Newsweek dubs Trump "Lazy Boy" on latest cover https://t.co/RyhovhQrAt pic.twitter.com/YK2CY7EXaS — Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 4, 2017 This guy, fersure! Trump, about to head on vacation, tells Congress to go back to work on repeal-and-replace. "We'll get it. We'll get it, folks," he says. — Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 3, 2017 Who's ready for recess?! …
Rick Perry Presents "Rick Perry"
Paying To Be Cruel
Balloon Juice’s own presidential aspirant, ¡Baud! 2016, reminded me of something I meant to FP yesterday: how red state Republicans have chosen to pay — hugely — for the privilege of denying their fellow Americans access to health care. Let me turn the mic over to Kevin Drum: In 2015, according to a survey by …
Middle class and white, it’s a bitch
Just noted this in passing while reading SCOTUS-Blog on the Supremes temporarily holding the Texas abortion harrassment regulations: The seven clinics that were not affected by the new restrictions (and the eighth that is soon to open) were concentrated in the four largest metropolitan areas in the eastern part of the state. The lawyers had …
Governor Goodhair Agonistes
I’m both deeply unversed in Texas politics, and utterly not a lawyer, but my spidey sense tells me that this is good news for John McCain: A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors …
Somalia On The Rio Grande
If it were just a matter of Texans killing Texans — with the victims embracing their fates — then I might be willing to let it all go with an “everyone to hell in their own handbasket” reaction. But, of course, the generalized Gresham’s Law tells us what follows from this kind of thinking: Five …
Caps Lock Is Cruz Control For Fool
Tom Jensen makes a pretty decent observation about Texas winger Ted Cruz beating Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst by 10 points last night in the GOP primary: Gov. Rick Perry just got pwnt. David Dewhurst is obviously the biggest loser in the Texas Senate election tonight. When we first polled a hypothetical runoff match up between …
Rick Perry Is Bitter About Obamacare: ‘This federal government doesn’t like Texas’
Texas joins Florida, Wisconsin, and South Carolina on the list of states that refuse to implement Obamacare because Rick Perry thinks the federal government has beef with Texas and is making up data to make Texas look like a jerk in front of all the other states. Seriously.