“Yes, before his second term, they thought he was a cooked goose, but he pull the obamma comeback BS and got reelected, claiming he had seen the light.”
Yuck. The fact that he got snowed that easily, just as our Texas governor had also, simply means that they are not competent to advance to higher office (and, for that matter, shouldn’t even be in power). It’s a no-brainer that giving a private company a monopoly without any price controls simple CANNOT WORK - whether it’s a highway, or delivery of electricity to private homes. It’s a shame that politicians have to ‘discover’ this fact.
...also, I even started voting Democrat at the state level (but never federal level), simply because Perry and the other Republicans simply didn’t seem to be able to ‘get it’ when it came to controlling our highways. And I wasn’t alone - as the Dems came very close to taking over the state House (they’ve since been decimated). But even given Perry’s STUPIDITY - we still have Obama, so I (finally) did come home last year.