Manure Pitching-Texas Style

Oh Whoopee!  Ted, the Texas Turd, Cruz and Rick, the Texas Twit, Perry are running for the office of President of the United States.  That is it Folks, as sad as it is to say, that is what Texas has to offer!  It is now official, I have just watched the Texas Twit announce his candidacy.  The announcement was far worse than I imagined it would be, and I honestly thought I had prepared myself for the worst.  I struggled mightily to suppress a gag reflex triggered by Mr. Perry's cloying sentimentality and the copious heaps of  bullshit he was slinging at anyone within earshot.  I hereby extend my sympathy to all the fact checkers who are bound to suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of trying to document all the lies.

The Problem for Republicans is that reality is beginning to assert itself.   The majority of the people in this nation are not happy about the great disparity in wealth caused by enriching the rich at the expense of everyone else.  Because the people of this country are finally objecting to being had, it has become almost mandatory for a politician to tell them that he or she is going to do something to help them.  This is why Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, and now Rick Perry are trying to blame President Obama for the wealth gap.  And just what did Rick Perry say he would do to address this wealth gap?  He promised to "fix entitlement programs, unshackle free enterprise, and speed up free trade agreements."  In other words, he is going to severely cut earned benefits programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment Insurance, as well as cutting any program that will help the people who are suffering the most from the disparity in wealth.  He is also going to do away with regulations so the corporations will be free to ream us harder and deeper and act even more irresponsibly than they did prior to 2008.  Furthermore, he is going to reward our industrialists with trade agreements that will make it easier to export our jobs.  Sounds a bit like what an arsonist would do to free your house of termites, doesn't it?

To show you just how absurd Mr. Perry is, he actually said he would void any agreement that allowed Iran to get a nuclear weapon.  Since the whole purpose of negotiating an agreement with Iran is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon it means Mr. Perry will not be required to do anything, which, judging by his policies,  seems to be the only thing he is capable of doing without causing harm.  The strategy of Rick Perry and all the other Republicans can be summed up with:  lie, defy, and deny.  Lie by blaming everything on President Obama and the Democrats, defy the voters with voter suppression and by ignoring what the polls tell us the voters want, and deny that you are lying and defying.

For some reason all the Republicans, including Rick Perry, seem to think we are suffering from some sort of dementia that will make us forget the last administration and the mess it created.  It was George W. Bush's wars that destabilized the mid-east, and it was George W. Bush's policies that are responsible for the crash of 2008.  Furthermore, it is the obstructionist tactics of the Republicans that have slowed the recovery!  There is no denying that we have a crumbling infrastructure because the Republican Party refuses to fund the work that needs to be done.  See my May 20, 2015 post, entitled "In Pursuit Of Selfishness."

If you want to know more about how Wall Street is hosing us I highly recommend "Yves Smith On The Art Of Class War" posted by Undercover Blue on Digby's Hullabaloo and the post by Yves Smith on Naked Capitalism.