Perry isn't in trouble for vetoing the budget bill, but for threatening to veto the budget if the DUI judge didn't resign.

The latter is against TX law, not the former. Still, his threat was a public one, made in the press, not some backroom blackmail maneuver. And you have to admit, the DUI judge has no business running a corruption investigation agency. Its a mere technicality no one expects will go anywhere.

The NYT and David Axelrod (political advisor to both Clinton and Obama)have both gone on record as saying Perry was unfairly hit with this trumped-up indictment, and that nothing should, or will probably, result from it. Still, its nice to see a little petard-hoisting being done to the GOP for a change.

As for that nattering nabob of negativism, Spiro Agnew, he was a low-life scumbag. That's precisely why Nixon picked him.