Texas Gov. Rick Perry: The Tone From This President Is Troubling (VIDEO with complete transcript)

I don't mind telling you I was a bit troubled today by the tone of the president.

When you have governors - and we all compete against each other. We are the laboratories of innovation and for the President the United States to look Democrat and Republican governors in the eye and to say "I do not trust you to make decisions in your state about issues of education, about transportation infrastructure..."

That is really troubling, particularly when you're seeing states be what has really performed over the course of the last 4 to 5 years he has been the President of the United States.

This discussion on energy policy. The president on one hand wants to take credit for more energy being discovered in the United States but, it's his policies... it's the EPA that is being pushed to close the door on extended energy policy in this country that could secure America for decades going forward.

That's being put in jeopardy by this administration so you're hearing very at cross-purpose messages from this president.

I wanna just add to what Nicki said about the the Guard...and Democrat governors are very concerned, I will suggest to you, about what they heard today about the Guard.

I left the United States Air Force in the mid-seventies, in February of 1977, as our country was going through a similar period of time of reducing the force...but those men and women who had extraordinary expertise in combat were going in to the guard and in to the reserves.

I hope that we're not about to make a tragic mistake in this country by hollowing out our guard in our states, in some political statement of "you're all going to feel the pain".

Because that's certainly what I heard from the President of the United States today. As a matter fact, he said in that meeting, he said "if I hear any of you pushing back, making statements about Washington spends too much money, you'll hear from me".

If I'm a Democrat governor, if I'm a Republican governor, I'm highly offended by that.

Yes, it is our duty to defend the people in this country, but I will suggest that making a political statement about the guard is not in the best long-term interest of this country and it's certainly not in the best long-term interest of those men and women who have committed and oftentimes sacrificed greatly for this country.

Rand Paul's immigration speech

...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.

[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]

Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform

Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...

[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]

[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]

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