Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life...
Posted on 08/16/2014 1:51:00 PM PDT by jocon307
They say a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, and this always seemed like hyperbole, until Friday night a Texas grand jury announced an indictment of governor Rick Perry. The “crime” for which Perry faces a sentence of 5 to 99 years in prison is vetoing funding for a state agency. The conventions of reporting — which treat the fact of an indictment as the primary news, and its merit as a secondary analytic question — make it difficult for people reading the news to grasp just how farfetched this indictment is.
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I wouldn’t doubt one bit that establishment republicans are behind this. They want Christy, Bush, Romney or Hillary. Just like they wanted Cochran. And they are complicit in the attacks on Palin and Cruz, too.
The silence from the RNC on this is deafening.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life...
My first thought when I heard about this was what you said-”Perry is looking so strong in light of sending the National Guard to the border.” Sour grapes, and they think they carry attention from the NatGuard actually doing something to shut down the mojado enablers.
This is the same bag of snakes who did a number on Delay, but he had given them ammo-Perry hasn’t, by just finding a way to get rid of someone who was a disgrace to the office she held, and more..
That is what I see in it-but not Rove in the Bushes-I don’t think anyone outside Austin hears anything he says anyway-certainly not out here in BFE...
Yep. The problem with us playing the game that way (and I’m not saying it’s the right way, but turn about is fair play) is that we don’t have the MSM on our side.
Do you have any doubt if some R DA of a big city who was busted for being wasted behind the wheel and there was video out there that it wouldn’t have been played on every network news show, probably for days on end?
I never heard about this woman’s transgression until this story about Perry broke. And I imagine I still won’t here about it on CBSNBCABENYT, etc.
whoa. that's some serious grassy knoll right there.
this is the best thing that could have happened to rick perry. he just relaunched himself nationally.
He is being Palined.
> Perry is done. This was a Bush family political hit...
So, what’s your nick’ over on Democratic Underground?
Jeez, this indictment doesn’t pass the laugh test; it’s gruel that is so thin that it doesn’t have even a microscopic amount of cereal in it.
->>any facts to go along with your verbal opinion diarrhea?
Sure, there is no evidence it was the Gop-e; for now, only points back to the progressives in Austin but you know that this got done by someone in a powerful position to ask for it to be done. That’s how the game on the inside works. I am sure the Gop-e is delighted anyway. To them, he’s a radical. To me, he’s moderate one day / conservative-lite the next.
This is the “Mccrum bit” —
> The special prosecutor who obtained an abuse of power indictment against Texas Gov. Rick Perry was once set to become the U.S. Attorney in San Antonio... Defense lawyer Michael McCrum... had been the consensus choice of Austin-area Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a liberal Democrat, and the state’s two senators at the time, Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, both Republicans. Doggett at the time had been vocally upset over [Zero’s] willingness to accept the Republican senators’ recommendations for the top federal prosecuting jobs in Texas over those of House Democrats... Doggett abandoned his first choice to back McCrum, because he was both acceptable to Doggett and backed by Hutchison and Cornyn.
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John Boehner take notice...
Remember how the left went after Sarah Palin when she was governor for firing a state trooper who was a drunk or something. They had her so tied up in law suits that she couldn’t do her job as governor. The Obama henchmen are attempting to do the same to Gov. Perry.
Any idea of the Austin DA's party affiliation?
~Calls for Lehmberg to resign as district attorney began about as soon as the news of her arrest broke on April 13. Police Chief Art Acevedo did not take a specific position on whether she should resign, saying it would not be “appropriate for a police chief to make a statement” on the issue. He also noted, however, that “[i]f I myself was arrested for DWI and conducted myself in a manner that was unbecoming of this position I can tell you that I would resign.”Austin Police Association President Wayne Vincent was less restrained, saying that “[a]t this point, it’s about the ability of the district attorney to be able to have any credibility with the law enforcement community,…and we would prefer if she would resign.”~
“FR’s are dupes if they think the Dems were the one’s pushing this.”
Why? I submit to you that this was in fact used by the rats to force Abbott into taking a position that the abortion Barbie campaign can use to tarnish the Governors office.
Bush isn’t worrying about Perry just yet. Plenty of time for that.
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