Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[MDS]

that is like....the greatest thing ever

[PhillyPhreak54]

Friday afternoon news dump on that for sure !!

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-perry-indicted-coercion-veto-threat-25003869

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Random comments from Twitter about it:

texasfarmgirl1836 ‏@Granner1  4m
Mark Levin says Rick Perry's charges r trumped up bogus charges in an abuse of power by a crooked DA & phony grand jury. Obama wants TEXAS!

Wile E. Quixote ‏@ScottLinnen  35m
I reckon Rick Perry might just get his border wall built. 109 years on a Texas chain gang oughta do it.

Just Jahnavi ‏@JahnaviG  49m
If the women in Texas weren't always trying to assert control over their own uteruses then #RickPerry wouldn't have had to abuse his power.

Eli Braden ‏@EliBraden  53m
#RickPerry should be worried - Texas executes mentally handicapped criminals

[Rome]

Does anyone else think it's hysterical that Perry is whining about political vendettas?  He practically built his entire career on them.

Irony-impaired douchebags are the bestest.

PS: This quote literally had me snorting...

"We don't settle political differences with indictments in this country.

No, your ilk threatens, coerces and intimidates (especially women) and when that fails you sue.  Hypocritical dickface.

[PhillyPhreak54]

The righties are screeching loudly down here about unfair treatment and how the "stupid libs" are just out to get someone and then it keeps going into a rant on Obama

I'm enjoying listening.

[Rome]

His Facebook page is amazing reading.  Terrifying melange of anger, resentment, paranoia and ignorance.,

I started farging with them but got bored in short order.

[PhillyPhreak54]

What's funny is the repubs somehow think that posting the DUI news and videos of the lady who pushed this is relevant. Like her being wasted someone absolves Slick Rick

[Rome]

In Wake of Indictment, Perry Defends Veto (and Criticizes Obama)

By BRIAN KNOWLTONAUG. 17, 2014


WASHINGTON — Rick Perry of Texas remained unrepentant on Sunday about a veto he made as governor that led to his indictment on charges of abuse of power, saying that "if I had to do it again, I would make exactly the same decision."

The governor, who appeared on "Fox News Sunday," also used the occasion to criticize President Obama, saying he was responsible for a national erosion of the "rule of law."

Mr. Perry's appearance Sunday was his first national television interview since his indictment on Friday on two felony counts stemming from his effort to pressure Austin's top prosecutor, Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, to step down by threatening to veto state funding for her office. Mr. Perry, a Republican, had vowed to veto state financing to Ms. Lehmberg, the Travis County district attorney, in an attempt to get her to resign after her arrest on a drunken-driving charge. Grand jurors in Travis County charged Mr. Perry with abusing his official capacity and coercing a public servant.

On Fox, Mr. Perry laid out his complaint against Ms. Lehmberg — saying she had almost three times the legal blood-alcohol limit and was "abusive" when arrested. He then added, of the indictment: "This is not the way we settle differences — policy differences — in this country. You don't do it with indictments. We settle our differences at the ballot box."

Mr. Perry repeatedly invoked the "rule of law," suggesting that it had suffered under Mr. Obama, whether in the scandal over the Internal Revenue Service, enforcement of border security or surveillance by the National Security Agency.

The governor said he had received support from a range of political figures, not just Republicans like Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and the former Florida governor, Jeb Bush, but also, less predictably, from the other end of the political spectrum. He quoted a Twitter post from David Axelrod, the former senior adviser to Mr. Obama, as saying the indictment seemed "pretty sketchy."

Mr. Axelrod's full post read: "Unless he was demonstrably trying to scrap the ethics unit for other than his stated reason, Perry indictment seems pretty sketchy."

Mr. Perry also cited Alan M. Dershowitz, a retired professor of constitutional and criminal law at Harvard University. Mr. Dershowitz told Newsmax, the conservative news website, that he was a "longtime Democrat who would never vote for Rick Perry," but that the indictment represented an unacceptable "criminalization of party differences."

On Saturday, in a news conference in Austin, Mr. Perry made some of the same arguments, saying that Ms. Lehmberg had lost public confidence, and adding, "I wholeheartedly and unequivocally stand behind my veto."

The indictment on Friday marked a change in fortunes for a man who has been an unrivaled power in Texas. Throughout his nearly 14 years as governor, Mr. Perry has filled every position on every board and commission in the state. That amounts to thousands of appointments, from the most obscure positions on the Texas Funeral Service Commission to more influential posts on university boards of regents.

But one powerful institution he does not control is the prosecutor's office here in the state capital. The office has often been a potent irritant to state politicians.

At the time of Ms. Lehmberg's drunken-driving case, in which she pleaded guilty, her office's Public Integrity Unit had been conducting an investigation of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, which received a steady stream of lucrative state grants. The investigation, since concluded, led to the indictment of one of the institute's former executives, who was accused of improperly awarding an $11 million grant to a Dallas firm. Depending on what deal was worked out if Ms. Lehmberg had resigned, Mr. Perry could have been in a position to name her successor.

Now, Mr. Perry's indictment threatens to tarnish his legacy and derail his hopes for a second presidential run.

The charges set in motion a battle of competing narratives over just what kind of overreach the indictment reflects. Democrats say the charges describe the arrogant overreach of a governor with unchecked power. Republicans took up the argument made by Mr. Perry on Saturday that the excess was in the investigation and indictment themselves, which they described as political in nature and extremely dubious in legality.

The thousands of appointments Mr. Perry has made and his longevity in office have given him leverage and influence in every sphere of Texas life. So getting involved in the aftermath of a district attorney's arrest was not out of the ordinary for him. In the recent battle between the president of the University of Texas at Austin, William Powers Jr., and the Perry-backed board of regents, people familiar with the situation have said that Mr. Perry was directly involved.

Few criticisms or legal challenges to Mr. Perry's actions or policies have done any significant damage to his popularity among Republican voters, lawmakers and officials. Even after he stumbled on the national stage with his embarrassing first campaign for president in 2012, he remained feared and respected in Texas. But his critics have seized on his criminal indictment with a new vigor, saying it is a sign that he had been blinded by his own power. Democrats have already called for Mr. Perry to step down.

"It's a reminder that there ain't no cowboy that can't be thrown," said John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat who is the Texas Senate's longest-serving current member.

Republicans defended Mr. Perry's actions as lawful and said the indictment would not do any long-term political damage to him. They said the grand jury, in one of Texas' few Democratic strongholds, had exceeded its authority and inserted itself into the world of politics.

"I think it is the view of Perry supporters that this is a highly partisan prosecution consistent with what we've seen from the Travis County D.A.'s office," said Ted Delisi, a Republican strategist who was the national field director for Mr. Perry's 2012 presidential campaign. "The Democrats in this state haven't been able to defeat Rick Perry at the ballot box. They're going to try to defeat him at the courthouse. I don't think they're going to be successful either way."

Even if the legal consequences of the case ultimately do not amount to much, the indictment comes at an inopportune time.

Having decided against running for a fourth full term as governor, Mr. Perry has spent much of this year seeking to reintroduce himself to Republican donors and voters in states with early presidential primaries.

Fully recovered from the bad back he believes hampered his 2012 White House run, and sporting a new pair of glasses that all but scream makeover, Mr. Perry has seemed determined to prove that a disastrous campaign signified by the infamous "oops" debate moment should not define his national political legacy.

Mr. Perry has repeatedly used the mantra: "I think America is a place that believes in second chances."

What a colossal horse's ass.  Jesus Christ I can't stand Republican bullies. 

[Diomedes]

I swear to God, we're living the the wake, literally in the wake of the Civil War.  We didn't stomp these fargers out when we could have and should have an now we're stuck with them.

[Rome]

Democrats haven't been able to beat Perry at the ballot box so they're going to try to beat him at the courthouse...

Said without a hint of irony by Republicans who are offering full-throated support of Boehner's lawsuit against the President.

[Diomedes]

States Rights!

[PhillyPhreak54]

So ISIS beheaded an American...what will the US response be?

[Rome]

It should be total farging catastrophe for those barbarians.

What it will be is a measured, calculated, reasonable response.

BTW: Congress has 48 days to decide if we go to war again.  They have 60 days from the onset of military action which began on August 8th, so in essence, they get to decide if we go in or stay out of it.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I can't see another full on war. There has to be a better way to handle this than full on occupation. Perhaps if GWB hadn't put us there for ten years people wouldn't be do beaten down by the thought of going full blown batshtein crazy on them.

I don't have a good solution to this.