Perry ad pushes for a part-time Congress - "Let them get a job back home like everyone else has."

Boston Globe ^ | December 26, 2011 | Shira Schoenberg

[LomanBill]

Citizen politicians.

 

 

That was before the resident legislative/bureaucratic swine turned the mosquito infested swampland into a garden...

 

 

 

...And I dined with the deities who looked upon me with favor,
for my talents, my creativity
and we sat beneath the palms
in the warm afternoons and drank the wine
With Fitzgerald and Huxley
and they pawned the biting phrase from the tongues hot with blood
and drained their pens of bitter ink
Vainly reaching for the bottle full of empty Edens
Branded especially for the ones who had come with great expectations
to the perfumed halls of Allah, for their time in the sun

And we were stokin' the fires and oilin' up the machinery
Until the Gods found out we had ideas of our own...

----"Garden of Allah", Don Henley

 

[LomanBill]

[A free market government has a vested interest in encouraging local enterprise;

--A.Perrywinkler]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2789713/posts?page=123#123

 

swin·dle (swndl)

v. swin·dled, swin·dling, swin·dles

v.tr.

1. To cheat or defraud of money or property.

2. To obtain by fraudulent means: swindled money from the company.

v.intr.

To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property.

n.

The act or an instance of swindling.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/swindler

 

 

Mozilo's Countrywide had been the first to embrace the homeownership push back in 1995 and had therefore become

a central player in Clinton's public-private partnership.

 

And since 1998, Countrywide had also become crucial to the fortunes of Fannie Mae, and the personal wealth of Fannie employees who received special mortgage deals from the lender...
--Reckless Endangerrment; pg 182

 

"Angelo Mozilo, thank you"

--Governor Ricar(D)o Perry

--Tuesday, December 14, 2004

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10202/

 

 

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You’re in a rut LB.

[LomanBill]

 

"Angelo Mozilo, thank you"

--Governor Ricar(D)o Perry

--Tuesday, December 14, 2004

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10202/

[Nickname]

Congress doesn’t need to be meddling in our lives 365 days a year and the idea’s great but the executive branch has no authority over congress.

Has Perry put forth ideas toward achieving that goal?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Has Perry put forth ideas toward achieving that goal?

He has said he'd go state to state, show up to campaign for candidates who supported his ideas; use the bully pulpit.

They do after all WORK FOR US! Gov. Perry is well known for staying with his agenda and pushing the ball forward, always advancing.

There may be more. I'll add it as I know.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://www.rickperry.org/uproot-and-overhaul-washington-html/#part-time-citizen-congress

[altura]

I’m not going to argue with you about Perot. A lot of people fell hard for him, kinda like they did for Sarah Palin and Herman Cain.

The ‘death threads to my family’ was something all three of those people used to either not enter or get out of the race.

[af_vet_rr]

If Perry is the nominee, big changes are coming to DC and he has the ground game in all those states to make things happen.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Perry can't change the pay or how long Congress is in session. If the President had that power, Obamam, and many before him, would have already used it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Rick Perry will campaign for candidates that agree there should be a part-time Congress and use the bully pulpit.

The voters have the final say. Congress isn’t a lifetime appointment. They face the voters — us — their bosses.

[af_vet_rr]

Every single one of your points can be explained or defended.

If he hadn't tried those things or supported those positions, you wouldn't have to make explanations and get defensive about him in the first place. It's like when people say that he backed down on the TTC, and they are deliberately ignoring the fact that he tried it in the first place.

It should not be okay just because we were able to defeat Perry and stop him in his tracks. We might as well say that Hilllarycare was okay because it was defeated. It's not okay, not in the least, because it should never have happened in the first place.

Speaking of the TTC, Perry talks about being responsible to the taxpayers.

Is Rick Perry going to pay the taxpayers of Texas back for all of millions of dollars of taxpayer money that was spent in pursuit of the TTC?

Perry defenders admit the TTC was a mistake, so is Rick Perry going to be a man and own up to the mistake and see that we taxpayers are compensated?

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

GO PERRY!

[af_vet_rr]

Will you vote for Ron Paul if he is the nominee???

Personally, I would have a hard time voting for Paul if he was the nominee, but I don't see that happening. I can 100% tell you that if Romney gets the nomination, I will not vote for Romney.

I know you weren't talking about Perry as being "outside the box", but I've seen a few people claim that and it's downright hilarious. Over 40 people have donated anywhere from $300,000 to $2.5 million to Perry's campaigns over the past 10 years. If you drop the bar down to $200,000 that list goes well over 40 people. You're not an outsider when you have individuals giving you that kind of money - they are investing in you and they are getting a return on their investment, otherwise they would never have made it in the first place.

[af_vet_rr]

Well we ARE doing pretty well so something must be ok and he's been our governor for 11 years.

Spare me. Texas is doing well because it's next door to Mexico, has a huge port/water access to the Gulf of Mexico (and from there the Atlantic and Panama Canal/Pacific), has a huge amount of arable land, has a huge amount of oil, coal, and natural gas, has an incredibly diverse amount of industries from computers to energy to manufacturing to aerospace to agricultural to military, has a large amount of colleges and universities churning out 10s of thousands of graduates every year.

I can keep on telling you why Texas is so successful, but unless Rick Perry time traveled millions of years into the past and setup all of the oil, natural gas, and coal deposits, not to mention the aluminum and other natural resources, he's not responsible. Hell, the computer/electronics and aerospace industries in Texas were created before he was born, and people act like he invented those.

But keep living the dream that Rick Perry created the conditions that made Texas successful. Within 10-20 years, the Democrats will be running this place. Whites are already less than 45% of the population, and that's only going to shrink, and the Democrats are doing everything they can to suck up to minorities. We're going to be California within a decade and a half. You going to give Rick Perry credit for that?

Last year, Rick Perry gave his word that he would serve out his term as Governor if re-elected, and jokes aside about him being intent on doing just that, he's jumping into the Presidential ring because he's seen the writing on the wall, and he knows the Democrats are doing a good job of bribing minorities and immigrants to their side. He might not have an easy election if he runs again in 2014. For once he might face a competent Republican challenger. Or he might face voters who have decided that 14 years is too long to be a governor.

[normy]

I understand the role of the branches but what we as a people keep forgetting is that we have the power to force Congress to pass a balance budget amendment, we can vote in a Congress who agrees not to give themselves raises every other year?

I don't want a President to be able to arbitrarily do much of any thing. I do want a President to join with TEA Party we just voted in in Congress and continue that momentum.

[altura]

I guess I can’t defend Perry or I’ll be getting ‘all defensive.’

You seem to be obsessed with the TTC. You also seem to think there was no merit in it.

I disagree with you. However, like a couple of other things that Perry supported that the people didn’t want, he backed off it in deference to public opinion.

Does Obama ever do that. He gives rude hand gestures and goes on with his plans no matter how unpopular.

Right now, Eric Holder is telling states they cannot require a photo ID for voting, saying it might prevent some people from voting.

Do you think he’ll back off because people disagree.

If you have a candidate you think is better than Perry, please support that person.

[normy]

I am interested in beating Obama. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are joke candidates. Neither has done sh!t in years. They are has been liberal/moderates who have no record except Newt from 15 years ago.

You are more of the problem than the solution. Newt and Mitt HAVE NO RECORD TO RUN ON!!

My goal is to beat Obama. Perry has been Governor of Texas for 11 years and LT Gov. for 2. Only a complete moronic biased joke would ever try to claim that Perry had nothing to do with this Texas economy. You and Obama and Romney will attempt it but it will never fly because it is an incredibly weak ass argument. That's the facts Jack!

[af_vet_rr]

You and Obama and Romney will attempt it but it will never fly because it is an incredibly weak ass argument.

You know what's a "weak ass argument"? You not being able to come up with an intelligent response and instead resorting to trying to lump me in with Romney and Obama in an attempt to deflect the discussion.

Ping me when you come up with a grown-up response.

And quit assuming that I'm a 100% Newt supporter - while I agree quite a bit with Jim Robinson and others about Gingrich and his ability to beat Obama and get Congress back on track, I'm not a Gingrich man.

[greeneyes]

The constitution requires that Congress meet at least once a year. That’s once too many. LOL.

[normy]

No, that is the exact response Romney and Obama will use. They will attempt to paint the Texas success as a natural occurrence having nothing to do with Perry. as a matter of fact one of the first debates Romney did that exact thing (dealt 4 aces, remember?). Perry has been in charge of Texas for around 13 years. Texas has thrived. The only way to beat Perry is to pretend Texas is a strange place where anyone can be governor and succeed because of our geographical location and our no income tax.

You did use the exact defense Obama will use and Mitt Romney has already used. Plain and simple.