Rick Perry Asks For Federal Money

6:23 pm EST July 16th, 2009 | News | 11 Comments

His secessionist posturing now apparently over, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is asking for additional federal dollars. It’s like conservatism is just a racket and a posture and not an actual governing philosophy.

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11 Responses to “Rick Perry Asks For Federal Money”

  1. Wilfredo says:
    July 16, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    Didn’t that fool want Texas to secede? And now he’s asking for money? Seriously, the balls on that guy!
    I hope his constituents are not too blind to take notice of what kind a man is representing them.

  2. SaveFarris says:
    July 16, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    You mean the one that can distinguish between two different programs with differing requirements?

    SCANDAL!!!

  3. News Reference says:
    July 16, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    “[C]onservatism is just a racket and a posture and not an actual governing philosophy.”

    fixed.

    Republicans are always the first in line for government handouts.

  4. Rudy says:
    July 16, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    Any chance we could expel Texas from the Union?

  5. Parthenon says:
    July 16, 2009 at 7:11 pm

    I went to a town hall with a couple of Oregon reps where they basically did the same thing – rag on the ‘printing presses cranking out money’ out one side of their mouths, and assure all the people with pet projects in the audience that their program might be in line for stimulus money.

    Nobody seemed to notice. Fairly typical, I suppose.

  6. MacDaddy says:
    July 16, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    Oliver, could we expel Alabama too?

  7. News Reference says:
    July 16, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    We’re keeping Texas and Alabama (and Alaska).

    Secessionists can leave and start their own country outside the US.

  8. zadura says:
    July 16, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    The Republican states are also the states with the most Federal handouts. This is why the roads in Arkansas are neatly paved while the roads in the busy and heavily taxed Bay Area are littered with potholes. Such is the logic of this era’s Republicans.

  9. jr says:
    July 17, 2009 at 12:20 am

    Words are more important than actions to repub defenders

  10. Duros62 says:
    July 17, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Any chance we could expel Texas from the Union?

    As long as we can keep Austin.

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    July 18, 2009 at 8:51 pm

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