This guy is pond scum. I wish the state would cecede. Apparently you don't get elected in Texas unless you are pro death penalty. Just look at the comments made by Kay Bailey Hutchinson on this.

These folks are despicable !!!!

Karma will be looking for Mr Mister Sicko!

killing innocent people is part of the price of playing god. i'm sure governor goodhair (and mmKay Barely) have zero problem with that.

What does the fact that he beat his wife into having an abortion, even if true -- and there is nothing I have read that proves that -- have to do with the basis fior his execution, and arson.

go read the New Yorker piece above. It's astonishing, and it's not even about Rick Perry's latest brazen and blatantly obvious efforts to fix a commission to coverup Perry's fuck-up.

Accusing a dead man of being a criminal is a Giuliani tactic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Dorismond

Reaction of Mayor Giuliani
Much of the controversy over the Dorismond shooting revolved around then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani who was then in the midst of an abortive United States Senate campaign. His release of Dorismond's sealed juvenile delinquency record immediately after the shooting raised the ire of the African-American community as well as critics of the Mayor. The Mayor's office defended the release because the right to privacy does not survive an individual’s death. Giuliani also pointed out that he only wanted to show that Dorismond was "no altar boy." In fact, Dorismond had attended the same Catholic school as Giuliani and had been an altar boy.

Perry is now officially toast.

In the future, politicians who say shit this moronic will be referred to as "having a Rick Perry moment."

Perry calling an expert arson report nothing more than anti-death penalty propaganda is classic deflect offense: when you can't defend your position, change the subject immediately, the more outrageous the better.

Don't they have special prosecutors in Texas?

Next up for Governor Perry: "My septuagenerian cousin deserved to die!"
Hails deupty's hail of bullets that preserved "peace in our time" at golf course home of "distant relation." "It wasn't like I could have picked him out in a line-up," said Perry.

Texas is no better or worse than the standard red state--and like the standard red state, we're going through a transition from stupid and embarrassing back to sensible. I suspect Texas is following in the path of Missouri--a red state that has a great blue core (Columbia and Springfield) and is emerging from the eons of pond-scum level ignorance (the Bonds and the Blunts) into the relative sunlight of politicians like Claire McCaskill. Here in Texas Rick Perry IS toast, but don't be surprised if Austin or Houston produces a Dem with cojones and clout to run against Kay. She's vulnerable as well, and Texas Dems don't mind playing hardball (think Molly Ivans, Ann Richards, Mark White, and others.) And before you trash the state, remember it IS the home of Steve Earle.

After I defended Texas it occurred to me that RepubliKlan Teabag Wing of the GOP is planning a "meeting" at Aggieland to coincide with Obama's visit. George HW Bush--who invited him--has asked for civility, but that's really like asking a pack of pitbulls to refrain from barking and biting. I expect trouble.

Funny thing about America Mr. Perry. Even monsters get due process and a fair trial.

Two words, re: Perry:

Depraved indifference.

What may not be clear from the article here is that the report from the arson expert Perry called the 'resent' report was sent to Perry's office before the execution. See here:

http://www.texasobserver.org/contrarian/comments/what-perry-knew-about-willingham

Perry should spend less time on his hair and more $$ on moisturizers.

Project much, Governor Goodhair? The cover-up is generally worse than the crime. Classy, though, bad-mouthing a dead man.