The Brief: Top Texas News for April 3, 2012
The Big Conversation:
Rick Perry the presidential candidate has re-emerged — in a new book making some controversial claims about his behavior on the campaign trail.
Politico's new e-book Inside the Circus, a behind-the-scenes look at the Republican presidential race by reporters Mike Allen and Evan Thomas, claims that Perry used painkillers during his famously botched debates to relieve pain he'd been experiencing since undergoing back surgery in July.
"It became an open secret that he was using painkillers in sufficient dosages to keep him standing through the two-hour debates," the book says.
The book also describes a scene ...
Comments (7)
Craig Young via Texas Tribune on Facebook
As and Aggie I get the I've been working on the Railroad joke!
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
the stories just make no sense....I mean, how come Perry can remember all the words and notes of the folk/country tunes he sang while urinating, but can't remember the three federal departments he would love to eliminate?
BiffTannen
Drug abuser! Throw him in prison!
Joel Vela via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The truth hurts...
Anne Dunkelberg
As I commented to Statesman, " You correctly quoted me noting that the health care delivery and payment reforms in SB 7 do share strong key elements with the national payment and delivery reforms under Obamacare. Both take on how services are organized and paid for, and begin tying payment to improved quality, safety and outcomes, rather than simple volume. However, the article failed to note the critical observation that the SB 7-style delivery reforms are just one of the three legs of the Affordable Care Act. The two key and unprecedented pillars established by the ACA and missing from the SB 7 changes are (1) creating a system of affordable insurance for all (lawfully present) Americans through sliding-scale premium assistance, and (2) reforming the private insurance market to require carriers to compete only on the basis of quality, price, and customer service, and not by avoiding insuring people with health care conditions."
JC DemocratofTejas
Please don't write about rick perry. It makes me laugh so hard I can't work. Enough pain killers to get him through a 2 hour debate must have been one sh*tload to have the effect it had on him. It was not an open secret--everyone knew, and probably the norm for perry. Botched injections from his not-so-famous doctor and botched run for president that never had a chance simply due to the low watt light bulb in rick's head.
gypsy314 ne
Anyone BUT the fraud traitor Obama and democrats!