GOPer Gawk: Thursday Edition

Government spending--baaaad.  Federal government spending--oooooh so very baaaaddddd.  Why hell, everybody knows that, right Cowboy Rick?

Cowboy Rick is runnin for president because he knows how to create jobs.  Just look at all the jobs he created as governor in Texas.  Well, not too closely.  The unemployment rate there is higher than any of the neighboring states.  And it turns out that   Texas lost 178,000 private sector jobs between 2007 and 2010.  But it gained 125,000 public sector jobs.  That's primarily GOVERNMENT JOBS.  It's a mirror image of our current jobs situation nationally in that regard, for the private sector is creating jobs, but government is shedding jobs even faster, which largely accounts for the weak job creation numbers last month, for example.

So how did Texas do it?  Shoot, that's easy.  The Obama Recovery Act!  You know, the one that got ol' Cowboy Rick so riled up he threatened to secede from the Union?  Then he took billions from that socialist stim to shore up and expand state and local government, and there were lots of federal jobs, too. 

But hypocrisy isn't the only gold standard for the GOPers.  A study of TPers revealed what won't be news to readers of this blog: they are primarily Rabid Right, Christian Right white good ol' GOPers with deep suspicions of non-whites, and anybody not Rabid Christian Rightists.

Just what their agenda is--the agenda of Michele Blaughman and Cowboy Rick--is reportedly  a little something called Dominionism: "Put simply, Dominionism means that Christians have a God-given right to rule all earthly institutions. Originating among some of America’s most radical theocrats, it’s long had an influence on religious-right education and political organizing".

For believers in Dominionism, rule by non-Christians is a sort of sacrilege—which explains, in part, the theological fury that has accompanied the election of our last two Democratic presidents. “Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ—to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness,” wrote George Grant, the former executive director of Coral Ridge Ministries, which has since changed its name to Truth in Action Ministries. “But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice ... It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time ... World conquest.”

In case you're confused, dominion ain't about Canada.  According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary it means "supreme authority" and "absolute ownership."

Recent polls indicate that TPers are about the least popular political group in America, but then, nobody is very popular right now.  It's a very volatile moment.  Cowboy Rick is counting on that.  There was a brief flurry on Wednesday about Chris Christie getting into the race, though not a serious one.  But it tells you two things about GOPerville.  First, the Bush Gang really doesn't want Cowboy Rick to win the nomination.  Second, they are afraid he might.