Rick Perry Archives

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Rick Perry Busted As The Source Of “Aggressive Strategy” Coup Text

Former Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry is believed to be the source of the aggressive strategy coup text to Mark Meadows.

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Opinion: Texas Fiasco Highlights Need for What Biden Calls Unity: Mutual Care Modeled by Government Leaders

In a small sentence, Biden made a huge point. Let’s serve people, not presidents or politics.

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Trump Is Blaming His Ukraine Call Impeachment On Rick Perry

Trump is trying to pin all the blame for the Ukraine call that touched off the whistleblower complaint that resulted in the impeachment probe on Rick Perry.

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Special Counsel Is Now Investigating Trump’s Saudi Nuclear Deal

The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) has opened an investigation into the Trump administration’s decision to pursue a nuclear agreement with the government of Saudi Arabia, The Daily Beast reported on Monday. Specifically, OSC “is looking at whether officials were retaliated against for raising concerns about the administration’s work related to a Saudi nuclear…

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Rick Perry unsure if Saudi nuclear approvals came after Khashoggi killing

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry told lawmakers on Thursday he did not know whether any of the approvals he authorized for U.S. companies to sell nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia were made after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October last year.

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Opinion: After Leading the Nation in Renewable Energy, Rick Perry Targets Solar and Wind Power

Wind and solar have combined with natural gas to produce virtually all the nation’s major new electrical capacity; coal and nuclear are economically less competitive.

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After Perry Pick to Replace Nuclear Physicist Trump Falsely Claims His Cabinet Has Highest IQ Ever

On the heels of nominating former Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) to replace nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz as Secretary of Energy, President-elect Donald Trump bragged that his cabinet had the highest IQ by far of any cabinet ever assembled.

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ETP’s Response to Army Rejection of DAPL Easement ‘Most Dickish…Most Childish’ Ever

If you wondered what kind of Energy Secretary Rick Perry would be, now you have your answer. He would be a dickish one.

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In 2011 Rick Perry Couldn’t Remember Energy Department’s Name – Now He’ll Head It

“Reading Rick Perry, who infamously forgot the existence of the Dept. of Energy, is Trump’s pick to lead it. You can’t make this crap up”

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One Idiot Throws His Support Behind Another As Rick Perry Endorses Donald Trump

Rick Perry, who is currently facing felony abuse of power charges in Texas, has grudgingly endorsed Donald Trump for president.

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The Question of Secession Comes up at Texas State Convention in May

Think of the advantages: Cruz can’t be president, those Texas Open Carry guys won’t be American citizens, and the NFL gets two foreign teams

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As He Faces Prison Time Rick Perry Blames Democrats For His White House Bid Flop

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is blaming Democrats for his spectacular presidential campaign crash and burn while ignoring the fact that he is under indictment for felony abuse of power.

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Not So Smooth Criminal: Indicted Rick Perry Drops Out Of White House Race

Indicted former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has announced that he is suspending his 2016 presidential campaign and dropping out of the race for the Republican nomination.

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Trump’s New National Co-Chairman Questioned His Moral Center in Emails

Trump’s new national co-chairman raised doubts about his “moral center” and his “foundational beliefs” lacking a foundation in Christ

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Indicted Rick Perry Quits Paying His Staff Because His Campaign Is Going Broke

Rick Perry is no longer paying his staff, because his campaign is running low on funds.

Republican JV Debate Gives Lower Tier GOP Candidates Final Chance To Stay Relevant

A candidate who stumbles in the field of lesser candidates will have the dubious distinction of losing on a stage full of losers.

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Hillary Clinton Slams Jeb Bush And Scott Walker While Supporting Planned Parenthood

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slammed Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Rick Perry while strongly opposing the Republican bill to defund the organization.

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Rick Perry Loses As Court Rules That He Must Face Felony Abuse Of Power Charge

A Texas appeals court tossed one charge against Rick Perry but ruled that he must go to court to face a felony charge of abusing his power while governor.

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Donald Trump, Who Deferred His Way out of Combat, Attacks John McCain’s War Hero Status

Donald Trump has attacked just about everyone you care to mention at this point, and now he is taking a particularly brutal stab at John McCain (R-AZ): Trump just now on John McCain: "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured." — Karen Travers (@karentravers) July 18, 2015 Trump…

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GOP Donors Preferred The Dumbed Down 2012 Rick Perry To The New Improved Rick Perry

Rick Perry raised just 1.07 million dollars in the 2nd quarter of 2015. In 2012, he raised 17 million during his 1st quarter of fundraising.

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Here’s The Proof That Donald Trump Is Destroying The Republican Party’s Chances In 2016

A quick look around at the mass Republican implosion on the Sunday shows provided ample evidence that Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party.

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Rick Perry Ignores Supreme Court Ruling Vows to Enable Discrimination Against Gays

Rick Perry vowed that if he were president we would not have to worry about progress or equal rights, because he firmly believes in letting states discriminate against people’s rights.

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Rick Perry Self Destructs And Blames His Flaming Stupidity On Having A Bad Back

Rick Perry imploded today when during a Fox News Sunday interview he tried to blame his stupidity on the fact that he has a bad back.

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Why Bill Maher is Right, and Joseph Farrah is Wrong

Bill Maher poked the Religious Right’s persecution myth full of holes. Joseph Farrah’s attempt to discredit Maher only discredits himself

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Reject the Absolute Moral Corruption of the Republican Cult

The GOP is nothing more than a modern, reactionary cult designed to give religious justification for willful ignorance,bigotry, and bad behavior

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Why Rick Perry Is More Likely To End Up In Prison Than Be Elected President

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his 2016 presidential candidacy today as he is currently facing 109 years in prison for abusing his power as governor. Perry is more likely to end up in prison than be elected president.

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Washington State Out Of Reach For GOP As Hillary Leads All Candidates By Double Digits

A PPP poll released on May 21st, finds Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead over all potential GOP opponents in Washington State.

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One Bush is Like Another: Jeb Doesn’t Know. Jeb Doesn’t Care

It is hard to believe Jeb Bush really wants to be president, with the things he says. Maybe it’s just that he’s missing a Dick Cheney of his own

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32% Of Republican Voters Think The U.S. Government Is Trying To Take Over Texas

A national PPP poll finds that 32 percent of Republican voters believe “the government is trying to take over Texas”.

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Republican Map Shrinking As Hillary Clinton Puts Red State Arizona In Play

A Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released on May 6th finds Hillary Clinton is competitive in the traditional red state of Arizona.

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Republican Presidential Hopefuls Put Their Buffoonery on Display in South Carolina

Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, and Ted Cruz, got together and agreed to collectively sound like Elisabeth Hasselbeck

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Bob Vander Plaats Says Exercising First Amendment Rights Mocks God

Yes, actually exercising your First Amendment right to have your own beliefs is a “huge concern” with “spiritual ramifications” in Iowa

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Iowa FAMiLY LEADER Event Showcases Presidential Hopefuls’ Religious Bigotry

Crass ignorance is enshrined in the Iowa Calendar as Family Leader invites GOP presidential hopefuls to spew to the delight of the base

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Republicans Offer No Plan To Deal With Iran Other Than Spouting Saber-Rattling Rhetoric

The Republican presidential contenders offer no alternative policy for dealing with Iran other than saber-rattling rhetoric.

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GOP Descends Into Madness As Ted Cruz Vaults Into Top Tier Of 2016 GOP Candidates

A PPP poll shows Ted Cruz pulling into contention with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

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Humiliating Home State Poll Numbers For Jeb Bush As He Trails Hillary Clinton in Florida

Even if they put Jeb Bush at the top of the ticket, Republicans are in obvious danger of losing Florida once again.

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GOP Iran Letter Was A Push For A Regime Change War And Defense Industry Profits

The truth, and true purpose of the letter, has really never been in question; specifically because the filthy little neo-con who originated it has broadcast the purpose for the world to hear for months.

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Scandal? Use of Private Email is Pervasive Among 2016 Hopefuls

It turns abouta whole slew of Republicans looking at the White House in 2016 has used private emails for government business

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Marco Rubio Flip Flops On Immigration Reform, Recasts Himself As Border Hawk At CPAC

Friday morning, at CPAC, Senator Rubio told an audience that he had learned that his previous support for immigration reform was a mistake.

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While GOP Candidates Pander To The Right At CPAC, Hillary Still Leads All 2016 Matchups

A PPP poll, released on the eve of CPAC, shows Hillary Clinton leading the entire GOP field by margins of 7 to 10 percentage points.

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57% Of Republicans Say Dismantle Constitution And Make Christianity National Religion

A PPP poll found that 57 percent of Republicans want to dismantle the Constitution and establish Christianity as the national religion

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John Boehner Shares his Scott Walker-Like Delusions About Foreign Policy

You might remember how John Boehner went all Stepford-like on Fox News Sunday and screamed that he was going to shutdown Homeland Security, and oh by the way it’s all Obama’s fault? If you didn’t watch the entire interview, you missed a few other Boehner nuggets. This is what Boehner is saying, that his interview…

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The Republican Cult of the Penis Has Replaced Christianity

The GOP has concocted a religion that has nothing to do with Jesus and everything to do with what you do with your reproductive organs

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It’s Time to Break Up With Texas

Suspending a boy for threatening with a magic ring that doesn’t exist to trying to change the nature of math are just a few of Texas’ sins

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Please Pass (On) The Popcorn: Democrats Need To Take 2016 General Election Seriously

It is time that the left started taking this election seriously, along with Romney and Jeb Bush and the rest, even those we view as stupid, misogynist, and out of touch wing nuts

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CNN Dumps Rick Perry and Lindsey Graham For Coverage Of Missing AirAsia Plane

CNN was the only Sunday show to dump interviews with Republicans Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry in order to cover the breaking news surrounding the disappearance of an AirAsia plane.

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Lynching Obama

Republicans just can’t get over the fact that they can no longer get together and lynch the black guy they found in the white neighborhood

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Michele Bachmann Gets Both Bible and Constitution Wrong in Her Final Speech

Bachmann said the Speaker of the House is under the authority of Moses, something that comes up neither in the Bible nor in the Constitution

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Rick Perry Quotes Jesus To Justify Income Inequality and Poverty

Perry’s message is clear; there is no reason to address poverty, income inequality, or make any effort to help those suffering, and people in Texas are suffering, but not because it is written in scripture.

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RNC Allies with Christian Nationalist Who Calls U.S. Constitution “the Wrong Train”

David Lane, never mentioned by the MSM, is a big supporter of Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, Mike Pence, and Ted Cruz

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Republican Media Is Responsible For Muslim Child and African Americans Being Murdered

African Americans are not the only victims of media incitement to murder as was borne out on Thursday in Missouri as a sign of the success of Republican media’s successful 13-year fear mongering campaign.

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No Texas Messiah: A Requiem for Rick Perry

Rick Perry is another in a growing collection of GOP banditti. In the old days, the Texas Rangers would have been hunting him down. In today’s Texas, he was their boss

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Rick Perry Getting Ready to Inflict Himself on America in 2016

Rick Perry is putting together a 2016 run that is certain to fail as spectacularly as his ill-fated 2012 run

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Texas Republican Proposes Another Civil War By Ending The Union Through Nullification

The Civil War is something a Texas Republican legislator, Dan Flynn, is attempting to repeat through a proposal that empowers just two Texas Republicans, the state house speaker and lieutenant governor, with authority to suspend any federal law within Texas’s border.

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If Only Santa Anna Had Been a Better General, Texas Would not be OUR Problem

Just think of it: Rick Perry and Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert would all be Mexico’s problem today if Santa Anna had won

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Cheaters Never Win – Winners Never Cheat? A Close Look At November 4th

This will be my last mid-term general election contribution. At least in my state of South Carolina, it ain’t pretty.

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Do Not Let Republican Candidates Hide Their Extremism These Midterms

Scott Walker, Sam Brownback, Rick Perry, Rick Snyder, and others, are ideological and religious extremists, and their hate, win or lose, does matter.

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Six House Democrats Call on DOJ to Investigate Texas AG- Greg Abbott’s Dirty Dealings with TEF

So far, Greg Abbott has used his power as Attorney-General of Texas to obstruct the release of documents that would shed light on Governor Rick Perry’s oversight of Texas Enterprise Fund and its mishandling of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars. However, the demand for answers increases from a variety of sources, including Wendy Davis and…

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Greg Abbott’s Cover Up of Texas Enterprise Fund Fraud Cost Taxpayers $222 Million

Greg Abbott’s shady relationship with the Texas Enterprise fund is catching up with him.

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Pat Roberts of Kansas Goes All Tea Party and Warns of National Socialism

Losing at the polls in Kansas to independent candidate and X-Factor Chad Orman, incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is pulling out all stops. That means campaigning with 91-year-old former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole at Dodge City event in what Philip Rucker of the Washington Post styled a “geriatric rescue mission” – and if that…

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Rick Perry Idiotically Cites Joan Rivers’ Death To Justify Texas Anti-Abortion Law

During an appearance at the Texas Tribune Festival on Sunday, Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry tried to use Joan Rivers’ death to defend HB2, the restrictive anti-abortion bill that was passed by the Texas legislature earlier this year, but later struck down by a federal judge.

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The Right of Self Defense in Texas Completely Depends on Race

The Texas cases are telling in that there are two dead police officers as a result of not identifying themselves as law enforcement while breaking into private residences in the early morning hours. It is also revealing that a grand jury found that a white man who shot and killed what he thought was an armed intruder acted in self-defense, while a Black man in identical circumstances is charged by a prosecutor with capital murder and faces the death penalty.

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Chris Christie Condemns Democratic Process As Shocking And Underhanded

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was absolutely outraged that a bipartisan election commission in Illinois simplified the voting process that he claimed is “shocking,” and a “major obstacle for the GOP’s gubernatorial candidates.”

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Republicans Fearmonger Over ISIS to Distract From Their Ineptitude

What is curious, is that Republicans are campaigning against President Obama who is not running for any political office, but since they cannot run on their records in Congress, they are using conditions in Iraq to frighten Americans into supporting the GOP.

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Rick Perry Takes a Break from Bullying Texans to Attack Obama

At a Republican gathering in New Hampshire, Perry took time to attack Obama for the economy his party destroyed and has done nothing to fix

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After Suing Obama Indicted Rick Perry Now Believes Political Disputes Don’t Belong in Court

Rick Perry supported and joined a lawsuit against the Obama administration in 2012, but now that he has been indicted, the Texas governor believes that political differences should not be settled in court.

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Rick Perry Could Be Facing 109 Years In Prison After Being Indicted For Abuse Of Power

Texas Gov. Rick Perry could be facing 109 years in prison after being indicted by a grand jury for abuse of power.

Rick Perry Amps Up The Crazy With Claim That Kids Coming Across The Border Are Terrorists

On CNN’s State Of The Union, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) claimed that the influx of Central American children arriving at the border are terrorists from countries like Pakistan.

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Chaos In The Republican Party as Fox News Hosts and Destroys Rick Perry

The Republican Party is crumbling as the crisis unfolds on the border. Fox News Sunday hosted Rick Perry today and promptly tore the Texas governor apart.

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Right After ‘Constructive’ Meeting On Border Crisis, Rick Perry Runs To Fox And Slams Obama

On Wednesday, President Obama met with Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry, along with other political and religious leaders in Texas, to discuss the ongoing crisis concerning migrant children from Central America being detained at the border. Perry then ran to Fox News.

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Ahead Of Midterm Elections, GOP’s Message Appears To Be One Of Racism And Hatred

Two recent events have brought out the Republican Party’s inner racist demon — the GOP’s Senate primary runoff election in Mississippi and the current crisis at the border involving migrant children from Central America.

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Rick Perry Caves and Will Meet With President Obama in Texas

After loads of tough talk, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) caved and will take part in a roundtable discussion with the president when he visits Texas.

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Rick Perry Disrespects Obama by Refusing To Meet With The President and Shake His Hand

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has gone beyond conspiracy theories about immigration and is now openly disrespecting the president by refusing both a formal meeting with, and a handshake from Obama.

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ABC News Cuts Off Rick Perry In The Middle Of An Insane Obama Conspiracy Rant

Gov. Rick Perry tried to push his claim that the humanitarian crisis involving an influx of Central American children on the border was an Obama conspiracy, but ABC’s This Week called him out on it and ended the interview when Perry added an imaginary hurricane.

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Paul, Santorum, Perry, Romney: Republicans Offer No Imagination for 2016

As Charlie Brown despairs from time to time, “Good Grief” or if times get truly stressful, “OH, Good Grief.” From the perspective of the upcoming presidential race, this will be neither of those times. That doesn’t mean there won’t be ear-bending yammering from the right.

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