Eight is Not Enough
I trust you all had a good weekend. We got our CHRISTMAS tree yesterday and I put my husband in charge of the CHRISTMAS tree lights. I didn’t notice until they were all on the tree that they were flashing lights. There’s more than one setting. Flashing, disco, on-off-on-off, slow fade. Supposedly there’s a normal setting but I haven’t found it yet. I’ve been doing this all morning. But my problems are nothing compared to Perry’s. In fact, this has become a kind of mantra for me every time I’m upset about something. Like, wow, this sucks but at least I’m not Rick Perry.
On Friday at a meeting with the Des Moines Register editorial board, Perry didn’t know how many members there are on the Supreme Court. As someone who prides herself on knowing all the members of the Supreme Court and being able to recite them in alphabetical order at cocktail parties, I find this unacceptable. THE MAN IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. How can you not know what most third graders know? (And if they don’t know, they are not being properly learned.) Perry also couldn’t come up with Sonia Sotomayor’s name, calling her “Montemayor.” Little tip: If you’re going to bring up activist judges on the Supreme Court, you should know how many there are and their names.
However on Fox News Sunday, Perry told Chris Wallace that he doesn’t “have memorized all of the Supreme Court judges.” Furthermore Americans “are not looking for a robot that can spit out the name of every Supreme Court justice.” I AM. You know what else I’m looking for? Someone who can speak English. “I don’t have memorized?”
This reminds me of that scene in Broadcast News between Al Brooks and William Hurt.
AARON: Can you name all the members of the Cabinet?
TOM: Okay, let’s drop it. I didn’t mean I’d take a test for you — I mean if that came up in conversation I’d…
AARON: We’re conversing… Oh my, the names of the entire Cabinet has slipped my mind. What are they? Don’t name them. Just tell me if you know.
TOM: Yes, Aaron. I know the names of the Cabinet.
AARON: Okay… All twelve?
TOM: Yes.
AARON: There are only ten.
December 12th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Don’t worry. This is going to take care of itself. Perry will wake one morning, have no clue as to why he’s on a bus in New Hampshire.
J Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
$10,000 bucks says he already has.
WUSRPH Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
At least he knew there was a Supreme Court. I doubt Palin or Cain knew that.
December 12th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
He thinks the Supreme Court sings, “Stop in the name of love”.
December 12th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
And then:
On the stump in Iowa Saturday evening, Rick Perry made made yet another spectacular gaffe. According to CNN, the Texas governor tried to accuse President Obama of ‘picking winners and losers,’ but ended up saying something a little different:
“I want to say it was over $500 million that went to the country Solynda.”
Solyndra, of course, is the solar panel-production company which went bankrupt despite loans from the Department of Energy.
Oops.
eileen Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
You’re joking.
eileen Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
OK, you’re serious.
http://blog.chron.com/rickperry/2011/12/rick-perry-mistakenly-calls-solyndra-a-country/
Alan Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
You’ve never heard of Solyndra? It’s right next to Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan.
eileen Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Nice.
December 12th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Contribute enough to his campaign and he’ll name 10 justices.
eileen Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
And one of them will be Anita.
December 12th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Soooo….the American people don’t want their President to know anything that the President doesn’t already know or might get wrong in an interview, is what Perry is saying.
America is finding out what Perry has been trying to hide all of these years: he is an amateur.
Put a fork in him. He’s done.
December 13th, 2011 at 9:56 am
Dude drank some Iowa ethanol before they taped that interview.
/And the stem cells he injected in his spine have fetal alcohol poisoning now.
History Doc Reply:
December 13th, 2011 at 10:08 am
Or took a few hits of that maple syrup. I’d complain about him still campaigning but it is keeping him out of the state and continues to give a certain underemployed blogger fodder for her Texas Observer column so maybe his continued campaign is really a blogger job stimulus package in disguise.
eileen Reply:
December 13th, 2011 at 10:10 am
A blogger job stimulus package. I’m all over that.
Shotgunner Reply:
December 14th, 2011 at 8:39 am
Blogging is not a job to Eileen P.L.D. Smith. She does it for the adulation she receives.