Okay, so everybody knows that a few weeks ago Texas governor Rick Perry was indicted for … um … Okay, nobody here remembers what he was indicted for. One side says he was abusing his power, one says he was doing his job well within the law. I dunno, and it’s not important. There’s a really, really ugly video involved which suggests he couldn’t have abused his power in this case without resorting to explosives.
But I don’t study law. Maybe explosives would have been all right. What he actually did was try to get a bureaucrat from the other party dumped. This caused him to be indicted instead.
So far it’s just a day in state-level politics, but here’s where it gets funny. Rick Perry is the frickin’ governor of frickin’ Texas, okay? He didn’t have to put up with this, he’s got squads, platoons, veritable companies of lawyers to put up with things like this for him. You think you could get him indicted for anything, and he’d actually show up for booking? He could have huffed and puffed and blustered his way into making this a big deal, and that’s exactly what I expected him to do. Maybe it’s what the Democrats expected him to do.
Instead, he showed up on time and brought cameras. And makeup artists.
C’mon. Love him or hate him, that’s a mugshot.
You could see wind coming out of the TDP’s sails from way over here, and it might have been best to just let it go. But no, somebody over there still thought they had an issue they could run with. So ‘The Democrats’ released this…
…in the apparent hope that somebody somewhere still took Perry’s ‘indictment’ even a little bit seriously.
The republicans quietly released this instead.
You guys know I never go near partisan politics. A pox on both your houses, say I. But you gotta admit, this game is only being played well by one side.
Somewhere, Saul Alinsky’s ghost is weeping.
That poor woman! And I’ll bet she thought she would look better with all that eye makeup on. Some folks just can’t see the truth at all, even when it’s looking at them from the mirror.