Headline News of the Silly
Okay, so you know how Rick Perry is all Guns A’blazing Law and Damn Order?
Well, he just did a 180 turn that would be the envy of a stunt pilot.
He gets indicted. The first thing he does is lawyer-up. He jumped on his right to silence faster than a six-legged jackrabbit. He refuses to talk unless his lawyer says he can. Okay, so why didn’t we think of this six years ago, or at least before his “Duh” moment. It would have been cool to have a lawyer standing behind him whispering the right answer in his ear.
The next thing he does is to hire a bunch of writ twits. He’s got the biggest legal team since OJ got out of the white Bronco.
Then he asks his legal team to get him off on a technicality. You know, that thing Republicans holler about all the time. Perry’s lawyers wanted to get him off based on whether or not the special prosecutor was properly sworn in. If that ain’t the silliest damn thing.
So, they go to court yesterday.
Senior Judge Bert Richardson on Tuesday denied Gov. Rick Perry’s effort to get the criminal indictment against him thrown out on technical grounds.
The Perry lawyers said special prosecutor Michael McCrum’s oath of office should have been signed by him. It instead was signed by Richardson, who is overseeing the case.
Wait! When did this case become about signatures? This case is about Rick Perry extorting another duly elected public official.
So the judge says, “No.”
They have a whole list of other technicalities they want the judge to consider. So, it kinda hard to believe them when they say they want to go to trial and get a not guilty verdict. It sounds to me like they are trying to run up legal fees and make Rick Perry look like a bigger hypocrite than he already is.
This is gonna be a fun one to watch.
A long time ago someone pointed out that a truly innocent person wants to go to court as soon as possible to prove their innocence. A guilty person will try to delay and bring up reasons as to why they shouldn’t be in court because they know what will happen when they are tried.
1Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
He didn’t think of that whisperin’ in the ear thing because he didn’t have his smart glasses back then.
2Gov pRick, like all criminal defendants, should be ably represented. The prosecution’s case should be presented before a competent Court and a Jury of local citizens should determine his guilt. And if that Jury finds him guilty, he should do the time or pay the fine. His outward prickliness and his furtive personality should play no part in that decision.
3Got it in one, Mike. Reminds me of JJ’s old Congressvarmint. Tom Delay, delay delay!
4“It sounds to me like they are trying to run up legal fees…”
I hope the taxpayers aren’t paying for Perry’s lawyers.
5Any possibility that Perry will have to pay so many fees of his own that he might have to go to bankruptcy court? And in Texas? Now, really. There’s a thought!
6But he’s the GUV’NOR, dang it? You not s’posed to treat guv’ners that way. Are you?
7I continue to be amazed that a Repuglican judge in Texas has the integrity to hold Perry accountable. Kudos, Judge Richardson.
8So, what if he does go to trial? Who, do you think, will be considered his peers, as in “a jury of his peers?” Considering that a trial would be in Travis County, that might keep him up at night.
9@ #5, glf says: “I hope the taxpayers aren’t paying for Perry’s lawyers.”
No more than we pay for his large traveling DPS security squad.
10Oh wait, lawyers make a lot more than DPS troopers (even on per diem)…
@GeneB:
11Like all criminal defendants Gov pRick’s jury will consist of 12 local citizens not smart enough or slick enough to avoid jury duty that fateful Monday morning.
There are people who would pay to be on that jury.
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