Governor Perry Sticks Foot in Mouth on State Senator Wendy Davis and is Called Out by Republican Speaker

Will Rick Perry run for another term as Governor or he is setting up to run for President again?  

Looks like Governor Perry has trouble in his own party in Texas with his over the top personal remarks against State Senator Wendy Davis as he attempted to score points with the National Right to Life people.  IMHO Perry will say anything to get the hard right on board his next run for President.  Cannot fathom he is going to run again for Governor as he has been Governor for over 12 years.  The last few have been a total disaster.

Top Texas Republican: Perry Crossed The Line With Remarks On Wendy Davis 

TOM KLUDT 3:34 PM EDT, FRIDAY JUNE 28, 2013 

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) insisted Friday that he wasn't rendering a harsh judgment of state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) with remarks he made earlier this week, but a leading Republican in the Lone Star State doesn't share his interpretation. 

After Davis, the daughter of a single mother, led a filibuster effort to derail a tough abortion bill in the legislature earlier this week, Perry said it was "unfortunate" that she didn't learn a lesson from her own example. 

Perry subsequently claimed that he was actually offering praise of the Democrat, but Republican state House Speaker Joe Strauss evidently doesn't have the governor's back on the matter. Strauss said Friday that Perry's remarks undermine the GOP's effort to pass what would be one of the most restrictive abortion measures in the country. 

“Disagreements over policy are important and they’re healthy, but when he crosses the line into the personal, then he damages himself and he damages the Republican Party,” Straus told The Texas Tribune.

The Texas Senator Wendy Davis who did the one-woman filibuster broken up illegally by Lt Governor Dewhurst may be the start of a resurgence of Democrats in Texas.  If she runs for Governor, Perry and Dewhurst can look back at their words and actions on the horrendous abortion bill and think maybe they should have  handled this differently instead of acting like dictators.   She is not going to let the change of time stamp on the bill by Republicans just go away.   Everyone watching the feed of the filibuster and the follow-on saw the bill was passed after midnight but it took until 4 a.m. for Dewhurst and Republicans Senators to admit it hadn't passed.

Filibuster heroine Senator Wendy Davis told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that the time stamp was changed intentionally on the recording of the vote on SB 5 in order to make it appear as if the bill had passed. 

Watch here courtesy of CNN: 

“I know it was done intentionally based on a conversation that one of my Senate colleagues had with the office that actually puts that online or makes that information available,” Senator Davis told Anderson Coooper. “And he was told by them when he asked why it was changed that they were instructed to do it.”

Who instructed the change to the time stamp on the bill?  Here is the Texas Penal Code that applies to tampering with documents like Republicans tried to do this week:

Texas Penal Code Section 37.10:
§ 37.10. TAMPERING WITH GOVERNMENTAL RECORD. (a) A
person commits an offense if he:
(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false
alteration of, a governmental record;
(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or
thing with knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken
as a genuine governmental record;
(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or
otherwise impairs the verity, legibility, or availability of a
governmental record;
(4) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental
record or a blank governmental record form with intent that it be
used unlawfully;
(5) makes, presents, or uses a governmental record
with knowledge of its falsity; or
(6) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental
record or a blank governmental record form with knowledge that it
was obtained unlawfully.

Governor Perry with calling another special session at taxpayer's expense to pass this horrendous abortion bill may be regretting all of this before it is done since 80% of Texans oppose this bill.  His actions toward Senator Wendy David are disgusting and reflective of the hard right GOP attacks on women and their reproductive rights today.

Hard Right Texas GOP is Going to Turn Texas Blue After Texas House Rammed Through Abortion Bill

Texas Republican Legislators are out of control as rules do not apply to them just like their Governor, Rick Perry, who is now a huge social conservative.

Governor Perry fits the mold of someone who will do and say anything to get a second chance to run for President.   The difference being this time he is running to the hard right more then before trying to be the candidate of the Tea Party social conservatives.   The fixation of the Republican males on women's bodies and their desire to tell women what to do is so far over the top I have a hard time recognizing candidates and office holders I have known for years.  Don't want to be in the same room with them today as they pander to the lowest common denominator - Tea Party Republicans.

Until 2003, the GOP Neanderthals kept the federal employees health benefit plans from paying for contraceptives but they would spend all kinds of money for erectile dysfunction.  Some of the comments I see out of Republican males make me cringe that they have this arrogant attitude they know more than a doctor and a woman on what is best for them.  Their junk science on abortions and boy babies masturbating in the womb is indicative of a Party where enlightenment is no more as they want to go back in time.

What the Republicans in Texas are doing to women's right to choose is deplorable - there are no exceptions in the latest abortion bill that passed the House early this morning despite all the protest from pro-choice advocates.  Same Republicans after the baby is born don't want to provide food or healthcare as they want to cut both programs.  Something is really wrong in the Republican Party and there is no fix because the loons have taken over with their hard right agenda.

Despite Massive Protests, Texas GOP Rushes Through Abortion Restrictions In The Middle Of The Night 

By Tara Culp-Ressler on Jun 24, 2013 at 9:00 am 

More than 600 women’s health advocates crowded into Texas’ state capitol building on Sunday night, hoping to prevent a vote on a package of abortion restrictions before the state’s special session ends early this week. Ultimately, however, their efforts were unsuccessful. In the early hours of Monday morning, Republicans used their majority to cut off debate and give preliminary approval to Senate Bill 5, an omnibus measure that would force most of the abortion clinics in the Lone Star state to close their doors.   

SB 5 combines several abortion restrictions that failed to advance during Texas’ regular sessioninto one sweeping bill, and would ultimately leave Texas women with just five abortion clinics left in the entire state. Gov. Rick Perry (R) forced a last-minute vote on several pieces of anti-abortion legislation, including SB 5, to give them another chance. Since the current special session operates under different procedural rules, it’s more difficult for Democrats to block legislation from advancing.  

On Thursday night, nearly 800 protesters registered to testify against SB 5. Their “people’s filibuster” stretched on for 12 hours and successfully delayed the House from voting on the restrictive measure. They tried again on Sunday night, filling the capitol rotunda with protesters as Democrats continued delaying a vote for 15 hours.  

“Women are not going to tolerate the constant chipping away of their rights, we are not going to be bullied,” Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D)said on Sunday night in reference to the legislature’s attempt to push through last-minute abortion restrictions. “We are soldiers in the army of women’s rights, and while today we may be outnumbered and out gunned, our cause is just and we shall prevail.” 

Excerpt:  Read More at Think Progress 

Governor Perry and the Texas Republican House may be riding high today after passing this abortion bill, but their days are numbered.  Most of America is not hard right and never has been.  Well over 50% of Americans believe abortion should be safe and legal all the way to partial birth abortion, but that wasn't good enough for the arrogant Governor Perry who wanted to have the toughest law on the books on abortion.  Same Governor Perry who has been cutting women's healthcare benefits.  Does the moronic Governor not understand that women vote?  If he is depending on the white male conservatives to get reelected, he could be in for a shock.

GOP War Against Women Continues in Texas.  Time to start turning Red States back to Blue because conservatives have shown they want to be dictators against women as the 'my way or no way' crowd where there is no room for disagreement in their small minds.

Women need to unite as a voting block and throw out the Neanderthal conservative Republicans from office at all levels!  Vote Dem in 2014 to return sanity to the Country.

Republican Party is Dead to Me After Passing Abortion Bill Last Night

Thank you Mr. President for being the last line of defense for women with a notice you will veto  this monstrous bill that could cause harm to women if this unconstitutional bill was made into law.

These Republican males who support the unborn are the same creatures that want to cut the SNAP program  by devastating numbers which would affect children who are born into poverty or low incomes when their mothers carried their babies to full term.  Their reward for not getting an abortion?  Not being able to feed their children.  What a Country with a House of Representatives run by barbarians who could care less about the American people especially chldren AFTER they are born.  The GOP War on Women continues.  I am joining the other side to fight these people to return some common sense to the House by throwing the obstructionists Republicans out.

Was already on the edge of the cliff with the hard right Republicans in Congress who put wealthy donors/lobbyists ahead of the American people, but last night they tipped the scale with passing a law that came out of a committee of all men and makes themselves judge and jury of what is best for women.  Then they put a woman, Marsha Blackburn, out in front with this bill when she doesn't sit on the Committee - despicable bunch of men in leadership starting with Boehner.

When I was pregnant with my third child after having had two c-sections, my OB doctor said that after a really bad experience that I would to sign a form saying this would be my last child because she no longer would be the doctor for a woman who had three c-sections and got pregnant again.  We were in California  at a high risk clinic run by a Christian organization who ran the hospital.  Several months before I came to her office, she had a patient who was on her fourth pregnancy after having three c-sections who called her at almost 22 weeks to say there was some blood coming from prior stitches.  She sent her to emergency but the hospital refused to allow a procedure as it could result in an abortion so she was put in an ambulance to go across town, but en route she ruptured at her stitch line which cost her life and the life of the baby.  She left three small children.  That was 1984.

Like so many men, her husband didn't approve of her having her tubes tied after he third c-section as she was there to have his children and take care of his needs according to what the women told my doctor.  My woman doctor then handed me the form to sign and said your husband cannot stop you but I will not be your doctor if you decide to get pregnant again.  That was an easy choice for me - unlike the woman who died no one could talk me out of it.  I had two small children at home and wanted to make sure all three had a Mom.  Was not willing to take a chance with my life no matter what I was told.  Best decision I ever made to be able to raise three healthy children.

No matter what Neanderthal Republicans say, it is a matter between a woman and her doctor and no one else including her husband.  The jerks have no idea of circumstances behind the decisions when they stand for the unborn but they know exactly the circumstances when they stand against the babies who are born by cutting programs that will help them like SNAP and WIC.  The GOP wants to raise interest on student loans to make it harder for students that don't have rich parents to get a college education.

There is only one place for today's Republicans in Congress and that is the unemployment line - they have crossed the line with this lifelong Republican as I will never vote for another Republican.  They can take their abortion bill and shove it down their throat because all they care about is playing to their base when people need jobs.

Despicable party now run by the hard right who put an unborn child above a mother's life and then refuse to take care of that child after the baby is born.

From Politicususa: 

The GOP-led House advanced their anti-women abortion bill Tuesday, by a vote of 232-193 in favor of the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act”. 

The fact that the measure was initially approved by a committee made up of 23 Republican men and no women wasn’t helping the GOP escape their “war on women” branding. But after Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) made a fool of himself explaining that it was okay that Republicans were banning abortion after 20 weeks for rape and incest victims because the odds of rape from pregnancy are “low”, the Republicans decided they’d better put a woman’s face on the matter. This theory relies on their notion that American women are so stupid that they’ll buy anything if it’s packaged properly (see Sarah Palin). 

So, Republicans shoved Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) out in front to be the face of the debate on Tuesday, because who better to sell a bill limiting freedom than the woman who believes that women don’t want equal pay laws. Also, Marsha used to be an “image consultant” apparently, something that no doubt came in handy for her while she faced 33 scolding letters from the FEC. 

Poor Franks with Akin on his face had to sit it out. No more limiting freedom glory for Franks. 

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) was outraged that House Republicans got Blackburn to be the new face of their anti-freedom bill, especially since, of course, Ms. Blackburn is not on the all male committee behind the bill. Apparently Marsha can only be trusted to sell the bill, not actually have any input into it. 

Slaughter scoffed, “If that’s not a first, I don’t know what is, and if that is not PR I don’t know what is. Such a cowardly move is an insult to the intelligence of women across America.”
If only Ms. Slaughter had heard Speaker Boehner trying to sell his party’s obsession with limiting freedom for women… 

When asked why his party was so focused on abortion instead of economy (jobs?), Speaker Boehner pivoted desperately but tripped on his epistemic closure, “After this Kermit Gosnell trial and some of the horrific acts that were going on, the vast majority of the American people believe in the substance of this bill and so do I.” 

Actually, unless you watch Fox News or are subjected to people who do, you probably don’t know much about Gosnell. And yet pretty much everyone knows someone who is underemployed or unemployed. Go figure. 

The “substance” behind the Republican bill is based on dubious science (aka, the non-science “believed” by conservative voters) that fetuses feel pain at 20 weeks and thus women should be forced to feel pain all of the time. 

 Excerpt:  Read More at Politicususa

This group of House Republicans has wasted my tax dollars on repealing Obamacare and now an archaic abortion bill and have the audacity to say women stand with them.  They are living in a dream world.  The GOP was smarter in the 80's then they are today as they try to turn the clock back.

Sometimes in life you have to take a stand - last night was mine.  I was already going to work to elect Democrats to oust the GOP from leading the House but now it is personal.  I refuse to continue to be a member of a party that shows no empathy and spends more dollars on phony investigations and bills they know are not to going to be law in order to try and hurt Obama to bolster their base then they want to spend on the SNAP Program or Meals on Wheels.

Please join the first to oust Republicans from leadership in the House and keep Democrats in charge of the Senate so we can move the Country forward not turn the clock back.