Fe Bongolan

Planet Waves writer Fe Bongolan lives in Oakland, California. Her column "Fe-911," has been featured on Planet Waves since 2008. As an actor and dramaturge, Fe is a core member of Cultural Odyssey's "The Medea Project -- Theater for Incarcerated Women," producing work that empowers the voices of all women in trouble, from ex-offenders, women with HIV-AIDS, to young girls and women at risk. A Planet Waves fan from almost the beginning of Eric's astrology career, Fe is a public sector employee who describes herself as a "mystical public servant." When it comes to art, culture and politics, she loves reading between the lines.

Texas Two-Step

As the astrology of 2012 heats up, politics will too. During times like these, we often turn to our friend Nancy Sommers and her blog, Starlight News — a concise and welcome resource for political astrology. Here is her entry on Texas Governor Rick Perry, one of the more strident potential Republican nominees to challenge President Barack Obama in the 2012 general elections. — fb

By Nancy Sommers, of “Starlight News”

Another swaggering, brash Texas Governor appealing to America’s shallow desire for simple, bold answers to complex problems. What could possibly go wrong?  Terrorists? Smoke ‘em out! Need jobs? Get out of the way of business!  It is easy as apple pie. All those pesky little details like insufficient wages, unaffordable health care, deteriorating education, crumbling infrastructure, and unregulated pollution will just sort themselves out by the magic of the free market. Welcome to the world of Rick Perry, the overnight sensation and GOP frontrunner for the presidency of the United States.

According to Rick Perry, not only is Climate Change a hoax, but it has been pushed by money-grubbing scientists who faked the data. Not only does Perry disagree with the quantitative easing practiced by the Federal Reserve to help us out of the recession, but the Fed Chairman is treasonous for even suggesting it and would by lynched should he ever come to Texas. In Perryland, Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional, and the troops don’t respect their current Commander-in-chief, who, by the way, doesn’t really love America. Hyperbole is too soft a word to describe the Texas-sized firebombs hurled by the new arrival to the GOP podium.

Despite not having had a goodie-filled tent with which to dazzle the voters at the Iowa Straw Poll, Perry offers the meatiest, most blood-dripping smorgasbord available to the carnivorous zombies of the Republican base. For the rest of us, the goal is to keep the contagion from spreading, like it notoriously did in The Walking Dead, that AMC special where the world is ravaged by a zombie epidemic.

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