[2ndDivisionVet]

We already have a de facto president and first lady who think they won a 5 star all-expenses paid four-to-eight year luxury vacation with unlimited lobster and Wagyu steaks.

[smoothsailing]

Comparing Perry to Obama? What a joke.

[The Bronze Titan]

-"playing the media victim, as Sarah Palin often has"

Sara Palin does not have to "play" the media victim, she 'is' the media victim! Idiot!

[The Bronze Titan]

-"playing the media victim, as Sarah Palin often has"

Sara Palin does not have to "play" the media victim, she 'is' the media victim! Idiot!

[basil]

This Texan would prefer NOT to have to hold her nose and vote for Rick Perry.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If this is all they can find on Perry, he is sounding pretty good. This is praising with faint damns.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Extravagant? Right. /s

The governor's mansion was damaged by fire. He can't live there and he can't work there. We're probably saving money by renting a house in which he can live, work, and entertain - securely.

$10k a month for rent, utilities, and upkeep on a rental home is a bargain when compared to what we'd be paying if we had to pay for him to live in a hotel, rent office space for him to work, and rent private entertainment venues for his official state dinners and parties - and pay for extra security at all of those places.

[runninglips]

How about speaker Pelosi and her extravagance? They actually ordered more planes for leadership during her tenure.

[Smokin' Joe]

We already have a de facto president and first lady who think they won a 5 star all-expenses paid four-to-eight year luxury vacation with unlimited lobster and Wagyu steaks.There's a phrase for that phenomenon, associated with the lavish spending of sudden money, but it is politically incorrect.

[CowboyJay]

"We already have a de facto president and first lady who think they won a 5 star all-expenses paid four-to-eight year luxury vacation with unlimited lobster and Wagyu steaks."

I agree. We've got one of those in the White House already Considering the shape the country's in, it's high time our politicians quit living like European royalty.

I've shopped houses in that part of the country. Perry could have bought himself a pretty nice spread on the $700,000 it's already cost out of the Texas treasury, and the state would have an asset instead of an ongoing liability.

Perry's only real constituency is southern evangelicals. When you hold a light up to his fiscal record, it's full of holes. After 10+ years of this huckster, Texas has a higher state/local debt burden than California. He's not done much but raid the state treasury for big campaign donors, line his pockets, and live like a rockstar.

He's desperate to get out of Austin because the jig's about up. He and his buddies cooked the books on this year's budget by delaying the payout of several billion by one day, thereby rolling it over into the next fiscal year. Texas writes budgets every two years, so the timebomb goes off in 2013.

The beltway bunch, of course, already know Perry's fatally flawed and are planning to use him as a blocking back to clear a hole for Mitt to run through.

[alstewartfan]

Huckabee’s living in a trailer was silly, IMO, but Perry’s digs smack of aristocracy. Done just like a Democrat! One more reason why I don’t care for this guy. Bob

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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