This seems to be a cause for great merriment in the Blue States:
So Long, Pardner: Comment: The New Yorker
but I think it is important to see what this really means.
Perry has been a horrible governor for the State of Texas. He is now pandering to the lowest denominator of Texas reactionaries that he can find to try and preserve his job. I hope that Kay Baily Hutchinson (whom he is now calling Kay "Bailout" Hutchinson) does not rise to the bait.
Thank goodness that Texas has a very weak governor system. Otherwise Perry (The Hairdo) could have made real trouble for us.
Perry & George Wallace?
ReplyDelete" ... It’s tempting to think of Perry, in his states’ rights incarnation, as a new George Wallace. But Wallace, it’s easy to forget, was in some respects a bigot of the people ...
[Perry's] a corporate shill in populist buckskin. Which made him the perfect politician to seize on tea party day and make it his moment ..."
Texas Tea, The Texas Observer