Chupacabra Report

-Governor Rick Perry is declining a half a billion dollars in federal money for Texas unemployment benefits, even though the state unemployment fund will run short of money this year after Perry last year suspended collection of employer payments into the insurance fund.

This means that at least some of the unemployed Texans who are denied unemployment benefits this year will be people who voted for Perry last year.

I don’t have much sympathy for those folks. If they’d only gotten a little better informed last year and voted in their own self-interest, maybe it would be Rick Perry that was unemployed now instead of pandering to the chock-full-of-nuts minority that votes for his denying aid to those that need it while he doles out millions in corporate welfare every year.

-GOP Chairman Michael Steele has been busy backpedaling since GQ magazine quoted him saying abortion “was an individual choice.”

Now he’s trying to placate his angry base, who, of course don’t approve of choice in these matters.

He said: “You can choose life, or you can choose abortion,” noting that his own mother chose life.

Steele was born in Maryland in 1968. Prior to the 1973 Roe v Wade decision, abortion was a crime in Maryland except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.

Some choice.