Rick Wants To Be A Dick (Cheney, That Is)
So, Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen was strolling through campaign finance reports, which is what he does when he’s not inventing new Blizzard flavors. You’ve always wondered who did that, didn’t ya? Alfredo.
You wanna hear something scary? Rick Perry is studying-up to be Dick Cheney. I would not lie about something this frightening.
Ponder on this: dumb meets mean and you’ve got … well, a dumb mean guy, which we’ve got plenty of in Texas prisons but damn few who wants to be in the White House.
Lookie here. At the end of last year, a parade of Cheney’s advisers were herded-up by Rick Perry and treated to a free vacation at Rick’s Place.
These are Dick Cheney’s guys – all three of them. I can almost promise you that Rick Perry wasn’t meeting with a Bush era DOD guy, Bush’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Cheney’s National Security Adviser so they could help Rick Perry formulate the upcoming Texas legislative session on public school finance.
So, here ya go – you can expect a Texas Legislative session heavy on foreign policy because Rick now knows a thing or two about it. Good for us, it’s just a thing or two because he can’t know three things at once.
And speaking of just plain ole dumb —
Rick Perry is running ads in California urging businesses to relocate to Texas. I wonder if he knows what businesses there are in California — medical marijuana, surfboard shops, adult bookstores, recycling conglomerates, and Scientologists. So, that means that you’ve got Austin covered but what about the rest of the state?
And you know who lives in California? Hippies, that’s what. And libruls. Good Lord, they have Governor Moonbeam Jerry Brown there.
Whoa, wait! I take it all back. Come on, California! We need your vote.
We can only hope that Rick Perry, Rick Santorum…hey! Is this a huge right-wing Rick conspiracy? Anyway, we can hope that Perry, Sanctimonium and maybe Gingrich mess up the Rethugs primaries like they did last time.
I think the biggest issue we Libruls need to address in the next four years is gerrymandering. Everything else would work itself out if we had free and FAIR elections.
1I remember during the “Oil Boom” a while back, (actually (way back) here in Houston… I used to see bumper stickers on trucks parked in the lots downtown, that construction workers used.
“We don’t care how you do it up north”.
A lot of folks from the north (I think they called it “the rust belt” came south, looking for jobs.
Some folks didn’t care to hear how it was done “up north”.
A lot of them stayed. Helped us keep some Democrats in office in Houston.
So, California….Democrats, come on over. But be prepared to take a pay cut.
2Thank you Alfredo and JJ.
Advice from those folks is not good for plain ol citizens of Texas.
Wonder if tax abatements will get those businesses to Texas.
That zero sum game should be against the law.
Staying ahead of those guys is a full time job. Our team better get to work.
3Lots of things will change if Texas gets an influx of Californians. I lived in Colorado for 35 years, and one of the most popular bumper stickers was “Don’t Californicate Colorado”. Texas could use a bit of Californication. The President of the Abilene Christian University’s Democratic Club is from Dallas now, but she was raised in California, her Dad got transferred to Dallas a few years ago. Yep. We could use more kids like her moving into the State.
4What I love is the news in the chronicle on how our state has totally screwed up public school funding and they’ve been paddled HARD.
So come to our state- no health care, no rights as a woman and a school system that is so underfunded that certain counties ban girls scout cookie sales because that messes up the bake sales to help fund our bare school necessities.
5Oh, and the Vice Prez of the ACU Dems is a cute guy from Aurora, Colorado. I depend on those guys to help me staff all kinds of efforts here in Ruby Red Abilene…. and when their campus newspaper endorsed Obama, it was a lead story on the 10pm news. Hahahahaha Bring it on.
6I think he’s behind the curve on this one, a lot of California Businesses of the Semiconductor kind moved to Texas in the 90’s. A lot of the Semicondutor suppliers came to Austin to be near Sematech (which BTW has since moved to upstate NY). I have no idea if they are still there, I would suspect not.
7The way I hear it told, the statement “Rick wants to be a dick” has too many words in it. Two too many, beginning at “to.”
Those Neocons are infesting everything they can in the GOP these days, even though they’ve already been relegated to the ash heap of history alongside “the Soviet Union.”
But that doesn’t stop them from trying to rise from the dead and walk the earth, attaching themselves to various GOP candidates, like Romney. Team Romney was FULL of these Neocon zombies.
This all makes a certain amount of nonsensical sense. What are zombies trying to bring about? The Zombie Apocalypse. What are Neocons trying to bring about? War in the Middle East and the triumph of Israel. What are the Dominionists trying to accomplish? The political milieu for Armageddon. Where is Megiddo? Israel.
It’s all a plot for Neocon, dominionist zombies to kick start the End Times.
There’s one flaw in the plan, though. The zombies have attached themselves to the GOTP. But zombies feed on brains.
It’s likely they’ll starve before they ever get to Jerusalem.
8I was in Austin when the California folk moved here in the 90s. They drove up house prices because they thought ours were so low they didn’t bargain them down. Prices doubled almost overnight, driving a lot of the middle class out of home ownership. I’m not exaggerating. We bought a four-bedroom home in Pflugerville in 1989 for $87,500. Three years later it was worth well over $150,000 and the value just kept climbing from there. New developments were advertising three-bedroom homes “from the low $200,000s.”
The main thing the Californians brought, however, that annoyed me no end, was the constant cry for a state income tax. That and other things they wanted like they’d had it back home. I was not alone in saying if they wanted things like they were back home, they should go back home.
But here’s the main problem: Central Texas no longer has the water resources to support the people who are here in a minimally dry year. Water restrictions due to the reservoirs dropping used to be a really rare thing and now it is every year and happening sooner each year. Two summers back during the really hot summer of 2011, over 10 Texas reservoirs went completely dry. Not all of these were in west Texas. Even the normally swampy east Texas reservoirs were affected.
And then the state went up in flames over Labor Day weekend.
Personally, daChipster, I think “wants to be” should just be replaced with the word “is.” Same number of words, but fewer letters than your suggestion.
9Nah, daChipster got it right…leaving out ‘to be a’ cuts to the chase. RE Californians, having lived in both places and being married to one for over 30 years…they are very good at water conservation and rationing, and natural landscaping. However, they do not transplant well, especially to places like Texas. When Chevron moved all of their earth scientists from San Ramon, CA to Houston, the guys upstairs thought it wouldn’t cause a lot of defections. They thought wrong.
10Maybe Rick is studying up on foreign policy in anticipation of Texas becoming a sovereign country.
Note on California: Our radical rightists are a minority, but in “quality” we yield to no one. I live in a rural-ish area. For years my Rep was so rightist he thought the Tea Party was too liberal. And we did give the country Ronald Reagan. Sorry about that.
11Go ahead and talk about Governor Moonbeam. California is running a surplus. I doubt he did that by cutting social programs and kicking the poor in the teeth.
12Every time I look at a photo of this pompous moron, a vision of “Ted Baxter” on The Mary Tyler Moore Show pops into my mind. Anybody else?
13Us former Californicators have been blamed for a lot of things, but causing housing prices to rise in the 90’s because we didn’t haggle and crying for a state income tax (?) pretty much takes the cake. (My brother lives in Colorado and they don’t like Texans for many of the same reasons.)
On the plus side, I’m a Demmycrat. At least I’ve got that goin’ for me.
14Who is he going to shoot? Which donor?
15After hearing Rick Perry’s attempt to attract California businesses to Texas, Gov. Jerry Brown called it a non-story.
16” Not even a burp, barely a fart.”. Gotta love Jerry Brown!
We moved back to Texas in 1974. All the bumper stickers then were ‘Let The Bastards Freeze in the Dark’.
Texas could learn a few things if we could ever get over the belief that tisi is the best of all possible worlds.
17We moved back to Texas in 1974. All the bumper stickers then were ‘Let The Bastards Freeze in the Dark’.
Texas could learn a few things if we could ever get over the belief that this is the best of all possible worlds.
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