Frances, I live in Austin and have observed Texas politics for over 30 years.  I was an Ann Richards supporter.  All that said, you could not have picked a more lame, has-been to do a story on than Jim Hightower.  He put the “high” in Hightower.

Rick Perry is the hope of the Republican party. All of you conservatives out here ralley behind this man. He has the answers that this country needs. Perry Perry Perry Don’t stop saying it.

It IS a great line – which means it’ll get repeated again and again. Also: dumber than Bush; by the time this thing is done, Bush is going to seem like Phi Beta Kappa. You almost have to wonder if the Bush Legacy bunch is pushing Perry so Bush is no longer occupying first place in the Worst Evuh Presidents List.

Yet Perry was afraid to debate him.

I wish Molly Ivins could still be with us… She would love this.

tears of a loser

Infuriating!

I’m watching a c-span replay of the Dems presser today, (zero life), pushing their infrastructure Stim…I mean “Jobs Program”, and not one of the reporters reminded them that we don’t need the program any more, because the infrastructure was all taken care of under the first Stim…I mean “Jobs Program”!

LOL!

All the Marys in Heaven, I miss her.

Norbit, go do something anatomically impossible to yourself that.

Norbit, go do something anatomically impossible to yourself that.

david r and I agree! Jim Hightower is a joke. Kinky Friedman is more rational and, at least, he’s funny.

I supported Ann Richards, too. 

Perhaps, but he is correct about the 75% reduction in VFD support. It was a a big topic of conversation on a local radio talk show (Jeff Ward) on Austin’s conservative station. Despicable, and a metaphor for what is likely to happen in education, health care, mental health and all social services.

I actually liked Hightower more as a politician than as a columnist/radio host.  He has turned into a partisan hack- and not a very good one at that.

Yet Perry bet him and every other Democrat in the state of Texas like rented mules.

Liars,
What are they gonna’ call it when this fails?

He’s been afraid to debate most people. The fires had been burning for two (2) days before Tollbooth suddenly had to return to Texas and “miss” South Carolina.

 at least Hightower managed to get elected, unlike Kinky “no one cares about me except Don Imus” Friedman

So, you remember Maddox, Richards and Sharp, also. Interesting times in Texas.

 Jim and Molly Ivins tried to warn us the last time a dumb Texas Republican governor ran for president. Considering what a disaster that turned out to be, maybe people should pay attention to their words of caution this time.

Boy, Kinky Freidman has let himself go

Sore loser.

So what?

Are you tellling me you can’t ascertain their positions from all the information and sites out there?
Why would it matter who’s the more skilled debater?
 

Goofy and ignorant Little Jimmie Lowtower is about the biggest a*hole in Texas. This jerk has spent his whole life bashing Conservatives. He still can’t get over the fact that Gov/Pres Rick Perry kicked the living daylights out of little Jimmie when they ran against each other. Little Jimmie Lowtower is just a bitter old man. He couldn’t get elected as the local dog catcher and poopie fetcher if there were only 10 people in that community and all 10 were his relatives. Little Jimmie is simply put a worthless puke…!

Michele Bachmann’s Hairstyle Is Sweeping The Nation

And just when Robert here bought a Janet Napolitano wig to wear this weekend when he goes out as ” Miss Bobbi”. ( comes with a free WNBA schedule) .

What a story. Perry reduces the budget for firefighters by 75%, then they have terrible fires and we see the results. It’s the perfect summation of rightwing ideology. Even the man who really hates government, Ron Paul would have had the common sense, decency and smarts to fund the firefighters. My dear rightwing friends, where in your anger and upset about the terrible things Obama is doing, where are you trying to take us? To a land where John Wayne is riding his SUV with at least two guns bringing law and order to us liberal miscreants. It’s relly time that you grew up and started to behave like normal human beings.

Michele Bachmann’s Hairstyle Is Sweeping The Nation

And after 2and1/2 years of Obama and his fellow thugs , the country needs a good sweeping .

So Jim Bob got beat by a dummy. That makes Jimbo even dumber.

They need to raise taxes along with this. All of you conservatives have to to know that if you want a country like we have we have to pay for it. Greedy people got us into this. The greed has got to stop.

Robert also remembers Sam Houston .

In fact , Col . Travis sent Robert out to get reinforcements for the Alamo , but Robert decided to play the odds and join Santa Anna .

You mean like get you to say something intelligent?

Look at that photo Hightower above
I finally know what ‘Asshat” means!

Robert decided to help in the wildfire epidemic by no longer setting fires for a while .

Big Grammatico asked Big Drew if he could go on the field trip scheduled for this morning. Big Drew understood that Steve is prone to going “Mr. Blond” and so asked him to stay back. Big Eddie/ Grammatico hates that he can only slice and burn with words.

What did he bet him? I can win as long as I run on sound
bites and :30 second television spots and avoid a head to head debate so the
public can’t see I’m intellectually inferior and not very fast thinking on my
feet.

The fires will still be burning tomorrow when he thinks about politics over the lives and possessions of Texans once again, while he tries to out crazy the rest of the wingnuts to impress the teabaggers.

The picture . Did not know Doc Holliday’s mama had a mustache .

He looks like Richard Maddow.  Larry O’donnell looks like Dummy Wasserman Schultz.

That ain’t where Molly is.

Too bad she didn’t warn us of an even dumber community organizer who hung out with muslim fanatics.

Speaking of goobers, this skidmark is your typical left wing loser. Always blaming their shortcomings on their opponents. 

When are you libs ever going to grow up, or at least own up…….never you say.

The Fires and drought in Texas are God’s way of punishing them for electing an IDIOT they say God works in mysterious ways but this one is no mystery.

I worked on Maddox campaign.  I was licking stamps and stuffing envelops as a teenager.  Both parents were hyper liberals one of which was paid by campaigns to do oppo research.  Texas politics are a brutal brutal world.

Molly was kind and abnormally bright. An attempt to cast her in darkess reflects poorly on your soul. You lack any grace.

Is this guy still around? He’s a joke here in Texas and msnbc is falling for his BS, of course he bad mouths him high tower lost bad against Perry, consider the souce him and msnbc pleaseeeee and Matthews looks like such a fool it’s unbelievable he still has a show.

It’s not that he was afraid it’s how do you debate a nutcase? Hightower is a joke, I didn’t even know he was still around, no one listens to him here in Texas so he’s loving it that msnbc is using him to bash Perry, what fools msnbc is lol…..

And kinky supports Perry, O’Rielly had him on and he said he likes Perry a lot, notice msnbc doesn’t use Kinky, of course not he had nothing but good to say about Perry.

“You can’t ignore politics, no matter how much you’d like to.”-Molly Ivins

still trying to sell that Obama-is-a-muslim hoax, eh?
I guess it would destroy your nerves if I also told you Elvis is dead and NASA really did go to the moon?

That’s all America needs – another big business stooge who hangs with wingnut televangelists and likes to play cowboy dress-up.

With all due respect, go f— yourself.

but I bet you hang on Christine O’Donnell’s every word and have a copy of her book

If all these so called “Tea Party” leaders who back Perry and Bachmann would wake up and notice, there is only one guy the republcan have that is actually on the side of Tea as well as winning over some democrats..

RonPaul 2012!!

Or a Union whore who hangs out with tax cheats and racists and rides around on girl’s bicycles and throws a baseball like a vagina.

Yes, all we need is another deranged, bitter, liberal harpie to add to the mix. By the way, didn’t she die alone and unmarried? Can’t imagine why. heh. Rest in pieces, Molly, You dumb old hag. Hope that cancer that ate away at your tits didn’t hurt too much.

Likewise, pansy ass. Stop crying about that dumb old broad that nobody outside your liberal circle jerk gives a rats ass about.

You idiots think that’s clever, huh?

Seriously? No wonder you idiots think Leibowitz’ jewish clown routiene is amusing.

To you liberals, greed=someone, besides you, wanting to keep the majority of the money they earned.

To most human beings, who aren’t retarded, greed=wanting to use the government to take from others so you can continue freely grazing on welfare, or whatever it is you think you’re going to get in return for the government acting as your own personal thief.

XTC – Dear God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHmTqoLjlXo&feature=related

Dear god, hope you get the letter and…
I pray you can make it better down here
I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image
See them starving in the street
‘Cause they don’t get enough to eat from god
I can’t believe in you

Dear god, sorry to disturb you but…
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image
See them fighting in the street
‘Cause they can’t make opinions meet about god
I can’t believe in you

Did you make disease and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!

Dear god don’t know if you noticed but…
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
And us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
And all the people that you made in your image
still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain’t, and so do you
Dear god
I can’t believe in
I don’t believe

I won’t believe in heaven or hell
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well
No pearly gates, no thorny crown
You’re always letting us humans down
The wars you bring, the babes you drown
Those lost at sea and never found
And it’s the same the whole world ’round
The hurt I see helps to compound
That father, son and holy ghost
Is just somebody’s unholy hoax
And if you’re up there you’ll perceive
That my heart’s here upon my sleeve
If there’s one thing I don’t believe in

It’s you
Dear god

WALT WHITMAN: I Sing the Body Electric:

“I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
2
The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself
balks account,
That of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect.
The expression of the face balks account,
But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face,
It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of
his hips and wrists,
It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist
and knees, dress does not hide him,
The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth,
To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.”

“As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness,
sanity, beauty,
See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.”
6
The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,
He too is all qualities, he is action and power,
The flush of the known universe is in him,
Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,
The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is
utmost become him well, pride is for him,
The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to
the test of himself,
Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes
soundings at last only here,
(Where else does he strike soundings except here?)

The man’s body is sacred and the woman’s body is sacred,
No matter who it is, it is sacred–is it the meanest one in the
laborers’ gang?
is it one of the dull-faced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as
much as you,

Each has his or her place in the procession.
(All is a procession,
The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.)
Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has
no right to a sight?
Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and
the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
For you only, and not for him and her?”

The Internationale

Arise ye workers [starvelings] from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We’ll change henceforth [forthwith] the old tradition [conditions]
And spurn the dust to win the prize.

So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.

No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we’ll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They’ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We’ll shoot the generals on our own side.

No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E’er the thieves will out with their booty [give up their booty]
And give to all a happier lot.
Each [those] at the forge must do their duty
And we’ll strike while the iron is hot.

The Internationale:

Arise ye workers [starvelings] from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We’ll change henceforth [forthwith] the old tradition [conditions]
And spurn the dust to win the prize.

So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.

No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we’ll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They’ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We’ll shoot the generals on our own side.

No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E’er the thieves will out with their booty [give up their booty]
And give to all a happier lot.
Each [those] at the forge must do their duty
And we’ll strike while the iron is hot.

Fuck You Very Much
Lily Allen

Look inside, look inside your tiny mind
Then look a bit harder
‘Cause we’re so uninspired, so sick and tired
Of all the hatred you harbor

So you say it’s not okay to be gay
Well, I think you’re just evil
You’re just some racist who can’t tie my laces
Your point of view is medieval

Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
‘Cause we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don’t stay in touch

Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
‘Cause your words don’t translate
And it’s getting quite late
So please don’t stay in touch

Do you get, do you get a little kick
Out of being small minded?
You want to be like your father
It’s approval you’re after
Well, that’s not how you find it

Do you, do you really enjoy
Living a life that’s so hateful?
‘Cause there’s a hole where your soul should be
You’re losing control a bit
And it’s really distasteful

Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
‘Cause we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don’t stay in touch

Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
‘Cause your words don’t translate
And it’s getting quite late
So please don’t stay in touch

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you

You say you think we need to go to war
Well, you’re already in one
‘Cause it’s people like you that need to get slew
No one wants your opinion

Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
‘Cause we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don’t stay in touch

Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
‘Cause your words don’t translate
And it’s getting quite late
So please don’t stay in touch

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you

There’s a good reason why the DONKEY is the mascot of the JACKASS DIM LIB party.

I hope I remember this the next time some liar tells me how civil rightists are.

You lack grace. More animal than man.

Again, another moron. You have the lowest tax rate there has ever been.You are the free loader. You want a country and society with the emenities we have yet you don’t want to pay for it. You are a traitor and a free loader.

DietDickHead, what year did you drop out from high school or did you make it that far?

DietDickHead, what year did you drop out from high school or did you make it that far?

Doesn’t say much for the Dems,does it?

jim hightower is a partisan hack who’s been largely irrelevant during the obama administration, not having george w bush to kick around anymore…  dude was as obsessed with him as media matters is with fox news…  

Hey Jim, show Andy your bullet!

And, Aunt Bea’s making a pie!

Who’s the weasel in the stupid hat??

You sound like just another teabag loser.  

david- that’s lame- like your brain.

norbit
If that picture is really you i give you less than 2 years to live.

Personally I like Jim Hightower because he said: “Politicians and diapers are just alike, they both need to be changed often and for the same reason”!

Your conservative values on display, folks

Once most Americans understand the ideological links between Rick Perry and Glenn Beck, the half-way intelligent ones will make the smart choice of the lesser of two evils and re-elect Obama.

That is why the Republicans would be smart to choose someone who can actually beat Obama, but the primary voters aren’t exactly the near the top of the IQ pyramid.  

Just watch Beckerheads come along and prove this for me.

Your knowledge of Texas is infinitesimal. Your knowledge in the world of politics even more so. You are the failed candidate – couldn’t get enough backing to even be listed on the ballot in a state where there are as many as half a dozen party lines, (most of which are notably Democrat splinter cells).

We all know you favor Ron Paul, but you are an idiot. Ron is not electable, owing to his birther history and his inside job theorizing on the WTC attack.

Now, for another subject you have a history of dodging:

“Todd is the only person banned from posting comments on my site.” How
convenient for you never having to face the person you wronged.  Well
that only works on your site. How about being a man for once and facing
what Todd has said in response to your ignorance of facts. You are
always quick to point out what you think are injustices to you, but when
you offend it is handled as a matter of course. How hypocritical of
you.

Lucy, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!

Stop tap dancing on hot water and get to the business of answering for your offenses.

Prepare yourself, Monday is coming!

If you are new to this site, read the article, and leave it at that.
This is the worst site to try to have a civil discussion.
It is a futile effort.

Rick Perry, like Glenn Beck, is a reactionary, an extremist, far right champion of corporations and plutocrats and an opponent of the middle class. That is why he made it a point to show up on Beck’s show on the Fox channel of reactionary propaganda.

He has demonstrated ignorance of the Constitution and of what is taught in schools in TX as well as thuggery.

Perry makes Ronald Reagan come through history as a raging liberal by comparison.

Victor,
What are the examples of Rick Perry’s thuggery?
Bill Ayers was an active leader of the Weathermen.
Andy Stern has threatened to use the “Persuasion of Power” from the SEIU.
Van Jones has asked for a top down, bottom up, inside out uprising.
What has Perry done again?

Hey Victor,
Hate to tell you this but there is nothing in that worthless link about your attack on my wife. 
I have fought my own battles, you just appear to avoid all of them. 

You’re an idiot.

Always trying to make a forum your own with your obsession with Glenn Beck. You are a pathetic moron.

If you had any sense, you would be dangerous. But your mental illness makes you dangerous to yourself and others.

Somebody needs to throw your fatt butt in jail and throw away the key.,

Hate and derision are the hallmark of your idiocy.

Threatening Ben Bernanke is thuggery Todd:

http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2011/09/rick-perry-beckerhead-and-extremist.html

I don’t make things up, like moronic Beckerheads do, Toady.

What are you talking about? You make up crap all the time. Like being threatened or someone threatening you. You on the other hand try to threaten me and you will be hearing about that from some uniformed government officials and I am not talking about the Postal Service.

Here’s what you said this morning:

“Come by my office; you can have a very brief chat with my lawyers: Smith and Wesson.
Tip: call the county morgue first for a pick up.”

Now that is a threat, and you will be contacted about it. That is certain. Dress for success, appearance is very important on television.

You just outright lie. Posting your broken buggy url as proof of your lies and innuendos is not proof of anything… except that you’re a stupid moron.

Truth hurts, Victorrhea. Get used to the pain.