When Dummies Pray For A Savior

Dummy Rick Perry runs for president and shares his thoughts about Obama, job creation, evolution, climate change, China, and praying for rain.

NOTES

1.  We scored an interview with the newest dummy vowing to take our country back.

Many of the quotes in this episode come from Rick Perry’s first national interview on the Laura Ingram Show, August 25, 2011.

http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/AUDIO:-Gov.-Rick-Perry-gives-first-national-radio-interview-as-presidential-candidate/241509387705714730.html

2.   To when if you prayed for rain it actually worked.

Rick Perry Asks Texans To Pray For Rain, Kate Sheppard, MotherJones, April 21, 2011

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/04/rick-perry-asks-texans-pray-rain

3. “I’ll come on your program anytime I can.”

“I’ll come to Texas anytime I can.  You already made me an honorary citizen”

Banter near the end of the program

http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/AUDIO:-Gov.-Rick-Perry-gives-first-national-radio-interview-as-presidential-candidate/241509387705714730.html

4.  “The elites aren’t thrilled that you’re running for the presidency.”

http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/AUDIO:-Gov.-Rick-Perry-gives-first-national-radio-interview-as-presidential-candidate/241509387705714730.html

5.  What do you say to those Texas elites that say “you’re like George Bush, but without the brains”

Is Rick Perry Dumb?, Jonathan Martin, Politico, August 29, 2011

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62214.html

6.  “I’m who I am.  Our country’s in jeopardy.  People come up to me and they’re scared.  They know that our country is standing at the pricipire of possibly defaulting … they’re ready for some leadership … we need someone with the vision that will get America back working and … you cannot argue that we haven’t created in the last decade the job creation mecca …. We’ve been the job creation machine.”

http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/AUDIO:-Gov.-Rick-Perry-gives-first-national-radio-interview-as-presidential-candidate/241509387705714730.html

7.  In the last decade, under your leadership, employment growth in the Rio Grande Valley was 42%.

Yes, We Need Jobs.  But What Kind?, Paul Osterman, New York Times, September 5, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/opinion/yes-we-need-jobs-but-what-kind.html

8.  And what do you say to those liberals who point out that per capita income in the Valley is the lowest in the nation, with hourly wages at $8.14 in the median?

Yes, We Need Jobs.  But What Kind?, Paul Osterman, New York Times, September 5, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/opinion/yes-we-need-jobs-but-what-kind.html

9.   “Just because we pass a free trade agreement with a country doesn’t mean that we need to put ourselves at a competitive disadvantage to make their diplomatic people smile at us.”

Rick Perry giving vague responses about China prompting even Laura Ingram to ask “What does that mean?”

http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/AUDIO:-Gov.-Rick-Perry-gives-first-national-radio-interview-as-presidential-candidate/241509387705714730.html

10.  “There’s gonna be a hundred different questions asked me a thousand different ways, but at the end of the day, how do you get Americans back working, and I will you, it’s by lowering the taxation, lowering the regulation, lowering the litigation cost that we got on small business men and women in this country.”

Rick Perry voicing his understanding of our failed experiment with supply side economics

http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/AUDIO:-Gov.-Rick-Perry-gives-first-national-radio-interview-as-presidential-candidate/241509387705714730.html

11. What’d you get a F in Principles of Economics?  ‘Cause I got a D.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/05/rick-perry-college-transcript_n_919357.html

12.  “It’s a theory that’s out there, it’s got some gaps in it.  Like evolution.  And climate change.”

Rick Perry speaking of evolution: “It’s a theory that’s out there,” Perry told the child. “It’s got some gaps in it. In Texas we teach both Creationism and evolution.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/18/perry-heckled-as-campaign-shifts-into-new-phase/

13. We believe in Texas that you teach your children theories, like evolution, and facts, like God created man in his own image, and let them decide.

Texas Conservative Win Vote On Textbook Standards, New York Times, March 12, 2010

www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html

14.  What do you say to the secretary of education who says “Texas may have the lowest high school graduation rate in the country?”

“He’s just flat out wrong on the face of it and factually.”

http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/AUDIO:-Gov.-Rick-Perry-gives-first-national-radio-interview-as-presidential-candidate/241509387705714730.html

15.  Texas ranks 43^rd out of 50.  That means, dummy, that seven states are worse.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Maps-and-Data/State-Data-Center/State-Scorecard/DataByState/State.aspx?state=TX

Leaving Children Behind, Paul Krugman, February 27, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/opinion/28krugman.html

16. Eight if you count Washington, DC.  Seedy place that it is.

“Criticizing me because I speak plainly, I call it like I see it, look I’m not an establishment figure, never have been, I don’t wanna be, I dislike Washington, I think it’s a seedy place…”

http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/AUDIO:-Gov.-Rick-Perry-gives-first-national-radio-interview-as-presidential-candidate/241509387705714730.html

17.  We gotta bunch of bright kids in Texas.  We’re doing what we can to make them competitive so they can take back dominion of the world from Satan.

Meet the Christian Dominionist ‘Prayer Warriors’ Who Have Chosen Rick Perry as Their Vehicle to Power, Rachel Tabachnick, Alternet, August 15, 2011

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/152034/meet_the_christian_dominionist_%27prayer_warriors%27_who_have_chosen_rick_perry_as_their_vehicle_to_power/

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