Anti-global warming Sen. Inhofe formally endorses Perry

TULSA, Okla. -- Sen. Jim Inhofe, a strident conservative voice in the Senate and a vocal skeptic of global warming, formally endorsed Gov. Rick Perry on Monday, calling him "the only guy who can really win this thing."

"The one thing that he has that nobody else has is this background of experience, not just him being an administrator but doing the right thing, cutting down the deficit, increasing jobs. And he's done everything right," Inhofe said, adding, "No one out there running is as aware as to the cost of all the overregulation that we're experiencing right now."

Answering questions after brief remarks, Perry told reporters that the national debt should be addressed by the elimination of federal regulations on the energy industry, which would create jobs and wealth previously unseen in the American economy.

"Just in the energy industry alone, if you remove the boot of regulation that this administration has taken to a new level in this country, the job creation that will occur will be phenomenal. It, singularly, by freeing up these entrepreneurs will create wealth like we have never seen in this country before. And that wealth will pay off that debt."

He repeated his goals of tort reform, spending cuts, and low taxes, saying, "You won't have stimulus programs under President Perry. You won't spend all the money."

Perry also reiterated his critique of the federal government's enforcement of border security, saying that debate over individual immigration laws neglects the massive problem of a porous border.

"You can talk immigration til you're blue in the face, this reform or that reform, passing this law," he said. "But none of it matters, none of it, until we secure our border with Mexico."

Perry's comments on immigration came in response to a question about his previous statements that a hardline Arizona-style immigration law -- as written in the legislation signed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in 2010, would not be right for Texas.

"I supported an Arizona-type law, but all of that law I did not support," he said. "For instance, turning our law enforcement officers in Texas into immigration [officers]. And I'm on the record pretty good with that. I understand combing through my record and trying to see an inconsistency here and there. That's fine, I know y'all have to have something to do."

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Anti-science endorses Anti-science. More denyers will join in and Perry will have the wack jobs all under his umbrella. Doesn't leave too many for Bachmann. If the GOP plans on winning any general election in 2012 they better get on board with Huntsman otherwise it will be an easy win for Obama in 2012. That is fine with me, a supporter, but I hate contests that are lopsided. I love good intelligent debates.

  • 13 votes
#2 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:39 PM EDT

Anti-science?

Looks like somebody hasn't been paying attention. Global warming is done. Not only is there no money for it, but it turns out that that big old yellow circle in the sky is why the place gets hot and cold.

CERN Cloud Study - it's new, it's from the Government and it wrecks global warming.

Good times.

  • 9 votes
#2.1 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:47 PM EDT

Inhofe... hmmm why does that name ring a bell?

Oh WAIT I KNOW! lol

He's all about anti-science until is comes to sticking it up someone elses a@@!

Those Gitmo prisoners don't know just how good they've got it!

At a press conference by Republican Senators opposed to closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) elaborated on what a humane environment Gitmo is: "anyone, any detainee, over 55 has an opportunity to have a colonoscopy."

"Now none of them take 'em up on it, because once they explain what it is, none of them want to do it," Inhofe added. "But nonetheless it's an opportunity that they have

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCoQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com%2F2009%2F05%2Finhofe-free-colonoscopies-at-gitmo.php&ei=KQpcTraMLILo0QHyz5iUCQ&usg=AFQjCNHJ-gHQfHs2gaIl0zBRwpvmGowHeQ

What is it with these freaks?

  • 14 votes
#2.2 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:56 PM EDT

Climate change has past it's tipping point, thanks to those with no foresight.

  • 6 votes
#2.3 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:00 PM EDT

Global warming is done. Not only is there no money for it, but it turns out that that big old yellow circle in the sky is why the place gets hot and cold.

Playbook tactics #1, #2, #5, #10, #13

  • 9 votes
#2.4 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:00 PM EDT

Playbook tactics #1, #2, #5, #10, #13

BINGO! fielden - lol

  • 9 votes
#2.5 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:02 PM EDT

Having read the points from this morning I recall that #5 is the big lie. So it should be very easy for you all to show what the lie is. Give it a whirl, should be fun.

I would love for one of you libbies to 'splain how the "playbook" is any different from say litigation. My side says one thing, the other takes the opposite positions and both ultimatley go before the jury where the points are argued, experts are fully cross-examined and all opinions explained.

Ah, never mind - you libbies have found yourselves another tree/ Boogey-man. So funny that you all are just now discovering the art of debate and argument.

  • 7 votes
#2.6 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:10 PM EDT

Strap on the hip waders.

  • 5 votes
#2.7 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:11 PM EDT

[So funny that you all are just now discovering the art of debate and argument.]

Oh you are so full of crap...you couldn't debate your way out of a paper bag...you avoid it al ALL COSTS. I've given you every opportunity to stand up for your bull@!$%#...cowardice comes to mind.

Spanky has become the new "Old Man Yells At Clouds"...

  • 10 votes
#2.8 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:17 PM EDT

Hey Spanky,

In case I miss it, the next time Mark and Domenico put up a Boiler Room, ask them if they know that cosmic ray is not necessarily an old "far out" hippie named Ray, that the sun's magnetism is not necessarily the same as someone's son's luck with the girls.

Or ask them if Obama's destruction of the fossil energy industry, which cost millions of jobs, bankrupts the recovery, effects the cost of everything, reduces our national security - all in the name of bogus debunked "science" as proved by the CERN study (among others) ....... is this not a political story?

I realize it is not near as important as Michelle flubbing up Elvis ..... but, seriously ...... this debunking stuff is everywhere RCP, NRO, IBD ...... maybe they should inform the clueless, huh?

  • 4 votes
#2.9 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:26 PM EDT

Oh you are so full of crap...you couldn't debate your way out of a paper bag...you avoid it al ALL COSTS.

Make that WET paper bag! ;o)

Since when does doing nothing but asking asinine & irelevant questions pass as debate?

  • 12 votes
#2.10 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:28 PM EDT

Hey fielden - which one of you super cool tactics would this fall under:

"If the election were next Tuesday he'd lose. That's how bad it is," said a Democratic strategist.?

Pretty brutal stuff for an incumbent. Check out the whole article over at The Hill.

  • 6 votes
#2.11 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:31 PM EDT

[If the election were next Tuesday he'd lose.]

...check your calendar, "counselor"...you're more than a year off...but you post the same bull@!$%#, only a different day, right "counselor"?

  • 4 votes
#2.12 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:21 PM EDT

fisty

Once again you provide the opportunity to be called a f'ing idiot. Are you drunk or just a retard?

Then you go on about Mark Halperin's playbook. Comical.

A Perry nomination must be scaring the living daylights out of the left. I'm just not sure why. There are two choices.

1) he either wins the nomination or

2) someone else beats the Big O.

LMFAO at the idiots.

  • 3 votes
#2.13 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:09 PM EDT

Ana, intelligent debate and repuke don't belong in the same sentence.

  • 2 votes
#2.14 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:10 PM EDT

Doug -

Perry is not a scare - he's a joke.

But, keep on with your idiocy!

  • 8 votes
#2.15 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:48 PM EDT

Perry is not a scare - he's a joke.

And I am laughing my ass off hoping Slick Ricky gets the nomination!

It will make 1996 look like a walk in the park! ;o)

  • 6 votes
#2.16 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:01 PM EDT

Still, the shell shocked will have to be attended to.

That's not gonna be easy. Maybe a cruise on Lake Woe Begone.

  • 2 votes
#2.17 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:12 PM EDT
  • 3 votes
#2.18 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:25 PM EDT

Doug Ponders, what good are today's polls in Nov 2012? The answer is really easy.

  • 4 votes
#2.19 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:23 PM EDT

bob-1805084: "Or ask them if Obama's destruction of the fossil energy industry, which cost millions of jobs, bankrupts the recovery, effects the cost of everything, reduces our national security - all in the name of bogus debunked "science" as proved by the CERN study (among others) ....... is this not a political story?"

When did this "destruction of the fossil energy industry" happen, and when were the millions of jobs lost?

How large of a majority of the scientific community has to agree before you consider a particular aspect of science "bogus" and "debunked"?

Finally, do you still not get how fossil fuel energy is unsustainable and ultimately needs to be replaced by something else?

Doug Ponders, polls are opinions, not facts.

  • 2 votes
#2.20 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:34 AM EDT

Perry = candidate of the Anti-Science Party

  • 4 votes
#2.21 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:50 AM EDT

The Republican Party is going to be in real trouble in the next election. They have Paul Ryan in the House currently, which keeps proposing bills which prove they are against seniors. The have Rand Paul and Eric Cantor who, just prior to a major national disastor indicate that they believe everyone should just fend for themselves and FEMA should be eliminated. Then you have the anti-science crowd, led by Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman.

At the current rate of alienating every single constituant group, the Republicans might be able to get the votes of the 7 dwarves running for President, but not much else.

  • 3 votes
#2.22 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:54 PM EDT
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"Perry told reporters that the national debt should be addressed by the elimination of federal regulations on the energy industry, which would create jobs and wealth previously unseen in the American economy."

I can't tell which is funnier- this satement, or Spankie being 'first'!

I kinda didn't think so.

Hey Spank- who all is running for president that has had a recent kerfuffle with a cop car? Anybody we know? It's strange, though. We had a guy run a stop sign and kill someone here in Iowa over the weekend, and I'll be damned if MSNBC didn't ignore THAT too.

Weird, huh?

  • 11 votes
Reply#3 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:40 PM EDT

Dude - you live in Iowa?

Was that guy an illegal alien too? Was he related to the President as well.

Did that guy tell the cops that he wanted to call the White House like Obama's illegal alien uncle did?

Man if all that is true, it rreally is weird.

  • 6 votes
#3.1 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:44 PM EDT

Did the guy want to call the white house? Really? Wow. Is there someone in the white house that is personally responsible for that dude saying that? Who is it, Spank- spill it, man.

  • 7 votes
#3.2 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:49 PM EDT

Slick Rick was at it years ago, throwing his weight around.......

He's just gotta' get on down the road!

http://www.alan.com/2011/08/20/video-of-rick-perry-trying-to-get-out-of-a-speeding-ticket/

  • 5 votes
#3.3 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:55 PM EDT
    #3.4 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:00 PM EDT

    Did Obama's uncle want to call the WH? Uh, sure, and he also sought to make sure the police knew who he was. A veritable illegal alien VIP after all.

    I bet Obama is so very proud.

    • 5 votes
    #3.5 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:00 PM EDT

    How 'bout that old Inhofe, Spanky?

    Straight up guy, eh?

    • 5 votes
    #3.6 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:04 PM EDT

    Play book o' Spanky, fielden - the truth.

    But tell you what, how about you refute it. Playbooks and tactics are are neat and all, but it's like I always tell my clients - at the end of the day, we may be right, or wrong. They [the jury] gets to make the call.

    Or is this just gonna be your all's way to dismissing the arguments? Good luck with that.

    Bummer for you fielden the truth is very hard to dismiss. Just ask Pacharri and the IPCC. THey are having some really awful, terrible days. Hansen and Gore are doing just slightly better.

    • 4 votes
    #3.7 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:05 PM EDT

    So when Pelosi the left wing loonie bins endorses Obama does that mean Obama isnt fit for office? When Louis Farrakhan endorses Obama and he is so far gone and a racist to boot, does that make Obama not fit for the office? How about when Bernie Sanders endorses him and he is an avowed socialist, does that make Obama not fit for office?

    I see Fiesty you are still playing by the Alinsky rules of personal destruction. Still cant find that post where you havent personally attacked someone or actually provided your own respectful insightful personal opinion on a topic without cut and paste yet have you?

    • 4 votes
    #3.8 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:33 PM EDT

    Kirk,

    I see Fiesty you are still playing by the Alinsky rules of personal destruction. Still cant find that post where you havent personally attacked someone or actually provided your own respectful insightful personal opinion on a topic without cut and paste yet have you?

    She will never answer you, respectful, insightful, its not in her DNA.

    • 5 votes
    #3.9 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:54 PM EDT

    [But tell you what, how about you refute it.]

    Oh brother...

    ...here's your sign, "counselor"...

    • 2 votes
    #3.10 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:09 PM EDT

    I don't know totas - I think Feisty wants to actually try to make a respectful and insightful comments, but she is simply incapable.

    It's an ignorance thing.

    As for the personal attacks - being that ignorant has got to be frustrating.

    Pity the poor old gal. It's hard for her, and these days are getting worse.

    • 5 votes
    #3.11 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:39 PM EDT

    Or, in some cases, worser.

    Yeah, I know, That's not a real word.

    But then, nor are many of your stances, Spanky.

    Still, I think you get the big picture.

    So does Feisty.

    She just doesn't care to beat a dead horse about it.

    Lean forward, man!

    • 4 votes
    #3.12 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:52 PM EDT

    I do believe I got the big picture.

    I know Feisty does not.

    I triued to lean forward once. I'll leave that to you all.

    • 4 votes
    #3.13 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:13 PM EDT

    We all prefer to remain optimistic.

    You know - Doing the right thing.

    Something to pass down to the progeny, right?

    • 3 votes
    #3.14 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:33 PM EDT
    Reply

    Immigration and global warming.

    I cannot get more fun.

    We got that shiny new CERN study - looks like all the hot air actually is escaping out of the atmosphere and all of the little AL GORE and the IPCC' model are flat wrong.

    And we got the illegal alien uncle. No license, Drunk, and smashed a cop car no less. Yep, that's exactly the kind of person we want here in this county.

    Obama's new "no deport" policiy is going to be a huge problem for him.

    • 7 votes
    Reply#4 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:41 PM EDT

    "Yep, that's exactly the kind of person we want here in this county."

    But maybe GOD sent this fool to be Obama's uncle as a 'wake up call' for something. Maybe saying 8.5 % unemployment if stimulus got passed or something.

    Maybe for taking some vacation.

    • 3 votes
    #4.1 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:46 PM EDT

    THe good lord does work in mysterious ways my man.

    You just might be onto something. What are you on?

    • 3 votes
    #4.2 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:49 PM EDT

    O' Spankster there you go again! You must believe in that big guy in the sky. Right? I kinda lean more to the Carl Sagen school: "I would rather know than believe." It is clear by your post that you know nothing..much like the party and Luddites of the last century. Still chasin ambulances by the way?

    • 5 votes
    #4.3 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:08 PM EDT

    Aw, isn't that sweet? Spankums found his shiny object for the day!

    • 6 votes
    #4.4 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:12 PM EDT

    I love shiny objects Noid.

    They are just so darned distracting.

    Oh and Torpedo - you got it exactly opposite. Isn't the anonymous part fun?

    • 4 votes
    #4.5 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:15 PM EDT

    [Aw, isn't that sweet? Spankums found his shiny object for the day!]

    Spanky IS the shiny object...that is why everyone slaps him around so much...

    But you got to hand it to the "counselor"...he usually picks on disabled Naval veterans, or, like over the weekend, he was terrorizing the women...lol...what a P.O.S.

    ...tick tock, Mediocrity Man...tick tock

    • 3 votes
    #4.6 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:14 PM EDT

    one study done by funded by conservative think tanks you're so easily led...meanwhile over 95% of scientists agree that global warming is real...but hey lets just ignore it and let our kids take care of it down the road...meanwhile we will scream about not passing on debt to our kids under the guise that we really care...conservatives are pathetic at best

    • 2 votes
    #4.8 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:31 PM EDT
    Reply

    .

    • 1 vote
    Reply#5 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:42 PM EDT

    "until we secure our border with Mexico"

    The 911 Hi-Jackers came in through Canada. No one is talking about securing the Canadian Border.

    • 6 votes
    Reply#6 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:43 PM EDT

    Good idea and also Mexicans are the hardest working people in the world according to a recent report. It seems to me we would want those values in our citizens. So we should probably secure the Canadian border and open the Mexican one. Don't you think? What? It's all about the dark skin? Yes I know! I'm ashamed of my country for it but I know. Great workers, nice skin tone and handsome family oriented people also and we choose to welcome the Canadians instead. Go figure!

    Now if you are a Canadian, I mean no disrespect towards your wonderful group either. I'm just making a point of how warped our American politics is because of deep prejudices no one wants to acknowledge and change at this time.

    • 5 votes
    #6.1 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:54 PM EDT

    Now if you are a Canadian, I mean no disrespect towards your wonderful group either. I'm just making a point of how warped our American politics is because of deep prejudices no one wants to acknowledge and change at this time.

    Speak for yourself...do we really trust the Newfies that much?

      #6.2 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:14 PM EDT

      AnaBanana,

      It has nothing to do with the color of someone skin. Its illegal to cross into a country without proper documentation. If you are so ashamed of our country, please go to Mexico. You can enjoy the hard working, nice skin tone, family oriented people. Make sure you have the proper paperwork with you, because they do enforce their immigration laws.

      IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR

      IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
      IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.

      IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
      IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.

      IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET
      1 – A JOB,
      2 – A DRIVERS LICENSE,
      3 – SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
      4 – WELFARE,
      5 – FOOD STAMPS,
      6 – CREDIT CARDS,
      7 – SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
      8 – FREE EDUCATION,
      9 – FREE HEALTH CARE,
      10 – A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON
      11 – BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE
      12 – AND THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON'T GET ENOUGH RESPECT

      Cheesy, but you get the point.

      • 6 votes
      #6.3 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:43 PM EDT

      What's the matter AnaB - the whole concept of legal immigration, which everyone favors, being different from illegal immigration, which is disfavored in the law [the whole "illegal" part] just too hard for you to grasp?

      Has anyone ever said anything about not letting in legal immigrants?

      Me, I'm a tad more hesitant to let in a bunch of people who have already demonstrated they don't care about our laws.

      Or do we all get to siply pick and choose which laws we will follow and which we will ignore? That sound like a good plan AnaB?

      Of course it doesn't. Plus there are more than a few americans that are hard working but can't get a job. Maybe they should get first crack? Come on AnaB why not give them a shot?

      • 4 votes
      #6.4 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:43 PM EDT

      So we should be more like Iran?

      • 1 vote
      #6.5 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:55 PM EDT

      Spanky,

      Exactly how many of those farmers are willing to pay minimum wage to hire legal Americans? ZERO is right! The root of the problem is not in the immigrants looking for jobs legal or illegal. The problem is the employer. Much like the problem is our drug use not the Mexican drug cartels. Want to end the problem? I didn't think so.

      • 5 votes
      #6.6 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:32 PM EDT

      thetotas, say what? We should be like Iran? How is it the illegals get jobs here? Because some employer hires them without asking for proof of citizenship. Because someone illegally provides them with documentation such as social security numbers--it's the entrepreneurial spirit.

      • 1 vote
      #6.7 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:30 PM EDT

      Where did you get Iran? I know how they get their jobs, and I agree its time to come down on the employers! I am also bothered by our politicians who use them for a vote.

      • 1 vote
      #6.8 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:06 AM EDT

      I'm usually left leaning read some of my posts... but i'm with securing our borders and fining the hell out of employers that employ illegal aliens, they do put a massive strain on school systems, hospitals, and other government programs, and though many are hard working and can't be blamed for wanting a better life (the employers who employ them should be blamed)...some are just criminals I hate to say I've been hit by drunk illegals who just got out and booked it I was left to foot the bill (this has happened to several people I know), also every other night it seems to always be a drug ring bust involving usually a white guy, a black guy and a couple of illegal aliens(sorry but its just the truth)....also they are taking jobs from people whether many on the left want to believe it or not, I think the excuse that they are doing jobs americans won't do is lame....in mississippi where I'm from people will gladly do those jobs....google (Howard Industries ICE bust in Mississippi)...Howard Industries a factory that only employed illegals in manufacturing was busted by ICE, the next day hundreds of mississippians showed up for those jobs how do I know?...I was one of them and plus it was all over the local news it never made it to the national news on either fox or msnbc...also a group of women filed a class action lawsuit! Perhaps people living the good life in manhattan or malibu won't but don't speak for all americans I hate to say it but Stephen Colbert was wrong on that one

      • 1 vote
      #6.9 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:47 PM EDT

      I don't know where all these supposed illegal aliens are working. Every employer I have ever worked for has required you produce government issued ID and a social security card.

      Now, if people are manufacturing their own SS cards, that's another issue. Mandating a Federal worker ID card would be better. Then you could have a database that employers could verify the ID # and have a cross check verification number.... Would improve enforcement. Then you could have monster fines for having unverified employees.

        #6.10 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:12 PM EDT
        Reply

        hmmmmmmmm

          Reply#7 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:44 PM EDT

          It looks like Bachmann will be fighting Slick Rick Perry for the dumba$$ vote.

          • 7 votes
          Reply#8 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:44 PM EDT
          Reply

          "I understand combing through my record and trying to see an inconsistency here and there. That's fine, I know y'all have to have something to do."

          Slick Rick, you lie!

          You have done nothing but hinder those seeking information about your record as Governor.

          Open Records=Nope

          Freedom of Info=Nope

          • 6 votes
          Reply#9 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:46 PM EDT

          I can't wait for the Supreme Court to APPOINT Rick Perry President!

          • 2 votes
          Reply#10 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:51 PM EDT

          "Anti Global Warming Sen Inhofe formally endorses Perry"...Why not just say "Sen Inhofe ensorses Perry"? Or better yet, when writing stories about Obama, you can say "Former friend of William Ayers President Obama addresses the nation about Hurricane Irene".

          • 4 votes
          Reply#11 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:57 PM EDT

          FLAT EARTH SOCIETY - yes we heartily endorse Rick Perry for President!!

          • 6 votes
          Reply#12 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:06 PM EDT

          If Bush were a ventriloquist Perry would be his dummy.

          • 5 votes
          Reply#13 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:19 PM EDT

          Let him go to Mexico, drink tap water, and deny that germs exist. Montezuma wipes people out for such denial.

          • 2 votes
          Reply#14 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:27 PM EDT

          And this endorsement is worth???

          • 2 votes
          Reply#15 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:29 PM EDT

          On a completely different optimistic note - I'd like to give a 'shout out' to all the Track and Field fans out there, as the World Championships are now being held in Deagu, S. Korea.

          GO U.S.A.!

          • 1 vote
          Reply#16 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:36 PM EDT

          RepubliCONS like perry talk about deregulating energy. Maybe they can develop an energy PONZI scam like fellow TX republiCON phil gramm (R) former Chairman of the Senate finance committee. If you really want to know what has caused the world financial and the US housing disaster. Then Google and read about the $645 TRILLION derivatives that traded between 2000 - June 2008. Repeal of the Glass Steagall act and the GLB and CFM acts created the biggest PONZI scam in the history of the world. When the TBP talks about debt and deficits and TARP etc. They fail to admit the GOP crooks mastermined the reason we are in this mess. Just think! We got gwb from TX and the biggest TX WMD lies, gramm from TX and the biggest TX lies about deregulations, now perry from TX and the biggest oil lies and he wants to deregulate the oil companies. Maybe perry, if he becomes el presidente, can invade Russia and Saudi Arabia for its oil because God created it and it belongs to the right wing religious zealots. (or TX oil companies)

          • 8 votes
          Reply#17 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:57 PM EDT

          Birds of a feather, probably soon to be extinct due to global warming and destruction of habitat. Unfortunately, they'll take the rest of us with them.

          • 2 votes
          Reply#18 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:54 PM EDT

          I pray we are not past the tipping point on global warming. I know we are on civility, truth (or what passes for it), Texan right wing zealots and facial hair as a fashion statement.

          It strikes me that Federal regulations of the oil industry were not really enforced for the W-BUSHY years and the projected JOBS have not materialized over the course of a decade. We did get a nice big oil slick to clean up last summer for all that non-enforcement though.

          Consequently, I seriously doubt the Perry supposition that such policy action that would eliminate these regulations could revitalize our economy and wipe out the deficit. Perry would have to create jobs that pay much more than minimum wages to do that; not in his skill sets kids!

          Erase the deficit with deregulation. I'd laugh but it is not really funny now is it?

          • 4 votes
          Reply#19 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:26 PM EDT

          What America Has Become

          What has America become? It has become a land where “conservatism” camouflages a growing movement to advance the agenda of the wealthy and powerful at the expense of working families. It has become a land where an obviously-failed party ideology drives a country to near-Depression, and then rebrands itself as “tea party” to retain political power. It is a place where “the party of personal responsibility” denies culpability for the destruction it has wrought.

          America has become a place where we apologize to Chinese politicians for allowing the import of their lead-tainted toys.

          America has become a place where the number one debtor nation in 1980 now owes more money to more countries than any other nation.

          America has become a place where 30 years of deficit spending is a coward’s way of raising taxes.

          America has become a place where propaganda is pawned off as actual news, and where fake reporters are inserted into presidential press conferences to deflect difficult or embarrassing lines of questioning.

          America has become a land where we faked “Weapons of Mass Destruction” to further our political ends, and caused the deaths of over 5,000 Patriot sons and daughters and the permanent maiming of 30,000 others. An estimated 300,000 Iraqi citizens are also dead.

          America has become a land where anti-Liberalism has become justification to destroy Unions, hate minorities, further enrich the wealthy and powerful, and sanctify the redistribution of wealth upward to make the already rich,…..even richer.

          America has become a place where a college dropout, half-term, half-wit, quitter state governor, or a witch that believes mice are being equipped with human brains can rise to within a heartbeat of the presidency. They would need to write the nuclear launch codes to Americas arsenal on their hand.

          America has become a place where we betray our own covert CIA agents and their operations in retaliation for political non-conformity. Such people are deemed “fair game” (Cheney’s actual phrase).

          America has become a place where the very politicians who raised America's debt ceiling 7 times under Bush are now calling for fiscal sanity.

          America has become a place where a centrist president is painted as the Joker, and is scorned as “Socialist” or “Commie” while he single-handedly saves a country and two companies from certain financial ruin and bankruptcy; salvaging 4 million American jobs.

          America has become a place where justifiable environmental concerns are vilified as impediments to business.

          America has become a place where the president's citizenship is questioned, but one presidential candidate, Senator (McCain), was ironically not born in the U.S.

          America has become a place where the destruction of a president supplants the advancement of a nation.

          America has become a nation where political obstruction replaces political construction.

          America has become a place where the party of morality should have many of its members arrested (and more than a few of them have been: Abramoff, Libby, Delay, Madoff, Cunningham, Foley, Stevens, Craig, Gingrich,..etc,… etc,...etc) for moral turpitude, and the violation of civil laws of every type.

          America has become a place where the private tragedy of a brain-dead woman's corpse (Terry Schiavo) was paraded about in a politically-motivated media circus of the exploited.

          America has become a place where we cede our leadership role in manufacturing, technology, high-speed rail, alternative energy, medicine and the education of our youth for tax breaks for the wealthy; better put as welfare for the well-off, or Conservative Socialism.

          America has become a place where political banalities (DADT, immigration) become political necessities, urgencies.

          That is what America has become, and I will fight against this threat to our great country till my last breath leaves my body.

          Respectfully submitted,

          GOPisextinct

          • 5 votes
          Reply#20 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:40 PM EDT

          Fn'n eh!!!

          • 1 vote
          #20.1 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:57 PM EDT
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          ,

            Reply#21 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:56 PM EDT

            What's the comma mean Richard?

              #21.1 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:28 PM EDT

              No more than a computer Fk Up pause.

              I'm limited.

                #21.2 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:52 PM EDT
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                I say that we let all the politicans know that we don't care whoses fault it is...if the economy is not humming by election time, they ALL gotta go...both republican and democrats...unbelievablte that thios crap is going on with the politicans

                • 2 votes
                Reply#22 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:59 PM EDT

                i'm in

                • 1 vote
                #22.1 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:56 PM EDT
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                Maybe a workable plan, Tom.

                Deal me in.

                • 1 vote
                Reply#23 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:17 PM EDT

                "Sen. Jim Inhofe, a strident conservative voice in the Senate"

                Nice spin, tying Perry to a US Senator you liberals want us to think is an extremist.

                Funny, liberal media like MSNBC has never found a "strident liberal voice" among Democrats....

                • 2 votes
                Reply#24 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:24 PM EDT

                Were you going for the how-many-times-I-could-fit-the-word-"Liberal"-into-a-paragraph prize or something?

                Did they teach that to you at the special right-wing kook school?

                • 2 votes
                #24.1 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:27 PM EDT

                Bob-1887910

                The libs never give up. I don't think they sleep.

                • 1 vote
                #24.2 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:02 AM EDT
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                "President Perry"! Just hearing the words makes you want to vomit.

                • 3 votes
                Reply#25 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:05 PM EDT

                Not as much as when you hear the words "President Obama".

                • 2 votes
                #25.1 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:15 PM EDT

                "Chris" you will never be satisfied with any president. You're probably in the Ron Paul camp...

                • 1 vote
                #25.2 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:06 AM EDT

                Would just make me shake my head...

                The edited version from "American President":

                I've known the Republican Party for years, and I've been operating under the assumption that the reason the Republican Party devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that they simply didn't get it. Well, I was wrong. Their problem isn't that they don't get it. Their problem is that they can't sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, The Republican Party is not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who (the tea party) remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and character.

                • 4 votes
                #25.3 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:10 AM EDT

                OMG, that is a GREAT summation and a keeper!!

                • 3 votes
                #25.4 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:08 PM EDT

                Mav -

                One day last week someone referenced "The American President." But they only got one part of the quotation: (I'm paraphrasing a little here) The Michael J. Fox character - The people are so thirsty for leadership that they will crawl across the desert, and when they realize it's a mirage, they'll drink the sand. The president replies, They don't drink the sand because they're thirsty, Louis. They drink it because they don't know the difference.

                Anyone see any sand drinkers on this blog? (Hint: they used to be called the "Loyal Opposition.")

                  #25.5 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:27 PM EDT

                  That would be the Tea Party, MKM.

                  • 1 vote
                  #25.6 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:33 PM EDT
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                  everybody settle down and let mr perry speak. after all there is freedom of speech for now.

                    Reply#26 - Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:20 PM EDT

                    At least unless Mr. Perry and the Tea Party take control of all of government. Can you say Patriot Act II?

                      #26.1 - Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:01 PM EDT
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