“He’s hosting a steady stream of Republican supplicants in Austin, his would-be organization is stepping up its outreach, and they’re both talking to key early-state operatives and players,” according to Politico.
“Rick Perry is poised to shake up the GOP presidential race.
“As it increasingly appears likely the Texas governor will launch a White House bid, Perry’s ramp-up has become eerily reminiscent of the front porch strategy then-Gov. George W. Bush employed in 1999 at the governor’s mansion ahead of his own presidential run – but at an accelerated pace.
“This week alone, Perry is meeting in the Texas capital with a group of elected officials from Arkansas, then with another later in the week from Tennessee and Georgia. He’s also hosting a group of national donors. Next week, he’s set to sit down with a different set of bundlers.”
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Doh! Hey, Beavis and Butthead are comin back to the teevee box too…:)
Kate
This will be good entertainment, at best.
He apparently thinks he can stand the background “lifting of the rock to see what crawls out” test. The truth of the Hattie he has caused in Texas would make good miniseries or two.
To quote another Texas Governor, “Bring it on!”
Yikes: autospellcheckomatic!
Hattie = HORROR
Let’s just use the term Texan HABOOB Curtis…and since with Perry the HABOOB fits…
Kate
The only way ANY republican has a chance at winning the Presidential election is if President Obama alienates his base so much they don’t show up for him allowing this election to become close. I know my support is not there as of today but I was never really big supporter of the candidate Obama either. When given a choice between Senator Obama and his emotion stirring speeches against McCain blowing in the wind with his sidekick Palin the choice was easy. I am not an enabler and only support those who stand with conviction/ principal. Compromise is part of life but trying to achieve the goal through endless 80/ 20 and even worse deals gives me very little to support.
Ben,
I agree with you, But I am also keenly aware that there are two aging liberal justices on the Supreme court. Those appointments may have repercussions far beyond the short term policies decisions made by the next president.
As it is we have not yet felt the full impact of Citizens United ruling.
The question needs to be; is President Obama somebody who you would walk the streets for because of his actions or because out of fear?
All this rhetoric (mainly from the right) about freedom is what we are talking about. If we vote out of fear does that land in your definition of freedom? If we vote out of conviction against so called conventional thinking are we free? Which one is more likely to produce the outcomes we hope to see?
On the campaign I heard from both republicans and democrats that they would love to vote for me but it would be a wasted vote. Our vote is wasted when we are forced to vote for or endorse the lesser of two evils, Economically the democrats and republicans aren’t much different at all because both party leaderships are owned by the financial sector and it is this very industry that feeds the rest of our society on just about every level. Social issues are a different story.
I agree if there is a single issue it will be SCOTUS appointments.
Ben,
You’ve got my vote, if you run
Everyone should know by now who the banana republicans and the Tea Party really repre$ent…hint: its not 98% of us. Unless your last name begins Trump, Inc. or Corp. they don’t run and get the lubricant so much…Kate
No, Ben…re: The GOP: I’m afraid this isn’t adult, rational behavior. Look at the polling. The GOP are ignoring the will of the people. They are provoking a Constitutional crisis–ala 1995. We all know the definition of insanity, doing the same behaviors, etc. …this money is to pay off debt that George W. Bush created. The GOP have Obama Derangement Syndrome…and its made them so barking crazy that they are becoming a danger to themselves and others…and the country. Kate
Kate,
You will not get any argument from me on the republican party, I believe they are intentionally sabotaging the American economy hurting tens of millions of people in the process so they can blame it on Obama and his so called policies of socialism. The problem is the democratic party is beholden to many of the same people/ corporations out of necessity for most and ideology for some. The people no longer have representation willing to stand up in a strong manner publicly outside of a number smaller than I can count on my hands.
Trust me I want to believe in the democratic party and the President but my entire voting life they have been a major disappointment. I want the party of FDR, JFK, and LBJ not the third way Clintonites who punished those on welfare and brought us Free Trade along with the deregulation of the banks and had a financial team of Rubin/ Summers. Not the Clinton who willing signed into law telecommunications act and ignored environmental issues until the last few months of his administration. And definitely not Gore who stopped fighting for the Presidency that he won when all the votes were counted in Florida** or Kerry who didn’t fight back against swift boat or in Ohio. Then we have Obama who is a mold of Clinton, Gore, and Kerry put together. He has the strength of Gore, the fight of Kerry, and the financial team and ideology of Clinton. I will stop my rant now but we have to do better if we want to see the changes we seek.
**http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1115-02.htm
George Rebane’s response to the fallout from the Norwegian massacre:
http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2011/07/discussing-norway-and-breivik.html
How nice of George to continue the grim work of Anders Behring Breivik by asking the questions Anders would have put to the West in a courtroom if he had had the chance yesterday. It is hard for me to tell where one Nordic ‘visionary’ ends and the other begins.
George opening with this quote from the Wall Street Journal’s discredited editorial page really says it all: “Norway’s murders shouldn’t be an excuse to shut down debate over multiculturalism….”
Well, George, who is trying to shut down debate over anything? No one has said the issue should not be discussed. By raising this red herring, the implication that people are trying to squelch debate over multi-culturalism, you are already distorting the issue, and framing it as though those that oppose multiculturalism are victims. Your crew of sycophantic followers may fall for that but do you really think that we are that simple?
Let us go a little deeper. Since when does a “right of a culture to endure and thrive in its homeland” exist?
Human history has been one of migration of peoples from the savannah of east Africa to the poles (unless you believe we were pulled from Adams rib 6000 years ago).
I have no right for my culture to endure; my culture endures because I engage in it, I create, I celebrate, I advance. And what culture would we want to endure? Should we freeze culture at a specific date (like 1938) and hold it there, against the strains and stresses of migration, economies, and modernity? Just what culture are we having endure? Isn’t it the nature of a culture to evolve? If not it would get pretty damn boring watching Gotterdammerung over and over again.
The very premise is absurd.
Please read the above list of questions and ask yourself the question, “who is speaking here, is it George or is it Anders?”
Not only is this list of questions absurd, the logical progression of the questions leads to the ending salvo: “what is the ethnic future of Europe?, what is the future of western culture in Europe?, what does the Breivik massacre reveal about American politics?, what are the new and beneficial policies for America?”
I’ll tell you what it tells me; it tells me that insulated, ideological, white supremacists like you should never be allowed to gain power in America.
I mean what kind of bullshit manipulation of a tragedy is this George? You think that a guy kills 80 people and you can use the event to to advance the idea that Americans should protect their “culture” by thinking about “new and beneficial policies”?
I think you are still and Estonian, or Lithuanian, or Latvian, or Teutonic knight, or whatever the hell you were as a Jugend.
I prefer the response of Norway’s Prime Minsiter. “”It’s absolutely possible to have an open, democratic, inclusive society, and at the same time have security measures and not be naive,” he said.
The response to terror is not more terror: the response to terror is more democracy.
Bravo!
Norway is moving on. The Aryan terrorist thought highly of the imperial hegemony of Russia, Japan, Saudi Arabia and S. Korea–this is what he wanted for Europe. My suggestion is that if these countries “fit the idealized bill” of people like him they need to do a “geographical relocation” and hit it…Putin will be waiting with a manly kiss on their arrival, comrades. Hasta La Vista,…babies…Kate
Steve,
I have been trying to make the points over at rr that the response is just as important as the act and we need treat the people who perpetrate such acts as criminals and mentally ill. The last point I made wasn’t received very well that making blanket categorizations of entire groups or religions based on the acts of few is dangerous. Of course I was accused of condemning Christianity in its entirety. Up until that point my only mention of Christianity was in the context of Mathew 25. It seems many at rr are having a debate within their own head but typing it out and pressing post.
Actually Kate, that is a point I have been making all along: the George’s of the world are more akin to totalitarian than libertarian, the governance they propose is more Putin than Jefferson. That’s why they don’t get any of America in the great divide: if they want to live with “their own kind” let them emigrate to some other duchy in Eastern Europe and get the f*&^ out of mine.
Hey, and since we’re in America, and people like you wingbats aren’t the “king of anything”, it prolly sucks to be you right now…and I’m not sayin it like its a bad thing…Kate
Ben, I have been reading the thread at RR, and wondering when all of us are just going to get sick of consorting with fascists.
The problem here is that these people actually believe that they have a right to cultural supremacy, which is the same premise Hitler used to secure and exert power over the cultured and highly evolved German society. It also happens to be a principle concept of the Tea Party movement.
I don’t give a damn if its the supremacy of a race, or a religion, or an ideology: when people seriously exert a right to supremacy they should be pariahs in modern society.
How does one stop a Radovan Karadžić? You challenge them at the beginning and never stop challenging them, until you are at the edge of the pit.
I was talking about how the republican party was “Letting America Fail to Win an Election” in early 2010, this is an Op Ed I wrote that wasn’t published. Also splashed in there is the democrats inability to take full steps in protecting the American people against the financial sector.
http://www.benemery.org/1/post/2010/4/letting-america-fail-to-win-an-election.html
Steve,
I just wrote my farewell post at George’s. It reads
“I was talking with some local elected officials and they let me know that they are tempted to come on to these blogs to post but in reality the people who run them are so insignificant in the decision making of our world it would be a wast of time. After reading through this thread I am thoroughly convinced they were right.
Good Luck with all the fear of the other and hopefully one day rumination regulars will realize we are all human beings living on a small planet together. Cooperation is the answer to the problems we face today not might makes right.”
Good for you. I will be joining you.
I hear that too. Then I find out how Russ Steele got appointed to the Transportation Commission, and hence became an ERC board member. George Rebane was going to be John Spencer’s planning commissioner. And Russ and George are listed as “community leaders” on Sue Horne’s campaign literature.
At The Union Jeff Ackerman used to complain about Russ and George calling them “unconstructive.” But later, he invited them to write monthly columns for the newspaper. (Jeff since wised up to Russ’ but is happy to continue running George).
Then KVMR asks George to be a commentator on its news hour, no less. And Todd Juvinall is a former elected supervisor, mind you.
So it seems like people are talking out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to this extremist group. I think they like the campaign contributions, as pitifully small as they are.
I think it shows that we’re a community in transition. BTW, I never go there anymore except to defend myself against false statements made by Barry Pruett.
The redistricting that gets Tom McClintock out of here (or largely out of here) will be tonic for this town. Worse than Tom are his “hangers on” and vocal supporters. We don’t need a Congressman that says it’s time to replace a “left-wing clerk recorder” or promotes the need to “agitate.” Most of our local problems are nonpartisan.
And I do not include John Stoos in that group. John is civil and more intelligent in his discourse.
By the way I’d love to start the ‘boycott fascism’ movement over here and get Mike, Michael, Doug, Steve and Paul to follow.
The problem is, as Michael Corleone said, “just when I thought I was out they pull me back in” with their outrageous lies and personal attacks.
I need to resist it like an addict resists crack.
Uh Oh… not so many takers on Perry’s day of prayer, fasting, and extremism.
‘But with only 8,000 RSVPs for a stadium that seats 71,500 people, virtually no politicians planning to attend, and a slate of organizers who hold out-of-mainstream views on religious freedom, gay rights and even Adolf Hitler, the event has become a potentially risky gamble if Perry is serious about running for the White House.’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/08/03/national/a000505D59.DTL