Texas Governor Rick Perry is stomping his little feet again.

He is demanding that President Barack Obama apologize to Rick Perry personally for something that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said about Texas, not specifically about Governor Rick Perry.  If this sounds like a soap opera, that’s because it is.

I would like for Governor Rick Perry to apologize to me personally for something tacky the Republican Precinct Chairman in my precinct said about Thelma’s new leopard print sequin bedazzled stretch pants, but that ain’t gonna happen either.

Eric Holder said that the Voter ID bill in Texas is a poll tax.  News flash:  he ain’t the only one saying that.  Hell, Rick, I’m saying that and you ain’t getting no damn apology from me either.  If I have to pay $22 for a copy of my birth certificate in order to get an allowable ID to vote, that right there is what we call a damn poll tax.

And Rick Perry runs with scissors a little more —

[Texas lawyer John] Hughes offered a semi-defense of literacy tests after one judge said that the reason literacy tests were racist years ago was because of inequalities in the education system. The judge asked if it was Texas’ theory that there would be a problem with literacy tests today. Setting aside other laws banning literacy tests and poll taxes, Hughes said he did not believe a literacy test would violate Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

When the State of Texas is arguing that it can charge someone $22 and give them a literary test to vote, it is not President Obama who should be apologizing.

But it appears to be Rick Perry’s job to stand on the mountaintop and shout Glory Hallelujah when Texas does something insanely unAmerican.  And you have to hand it to him, he’s doing it very well.