All excited about Rick Perry? Here in Alabama he created a stir when he breezed in and made a speech and then won the straw pole for the state Republicans.
Of course, in many cases, serpent can come in, make a fancy presentation, and win over the hearts and minds. Look what happened in the Garden of Eden.
And you may not recognize him as such, but Rick Perry is a serpent as well. No offense to my slithering friends (I sort of like snakes), but lets look at some facts.
He has a horrible record on the environment, as this Washington Post article shows us.
He "prays daily" for the EPA to fail, and has filed a lawsuit against them. He (and many Republicans) don't give a rat's hiney about the environment. Not if it interferes with drilling and spilling. I mean, he did make the claim that the Gulf oil spill was "an act of God." In other words, hating the Environmental Protection Agency, and claiming that a man made disaster is an act of God gives license to call anything that happens an act of God and release his or his cronies from responsibility of what might happen under their leadership.
I'll highlight a few other things here that Perry might not be so proud of, from Think Progress.
Rick Perry wants to do away with Medicaid and Social Security, or at least let states drop out of the social programs.
Rick Perry wants to do away with Federal Income Tax (from his book).
Rick Perry cut child services by $10 billion even though 1 in 4 Texas children lives in poverty.
Rick Perry wants to re-criminalize sodomy and advocated keeping the law on the Texas books even after the US Supreme Court ("nine oligarchs in robes") struck it down.
Rick Perry is a (this is where the slithering comes in) hypocrite that accepted billions of dollars in Federal stimulus money to balance the budget in Texas and fund highway projects, while criticizing the recovery program, saying that "we (Texas) can take care of ourselves." Sneaky snake.
Rick Perry says Texas might need to secede from the Union.
Rick Perry lies (more snake like activity) saying that Texas has "the best health care in the country." Texas also has the nation's highest uninsured rate. More than 25% of Texans lack health insurance, as opposed to a national average of 15.4%. Is that the "best health care?"
Rick Perry has that "I'm better than you" type of handshake/greeting and smirk, that is too, too much reminiscent of George W. Bush.
Ugh! Texas smug.
But listen, Perry and several of the other Republican candidates for president want to turn our country into a theocracy, but the majority of Americans recognize the separation of church and state. Perry even believes that God has "anointed him" to run (and if he wins, God will have anointed him President too, I'm sure).
Let's hope the majority of Americans also recognize the danger of electing this man as president.
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I honestly believe Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman and at least a few other republicans and "tea party" politicians mention God and Christian values to obscure facts and attract followers. Their agenda is based more on greed, not on any religious values. Thier positions on imigration, equality for gays and reproductive freedom are issues of hatred, not of religious values. Hatred is a historicaly dangerous but powerfully successful strategy. Currently, think "jihad" in the middle east based on hating people from western cultures (us!)and in world war II nazism. Hitler's Germany exterminated gays and gypsys as well as jews. Regardless, as far as I am concerned, if there is a place like hell in an afterlife, it holds a special place for people who use religion and hate to forward an agenda that feeds their greed.
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