Oops!
Here’s the deal.
Rick Perry used an “Executive Order” – yeah, that horrible, evil, unAmerican thing President Obama uses – to deploy the Texas National Guard, who are military troops, to the border of Texas to fight hungry, pathetic children.
Here’s the deal.
The Texas National Guard can’t make arrests. They cannot shoot anybody unless they are shot at first. They can’t even detain anybody. In short, they cannot do diddle squat unless war breaks out on the border or the folks in Louisiana start lobbing crawfish at Brownsville.
Perry says they will “be trained.” For what? Standing there looking tough? Babysit?
The Texas National Guard: Hoping that a truckload of Darth Vaders will scare the little children.
Now here’s the other deal.
Rick Perry “hoped the federal government would eventually reimburse” Texas for the $12 million a month this is going to cost. Oh yeah, you heard me right. Perry will not take federal funds to cover the health of Texas children or working class families but, by gawd, he’ll beg for it if it’s for his Presidential aspirations.
Now here’s the cherry on the ice cream sundae deal.
Greg Abbott, the Texas Attorney General who is running against Wendy Davis, got his face on the teevee, too.
Abbott said he expects the federal government to reimburse the cost of the deployment — about $12 million per month, in addition to the $5 million monthly cost of the DPS officers. His office is prepared to sue the federal government if necessary to get the reimbursement, he said.
“Texans are prepared to put the boots on the ground,” Abbott said. “But we expect Washington to foot the bill.”
This is almost funny. Abbott starts every speech by saying that he gets up every morning and sues the federal government, but sometimes he waits until he gets to the office.
So it doesn’t appear that anybody is shaking in their boots over Abbott threatening to sue the federal government. Hell, if we had the money back from all the frivolous lawsuits he’s filed against President Obama, we could lower taxes by about 70%.
So, here’s the final deal.
Texas is send a bunch of impotent Darth Vaders to the border who can’t do anything and we’re going to pray that you people in foreign states will pay to help Rick Perry’s and Greg Abbott’s political posturing.
Sounds like a helluva deal to me.
My friend Charles reminds us that every time President Obama steps in front of a camera, the GOP calls it politics. Hell, the border has now become a staged political convention.
Crap.
Is there something in the water in parts of Texas?
1Is there any way to stop this lunacy?
2I thought the national guard could shoot looters? How is it they haven’t aerated Rick Perry, then?
3A thousand Texans get called away from their jobs and families, to stand around in the south Texas heat.
Stand around and sweat.
Most will earn less than their regular jobs.
Abbott and Costello replaced by
Abbott and Perry.
Just Saying…..
4Good Grief.
Rick Perry needs another hobby. He’s not good at this politics stuff. He should just come out, find a nice guy, get a dog, a little ranch in the country, settle down and paint. Or knit. Or grow peppers. Or something.
We’d all be much happier if he just got laid once in awhile.
5The old definition of chutzpah was murdering ones parents and expecting special treatment as an orphan. But this one tops that one they way hot fudge, whipped cream, nuts and a cherry turn ordinary ice cream into a sundae. Except it’s pitiful not enjoyable.
6Remember, he is making his decisions based on charts like this: http://www.dps.texas.gov/administration/crime_records/pages/secureCommStatsTx.htm
Garbage in, garbage out.
7Perry Abbott Cruz & Beck: The Four Stooges!
8Monty @8
Moe, Larry, Shep and Curly?
9Slick Rick went to the Valley with Sean Hannity, so Ted Cruz is playing copycat by dragging Glenn Beck along? Isn’t that cute? The little boys are playing so nicely together. On the other hand, all four together don’t have two brain cells, even if they play nice and share.
10Oh goodie! The cream faced loon and weepin’ willie are coming a-visiting the border. Could we just push ’em over the line and slam the door?
11I don’t remember the rules on double-posting at the WMDBS, but I’m doing it (I posted this under the photo of pRicky Perry lookin’ all badass):
““We should be sending the Red Cross to the border not the National Guard to deal with this humanitarian crisis,” the Democratic congressman said in an email. “The children fleeing violence in Central America are seeking out Border Patrol agents. They are not trying to evade them. Why send soldiers to confront these kids?”~Congressman Juaquin Castro
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/rick-perry-texas-border-national-guard-109165.html#ixzz38DcFprHH
12Republican small government and deficit cuts:
Ted Cruz – Shut down the Federal Government, send workers home on furlough. Afterward pay them for not working
13Rick Perry – Send National Guard troops to the Texas border to stand around. In uniform.
I sent email notifications to the offices of Perry and Abbott. “Not one thin dime of this federal taxpayer’s money will go toward the silly show of border theatrics on the part of the Perry/Abbott clown train.” I’ll be anticipating the canned replies from the staff of both of these goof balls.
14Maybe we should start a “Juanita Jean Feeds The Guard” donation page. People could contribute to help buy lunch for the men and women of the national guard sent by Perry to the border. But it would only be tacos, burritos, enchiladas, chips & salsa….
Would anyone even notice it’s Mexican food?
15I can’t come up with anything except that I’d love to try slapping some sense into these people. If it doesn’t work, I’ll slap harder. Maybe use a brick. I sure hope Obama sends their damn bill back stamped “Refused.”
16That $12 million could fix a lot of gravel roads……
17What could possibly go wrong?
18Someone needs to go to the Capitol, open a can of whoop ass and lob it into the rotunda. Only one is necessary. Should take care of Moe, Larry, Shemp and Curly, no problemo.
19Jim Wynn: Maybe this? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-07-31/news/9707310138_1_mexican-border-texas-mexico-border-suspends
20I just want to cry. Really I do.
21Perry Boosts Presidential Stature by Using Troops for No Reason
22http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/perry-boosts-presidential-stature-using-troops-reason?src=mp
I swear A-butt got his law degree from some school advertising on the back of a matchbook! What he’s talking about is extortion. And Eric Holder on his back like a duck on a June bug!
23A recent NY Times article worth a read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/opinion/Americas-Test-Children-at-the-Border.html?emc=edit_ty_20140721&nl=opinion&nlid=30508336&_r=1
24As a child of a Marine, my family would often attend various ceremonies where all the soldiers stood in full uniform on a tarmac in the hot sun of North Carolina. We kids thought it was great fun to watch man after man keel over and sometimes throw up on the guy next to them. After seeing those black National Guard uniforms, I’m thinking, we may run out of National Guard soldiers.
25Clowns of a feather flock together.
26