there.
Perry's playing into his TEA party base. Perry's swipe at the Health Care Law passed by the previous Congress is meaningless as the Legislature has quietly placed avenues for implementation so Texas would not lose medical funding. Perry failed to mention that he graduated in 1972 with a 2.22 GPA in Animal Science. Perry does not have an Economics degree, a Science degree or any other degree. Perry and has become a millionaire on Texas' taxpayers. South Carolina would be sorely mistaken if Perry did win South Carolina as he openly courts the TEA party, which has been linked to the global meltdown and US credit downgrading.
Yesterday I tried the "ignore author" feature. Certainly made my day so much more pleasant. After reading some of the FR articles today, I'm now wondering if Newsvine could figure out a way to add "ignore Perry"??
Have a good weekend all!
Wake me when the Republican primary is over. I've already wasted enough time reading about Trump, Gingrich, Pawlenty, et al.
Deb... truly LOL... one of the best of this week.
Gosh Amy, have you ever considered wasting you employer's time on a different website? Maybe one that is not about politics.
The libbie thought process is astounding.
[Gosh Amy, have you ever considered wasting you employer's time on a different website?]
wait...what? Like YOU haven't been billing your traffic court clients for YOUR time spent trolling FR...?
...research, right "counselor"...?
The nose-picking troll thought process is astounding.
That's a good little doggy.
Here's some kibble. Good Boy.
Spanky,
How did you train your dog so well? I hope you didn't use one of them their shock collars, cuz that could do some damage to old mickey's little brain.
He sounds so ignorant. He'll probably become President.
Nope even the GOP doesn't want him lol
That's a good one
The New GOP political strategy seems to be "slash and burn." Stay in the attack dog mode, never compromise and shout louder and louder that God is on your side.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." (Attributed to Sinclair Lewis.)
Hi Wilfred,
Very good point. Thanks
Hey NBC, how about some in article fact checking?
 Palin has a bus....
and she birdied the 9th.
or at least shot her 9th birdie on a golf course (while huntin' moose.)
Check-out Aug 18th Jon Stewart/ Daily Show on Com Central READ MY LIPS NO NEW TEXANS !
A guy who got a D in Economics is hardly qualified to make fiscal policy decisions. He's just more proof the best thing to come out of Texas is an empty bus.
Another loudmouth Texican Teabagger.
If there was a back door at the Alamo, there'd never have been a fight
Good point. What grade did Obama get in economics?
Any evidence he took any classes in that subject at all?
How interesting that we have all of Perry's grades, yet none of Obamas. Huh. THose must be some super awesome grades- so totally huge he just could bear to show anyone ever for fear of making us all feel inferior.
Of course we all know that good grades are often poor predictors of real world success.
Sooo Spanky, if Mr. Obama's grades are low. he isn't qualified in economics. If his grades are high, that's a poor predictor of real world success. Geeze, what a loser troll.
eric: President Obama is in a no-win situation. If he had good grades, then he's an elitist. If he did not, then there would be some who would claim he got into Columbia and Harvard because he's black. Also, they would claim he was a token to the black community when he was made president of the Harvard Law Review. Personally, I don't think that a presidential candidate has to reveal every single aspect of their lives. Frankly, I hope they stop revealing their personal income tax returns. I don't really care.
Oh darn!! He was so busy he forgot to blow Mr. Romney a kiss today!!He might want to deliver it in person like the do in those old movies. As for jobs... who is he kidding?
Perry is creating jobs, indirectly. FactCheck will need to double its staff to keep up with his lies.
I agree. Perry is not good for this country. We don't need W. Bush II.
(Bush senior had a clue, and he actually was a pretty good President. Obviously, the apple rolled real far from the tree, and didn't learn anything from his parents.)
This Certified Whacko, makes Bush look like a Boyscout!
I live in Texas and the only good roads we have are built with Federal Funds. We have rural communities with no running or unsafe water. We have 500 communities with little or no water because of the drought and what is the Governor doing for them, nothing. Texas only had a spurt in jobs because the gas went to $4.00 a gallon and everyone and his brother got in the oil business. This was definitely not due to Bush, er I mean Perry. This guy has been riding the Republican flood into politics in Texas. He is a do nothing blow heart.
Texas has some of the worse polluted lakes and rivers, we have the most untreated chemical dumps in the nation. He is anti EPA because his corporate supporters will have to pay for 100 years of dumping petroleum and mercury on our lands and in our watershed. Most of our workers make minimum wage and over 25% of Texans have no health insurance and can't afford any.
We have no state income tax in Texas. On one hand it is great not to pay it. But on the other, nothing gets built, repaired or done without US Government funds, a lot from the military based in this state. So coming off with all this bull about doing away with Federal Taxes and making Washington irrelevant is just that "Bull"!
Only the rich will have anything in Texas when that happens.
Perry = candidate of scared, racist, white people
Every day becomes more hopeful thinking about how miserable liberals are going to be hearing the words daily: President Perry
and they will be near suicidal (hopefully) hearing the words Vice President Bachmann.
Revenge upon the disease of liberalism is sweet!
Criminy! You've got to be kidding. Not a fan of civilization as we know it, are you??
Heil to your fuhrer Perry!!
LOL!! Ok that's about the funniest line of the day! As though this Texas lunatic could win the Republican nomination let alone a national election. Oh sure, I'll bet he'll jsut take all of that minority of mccain/palin states and sweep the rest of the blue ones! (The mman is all hat and no cattle--if you put your bible down long enough to use some reason, you'd see how ridiculous the thought is that this guy could win a national election).
Hey Larry Robinson.Your post is ASS BACKWARDS,JUST LIKE YOUR CANDIDATES!If this Whack Job get's in, god, forbid,he'll be addressed as the Fuhrer, as haggisbingo said,and Blugger,there,oops I mean Bachmen, will be as addressed as the Fraulein.Or as I would call her Frau Blugger, oops slipped again.
They're both Insane and they both fell off of the same NUT TREE!
8 years of George Bush with NO domestic policy and possibly 8 years of another Texan with no respect for government? Let's see, the DOW went down to 6100 pts under George and my 401 K lost 70% before my eyes as Bush summoned the McCain & Obama delegation to Washington during the Automobile industry crisis, crying, "help us, help us! We have no answer for anything, we don't believe in government!" I'm going to PetsMart and trying out dry dog food samples, If your teapartiers get into office, I have a survival alternative, because what I've worked for will vanish.
I just wish we could vote today and get Obama,s ass out of office.
Be careful what you wish for if you're going to vote for this Whack Job Perry.