Bush & Company

Rick Perry is an outrage. How much of his political and religious histrionics does he believe? How much to persuade his credulous and ever-increasing audience?

Many Texans are familiar with his radical disdain for entitlements and notably, federal healthcare, his fallacious braggadocio as a job creator, his hypocritical use of government funding; know what he really is through bitter experience; others have yet to find out, while the favored few benefit from his corrupt and unethical policies.

Executions in his state outnumber, by far, those in any other state and even ones implemented by Governor George W. Bush before him.

Comparisons of Perry with the former governor-turned-president are rampant---cronysism, conflicts of interest and brazen favoritism toward the highly privileged figure as particular similarities.

Yet even as the latter made President George H. W. Bush appear brilliant and near saintly, Governor Perry makes the much-maligned son seem more than acceptable.

Governor Perry has no shame
When he wrongly places blame,
When he proves he lacks a heart;
While his Texas counterpart---

Many think that they're the same---
Never, never, ever made
Any threats against the head
Of the mighty US Fed

Nor so often prayed to God,
Like Rick's usual charade,
Making all those pious pleas,
Patently his base to please.

Could be it's the governor's aim---
Otherwise, it's very odd
That he's doing all one should
To make W look so good!