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TexasTowelie

(112,087 posts)
Sat Apr 19, 2014, 07:46 PM Apr 2014

A Texas Case of the Red State Blues

By Carol Morgan

Texans are slow learners. To grasp and master a concept requires the dreaded drill-and-kill technique, constant repetition; it’s a little like teaching English in middle school. Knowing that fact, it was no surprise when I read the AJ story on the Tech survey.

A 62 percent approval rate for Rick Perry? Even with his latest legal problems? Perhaps those responders need to read about the rise and fall of the boy from Paint Creek. Corruption, political patronage, and cronyism has flourished under the Guv and it’s hard for me to believe that 62 percent of any group would go along with the Perry corruption.

The Perry era is like a bad case of subterranean termites proliferating beneath a house. Thousands of the wood-chomping pests scurry away underground in a maze of tunnels, all connected to the queen of the hive. The drones of the underground serve the queen who is useless and insatiable, all the work performed by the mindless drones. In the end, the house is destroyed, collapsing upon itself, decimated from within, only because the damage was skillfully obscured from public view.

After this is all over, Texans will be surprised to learn that Perry’s “Texas Miracle” was merely a card trick to enrich himself and maintain his personal employment agency which feeds his drones.

More at http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/carol-morgan/2014-04-18/texas-case-red-state-blues .
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A Texas Case of the Red State Blues (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2014 OP
Q: How much Federal Money did Perry take from Washington D.C.??? blkmusclmachine Apr 2014 #1
Perry has been a pathetic governor at best. I heard Joe Scarborough bragging Thinkingabout Apr 2014 #2

Thinkingabout

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2. Perry has been a pathetic governor at best. I heard Joe Scarborough bragging
Sat Apr 19, 2014, 07:53 PM
Apr 2014

Perry had balanced Texas budget, yea with the stimulus funds. He is not one I would ever brag about. I am with you on getting 62% approval on Perry.

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