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Rick Perry Presents "Rick Perry"

Rick Perry Doesn’t Care About The Poors™ or The Blacks™

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  October 25, 20111:10 pm| 35 Comments

This post is in: Kiss My Black Ass, Rick Perry Presents "Rick Perry", Serenity Now!

Rick Perry is talking again. And he’s saying stupid shit… again.

From Kevin Drum:

From Rick Perry, after John Harwood of the New York Times notes that his tax plan will mean huge tax cuts for the rich in an era of already skyrocketing income inequality:

But I don’t care about that.

I suppose there’s something oddly refreshing about that response. There’s also this:

Q. Why did you choose to keep the birther issue alive?

A. It’s a good issue to keep alive. You know, Donald [Trump] has got to have some fun. It’s fun to poke him a little bit and say “Hey, let’s see your grades and your birth certificate.” I don’t have a clue about where the president — and what this birth certificate says. But it’s also a great distraction. I’m not distracted by it.

Yes, the birther issue is just a spot of fun!***

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Sure, Rick Perry. It’s a good issue to keep alive in order to pander to your idiotic racist-ass base who are, by the way, too stupid to care that you just said YOU DON’T CARE THAT THEY ARE POOR.

For the love of —

***Rick Perry is an ignorant asshole.

[via Mother Jones]

[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]

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Didja hear? Rick Perry went birther.

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  October 24, 20114:21 pm| 33 Comments

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In case you missed it…

Rick Perry went birther.

After which destiny farted.

SURPRISE!

[via Crooks and Liars]

(Yes, that was the entire post. You should go read something else now.)

[cross-posted]

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Popcorn Time

by Tom Levenson|  October 19, 20116:32 pm| 28 Comments

This post is in: Rick Perry Presents "Rick Perry", Schadenfreude, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot

Via TPM, Mitt Romney goes medieval on Rick Perry:

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Reagan’s commandment is toast, for which I say praise the FSM, hallelujah and amen!

I know it gets very serious soon, but I gotta thank Mitt for giving us this moment to sit back, put our feet up, and enjoy the show.

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Perry-lized With Fear And Doubt

by Zandar|  October 4, 20118:53 am| 126 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Rick Perry Presents "Rick Perry", Teabagger Stupidity

It seems Governor Goodhair is no longer the Shiny New Tea Party Savior anymore as his poll numbers have dropped like large painted-over rock.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way for Rick Perry.

A hard-talking embodiment of the conservative id, the Texas Governor entered the race in August and quickly shot to the front of the pack on broad appeal to the Tea Party base, and his message on job creation.

But something funny’s happening to Rick Perry on the way to what many expected to be a charge to the nomination: Namely, Rick Perry.

After a series of missteps and stumbles, most of his own making, the latest Washington Post / ABC News poll shows Perry having lost about half of his national support in the last month. The former frontrunner is now staring back up at his chief rival, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, and running neck-and-neck with the surging Herman Cain.

Now let’s keep in mind that these numbers were taken mostly before this weekend’s revelations about the name of Perry’s hunting camp in Texas.  The same caveat applies to Herman Cain’s numbers too.  Cain attacked Perry over the weekend, by Monday he was running away from his own statements because King Rush told him to know his role and shut his mouth.  Everything you need to know about Cain there is that he complied with near neutrino-level speed.

It’s arguable that Perry’s numbers may actually improve slightly thanks to this weekend’s events.  As for Cain, I expect we’ll see him back down among the also rans as soon as Chris Christie makes his announcement and becomes the next Shiny New Thing.

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Pushing back on Conservative “Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme” Framing

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  September 16, 20118:08 pm| 50 Comments

This post is in: Fuck The Poor, Rick Perry Presents "Rick Perry"

“Do you believe seniors living in gutters is the future of ‘social security’?”

 Nicholas Wilbur at Muddy Politics identifies an area in which liberals can push back on the right’s attempt to cast social security as a Ponzi scheme, a scam, or some irrefutably broken system:

The back and forth over Social Security only further convinced the constituencies on the Right and Left what those respective constituencies already believed: that Social Security is/isn’t a Ponzi scheme.

This may be the new reality in a politically polarized America, but for liberals who are expected to elevate political issues beyond the talking points and frameworks of Republican demagogues, they failed miserably – and I believe they will continue to fail for three reasons: First, because all ideologues are hard-headed, and the current “base” of the Republican Party is full of ideologues; secondly, because facts that don’t align with a party’s agenda aren’t facts at all; and lastly, because it takes only one liberal to admit publicly that there are similarities between a Ponzi scheme and Social Security, and when that liberal concedes, as Matthews did, it opens a small but fatal chink in the Left’s armor that conservatives will exploit until everyone knows that “Liberals agree,” in this case, “that it’s a Ponzi scheme.”

The Left missed the point – and a great opportunity to actually elevate the debate.

Comparing Social Security to a Ponzi scheme, even if the comparison is intended to show how Social Security isn’t a Ponzi scheme, is still comparing Social Security to a fraudulent scam. It relies on a Republican framework – Perry’s framework – and it criminalizes Social Security from the start.

Who cares what Perry thinks?

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How a Tea Partier defines Social Security is irrelevant. The future of the program is the issue. And that should be the framework.

Rather than battling over a definition coined by a crank, the Left needs to focus on what Social Security would become under a President Perry – or a President Romney. Despite the two candidates’ differences in rhetoric, both believe in “fixes” that lead to the program’s demise.

Both Perry and Romney have voiced their support for creating private, individual social insurance accounts – which Romney claimed in 2007 is different from “privatization,” even if it isn’t different at all. Rather than minor tweaks, which is all that will be required to extend the longevity of a program that has already worked for three-quarters of a century, Republicans prefer scrapping the entire point of Social Security: the security part.

Whereas Democrats understand the moral imperative of maintaining a program that for 75 years has helped keep senior citizens out of poverty, Republicans, in contrast, believe that if you live past a certain age and run out of the money you paid into a private retirement account, oh well. You can “live in a gutter,” as Limbaugh put it.

That is the difference between Republicans and Democrats, and that is the comparison liberals and Democrats ought to be making. Publicly. Not terms and definitions and contrasting arguments about slight similarities that even Chris Matthews can’t quite pin down, but the heartlessness of forcing senior citizens to “live in a gutter” if they live too long, if they are injured as working adults, if their spouses die, or if they’re otherwise unable to work long enough to build up a sufficient savings. Social Security is not a retirement account, it’s an anti-poverty program that provides some dignity to seniors.

Rather than letting the Right frame the argument over Social Security by forcing the Left into a battle over semantics, the Left needs to refocus the issue to its core by asking the question, “Do you believe seniors living in gutters is the future of ‘social security’?”

(read the rest of “The Meaning of ‘Ponzi scheme’ vs. The Consequences of ‘Privatization’.”)

It’s about framing. When liberals use conservative framing, we give the frame legitimacy where there is none.

A very salient point, indeed.

[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]

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Early Morning Open Thread

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  September 10, 20114:07 am| 13 Comments

This post is in: Music, Open Threads, Rick Perry Presents "Rick Perry"

Made me laugh all seven times I played it. PronunciationManual is a parody of pronunciationbook, apparently. Timothy Olyphant is wonderful too.

Musicwise, I’m liking The Young Professionals, from dancepop:

through trancey banginess:

all the way to this:

Plus cute Jewish boys. What’s not to like?

Just a final reminder, the latest jobs thread is here.

ETA: “Darkness“.

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Running for Jefferson Davis’ old seat

by Dennis G.|  September 9, 20119:54 pm| 128 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Post-racial America, Rick Perry Presents "Rick Perry", Teabagger Stupidity

Rick-Perry-for-CSA-President

Rick Perry is running for President, but it is worth asking: President of what?.

His campaign rhetoric, policy solutions, views of American history, the Constitution and our laws are all distinctly Confederate. He finds Federal spending on education, infrastructure, and a safety net to be outside of his understanding of the Constitution. Rights for workers, environmental protection and any regulations that interfere in the God given right of our Galtian Overlords to take whatever they want, whenever they want it are also at odds with his views. It is the CSA Constitution that frames Perry’s understanding of Constitutional law and his founding fathers are more Davis, Forrest and Lee than those fellas from 1776. This is why it is fair to ask which Country does Perry want to be President of: the CSA or the USA? I think the answer is pretty clear.

Perry talks in neo-Confederate code and a majority of Wingnutopia loves that shit. The majority of voters in any Republican Primary will be Tea-Party-Neo-Confederates. They are the base that will choose the nominee and Perry has them in his pocket.

In the footsteps of the Confederate elites of old, Perry uses code words–and sometimes blunt language–to pump up fear that minorities are threatening to steal the privileges of white people. He uses this fear as tool to bamboozle the gullible into supporting policies that hurt them. Look at Texas with all those low wage jobs, bad schools and laws designed to help oligarchs steal your labor, savings and health. Folks should be in revolt, but instead they line up to buy the shit sandwich. The wingnut base of the Republican Party will support almost anything if it is presented with some White privilege protection code-talking and wrapped up with a Jesus-loves-this-shit-too pretty ribbon. Telling fools what they want to hear is Perry’s special skill–and he is pretty good at it.

Rick Perry has won the Modern Confederate Party Primary. And he has won the “Who will save us from that Black Man in the White House” primary. These wins give him majority support of the Republican Party base.

Winning the Republican Party Nomination for President is now his to lose.

Old Jeff Davis must be smiling.

Cheers

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