How Rick Perry’s critics are helping him
By D.J. McGuire | Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 | Policy, PoliticsConservative Home USA – amidst a slew of good numbers rebutting the critics of Governor Perry – puts its nicely:
The line “well, Perry’s record isn’t nearly as good as people say” still has the word “good” in it. No description of the Obama economy, even from among his most ardent supporters, has “good” in it.
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D.J. McGuire
Former candidate for Board of Supervisors in Spotsylvania, current blogger, economics teacher, and long-rumored windbag. There are two causes closest to the heart: steering the country away from the social democratic nonsense that is sinking Europe, and convincing the rest of the "rightosphere" that the NBA really is a joy to watch.
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21 Responses to "How Rick Perry’s critics are helping him"
Well D.J., the President had a tough situation when he came into office. The Bush tax cuts had the dramatic effect of reducing government revenues to the lowest level as a share of the economy since 1950 and have been a major contributor to the dramatic shift from large projected budget surpluses and decling debt, to the projected deficits and increasing debt, we now face. The Bush tax cuts were simply ill conceived and unnecessary, and beyond that, simply did not work. As a result, our fiscal situation went to edge of the abyss, and while we have recovered, the effects still linger. The Bush tax cuts certainly conferred the most benefits on the highest income households at the same time income was even more concentrated at the top of the income spectrum. So frankly, researchers have done the math, and the tax cuts and the two wars and Medicare increases on a credit card, were a financial disaster from which we are still recovering. The President and the Congress faced this issue, and while we have recovered, we don’t have the growth we expect. The eight republican candidates, including Perry, simply don’t want to face the major reason for our problem; that is, declining revenues.
Well D.J., Gov Perry and the other Republican governors had a tough situation when Obama came into office. The business bashing and leftist tax amd spend policies of the most left wing President in the country’s history had the dramatic effect of reducing government revenues to the lowest level as a share of the economy since 1950 and have been a major contributor to the dramatic shift from large projected budget surpluses and decling debt, to the projected deficits and increasing debt, we now face. The Obama stimulus programs designed to enrich his cronies in the unions and on Wall Street were simply ill conceived and unnecessary, and beyond that, simply did not work. As a result, our fiscal situation went to edge of the abyss, and while we have gotten through the financial panic of 2008, the effects still linger. The Obama programs certainly conferred the most benefits on the highest income households concentrated almost exclusively in the Democratic strongholds in Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Hollywood. at the same time income was even more concentrated at the top of the income spectrum. So frankly, researchers have done the math, and the tax cuts and the wars and Medicare increases on a credit card that the Dems supported while Bush was in the WH, were not the main drivers of the deficit in contrast to the tax cuts for the middle class and entitlements. Instead Obama and the Dems embarked on transforming the greatest capitalist economy into the usual socialistic basketcase found elsewhere in the world. – a financial disaster from which we are not recovering. The President and the Congress never faced this issue, and while we have recovery in Hollywood and Wall Street and the President has enriched himself with book deals, we don’t have the growth we would expect if Reagan were President. The eight republican candidates, including Perry, recognize the major reason for our problem; that is, declining revenues and want economic growth that the leftists in the Dem party detest. They detest it because they would be seen as irrelevant.
Still playing the Blame Bush game, Mike? How long do you think you can drag out that tired old excuse? Hell, even Obama gave up on that tactic almost a year ago.
Obama has had two and a half years, with his party in the majority in both houses of Congress for the first two years, and virtually nothing has improved. If the Bush tax cuts were so awful (although they were actually a roll-back of the Clinton tax hikes in 1993), why didn’t Obama & Company repeal them in 2009?
It is time for you Democrats to man up and admit that your guy owns this economic mess. And it isn’t getting any better, despite all the hope and change. And if you think that it is hard to cut a deal with the House Republicans now, what kind of a deal are you going to be able to make in January 2013 if the Republicans also control the Senate and the White House? Now that will be change that you can believe in.
BTW, Mike. When Obama campaigned for President, he promised to end the two unfunded Bush foreign wars. We now are involved in three unfunded foreign wars. Explain, please.
Nothing has improved? The President faced liquidity problems in the markets, commercial paper was seized up, one investment bank had simply disappeared, and others were at risk, the stock market had lost 40% of its value, leaving all of us wondering about our retirement funds, and we had gone to the edge of the cliff and just barely avoided the collapse of the international financial system. Today, none of that exists, the recession has been over for a year, liquidity is back in the markets, private job growth exceeds public job loss, and the economic crisis is over. We have a political crisis in that Grover Norquist and the republican study committee wants the nation to fail so they can win the Presidency, but beyond that, things are looking up. And yes, we will be out of Iraq by the end of this year, and the war in Afghanistan is winding down. The assistance to Libya to prevent a massacre of civilians hardly qualifies as a war. So frankly, the President has performed quite well, but it is Congress, namely the House of Representatives that has failed America. They should get to work immediately.
HR, Mike had posted that comment before on multiple threads, and it is just a cut and paste of more of the same. Mike’s comments are like visiting a Mexican tire factory and watching them make retreads.
Oh, and another repeated Grover conspiracy comment.
Fair enough. The republican mantra: cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes. You get the point, and you will have to live with the disastrous consequences as well.
Tim J,
Agree. Every time I read Mike’s comments I see rainbows and unicorns. I had no idea that we were so well off in Obamaland. The critical question in 2012 is going to be the famous Reagan quote, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
Isn’t it interesting that, on one hand, the liberals would have you think that the Republicans are driving the economy into the ditch to defeat Obama. On the other hand, they want you to believe that everything is coming up roses. It is disingenuous to contend that both are happening simultaneously, particularly since the Democrats control two-thirds of the executive and legislature. Either the Democrats are bumbling idiots and Boehner is a genius or someone is playing fast and loose with the facts.
“How Rick Perry’s critics are helping him”
By sending him hair spray?
Reported today in “The State Column dot com”
“Texas Rep. Ron Paul is well ahead of Texas governor Rick Perry, according to the latest poll.
A poll conduced by Azimuth Research Group finds Mr. Paul leading Mr. Perry in their home state of Texas.
Answering the question, “If the Texas Republican primary were held today, which presidential candidate would you be most likely to vote for?” 22 percent of those polled selected Mr. Paul. Just 17 percent of respondents voted in favor of Mr. Perry.
The poll comes just days after Mr. Perry announced his intention to seek the Republican presidential nomination. The Texas Republican governor had hinted at an entry earlier this year, testing levels of support for his candidacy.
Cafferty FIle: “CNN Cafferty – Is Ron Paul the only grown-up running for president in the GOP?
“As the race for the Republican nomination heats up, there’s one candidate who’s been largely ignored by the mainstream media.”
“But Ron Paul is talking sense and more people ought to listen to him.”
“The Texas congressman has visionary ideas about where the country ought to be going and what sea changes are necessary in order to continue being a superpower.”
It is precisely those “sea changes” that scare the crap out of the establishment.
Perry is a just another insider retread wanna-be.
So Perry keeps talking about job growth in Texas, but fails of course to say how many of these jobs are minimum wage jobs. Of course, companies take advantage of cheap labor, many don’t provide any health insurance, and since Perry and his predecessors don’t like regulations, some companies thrive there. Of course, this may benefit Texas, but does it benefit the U.S.? Do we aspire to be the nation of cheap labor, lack of benefits for workers, and lax regulation so companies may cut corners as they wish? I don’t think so.
The underlying issue with Perry is that he has openly projected himself a Christian fundamental evangelical which no longer plays in the political scene. Past social right winger organizers, such as the Moral Majority, Christian Coalition etc. have since given up on Presidential endorsements because of failure to deliver of the chosen on the their agenda. Since Kerry’s defeat, the Democratic Party has had an epiphany on religion in politics. Obama has successfully embarked on including a civil rights Christianity, tough-minded liberal Protestantism, and a smacking of the old social gospel which hasn’t been available in the liberal agenda. Hence, with the changing religious landscape of Christian, non-Christian, and non-religious America, Perry may be viewed as intolerant and religiously arrogant.
Michelle Malkin “helps” Perry a little more:
“In February 2007, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a shocking executive order forcing every sixth-grade girl to submit to a three-jab regimen of the Gardasil vaccine. He also forced state health officials to make the vaccine available “free” to girls ages 9 to 18. The drug, promoted by manufacturer Merck as an effective shield against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) and genital warts, as well as cervical cancer, had only been approved by the Food and Drug Administration eight months prior to Perry’s edict.”
Perry’s firebrand schtick may work well in Texas, but when he goes to New Hampshire and denies science, he will have a tougher time. Rumor has it that not only does he disbeleive global warming and evolution but he does not believe in gravity nor that the earth revolves around the sun. He must have been a product of the Texas educational system which is one of the worst in the nation. The fact that Texas has an unemployment rate of 8.1% despite all the federal government spending there is an indictment of his leadership, not an endorsement. Further, the low paying jobs created by in migration from other states is not something to be proud of at all, especially since few have health insurance nor benefits. Yes, some companies can make a killing in Texas by exploiting the increasing labor pool, but is this the model we want for our nation? I don’t think so.
“So Perry keeps talking about job growth in Texas, but fails of course to say how many of these jobs are minimum wage jobs”
They weren’t mostly minimum wage jobs, Mike. They were government jobs. Texas created more than 112,000 government jobs in four years, while the rest of the country lost more than 300,000.
Since what I read from my Republican friends here is that government jobs “don’t count” as job creation, Gov. Perry should immediately stop claiming that he knows how to create jobs.
Which leading republican presidential candidate has bee out in front of these issues for years? As a bonus question, which republican presidential candidate is routinely dismissed as “unelectable”?
Rasmussen:
“New Low: Only 15% Now Expect Situation in Afghanistan To Improve Over Next Six Months”
“Sixty-seven percent (67%) of voters think that thoughtful spending cuts should be considered in every program of the federal government, including defense, as the nation searches for solutions to its budget crisis. Nearly one-half (48%) of Americans now think the United States can make major cuts in defense spending without putting the country in danger. They believe even more strongly that there’s no risk in cutting way back on what America spends to defend other countries.”
“Voter confidence about the short-term course of the war in Afghanistan has fallen to its lowest level in nearly two years, while confidence about the direction in Iraq over the next six months has dropped to the lowest point in almost five years of surveying.”
“These findings come at a time when more voters than ever want to bring U.S. troops home from what is now America’s longest-running war. Fifty-nine percent (59%) are calling for an immediate troop withdrawal or the creation of a firm timetable to bring them all home within a year.”
Yes, you are correct. I was referring to the private sector jobs. He, like our Governor, has effectively had budget surpluses to crow about because of accepting billions in stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, yet Perry loves to rail against the very funds which have made him look good. To your point, both Texas and Virginia have benefitted greatly from the creation of military jobs as well.
Mike cackles “Perry like our Governor, has effectively had budget surpluses to crow about because of accepting billions in stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.” Oddly, the DNC said something quite different. Texas’ success was all due to the horrid oil and gas industry and indifference to Al Gore’s hyperventilations.
Can you explain how that Chinese money didn’t help your idyllic blue states that are going bellyup? They got even more “free money” from Obama’s stash. Why isn’t that working like crazy in Argentina or Spain or Italy or Greece? What ever happened to the late great Soviet Union that had oodles of government spending? Sadly I hear they were not so great too. Mike, I must say you and Tor’s increasingly frantic regurgitations of leftist website drivel give a good indication of how bad things are in Leftyland.
So are you saying that Governor McDonnell did not receive, on behalf of the citizens of Virginia and its political subdivisions, billions of dollars in stimulus money? And if you cannot or will not admit that he has, will you at least acknowledge that it is a bit hypocritical to rail against stimulus while crowing about budget surpluses?
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