Perry, Channeling 2010, Sharpens Anti-Washington Talk

The Texas Tribune ^ | November 4, 2011 | Jay Root

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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 a “wrecking ball” to the Washington establishment that he says “hates” him, and then he grabbed another construction-industry term to drive it home.

“I‘m going to show up in Washington, D.C., with a sledgehammer and they’re not going to like it, and that’s exactly what I think this country needs in Washington, is somebody that’s not afraid to go in and to really crush that system that is in place that has cost this country trillions of dollars,” Perry told workers Thursday at Pioneer, a seed research and development company in Johnston.

More at the linked article.

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Running against Washington is the oldest trick in the book ... yeah, Rick “Fed Up” Perry is going to Washington, where he will continue the Bush-Obama policy of failing to build the border fence which passed Congress in 2006.

Why not stay in Texas? In the last three years, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have moved there. Rick “Fed Up” Perry has created countless thousands of jobs for illegal aliens by opposing the E-Verify system which we got in Alabama and South Carolina.