Perry knocks Obama’s handling of border security

Austin American-Statesman ^ | July 18, 2011 | Jason Embry

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Speaking this morning to the Texas Municipal Police Association in Austin, Gov. Rick Perry returned to one of his favorite subjects over the last few years, saying the Obama administration has inappropriately handled security issues on the Texas-Mexico border.

Perry, who told the Des Moines Register in recent days that God may be calling him to run for president, has long said Washington has not deployed enough manpower to the Texas-Mexico border. He repeated that criticism this morning, saying he wants 3,000 Border Patrol agents along the border in Texas and 1,000 troops from the National Guard. He said the administration’s decision to send 286 troops last year was “grossly inadequate.”

“The federal government continues to turn a blind eye to this problem,” Perry said.

Last August, when President Barack Obama came to Austin for a fundraiser, Perry met him at the airport and tried to hand him a letter asking for National Guard troops. (He gave the letter to an Obama aide.) Perry later bragged in a re-election commercial that he had “confronted” Obama, showing footage of their brief encounter.

Last year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano sent Perry a letter saying the Border Patrol was “better staffed” than at any time in its history, having increased from about 10,000 agents in 2004 to more than 20,000 in 2010.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Who’s your candidate?

[isthisnickcool]

Who’s your candidate?

You can read. I do not have one. If Perry does run which I doubt he will do until Palin decides it may be Rick Perry. I have supported the douche in the past when he has run against other t@rd sandwiches. It is moot at this point in time because Perry is not a candidate.

[af_vet_rr]

You still haven’t told us who your candidate is.

[pghoilman]

Fine. Do your thing. Try not to be so predictable though - try to cook up something new.