Okay, okay, here’s the problem with having a legal “team.”
It never works properly. It is a collision of egos so monstrous that it makes time stand still.
Take, for example, Rick Perry’s legal team. Here’s a brief they filed to have Rick’s case dismissed by the court. I need to explain some things first.
First, having had a pretty good observation deck, I can assure you that lawyers throw paper at each other much like cavemen threw spears. I have no idea why they don’t just roll up papers and hit each other over the head with them, but they don’t. So, the client pays for the lawyer to throw paper. I can also assure you that some of those papers are dumber than bean dip.
Second, some of you have sent me this information asking if it is real or from The Onion. It’s real. (About half way down.)
Reuters has the story.
Lawyers for Rick Perry invoked a former Roman emperor and 17th-century French King Louis XIV in a motion filed on Monday seeking to dismiss abuse-of-power felony charges leveled against the Texas governor.
Oh lookie, this lawyer’s undergrad degree is in history! Momma must have paid a lot of money for this —
“A Texas Governor is not Augustus traversing his realm with a portable mint and an imperial treasure in tow; he no more has custody or possession of the State’s general revenue funds than does any Texan. No governor can say of his or her state what the Sun King said of France: “L’etat c’est moi,” it said.
And he minored in French!
Okay, I’m not saying that this lawyer is overpaid but, oh hell, that’s exactly what I’m saying, who am I kidding?
It seems to me that if this writ twit had climbed down off his pompous spectacle of French and Roman history, he would realize that the exact point of the indictment is that if Perry truly was “L’etat c’est moi,” no one could prosecute him! But, because he’s not, he cannot threaten people’s livelihood to make them do what he wants.
Rick Perry was using my damn money to threaten a duly elected public official who had successfully fought and won a removal petition in a court of law.
Louie XIV
L’etat c’est moi, my patootie. Rick Perry can be prosecuted because he can be prosecuted. He is not Augustus or a member of the House of Bourbon. Although Louie the XIV also had great hair.
Maybe that’s how the lawyer got confused. After all, great hair is great hair.
Or should I say, bonne cheveux sont de bons cheveux.
Plus, you stupid sumbitch, everybody knows that Rick Perry is not Texas. Willie Nelson is Texas.
This crap is going to be fun.