Oh Y’all, Rick Perry Again
Rick Perry is now calling pay equality “nonsense.” And he knows that for two reasons: (1) there are already laws on the books to protect women from discrimination but he’s not real sure what they are, and (2) he appointed a female Secretary of State.
“They have my support, as do all women across — my chief of staff is a woman,” he said. “I mean, I probably got more female chiefs of staff than anybody in Texas history.”
And exactly what he means by “got”, I dunno.
Having Rick Perry run for President is like putting six pots on a four burner stove. He just ain’t got enough smarts to handle many pans.
I guess Ole Rick hadn’t head that the Republican wanting to live in the Guv Shack next has some gender pay problems.
Meanwhile, the San Antonio Express-News was compiling salary figures from the Texas attorney general’s office. The newspaper reported Wednesday that female assistant attorneys general make less on average than do men in the same position under Abbott.
The average salary for the 343 male assistant attorneys general in Abbott’s office is $79,464, the Express-News found, while the average salary for 379 women is $73,649.
Perry says there are other things we folks in Texas should be worried about:
“If they want to talk about substantive issues in Texas in this governor’s race, let’s talk about tax policy, regulatory policy, legal policies,” he said.
Cue the Hallelujah Chorus. He remembered three things! However, I think he just made up that legal policy thing because Lord knows, Rick Perry ain’t lined up straight with the statutes. Plus, I have no idea what legal policies means. He just made that up because he forgot the third thing, didn’t he? Oh well, pack up the Hallelujah Chorus and turn out the lights.
So, Rick wants us to talk about tax and regulatory policy, huh? You know, men things. How ’bout this? Rick wants to pay women less so he can tax us less and he wants to regulate what we do with our bodies. You’re on, big boy. I’m hittin’ the ground runnin’ on that one.
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Between this and the previous post, I’m coming to the conclusion that when Republicans speak of “binders” full of women, they mean they want them in restraints and ball gags.
1Oh My Gohmerts, but Jindal and his Party of Stupid should give old Rinse Pry-bar bleeding ulcers, if he had any sense. Word of advice, you tools, he said “re-branding,” not heat up an iron to geld yourselves.
Tool of the week, Gov Gohmert Hair is about to discover the powers of The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. If he wasn’t such a tool, would almost feel sorry for him. After that mistake, he might wish he had been gelded, because that would be gentler than what is about to happen to him.
2E-vivi-mascu-viscer-sectioning is what I recommend: we’ll take whatever cojones he has left and what little guts he’s got all while he’s still live enough to watch and squeal in protest.
It would be fun!
3If you remove the vowels from Reince Preibus’s name, what remains is this: RNC-PR-BS. If that’s not telling, I don’t know what is.
REGISTER AND VOTE. Every primary, every general, every year, without fail. Remember, despite gerrymandering, voter suppression, and other chicanery, it’s NOT Republican voters who elect RWNJs. It’s Democratic and Independent voters who STAY HOME on election day.
4What Zyxomma said. There are many people — who knows why — with a white-hot fervor to vote for Republicans, and we need plenty of saner people to hustle out on election day to vote for Democrats. (And don’t let them tell you election day is Wednesday, because some of them will.) Volunteer at your local HQ or among your neighbors to drive people to the polls if they might not get there otherwise.
5I’m becoming more convinced than ever that Perry needs to run again for President and participate actively in the Republican state primary debates. The more he talks, the more he will alienate massive sectors of the independent electorate and drag other contenders in his party down with him. It’s amazing that the Republicans have yet to heed the message of 2012. After all, disrespecting women and Hispanics and the young … what does that matter? Demographics? Republicans don’t need no stinkin’ demographics!
6So Rick, let’s talk about regulatory power and how its lack lead to deaths in West, TX. “Come to Texas where human life is just the cost of doing business.”
7Equal pay is not a substantive issue?
8That’s Republican for “I don’t know how to defend it, so I’ll change the subject.”
Because Obama.
Sam in Kyle, the quotes around your statement in there: do they mean Perry or someone said that? that human life is just the cost of doing business? and re: that Baptist preacher, he might consider that maybe the “not usurping authority” might mean let everyone have the chance to do their job, not just turn your brains off. I was raised to believe that women shouldn’t speak in church or Sunday school but you can bet they made plenty of noise at home behind the scenes and were watching and listening at church. And the men I know now love women being on committees and speaking if they know what they are doing. Remember, every generation has to be retaught.
9Rickie has perry-don’t-it-is of the brain! Yup, every time the subject of pay equality, or some other librul idea, comes up, he throws around stuff like regulatory policy, tax policy, and oh yeah, that one size fits all stuff called legal policy whatever the H. that is. Question: could he even write the word regulatory without mis-spelling it? Yup. He probably should hit the Presidential primary trail one more time just to remind people how lucky they were he never got any farther than he did in his march to the White House. And yes he would drag the whole Republican Primary exercise down with him.
10Ha!! Not Clark Kent! NEVER President of the U.S. of A!!!!!
11Considering he double dips……
12I’m reminded of James Watt who described his diverse staff as “A black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple.”
13There is a reason Rick Perry got boo’d on Jimmy Kimmel the other night while his ABC late night show was broadcasting from South by Southwest Festivities in Austin…. I am sure there were lots of folks, nationwide, who enjoyed watching Goodhair squirm… I know I did. Kimmel even hit the event straight on by asking our beloved Guvner for his reaction, since “it is unusual for us to introduce a Governor on our program and have that reaction, why, Gov Perry do you think it happened here tonite?” Ricky just smiled and said that Austin is kinda like the blueberry in the tomato soup.
I also imagine it twisted the Guv’s knickers to realize that the U of Tx Marching Band’s “Big Bertha” drum upstaged his Aggie soul, too.
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