Please do not attempt to confuse Texas Governor Rick Perry with facts.  It makes him babble.

In explaining his nope-vote on expanding Medicaid  to his drooling base of voters, Perry said …

“The bottom line here is that Medicaid is a failed program,” Perry said in an appearance on Fox News. “To expand this program is not unlike adding a thousand people to the Titanic.”

Well, it may not be unlike it, but it’s also not like it either.  Hell, at least women and children escaped the Titanic.  Under Perry’s no-plan health care program, everybody dies.  He does understand that expanding Medicaid is putting more lifeboats on the Texas Titanic, right?

I guess not.

Get this painful attempt at neuron synapse.

When asked how he’d improve health care in a state where one in four people are uninsured, Perry bristled. “People come from all over the globe to the state of Texas for their health care,” he said.

Dammit.  Dammit.  Dammit. Don’t you just want to get up in his face and holler, “People with endless supplies of MONEY, you damn fool!”

One in four Texans is walking on a health care tightrope over Niagara Falls, but some dude in New Hampshire with great insurance can come here and buy a whole damn truckload of health.   And, some potentate in Saudi Arabia can bring a tanker of oil with him and get treated.  But, if you’re one in four Texans, you are totally screwed.

Rick Perry is probably not brain dead, but I am certain he can’t get insurance on his brain because it has a pre-exisiting condition called Barely Operational.

Thanks to Steve and Star for the heads-up.