Goodhair whines about not getting a meeting with the President. He'll get it now.

[UTUSN]

Goodhair is running for re-election. Meeting with the President would give him free publicity to TAWK TUFF to the President, make demands to militarize the border, and other wingnut claptrap. Oh, will he mention his refusal to debate Democratic candidate Bill WHITE?!1 Or his grueling TWO HOUR WORKWEEK in this Shrub/Weak-Governor-System state?!1


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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/31/aide-texas-gov-perry-denied-meeting-obama-visit-fort-bliss/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo#

Aide: Texas Gov. Perry Denied Meeting With Obama During Visit to Fort Bliss

AUSTIN, Texas -- A governor's spokeswoman says Gov. Rick Perry has been denied a meeting with President Obama

when the president visits Fort Bliss on Tuesday.

Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger says the Republican governor had asked to meet with the president on Tuesday to discuss border security. Cesinger said Monday that White House aides said the president would not be available for such a meeting.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday evening.

Perry was one of the first people the president saw when he stepped from Air Force One during an Austin visit on Aug. 9. On that occasion, Perry hand-delivered a letter to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, warning about the "dire threat" from drug violence along the U.S.-Mexico border.


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[LaurenG]

1. Well for the citizens on the border, it would be nice to have that discussion

I don't care for Perry but there is a big problem in El Paso. People just disappear or are murdered in broad daylight.

[UTUSN]

2. In El Paso?!1 Or across the river in Juarez?1 If it's on the U.S. side the outcry would be HUGH!1

My point is Goodhair's m.o. for Shrub-lite TUFF TAWK and attempting to capitalize on wingnut publicity, hysteria, fear mongering, making opponents look weak, and exploiting situations.

I don't think there is *anything* Goodhair could tell the President that he hasn't heard or doesn't already know. The previous round of wingnut whining resulted in TWO HUNDRED (200) military to the Texas area of the entire U.S.-Mexico border. 200. Their role is "support" (not chasing, shooting, arresting) and are window dressing just to shut wingnuts up. And to be clear, my view is that they are NOT needed. And the wingnuts will *never* shut up. As we speak, CORNYN is running around whining that these 200 are not enough. Nothing that any Democratic administration will ever do will ever shut wingnuts up.

[LaurenG]

3. I agree with you on the Goodhair thing

and the wing nuts are a scary bunch of flakes. They are pretty much all misled all the time.

and yes it's in Juarez. :(

[UTUSN]

5. Thanks for clarifying. I hope I didn't sound testy. n/t

[LaurenG]

6. Not to me - I thought you were playing with me

kind of a soft banter with a test question included. :P

[tinymontgomery]

14. El Paso what a great dead song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz4PfIIfI2c

[ret5hd]

4. Got any stats/links to back that up?

[LaurenG]

7. sure- here you go.

Where have you been?

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/03/22/pm-murder-city-q/
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/14/charles_bowden_murder_city_ciudad_jurez
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/071310_juarez_report

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=0&oq=murders+in+Juarez&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLD_enUS311US311&q=murders+in+juarez

[ret5hd]

16. You distinctly said El Paso.

[LaurenG]

18. Yes - I consider the two cities sisters and the communities do intermingle

and I'm not trying to mislead. I do believe the problem will be an international problem if Mexican authorities can't reign this in.

[UTUSN]

19. We're back to square 1. The violence (& all your links) regard MEXICO.

Now you are clouding the issue. Regardless of whether the TWO cities in SEPARATE countries are right next to each other across a river, the violence you refer to is IN MEXICO. Whether Mexico's dealing-capacity makes it "international" or not and despite there being "intermingling" doesn't make the violence to be in fact IN EL PASO-U.S.A.

[LaurenG]

25. Yes I should not have grouped them together. I should have said Mexico.

[UTUSN]

8. In Juarez. That would be in Mexico. Not in El Paso/USA. As she clarified in Post #5. n/t

[charlie]

15. Uh, no

Violent crime stats consistently rank El Paso in the top 3 safest 500,000+ population cities in the US. For such a large city, we're a sleepy little burgh. The bloodshed you're hearing about is confined to Juarez. Someday that may change, but so far it hasn't.

[LaurenG]

17. But it's only confined by the river and the problems in Juarez

are not going to stay confined if Mexico can't get a handle on it. It will spill over.
I'm not disrespecting El Paso, I'm saying that there does need to be discussion.

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/bullets-from-ciudad-juarez-reaching-el.html

[UTUSN]

20. Back to Square1, see post 19. Why not just ask for discussion of POTENTIAL spread into the U.S.

instead of saying the violence is actually IN El Paso-USA (as you said originally and have now reverted to)?!1

[charlie]

24. There's a whole lot more than a river confining it

They want to control Mexican towns and states. There's no reason, no payoff, and plenty of downside to bringing their bloody turf battles to the US. If they want a piece of El Paso, they'll get it with bribes and shrewd investment, which isn't something soldiers and hi-tech recon along the river is going to notice.

Actually, what border surveillance and security is protecting us from right now is a million-plus refugee crisis.

Remember when Governor Pinhead first started yammering about getting the National Guard on the border? It was practically in the next breath after squalling about seceding. Yes, he wanted to leave AND he wanted federal troops. He's impervious to dissonance in his brain -- it's only because Palin is out there that he isn't regarded as the stupidest governor in the country. Don't think for a minute that "discussion" is what the showboating demagogue wants.

Yeah, we've had a few stray bullets from Juarez recently. What's surprising is that it doesn't happen more often, there are parts of the cities that are jammed cheek to jowl in a bottleneck between mountain ranges (BTW, it's happened before, long before the Mexican crisis). And of course, Perry is all over it. If he can take a break from his doom mongering, maybe he can explain just how a contingent of guardsmen is supposed to prevent this. Angry faces? A fusillade of bullets whenever they hear gunfire across the river?

[LaurenG]

26. I feel badly for the people on the Mexican side of the river

My initial post should have said Juarez and I should have left it at that.

[blogslut]

9. Stalky stalky, Governor Chicken Man

"Dude, Obama got your fan letter. Your autographed photo and commemorative stickers are in the mail. Now, fuck off!"

[kenmcbride85]

10. It's only taken him 10 years...

My guess is he's trying to make himself look better than White, who is busy on the campaign trail. It's amazing to me that Perry hasn't done anything about the border in his 10 years in office and now wants to make a huge deal out of it - I hope the rest of Texas can see this for what it is, a political ploy.

[UTUSN]

11. His lame claim for not debating is that WHITE won't meet his demand

Goodhair is demanding that WHITE release all tax returns going back to serving in the CLINTON administration. WHITE says releasing back through his tenure as mayor of Houston is enough. So Goodhair refuses to debate until WHITE caves. Or, until the race is so close that Goodhair *has* to debate.

[Orsino]

12. I'm sure the Governor's hair can take the meeting.

It's not like the Governor would have anything of substance to add.

[txlibdem]

13. Here's all you need to know about Rick Perry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doQjqO3cJzM

[Canuckistanian]

21. I thought a Texas Governor had next to no power

That most of the state's political power came from the Speaker and the Legislature.

Why is Goodhair so relevant?

[blogslut]

22. Actually, the most powerful office in Texas

...is that of Lieutenant Governor.

Just the same, of course it matters who is Texas' Governor. Whomever holds the office has the power to veto bills passed by the Legislature.

[UTUSN]

23. "Why is he so relevant?" - He's an irritating gnat. & despite the lack of power

as Shrub demonstrated, the governorship, in the hands of a fat cat, can exert influence in making deals for his cronies and de-emphasize regulation and free up his fat cat cronies into making tons of cash for which they are willing to funnel in his direction.

I think the "power" we refer to concretely is the LT Governor's legislative role in setting the agenda and controlling what gets voted on and what doesn't.


Goodhair is a symbolic gnat, hateful to everything we stand for, flying at us in our eyes. To shift metaphors, he's an arrogant prick, a Shrub-lite.