Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Department of Understatement

"I raised about $30 million," [Rick "Hair" Perry] said. "And if you're saying that I can be bought for $5,000, I'm offended." -- Hair, in the Rethug poo-fest the other night, responding to Minnesota Loon Michele Bachmann's charge that he supported giving young girls the HPV vaccine in return for campaign contributions from drug maker Merck.

Well, he should be offended. After all, his sale price is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, not a mere $5,000.