Heaven help us.
Dear Sweet Jesus. I implore you to save us from the peril called cheap thrills Rick Perry.
It seems that our Governor, in a desperate attempt to reboot his pathetic Presidential campaign, somehow believes he can get away with Rovian tall tales and truth distortions outside of Texas.
Governor Perry has had the audacity to run an attack ad against President Obama that that has little to do with factual knowledge or truth.
Rick Perry's sleazy smear ad completely misrepresents the President's words during an interview Mr. Obama had at the APEC CEO Business Summit Q&A in Honolulu.
Update: As we can see Rick Perry's campaign with a little help from You Tube took the video down. I guess Governor Perry can't do accountability. Poor cheap shots and cheap thrills Slick Perry.
Rick Perry can run but he cannot hide.
Texas, I think it is time to give Perry the boot. All he is good for is junkyard dog political brawls and doing deals for himself with fat cats. That and hiding a $25 billion deficit shortfall with smoke and mirrors accounting tactics that would make former Enron proud. The Governor also excels at slashing and burning state budgets that have resulted in thousands of lost jobs among teachers, firefighters and state workers.
Where laziness is concerned no one could be more lazy than the Governor of Texas. After all, the Texas government is so small that the legislature meets every other year. The Lt. Govenor does most of the legislative work while the Governor's job is mostly ceremonial. And yet the Governor of Texas receives a generous salary, thanks to Texas taxpayers, as well as housing expenses that includes living in a mansion with domestic services, security detail and health care benefits.
That is one big fat salary and benefits package for a half time Governor, no? Next time the Governor wants to cut a budget, maybe he should start with his own.
Alas I digress. Getting back to what President actually did say about laziness please see below.
Excerpt from the discussion between President Obama and Mr. McNerney at the APEC CEO Business Summit Q&A in Honolulu.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, this is an issue, generally. I think it’s important to remember that the United States is still the largest recipient of foreign investment in the world. And there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity -- our stability, our openness, our innovative free market culture.
But we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted -- well, people will want to come here and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America. And so one of things that my administration has done is set up something called SelectUSA that organizes all the government agencies to work with state and local governments where they’re seeking assistance from us, to go out there and make it easier for foreign investors to build a plant in the United States and put outstanding U.S. workers back to work in the United States of America.
And we think that we can do much better than we’re doing right now. Because of our federalist system, sometimes a foreign investor comes in and they’ve got to navigate not only federal rules, but they’ve also got to navigate state and local governments that may have their own sets of interests. Being able to create if not a one-stop shop, then at least no more than a couple of stops for people to be able to come into the United States and make investments, that’s something that we want to encourage.
Now I know the President's words are one mother lode of information for Rick Perry to wrap his empty little head around.
But Mr. Obama’s statement was not about “Americans” generally, but about the country’s efforts to attract foreign investment. It came in response to a question put to him at a conference last weekend by W. James McNerney Jr., chief executive of Boeing, who had asked him how foreign investors looked at the United States.
Cross posted on Texas Kaos.
Cheap shots and distorted ads like that of Perry don't work very well in national Presidential campaigns. Especially now. Far too many folks are out of work, too many have lost their homes thanks to either bank foreclosures or wild fires in Texas. Few are in the mood for mean and stupid trash talk from clown politicians. We the people want facts and answers. We want jobs. Don't entertain us with political clown shows. Tell us how you will create jobs.
The Republican Party Never Fails to Disappoint in Truth Distortion and Smear and Fear Politics.
Meanwhile on the GOP front of its endless character assassination hit jobs, now lobbyists and former aides for U.S. House Speaker John Boehner are fully engaged and ready to smear, Wall St. occupiers and organizers.
This group of patriotic and courageous occupiers across the U.S. have been brutally beaten, jailed, tear gassed, ruthlessly pepper sprayed and shot with rubber bullets. A veteran who managed to survive several tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan comes home only to get shot in the head with a rubber bullet for commiting the crime of peacefully assembling in Oakland. The bullet has literally stolen the young man's freedom of speech for his brain injury has resulted in his inability to speak.
The veteran, Scott Olsen, must feel like he never left the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The demonized occupiers are merely asking for a modicum of fairness and a job that pays a sustainable salary.
What is so horrible and un-American about that?
Republican Presidential candidate and former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has some sage advice for the jobless occupiers.
Get a job after you get a bath.
Ewwww. Just looking at slimy, sleazy Newt and remembering his past deeds makes this girl want toss Newt into a hot steaming bath.
Meanwhile, the GOP attack dog lobbyists have written letters of extortion to the Wall St. banks. They want the banks to pay them nearly $1 million so they can run smear campaigns against OWS and its organizers.
Why does the GOP have to resort to smear campaigns for anything it does not like or agree with? Is the Party's message, like candidate Rick Perry, bereft of substance? Has it become so corrupted by greed and power that the GOP has forgotten who it is and who it serves?