Rick Perry's Ultrasound

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Tip to http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/11053/#57454">Burnt Orange Report on 1/28/11. I missed seeing this one and it's priceless!





Credit for the comic from an issue of The Daily Texan, drawn by Lara Kirkham.

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[sonias]

1. Statement of Senator Rodney Ellis on State of the State

Statement of Senator Rodney Ellis on State of the State

For Immediate Release
February 8, 2011

Senator Rodney Ellis today released a statement commenting on Governor Perry's Speech

"Governor Perry needs to realize that the campaign is over and slogans and bumper stickers are not going to get us out of this mess.

"Let's look at reality: Texas currently faces a $27 billion shortfall, and the initial budget proposals in the House and Senate slash essential services that help millions of Texans families. According to the Comptroller, we have a $10 billion structural deficit, so just gutting programs for Texans is not the answer. If that is the only plan, we are going to be right back here in two years dealing with another budget hole, just as in 2009 when we were bailed out by the federal government.

"So far, this budget tells the disabled Texas child: 'sorry, won’t help you.' It tells grandma in the nursing home and on Medicaid: 'too bad, move back in with your kids.' The student who followed the rules and we've pushed to go to college: 'good luck with that, but we don’t have any financial aid for you, and tuition is going up.'

"This budget solution is an all out assault on working Texas families struggling to make ends meet. It protects tax loopholes and tax breaks that cost our state yet produce minimal results, it will eliminate over 100,000 jobs, and leave millions of Texans without essential, basic services. It’s a cold, impersonal and sterile approach to governing, but budgets aren’t merely numbers—they have real world, sometimes life and death, implications for hundreds of thousands of Texans.

"A 'balanced budget' that places all of the burden on those who can least afford it is not an achievement. We must ensure Texans struggling the most are given a helping hand, not a cold shoulder, and those doing well must bear more of the load. Texas already ranks near the bottom in education resources provided to our communities, and at the top in the percentage of residents without health insurance, and this budget is an express ticket straight to the bottom; Legislators in Mississippi will be saying 'thank God for Texas'.

"Texans deserve a genuine, honest discussion on the budget crisis, not more rhetoric and campaign talk."

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[sonias]

2. Here's Rep. Armando Walle statement- a real zinger on ultrasound

Rep. Walle Responds to Gov. Perry's State of the State Speech

For Immediate Release
February 8, 2011

AUSTIN -- Today State Representative Armando Walle (D-Houston) released the following statement in response to Gov. Rick Perry's State of the State speech:

"Gov. Rick Perry laid out his agenda for our state in his State of the State speech today, and it appears that the Governor is living in a different state than the rest of us. Gov. Perry continues to claim that we don't have a budget crisis, but the fact is that Texas is facing a $28 billion budget deficit created by failed Republican policies. The proposed state budgets aim to gut funding for public education, higher education and our most vital state services. These budgets will force school districts to fire thousands of teachers and result in the closure of countless schools and nursing homes.

I am glad that Gov. Perry has finally realized that tuition at our public colleges and universities is too high -- yet he now expects these institutions to freeze or lower the cost of tuition while he slashes their budgets by $2 billion. Gov. Perry often rails against unfunded federal mandates, but he seems to have no problem with unfunded state mandates when they come from his own office.

Gov. Perry also can't seem to make up his mind on government's role in health care. He continued to rail against the federal health care reform bill today saying that the federal government has no place dictating our medical decisions. However, just a few moments earlier, he advocated for state government to intrude on a personal medical decision with a mandatory ultrasound before an abortion.

Gov. Perry must stop grandstanding and repeating the same disingenuous lines, over and over. Texas was spared the multi-billion dollar budget deficit in 2009 when the federal stimulus bill bailed out our state government, but this year we must address the failed Republican policies that have landed us in this mess."

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Rep. Armando Walle is serving his second term in the Texas House of Representatives. He represents House District 140, which includes northern portions of unincorporated Harris County and the City of Houston. Rep. Walle has served on the House Committees on Human Services, Urban Affairs and Rules & Resolutions.

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[TxVietVet]

3. I spent 6 years in Asia in the Army back in the 60's and 70's

and when I returned after Vietnam, I noticed something about the citizens of my country and hometown. Those that played the system and got out of the military and the draft and sucked up the good jobs, were about the greediest sons of bitches I had ever met. I went in the Army at 19. I learned that "we are all in this together". Deal with it.

So, now, the conservanazis have captured everything with the idea that anything that helps others AND NOT JUST ME, is no good.

I'm at the point where I'm thinking, "hey, have at it". Destroy it so we can rebuild.

I remember my dad and I having a talk when ronnie raygun was elected. WE both thought he was just a mouthpiece for big money. My dad said that it won't be too long and it will be almost as bad as it was during the Great Depression if these idiot republiklans have their way. Well, folks, it's here.
Now, the conservanazis under Good Hair Perry will cut any and all programs that will benefit the poor, working poor and the middle class.

See if you can find K-Y on sale. You're gonna need it. :evilgrin: