Perry’s State of Mind
February 6th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
For a while during Gov. Rick Perry’s hour-long State of the State speech this morning, we thought our dear governor had lost his mind.
Here was Perry prattling on earnestly for nearly 20 minutes about the crisis in health care, about the need to help the uninsured, about defeating cancer, about treatment for nonviolent criminals, about ending the cycle of incarceration. Who was this guy and what did he do with our governor? If it hadn’t been for the hair, we would’ve thought it was his liberal stunt double.
“No child chooses to be born into prosperi…into poverty,” he said, recovering from a brief reversion to form. “For the next four years, my goal is to spread opportunity far and wide.” He added that government can’t solve “every social ill,” but that Texas needs critical investments in health care. He proposed a “Healthier Texas” plan that, he said, would insure two million more people.
Then he moved on to cancer: “We must do everything in our power to defeat cancer…it is my dream to accelerate that day.” Perry proposed hundreds of millions in increased funding for cancer research (since we just lost our dear Molly to cancer at age 62, this struck a nerve).
He even called on Texas government to divest of companies that do business in Darfur. Was this Rick Perry or Lon Burnam?
When Perry mentioned the Popeye character Wimpy (”no more Wimpy budgeting”) and the Seinfeld holiday Festivus (”it’s time to begin the airing of grievances with Washington over immigration”), we began to suspect he’d truly lost it.
Then Perry brought up selling the state lottery. Ah-ha, we thought, here finally was some kind of crony-driven boondogle. Has to be. And maybe it is since it appears the state would make more money if it didn’t sell. But Perry said he wants to use profits from the lottery sale to set up endowments totaling $14 billion for cancer research, to aid the uninsured, to fund public education. Rick, could that be a bleeding heart we hear beating?
But, slowly the Perry we know and love came into focus once we honed in on the details. His plan for Medicaid reform would create different benefit plans for different populations and would charge a “co-pay for emergency care to encourage preventative care.” Oh, yes, there he is. Charging the uninsured for emergency room care? Back to form, Gov. Goodhair.
February 6th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Just imagine if the ‘Little Bitty Purty One’ had expanded his grandiose health care proposals to include joyous but controversial health care such as this! Without even hearing him out, Sen. Jane Nelson (R-Lewisville) would have exhibited numerous shades of red just before her head exploded like last year’s cheap firecracker with the faded bleached tip?
Oral Pleasure
Being in a heated rush.
Ready to endure the humid crush.
Unashamed to gush.
She was thought by some a lush.
Her mother would blush!
Yearning for the erotic tasty flush.
Opening his big package like an eager thrush.
Undulating in her private bath so plus.
Rendered so quickly to utter mush!
Thrilled to vocal heights she could not hush.
Experiencing rapid moves like a spring bulrush.
Excited pleasure screams she could not hush.
Titillating even her tush.
Her new hypersonic automatic toothbrush!
For all loving Mothers and their incessant hygiene instructions.
Hubert Wilson
GBT and GBM