VIDEO – RICK PERRY BEFRIENDS CANCER VICTIM
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
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PERRY, ROMNEY AND SOCIAL SECURITY
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Neither candidate is helping the cause of reform.
- Republicans have been more frustrated than usual with their Presidential candidates, and last Tuesday’s debate exchange on Social Security between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney shows why. One candidate seemed to taunt his critics by showing disdain for anyone who supports the entitlement for seniors, while the other candidate sounded like a Democrat defending it.
Mr. Perry was asked about a passage from his recent book in which he called Social Security a Ponzi scheme. The question was inevitable, yet the Texas Governor gave the impression he hadn’t given it more than a few moments of thought.
“Anybody that’s for the status quo with Social Security today,” he said, “is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it’s not right.” Young people who “expect that program to be sound, and for them to receive benefits when they research retirement age” should be disabused of that notion, Mr. Perry added, repeating the “lie” bit as if he had little more to say.
Give Mr. Perry credit for addressing one of the third rails of American politics, but that doesn’t mean he has to invite electrocution. The problem with his hot rhetoric is that it can turn off many voters before they even get a chance to listen to his reform proposals, assuming he eventually offers some.
He’s even technically right that Social Security is a species of Ponzi scheme (if not a criminal enterprise) in the sense that young people today are putting more into the system than they can possibly get out in retirement.
THE VETOES OF RICK PERRY
Saturday, September 10th, 2011NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Katrina Trinko
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September 6, 2011 4:00 A.M. The Vetoes of Rick Perry In Texas, they called it the “Father’s Day Massacre.” In June 2001, fresh off his first legislative session as governor, Rick Perry vetoed 79 bills on the last day of his veto period — the time in which a governor can sign bills, veto them, or allow them to become law without his signature. Added to the three bills he had vetoed prior, Perry’s annihilation shattered the record for a Texas governor. (Perry easily knocked off Republican Bill Clements, who had axed 59 bills in 1989, from his first-place perch.) It was also a marked change from George W. Bush’s governing style: Bush had never vetoed more than 37 bills in a year. The dramatic gesture paid off. The Austin American-Statesman analyzed over 500 e-mails and letters that were sent to Perry’s office in the aftermath of the vetoes, and found the response overwhelmingly positive. Perry, the American-Statesman reported, “appears to have energized people who support the death penalty, oppose abortion, are wary of more government — and whose turnout at the polls is necessary for him to win a full term in the 2002 election.” Winning the trust of conservatives was important for Perry. Before the vetoes, he had signed a hate-crimes bill that was opposed by many conservatives — his office was inundated with calls the days before the bill hit his desk — and was the Democrats’ “top priority” that session, according to Texas political analyst William Lutz. But if the vetoes soothed conservative voters’ concerns about Perry, they carried other political liabilities. He angered state doctors when he killed a bill that would have forced insurers to pay doctors more promptly. Another controversial piece of legislation he vetoed was one that would have prohibited the execution of mentally retarded criminals. (more…) |
VIDEO – REPUBLICAN DEBATE AT REAGAN LIBRARY, SEPT 7, 2011
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TEXAS REPRESENTATIVE ENDORSES PERRY
Monday, September 5th, 2011TEXASINSIDER.ORG
State Rep. Wayne Christian Endorses Perry for President
By State Rep. Wayne Christian
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – I believe Governor Rick Perry would be dynamite (which means “great” in Texas) as President of the United States. Having served approaching two decades in the Texas House, I have worked with Rick Perry during his service as Agriculture Commissioner, Lt. Governor and Governor of the State of Texas, and have come to appreciate his style of leadership, responsiveness to constituents, and character.
He has consistently presented an open door to this representative from rural East Texas. More than once, he has been willing to listen to my ideas, and then as a result of his endorsement and personal involvement, rules were changed, laws were instituted and funding was made available that benefited my constituents and all of Texas.
Many times he opposed more powerful individuals and groups who could provide him much more financial support and power than could the “common folk.” These common folk were the good people of Texas who depended only on his integrity to simply do the right thing.
Governor Perry is in no way perfect. He has made errors. As we say in Texas, the only person who was perfect was crucified a couple of thousand years ago.
With that being said, after a quarter century in politics, Rick Perry’s record shines better than most. Of course he was once a Democrat and Republicans may criticize him for that.
However, the Governor is not the only Texan, who after entering into public service, experienced the Democratic Party’s dramatic shift away from principles consistent with rural, conservative values, and chose to do something about it — He became a Republican. (more…)
LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND POLITICAL
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Published on The Weekly Standard (www.weeklystandard.com)
Lifestyles of the Rich and Political
Shouldn’t our candidates’ consumption be less conspicuous?
Noemie Emery
September 5, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 47
Dear Mitt Romney: Please don’t knock down your $12 million beach house in California and replace it with a new one almost four times its size. At least not while you’re running for president and your campaign has yet to catch fire. We know it gets cramped, but a lot of other people are cramped also, what with either being unemployed and having to move in with their relatives, or putting up college grad children who cannot find jobs, or having to downsize from the house they once lived in, but now can’t afford. Doing this now could seem like a poke in the eye to these people, whose trust funds weren’t quite the size of yours, and who saw their retirement funds dwindle through no fault of their own. For the next few years, your guests can find a motel, double up, or crash on the floor in a sleeping bag. If you have to go big, you can do it in the third year of your first term, when thanks to you, the economy is once again booming. Or you can do it after you’ve lost (either the primaries or the presidential election), when you will be your own man again and quite free to do and to spend as you please.
Dear Barack Obama: Do go ahead and have a lovely vacation, enjoying life with your wife and adorable children, but not at a 28-acre estate on Martha’s Vineyard that rents for $50,000 a week. Not when you’re running for reelection, and your approval ratings are down around 40 percent, when long-term unemployment has become a huge problem, and the country’s credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in history. If you need room to relax, you have three fairly large houses, two of them owned and maintained by the public, one of them in a nice rural setting, and with many amenities. (There is also a big empty house in Chicago that you haven’t seen for quite a long time.) For many people, $50,000 would be a big down payment for a house in which they would live on a permanent basis. For some, it would buy a house in its entirety. For most (though perhaps not for your friends), it would amount to their entire income for a year. That’s what you might call quite an income disparity. (more…)
PERRY’S ‘LOSER PAYS’ IS AN ECONOMIC WINNER
Monday, September 5th, 2011New Texas law expected to reduce unjustified lawsuits
By Patrick Gleason and Jason Russell-
The Washington Times
Thursday, September 1, 2011
There isn’t much policywise coming out of Europe these days that one would expect a conservative like Texas Gov. Rick Perry to emulate because the Continent typically is the domain of the left. However, Mr. Perry recently imported a reform from across the pond that is sure to make the Lone Star State, already the economic envy of the nation, even more of a job-creating juggernaut.
Under the current American legal system, each side in litigation typically retains financial responsibility for its own legal fees absent a prearranged agreement stating otherwise. Yet under the English rule, adopted by virtually every other legal system in the West, the responsibility for attorneys’ fees can be summed up in two words: Loser pays. When two sides enter into litigation, the losing side must pay the winning side any damages awarded, as well as compensation for legal fees incurred by the victor.
Mr. Perry made passage of a modified version of the English loser-pays rule a top priority during this year’s biennial session of the Texas Legislature. After emphasizing the need for such tort reform during his State of the State address in February, Mr. Perry made loser pays the law of the land in Texas by signing H.B. 274 in May.
As Mr. Perry remarked in his signing statement, loser pays “provides defendants and judges with a variety of tools that will cut down on frivolous and costly claims in Texas.” (more…)
RICK PERRY BEING INTERVIEWED BY MARK LEVIN
Sunday, September 4th, 2011VIDEO – RICK PERRY ANSWERS QUESTIONS IN IOWA
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011CAN PERRY SURVIVE THE SMEAR-MERCHANTS?
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
THE TEXAS TIMES
Posted on August 26, 2011 by Bob Weir
Weir Only Human – By Bob Weir Retired from NYCPD after 20 years of patrol, investigation, supervision, seminar training and crime statistics. Author of 7 published books. Past 7 years as the Executive Editor of a North Texas newspaper. Written a weekly column for the past 12 years.
The only force of nature that is faster than the speed of light is the speed at which calumny will collide with a contender for national office. Therefore, it was to be expected that after Texas Governor Rick Perry threw his wide-brimmed Stetson into the political ring, he would immediately become a target for pundits, opponents and potential challengers for the nomination and for the General Election. Already there is a plethora of anti-Perry activists hurling a wide-ranging assortment of negative half-truths in an attempt to poison the atmosphere about the guy before the national electorate has a chance to hear from him and examine his record. Propaganda is a very powerful mind-manipulation device. It’s why so much money is spent on political ads. Campaign managers know that most of the population will not take the time to do their own independent research on the candidates, preferring to make up their minds after absorbing a myriad of sound bites that they can regurgitate to others at social functions, making them appear knowledgeable on the issues. (more…)