So he has decided to send the Texas National Guard down to the border to look tough for him.
And the sheriff's working in those border town could not be more underwhelmed:
Sheriffs and others along the border said they had not been consulted. They questioned the wisdom of sending military personnel who are not authorized to stop anyone.
“At this time, a lot of people do things for political reasons. I don’t know that it helps,” said Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio.
He and other sheriffs said spending money to hire more deputies and police makes more sense. Lucio said deputies, police and the U.S. Border Patrol work well together and that they have been able to handle the small uptick in crime along the border.
“I don’t know what good they can do,” Lucio said of military personnel. “You just can’t come out here and be a police officer.”
Wait, do you mean simply showing up at the border with guns and military equipment will do little good?
Perhaps somebody should tell Governor Political Opportunist that.
And is THIS the kind of unhelpful and unnecessary action that the Republicans have been urging President Obama to take?
What I want to know is how many days could Texas survive without our workers who have crossed the border? I give us one day. Governor Good Hair certainly hires companies that import laborers to work here. Nothing in the state would get done without them.
ReplyDeleteTexasMel
I agree with you 100%.
DeleteIsn't Texas known for creating a huge number of low-paying minimum (or below) wage jobs?
DeleteUnless the National Guard is going to lock and load and start shooting they aren't going to do a lick of good. Another Kent State coming to your soon
ReplyDeleteOh what could possibly go wrong here!
ReplyDeleteThe news camera could break as it's covering Perry's triumphant return to personally seal the border in his manly kevlar vest and khaki uniform.
DeleteAfter all, isn't press coverage for Ricky Boy the entire point of this whole useless exercise?
Oh yeah, and children could be killed, either by intention or by accident. But they're brown and will probably vote Democrat in 15 years so the Gov doesn't really care about that.
And this jack ass thinks he wants to be POTUS. What universe is he living in?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tmz.com/2014/07/22/sarah-palin-speeding-ticket-wasilla-alaska/
ReplyDeleteI read two pages of the comments and all but one was derogatory toward Palin.
DeleteI thought TMZ was HER group (group of groupies?).
I take it as a good sign that even the people at TMZ are sick of her and have nothing good to say.
Hairy, being Hairy....he said he is sending the bill to the Feds so the rest of us can pick up the tab (I guess he needs some more federal money to balance the state budget.
ReplyDeleteBut, but, but...I thought the Texas state budget was booming????
DeleteThat's what the Texas GOPers say all the time!
When I see that pic of him trying to be so threatening and a badass, all I can do is laugh. He is Soooo pathetic.
ReplyDeleteIf prick follows through with this, I hope someone sues him for wasting taxpayers money.
ReplyDeletePeople, people, people......puhleeeeez! Give the Guv a break. Checking with the sheriffs was the third thing on his to-do list, and well.....
ReplyDelete"Damn, I've GOTTA start writing these lists down somewhere...!"
DeleteSend soldiers to the border...
ReplyDeleteto do what, exactly?
Shoot children?
Is that what the conservative dream for America is:
we shoot children now?
Hungry, desperate little kids?
How do you people sleep at night?
"How do you people sleep at night?"
DeleteMost likely with a glock under the pillow, an AR beside the bed, and a shotgun over the door because you know...freedom.
4:05 and 4:17 PM
DeleteWhat both of you said and also, too, with their Bibles nearby.
These are desperate children who have traveled more than 1,500 miles from Central America, through Mexico where they face danger from ruthless drug cartels, in an effort to escape crushing poverty and rampant violence in their home countries.
DeleteThese big, brave gun nuts finally found someone they aren't afraid of confronting.
I guess, if you are a 21st century conservative fundamentalist in the US today, it's fair game to shoot children. They're not the same as the unborn, precious fetuses they once were.
DeleteBeaglemom
Fucking Prick Perry is about as scary as Daffy Duck. By the way, did I miss the headlines? How many kids did the boys shoot while they were playing bad ass gun boaters? What do you mean none? But... but....
ReplyDeleteThe Youngest Victims of the Drug War at Home and Abroad
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/asha-bandele-/child-immigration-border-crisis_b_5606956.html
It's all about appearing "presidential" to the knuckle draggers
ReplyDeleteSomething tells me this stunt is so Prick Perry can get an official GWBUSH inspired "Elian Gonzalez" photo op. Shame on him for doing this, scaring kids who've been through hell, and wasting our military resources for personal edification and immigration "creds" for the next assclown circus.
ReplyDeleteYou're a small, small man and a bully, Mr Perry.
I wonder how much of this is due in part to the fact that most of the border counties are solidly blue? This might be a way of usurping local authority as well as Perry thumbing his nose at the local politics.
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ReplyDeleteBeen there, done that. For example, I recently found an "address" for an old highschool friend whom I wanted to reconnect with and the information all looked to be current -- even their age. I paid the fee only to find out later that the individual had died eight years prior.
Go ahead, sign up with instantcheckmate.com and find out just how easy -- not -- it is to cancel your membership. You might have better luck just cancelling your credit card.