Perry Gets “The Colbert Bump”
Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report weighs in on Perry’s presidential “calling.”
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AreYouKiddingMe says:
Run, Rick, Run! Join the rest of those loons on the Repub side, and let the entire nation learn what a joke you are. Maybe by focusing on a ridiculous dream of a Presidential run, he will do less damage to Texas. The more time he spends away from Texas, the better. Go get ‘em Rick! Please start your long, American 50 state, slow moving, bus tour, TODAY!!!
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Anonymous Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 9:44 am
Isn’t that clown car getting a little full at this point?
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Anonymous says:
Awesome. The rest of the country looks at Perry and his supporters as a national laughing stock. Now this. Only Murdochs Fox News can tout this guy. I am embarrassed for Texas.
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Cow Droppings Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Texas will be just fine, and could care less if a few liberals can’t stand the fact we don’t bow to your Massachusetts values.
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Tellnitlikeitis Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 3:14 pm
And you think Perry values will sell? A guy who preaches religion – and gives nothing back to church? What kind of value do you call that?
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Tim Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
A Republican family value.
Robert Morrow Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Slick Perry actually gave $90 bucks one year, so back off.
Slick Rick is not a rich guy so don’t expect much. Unlike Bush he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
So that is why Slick Rick has the Texas taxpayer, lobbyists and 24 Forbes billionaies custom make and custom fit a silver spoon for Slick Rick’s mouth.
God can wait in line.
Robert Morrow Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Super! Hey, Cow Drippings, where does Rick Perry stand on “values?” How about traditional marriage?
And “family values” and “Texas values” – *exactly* what does Rick Perry mean by all that?Also, Slick Rick talks a lot about “moral relativism?” So what does he mean by that?
Has Slick Rick done any field research into all these “values” things?
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Anonymous Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 8:00 am
How about just simply telling the truth? A quote from Rick Perry you should never forget, straight out of his own Op-Ed: “if you want to distract people from the conversation you should be having, don’t be afraid to lie…and lie big.” Of course, he was the pot calling the kettle black. But he’s a master at the propaganda technique he was hypocritically decrying. Check out Lisa Falkenberg’s column about Perry in Wednesday’s Houston Chronicle. Guessing that telling the truth is a Massachusetts value, too, for some.
Tellnitlikeitis Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 9:39 am
LOL…Robert!
$90 after making $1.2 million is not quite what the good Lord had in mind when he told us about the widow woman – who gave up both of the only coins she had..
Anonymous Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 11:36 am
@rob morrow – you told us Perry’s wife would never let him run. What else are you lying about?
Cow Droppings Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Hey Morrow, do you still think George H W Bush is a pedophile, as you have previously alleged?
I think when you spread rumors about politicians private lives, people deserve to know your history more fully.
Tim says:
Our Massachusetts values? You referring to Mitt Romney? What do liberals have to do with Mitt Romney?
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Jed Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
i assumed he meant the values of the american revolution: equality, liberty, and the importance of the consent of the governed.
those sure as hell aren’t texas values (well, 1 for 3), so maybe they’re massachusetts values?
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retrocon says:
Sorry Rick, but I thought Michelle Bachmann had already claimed SHE was the one whom God had called.
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Harry Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 2:36 pm
She was. God wants to see ‘em slug it out!
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anita says:
And so it begins . . . another national election featuring a Texan who makes us all look like dim-witted ya-hoos. Stewart, Colbert and the comedy writers guild thank you for all the rich and easy material.
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Cow Droppings Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
You libs are embarassed because you have under-estimated him all the way to the longest tenure in the governor’s office in Texas history. If you weren’t so incompetent you might have spared the nation of his no apologies conservatism. Now because of your failures he will be all over the news for quite some time. And contrasting his record on jobs and spending with the One, you are secretly afraid he just might win.
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Ron Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Gov Perry can’t win. Even some hard core tea partiers are railing against him in NH. Fair or not, one of the negatives of being in office for so long is an equally long political record to be used against him.
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Cow Droppings Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 9:02 pm
That is stirred up by the medina/paul crazy caucus, and amounts to nothing more than a libertarian attack representing a small minority of the Republican Party.
Jed Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
krugman just pilloried the jobs claim in a series of blog posts.
really pretty good analysis, even if the conclusion is more or less obvious.
but i do feel like a failure for letting texas get so stupid. really, i do.
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Cow Droppings Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Krugman is such an ideologue, he will twist the numbers to reach his already contrived conclusion. Bottom line: 47.8% of new jobs created in America have been created in Texas–or about five times our percentage of the American Population. Atttempt to crap on that all you want, normal voters won’t buy it.
Jed Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 8:48 am
they CAN’T buy it, CD, or anything else. they can’t afford it! since they’re working at one of those minimum wage jobs perry “created.”
that’s why texas GDP doesn’t grow on pace with the jobs, and why texas unemployment is on par with new york’s (gee, when are we gonna hear about the “new york economic miracle”?).
or are those numbers twisted? do tell.
Robert Morrow Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 10:53 pm
Correct. One thing about Slick Rick he never apologizes. Never apologized to all those FLDS families who had 438 kids taken away by Perry’s CPS stormtroopers all based on a crank phone call.
No need for Slick Rick to apologize for that.
Or when Rick, Anita and Mike Toomey tried to shove a Hillary Clinton style mandatory HPV vaccine down the throats of Texans all because Mike Toomey’s lust for money. No need to apologize for that.
Or his harebrained spend, tax and borrow toll road policies, TTC included, public-private partnerships many of which will blow up one day because of building roads with credit cards. Just read Ben Wear’s latest article on just 3 of them.
No need for Slick Rick to apologize for that.
That’s Rick. Arrogant, shameless – no need to apologize. God says go pray in a closet and Rick says come glorify me at my presidential prayer rally.
No apologies necessary.
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Kenneth D. Franks Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 7:33 am
C.D., except for the oil and gas industry the jobs we have plenty of only require you remembering to say, “Would you like fries with that order?”
Anonymous Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 9:50 am
With fans as stupid as Mr. cow poop and the cheesy poof kid, why should he apologize. Honestly, if P.T. Barnum was alive today he’d be a trillionaire.
Anonymous Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 11:40 am
absolutely no need to apologize for attempting to rescue 400+ kids in the middle of a criminal enterprise that abuses women and children. do your homework, robert, and for once, try to stay away from the dark side of the rumor mill and shoot for some real research.
Cow Droppings Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 2:36 pm
the reason we have high unemployment is because so damn many unemployed are moving here because it is the only hope they have to find work — plus the fact our state shares 1,254 miles with a third world country — but let’s not take into consideration any unique factors like that so we can continue a phony narrative from the ivory towers of the Times.
Kenneth D. Franks Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 8:59 am
There can only be so many Republican candidates that appeal to the right, Tea Party, or religious right. It is the path to a Romney nomination.
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Jed Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 9:58 am
got data for those claims, CD?
are the people moving here to be unemployed, or to take jobs? are those jobs thanks to anything particular perry did, or are they here because it is a rapidly growing state?
etc. point is, you can’t give perry credit for the good stuff (none of which is new), then blame the bad stuff on long-standing dynamics.
i’ll continue to take my economic “narrative” from a nobel prize winning economist, thank you very much. what magically unbiased expert source are you relying on?
Cow Droppings Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 4:38 pm
The Nobel Prize was forever soiled and politicized when the One got one for doing jack sh*t. I am sure the Norwegians like them some Keynsian economics…it fits their liberal worldview.
rw says:
Thanks to Liebowitz and Colbert, the Left has finally figured out how to satirize. Too bad they still can’t govern.
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Jed Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
how would we know? the last leftist in the white house left somewhere between 30 and 70 years ago.
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Cow Droppings Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
You have one now. This guy is left of Mao. He has repeated FDR’s failed Keynsian policies, allowing staggering unemployment to hang on 2 1/2 years later. He attempted the nationalization of healthcare, and at least got far enough to lay the predicate for single payer. He has increase the debt by $3.8 trillion and wants a second stimulus. His treasury secretary says we must raise taxes on small businesses.
Everything socialists wanted in Bill Clinton they got in the One.
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Anonnymoose Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Soak the rich. Then shoot ‘em.
Tellinlikeitis Reply:
July 20th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Bush increased the national debt by more than $5 trillion…so Obama has a ways to go. Obama also inherited massive debt in the form of two wars that Bush financed with borrowed money that your grandkids must repay.
Jed Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 8:49 am
you need to look up socialism in a dictionary, CD.
the only socialists around here are in the tea party.
Jed Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 8:52 am
sorry, i misspoke. i meant to call tea partiers communist (“down with government”!).
socialist, they are not. and neither is obama. by about half the spectrum.
longleaf Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 7:57 am
I think it’s clear that neither left nor right can govern. That’s why, to paraphrase what Dubya used to say in those dark days of Fall 2008, “this sucker’s going down.”
The only question in my mind is whether the U.S. has been “destroyed by design” or not, as so many of the conspiracy theorists (the same ones who pointed out Rick Perry’s attendance at the Bilderberg meeting a few years ago and then predicted this was evidence he would run for President someday) believe.
But make no mistake. You live in a destroyed economy that will not come back in my lifetime. What’s left of it will be “mined” to pay for the continuing interventions abroad of the corrupt empire (what the conspiracists call the New World Order).
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Chuck Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 10:44 am
Will Rogers says hi.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
“Bush increased the national debt by more than $5 trillion…so Obama has a ways to go.”
you democrats really do get your news from stewart/cobert. Doesn’t anyone watch the MSM anymore?
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Tellnitlikeitis Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 9:43 am
The national debt stood at $5.6 trillion when Bush 43 took over; Bush took it to $10.7 trillion by the time he left office.
Do the math. Obama has a long way to go in percentage terms to match Bush.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 11:28 am
The House funds the budget. Under Speaker Pelosi the deficit grew from 9Trillion to 14 trillion. Democrats own the deficit.
Read and learn the Boehner led House has passed cut(spending), cap(spending) and balance the budget Act. The democrats answer? None so far.
The election in 2010 had consequences for dems. Wait till 2012.
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Sam Houston's ghost Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Wrong again.
Bush cut taxes for the fat cats but financed those cuts by borrowing for your grandkids to repay.
Same thing happen with the two wars that have cost more than $2 trillion – with the meter still running.
Those wars are being financed with borrowed money. Your grandkids will have to pay.
Same thing with the Medicare prescription drug deal. Financed with borrowed money…and the GOP House had to keep the vote open for hours and hours – before bribing enough members to make it pass.
All with borrowed money …all adding to the debt.
Please come here with facts before you spout off. Otherwise, it’s all nonsense.
Anonymous Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Yes, because the Bush wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and tax cuts for the top .01% don’t affect the deficit once he’s no longer in office. Jesus, can you get any dumber?????????????????
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 1:19 pm
“Jesus, can you get any dumber?????????????????”
once again the president is the executive and the US House funds the budget. If the US House doesn’t want one of the executive’s programs it defunds it.
The deficit is because of the democrats. Grownups fully understand it, democrats supporters don’t get it at all.
The grownups made a decision in 2010 and took over the US and Texas House. Next it will be the Senate.
Democrats yo time is up.
Anonymous Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 2:02 pm
And the answer is a resounding YES! Because if Congress had voted to defund the $2 TRILLION Iraq and Afghanistan mistakes you repiglicans would have agreed? So, now that the repiglicans are in charge, where is the defunding of the wars?? Where is the repeal of the Medicare part D hand out to pharmaceutial companies? Go pull more “facts” out of your ass, maybe you’ll eventually find your head.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 2:41 pm
“Go pull more “facts” out of your ass, maybe you’ll eventually find your head.”
The House has passed both the Paul Ryan plan and the cut, cap and balance Act. Ryan’s plan died in the Senate and the democrats in the Senate are making plans to kill the cut cap and balance act.
I know facts are hard for some to digest but wipe these off and chew on them.
Anonymous Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Did either of those “plans” defund the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq?? Did they get rid of the Medicare plan D give away to big pharma?? The answer is no. Why do you always deflect and lie. Oh that’s right, you’re a repiglican. You just don’t know any better.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 5:07 pm
“Did either of those “plans” defund the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq??”
republicans do not undercut the troops we let democrats do their dirty work.
Anonymous Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 5:39 pm
If you can’t make tough decisions then STFU about the deficit
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 8:56 am
“If you can’t make tough decisions then STFU about the deficit”
Why does cut, cap and balance scare you liberals?
are you afraid you won’t be able to say “its Boosh’s fault”?
I suspect you’ll be saying that ignorant phrase till you die.
Anonymous Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 11:41 am
so at what point is someone who deliberately starts a forest fire no longer liable? Is it after the fire has been raging for a day, a week, a month?? Because that’s what you’re arguing. Now it doesn’t surpise me that someone as stupid as you is arguing for a statute of limiations on the consequences stupidity.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 1:00 pm
“so at what point is someone who deliberately starts a forest fire no longer liable?”
spoken like a true truther “Bush did 9/11″
Anonymous Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 2:45 pm
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Kenneth D. Franks says:
Young people get a satirical look at news makers on Stewart/Colbert but most actual grown ups get their news from news sources.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 11:30 am
Thats what I said the grownups(republicans) get their news from real news sources. The immature get their news from stewart/colbert.
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PRI-ista says:
What do Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama all have in common (Ford was accidentall)?
They have all lost elections prior to winning the big won.
Rick Perry has never lost a race or primary. He is bound to lose some contests in a primary, and since he has never lost, he may not know how to handle himself.
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Cow Droppings says:
Hey Burka, the lead on Drudge is the US Taxpayer lost $1.3 billion in the Chrysler bailout. I await your story pillorying the bailout as a bad deal for taxpayers.
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Jed Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 4:38 pm
but didn’t it save jobs?
i thought that was an unalloyed good, regardless of underlying details.
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Cow Droppings Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Nope — whether bailouts or stimulus, the cost per job was simply too high…which is typical when the government intervenes.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 8:17 am
Data please, not just made up talking points from rush limpdick.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 8:58 am
sorry ‘snot our job to furnish data to you. Get informed on your own like the grown ups do.
Anonymous Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 9:35 am
Grown-ups like you?? If you are going to make a statement that the cost/job was too high, then you need to have data to make that statement. A real grown up would have no problem providing that. But for douche bags like you and cow poop “data” is just some ideological BS pulled out of your ass. So it’s no surprise there will be no link.
Jed Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 10:01 am
excellent point, CD, even if completely rhetorical.
so i presume we won’t have to hear anything else about the jobs perry “created,” at least not without a closer look at the costs to the texans who were here all along?
Anonymous Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 10:31 am
HAHA, Don’t you understand the conservatard rules?? Taxpayer money given to corporations by repiglicans = good no matter if they create jobs or not. Taxpayer money given to corporations by democrats to save jobs = bad no matter how many jobs they save.
Cow Droppings Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Jed, I think Perry will talk much more about the job climate in Texas vis a vis the macro policies — low tax burden, low spending, predictable regulatory climate, lawsuit reform — than the micro policies, such as a deal closing fund.
I think you get funds like the Enterprise Fund because states don’t want to unilaterally disarm, not because the cost per job is cheap.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 1:03 pm
“Grown-ups like you?? If you are going to make a statement that the cost/job was too high, then you need to have data to make that statement.”
When you’re informed you feel very confident. It’s your job to prove someone is wrong. Do your own research and get informed. Then prove him wrong.
Anonymous Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Once again, running away and hiding in the basement with a bag of cheesy poofs. What a shock.
The House is Not a Home says:
Any bailout is a bad deal for tax payers, regardless if it “works” or not. Bailing out the auto companies and banks in 2008 didn’t fix the problems. We could have just let the market work things out, and in the long run we would have been better off.
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Anonymous Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 11:42 am
Ah, another believer in the free market fairy.
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The House is Not a Home Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Nope, just a believer in the government not picking winners and losers. In this instance, the government picked losers (UAW, Auto Companies, Wall Street Bankers) and propped them up at a huge cost to the taxpayer.
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FrustratedTexan says:
I’m just going to cling to the tiny bit of hope I have for Jon Huntsman to win the GOP nomination. Or Romney, I could stomach that. I certainly don’t want Barry O to win again, but good heavens…the political world in America makes me want to pack up and live by myself on a mountain indefinitely.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 11:23 pm
Why not go for the most ELECTABLE Republican who happens to be the most CONSERVATIVE Republican?: Ron Paul.
Ron Paul runs even with Obama among independents who are allegic to say, Rick Perry.
“Perry trails Obama 53 percent to 40 percent among registered voters in a hypothetical 2012 matchup — a margin roughly equivalent to the 55 percent-to-40 percent edge Obama enjoys over Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and the 52 percent to 42 percent advantage he holds over Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
Mitt Romney performs significantly better when matched with Obama; Obama takes 49 percent to 47 percent for the former Massachusetts governor.”
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Jed Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 10:03 am
because we know anarchy doesn’t work, robert.
even monkeys know that.
literally.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
July 23rd, 2011 at 8:46 am
Democrats know what monkeys think but they don’t know how to grow the economy.
Jed says:
hell, even insects.
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bob ryon says:
Mr. Perry, hope your first visit to any state would be,Tennessee since we hold the bragging rights to the alamo. Yes , ol sam was form tn. must not forget. Tn is for Rick Perry all the way, this is from a lot of VFW members. Any public officials in bright red upper east tn. Go for it.
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