Go. Away.
Rick Perry's glasses do not make him smarter. They don't make him
any less of an asshole, either.
At an event on Sunday, the Texas governor insinuated that [Joan Rivers'] death could have been averted if New York had stricter regulations on clinics. Last fall, Perry signed an omnibus anti-abortion law that includes a provision requiring abortion clinics to bring their building codes in line with ambulatory surgical centers.
“Clearly, the will of the Texas Legislature — which I agree with — that it is a state’s right to put particular types of considerations into place, to put rules and regulations into place, to make a clinic be as safe as a hospital,” Perry said. “It was interesting that, when Joan Rivers, and the procedure that she had done where she died, that was a clinic. It’s a curious thought that if they had had that type of regulations in place, whether or not that individual would be still alive.”
It's a curious thought in that if you hear about the death of a public figure and immediately wonder how you can use it as anti-abortion rhetoric your mind works
curiously, but ya know something? Ick. Just ick.
Something that was mostly overlooked in Rick Perry's last presidential run is that, much like Chris Christie, Rick Perry is just a fantastically unpleasant person. No, Joan Rivers dying has nothing to do with your freakin' obsession with making every last woman in Texas follow your own personal religious tests or flee your state, you classless boob.
We could go through and catalog all the ways that the particulars of what Rick Perry is muttering is wrong, but there is no point in even bothering. I'm rapidly developing an allergic reaction to the smug-faced nit, this pro-Jesus, anti-immigrant jack-o'-lantern who brags about how much efficiency he's brought to killing Texas inmates, and wedging the loaded "state's rights" language into the discussion of how to most efficiently curtail women's rights adds a whole new layer of skin-crawlingness. Listening to Rick Perry talk is like listening to the air slowly leak out of a balloon, and no—the glasses don't do a damn thing.
