Rick Perry

Drudge has broken out the big red text for one of his “warning” headlines:

OMG! Pack up the bags and let’s all get out!

Here’s the video of Perry making the claim that, “This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country.”

So I guess we should all heed the words of Rick Perry, the same guy who thinks it’s a good idea to secede from the union, because Texas would do so good on their own. I just love it when morons like Drudge promote lunatics like Perry to an even bigger stage. It really does our country well.

Rick Perry was one of the heroes of that whole “Tea Party” crap, speaking out against the stimulus and rejecting part of it. Now governor secession  wants federal money to cover – well the stuff that would have been covered by the rejected stimulus funds:

Now that the state is dire straits, however, Perry is asking the federal government for a loan to cover the very expenses the rejected stimulus money would have paid for.

While Perry accepted most of the roughly $17 billion in stimulus funds allocated for Texas, the governor in March rejected $555 million that would have covered state unemployment benefits. Perry said he was not accepting the money because the state would have been obligated to expand its unemployment coverage, creating too much of a long term tax burden.

So there you go tea partiers, you got a new target. And while your picketing the Lone star hypocrite, be sure to take a look at that Governor’s mansion, which just so happens is being repaired by ---- wait for it ---- STIMULUS MONEY!!!

It looks like the Texas House is not all too happy with Rick Perry and his talking of leaving the union, so they gave Perry his own secession – the removal of his office from the state budget:

House members virtually wiped out Gov. Rick Perry's office budget Friday in order to help veterans and the mentally ill.

With little debate, the House on a voice vote approved erasing 96 percent of the nearly $24 million that budget writers had recommended for Perry's office operation over the next two years.

Some Democrats cast the House's move as a rebuke of the governor's recent comments about Texas seceding from the Union.

Even Republicans went along with it:

However, most Republicans said they went along simply to speed debate of the state budget – a debate that could last into Saturday.

"At the end of the day, the governor will be fully funded," said House GOP caucus chairman Larry Taylor of Friendswood.

Sure it was to “speed debate”. Actually this was one of those “if people like it then I voted for it, if not then I didn’t mean my vote” type deals politicians love to play.

But this does remind me of when Dick Cheney tried to claim he wasn’t part of the executive branch, so Rahm Emanuel put a motion in to strip his funding from the federal budget. Republicans try to make up their own rules, leaving Democrats to enforce the actual rules.

75% of Texans do not want to secede from the union. Perhaps that 75% should tell Rick Perry to keep his trap shut then.