Perry, Channeling 2010, Sharpens Anti-Washington Talk
JOHNSTON, Iowa — It’s not enough to say Washington has gone too far with job-killing regulations and reckless spending. Rick Perry now wants to destroy the nation’s capital as we know it.
The 2012 presidential hopeful, seeming to channel his 2010 riffs, is sharpening his anti-Washington rhetoric in speeches, op-eds and interviews. In town hall meetings this week in first-test Iowa, where Perry is hoping to stage a comeback from single-digit poll numbers, the Texas governor has been using bold language to illustrate his disdain for the spendthrift, DC-Beltway culture.
He started out saying he was going to take ...
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Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
ROTFL.
Andrew Redd via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Wouldn't count on that one happening. More like he's going to show up to D.C. with his hands open saying please buy my allegiance.
Pierce Presley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Gosh, I hate Washington so much I not only want to move there, but get a job with near-daily contact with the Washingtonians I'm bitching about. Oh, and spend millions of dollars in the attempt, too.
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
First knock some sense in to yourself.
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We don't need another cowboy/bully from Texas in the WH. The last one didn't work out for us so well and that 4 trillion or so was the direct result of the last cowboy/bully from Texas adm. policies. Why is it that the GOP can never be accountable for their actions? Bush Tax cuts, wars, TARP, auto bailout. All inherited by President Obama to deal with.
Rick Scott McGuckin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"Next time please listen to me when i tell you someone from Texas shouldn't be President." -Molly Ivins
Bill Conley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
His remarks beg the question: Can you 2-step to "Macho Man"?
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dear Blowhard Perry,
You might want to wait 'til you get your $Billions of federal aid that's been propping up your "Texas Mirage" over the past ten years, because if you sledgehammer that away you AND your constituents ain't gonna like it. Hypocrite.
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He and Mr. Mint are still caught up in the civil war. Rather than sledgehammers these reationaries would like to storm Washington with Muskets.
This is a very dangerous man who hates the very idea of the Union of American States. As such he is not fit to lead.
We are in severe danger this man's polling numbers might go up. He won a strong hit on Cain, with his smear. Now he is trying to talk tough to re-capture momentum. This is exactly how he has played before.
Martin Hyman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Sledgehammer? Is that a new drink I haven't heard of?
T D
Does he include the Pentagon in this? The service academies?
Or just the parts of government that he'd rather didn't exist?
Low-tax conservatives are about to find out that many of the things they depend on (national defense, for one) actually cost money.
By the way, didn't Perry draw a paycheck from D.C. (that is, our taxes) while he was in the Air Force?
Glenda Hawthorne via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What a pompous ass!
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Most of the time sledgehammers are used to ruin or crash things. That is his real plan. Republikkkans say that government doesn't work. Then they get elected and prove it.
Ken Shanaberger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The House is already proving it doesn't work...
Only Me
He is insane!!!!!!
Dale H Curry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
In the article, Henson said. “They were obviously doing something well because people bought it.’’ Unfortunately for Governor Perry, the rest of the nation is very clear on who spent the $4 trillion and it was Bush and his failed policies and wars with no reason. Unfortunately for Perry, the rest of the nation is not so gullible as to believe this pathological liar.
A. Bryant
Be scared; be very scared if Perry takes over our country. He is insane and will say anything he thinks the people want to hear. His tax plan and other ideas are made to make us all dependent upon the Government; the rich will get richer and the middle class will pay even more than they do now. He is not going to do anything that will make him and his cronies pay more in taxes. How can one man tell so many lies and think he has pulled one over our eyes. This is a very dangerous man. Dale Curry, you are right; Perry is a compulsive, pathological liar.
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This publication is evidently part of the Perry political machine. Perry is in last place yet gets press like he has the presidency almost sewn up.
When will we see any press about plans and aspirations of the other candidates. We have heard nothing about Gingrich...
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Perry is a very very dangerous man.
We can ill afford a closet clan presidency in this time of turmoil. This trash talk about our great country from someone who loved our country would be be difficult but therapeutic.
These attacks on our country by someone who wants to roll back the entire 20th century to a day when the Jeffereson Davis was President of a treasonous movement would be simply disgusting if it were not so dangerous.