Tag Archives: Rick Perry

PROPOSAL: Name Hurricanes After Politicians That Deny Climate Change

This is fantastic. (Tipped by JMG reader Philip)

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Obamacare Opponent Rick Perry Lobbies For $100M In Obamacare Funding

Politico reported last night that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is lobbying for $100M in federal funds in order to implement a portion of Obamacare that benefits disabled and elderly Medicaid patients.  Take it away, Think Progress: Perry has been a heated opponent of the health law. He refused to accept $100 billion in federal funding to expand Texas’ Medicaid program …

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Rick Perry: I Won’t Seek Reelection

Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced today that he will not seek reelection. The time has come to pass on the mantle of leadership,” he said at a rally in San Antonio. “Today, I’m announcing I will not seek reelection as governor of Texas.” Perry has served as governor since 2000, when then-Gov. George W. Bush (R) became president. Perry was …

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Maddow On Gays & The GOP

Mediaite has a recap of Rachel Maddow’s Friday night piece on gays and the GOP: “In Republican world, it is a very different world than the rest of us are living, when it comes to The Gay,” Rachel Maddow said in a blistering segment taking the mainstream GOP to task for their ossified position on homosexuality. Whereas the country is …

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Rick Perry Signs “Merry Christmas” Bill

With the Kountze High School cheerleaders looking on, yesterday Rick Perry signed a bill that forbids any legal challenge to the observance of religious traditions in public schools. Dubbed the “Merry Christmas bill,” the bipartisan measure sailed through the state House and Senate to reach Perry’s desk. It removes legal risks of saying “Merry Christmas” in schools while also protecting …

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Frank Bruni On The Boy Scouts

“The Episcopal Church wants all aspects of the ban lifted, as does the National Jewish Committee on Scouting, whose former chairman, a Baltimore lawyer named Jay Lenrow, told me that while no troop should be forced to choose a gay leader, no troop should be prevented from doing so, either. “He noted that our country was founded on a principle …

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Rick Perry: Boy Scouts Must Resist Gays Like Sam Houston Resisted Slavery

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From A Rick Perry Appointee

Salon reports that Rick Perry appointee Barry Smitherman, who runs the panel which regulates the oil industry in Texas, today tweeted an image which apparently calls for hanging the GOP Senators that helped advance the gun control bill. Smitherman is reportedly planning to run for Texas Attorney General in 2014. “Barry Smitherman’s reprehensible action is disturbing, disgusting, and has absolutely …

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Rick Perry Is Disgusted

“The Vice President’s committee was appointed in response to the tragedy at Newtown, but very few of his recommendations have anything to do with what happened there. Guns require a finger to pull the trigger. The sad young man who did that in Newtown was clearly haunted by demons and no gun law could have saved the children in Sandy …

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The 2012 Campaign In Two Minutes

9-9-9! Oops! And all the greatest misses…

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Rick Perry: Mitt Is My Quarterback

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Perry Endorses Swingrich

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Rick Perry Drops Out

That leaves Mittens, Gingrich, Paul…and…and…wait, what’s the fourth? Oops.

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Perry: Obama Disdains The Military

Rick Perry says that pursuing criminal charges against those pissing Marines is evidence of the Obama administration’s disdain for the military.

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Rick Perry Action Figure

Pity it doesn’t come with the Brokeback jacket. On sale now through the South Carolina primary, but probably not afterwards.

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Rick Perry: I’d Re-Invade Iraq

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TRAILER: Brokeback Romney

Low-hanging fruit and all that.

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Rick Perry: Actually I’m NOT Quitting

I don’t know what the photo is supposed to mean, but Rick Perry is tweeting out denials that he has actually quit the race. Sorry, world.

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Tweet Of The Day – Warren Throckmorton

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Rick Perry: I’m Going Back To Texas

A dejected Rick Perry told his supporters that in light of his fifth place finish tonight, he is “going back to Texas to assess whether there’s still a way to move forward with this campaign.” Which means he’s out. Arguably, the final nail in Perry’s campaign was his anti-gay “Strong” video which garnered him ridicule and scorn even from some …

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