TX Governor Rick Perry bashes Bush’s fiscal record.
By on Dec 16th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
TX Governor Rick Perry bashes Bush’s fiscal record.
During a campaign stop for Rudy Giuliani this week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) criticized President Bush, saying “George Bush isn’t and he never was” a “real fiscal conservative” or “a bonafide Reagan Republican.” Perry, who succeeded Bush in Texas, also criticized Bush’s tenure as governor:
“Rudy is a real fiscal conservative. He’s a bonafide Reagan Republican. George Bush isn’t and he never was,” Perry said on the videotape.
The Governor extolled Giuliani’s conservative credentials. But at the expense of President Bush, who Perry characterized as too big a spender — even during his days in Texas.
“George Bush was spending money,” Perry told the gathering. “George has never ever been a fiscal conservative.”
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I wonder who Perry voted for in the past two Presidential elections.
December 16th, 2007 at 5:43 pmuh-oh – Now Rick’s going to be in big trouble with Mitt, who will no doubt demand that an apology be issued to the Cheerleader Prince immediately.
fight, you righties, fight fight!!
December 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pmReagan and Bush are identical in every way except for one thing. Bush had an IQ of 70 when he was installed in the White House in 2000. Reagan’s IQ was 70 when he left the White House in 1988.
December 16th, 2007 at 5:54 pmit doesn’t matter what GWB did in the past. all he wanted was to be president and was willing to say and do whatever the neokkkons told him to do.
he is a puppethead just like reagan
December 16th, 2007 at 5:56 pmGee, that’s really splittin’ atoms calling Bush a spender. What next? A coke whore? Let’s move on to something new & revealing.
December 16th, 2007 at 5:58 pmThe Republiscums are just now figuring this out? After they have assisted Bush in bankrupting this country? Where were all those “fiscal conservatives” while Bush was creating the biggest national debt in the history of this country and spending our grandchildren’s money like a drunken sailor.
December 16th, 2007 at 5:59 pmDont listen to Perry, I live in Texas and he just wants to be Rudias VP, the Governor in Texas is just a suit in a photo-op, who works a few months a year, the real work is done by the LT governor.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:02 pmTruer words were seldom spoken.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:03 pmIs it my imagination or have most Republicans jumped the rapidly sinking SS Bush?? It’s all over for him but for the crying. His legacy will be trash once impeachment proceedings divulge the house of horrors behind his presidency. Bush is radioactive at this point – the people loathe him and have no respect for him and now even his own cronies are like rats jumping ship.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:03 pmif frankie m were still alive he’d have an answer for this. it would old and probably a cliche but it would be an answer!
December 16th, 2007 at 6:03 pmComment by delafield — December 16, 2007 @ 5:54 pm
And then, you have to consider that Bush’s IQ test was based on comparisons within the flat worm community whereas Reagan’s was based upon homo-sapiens.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:03 pmComment by Abby — December 16, 2007 @ 6:03 pm
amen. thanks for posting it.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:04 pmAbby: Thanks for the post. Yes, these scumbags all know it’s “intentional incompetence” or more aptly “conscious incompetence”. We all know that they would love for us to believe that they are simply inept and make mistakes (although idiot still hangs on to the premise that he can’t recall any of his) when it’s been a case of very “calculated controversion of the rule of law in this country” – begun by Addington and his Federalist pimps and furthered through the efforts of the totally complicit criminal running the DOJ, Alberto Gonzales.
THIS WAS A CONCERTED COUP ON OUR RULE OF LAW. THESE REPTURDS FOOL NO ONE. THEY KNOW THAT WE KNOW….AND SO IT GOES….
December 16th, 2007 at 6:06 pmBush and his neofascists’ “wet dream” is coming to a abrupt and what will be cruel to his posterity and legacy – end!
December 16th, 2007 at 6:07 pmAnother stray dog snarling over a meatless, dessicated bone.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:14 pmAs I see it, its not surprising that the repubs are criticising Shrub to look good in the upcoming election.
But they’ve walked lockstep with Shrub for 8 years while proclaiming him the answer to all the world’s problems. The dems need to make it clear that there is no way on earth that this sudden change in facade will work.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:18 pmGoogle Hayek Abby. =)
December 16th, 2007 at 6:21 pmUmmm, Governor, that’s Rudy 9iu11iani.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:22 pmBush is certainly a convenient scrap goat but don’t let anyone fool you into thinking it’s all Bush’s fault. Our system of government, stupid, biased and imperfect as it may be, still makes it impossible for any one person to succeed this well on his own.
This destruction of America is a planned Republican project that would not have succeeded so well without the covert support of those key Democrats in Congress.
We may not have a free press to spell it all out for us or a half-descent opposition party to lead us against the corporate owners but the facts are there for all to see. All you have to do is turn off the TV and simply look abound you.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:31 pmWho really cares what this Texas Cowboy Perry says, does, or which one of the Fascist Republican candidates he supports, particularly when the country is nothing more than a dictatorship to begin with.
Maybe it’s just me, but one would think there are more important things to think about such as trying to regain ones’ freedom…
If I’m wrong, please feel free to let me know…
December 16th, 2007 at 6:33 pmCome on, not even Reagan was a “Reagan Republican” – if by that, you mean being fiscally conservative. Look at the history of the national debt, especially as a proportion of GDP. It has always gone up more under Republican presidents, even when they had one or more houses backing them up.
Reagan was a Keynesian – the biggest, in fact, since FDR. The only difference is that Roosevelt (and most elected politicians of the time) realized that you can’t support the middle class by simultaneously taxing them to death and giving the wealthy a bye on their responsibilities.
Bush 2 is a cartoon version of Reagan – nowhere near as clever or eloquent, but even more baldly arrogant and lazy.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:35 pmAt the end of W’s time as governor of Texas, highschool dropout rate had increased to 30% thanks to his “No Child’s Behind Left” policy and Texas cities became the most polluted in the US thanks to his voluntary pollution standards.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:37 pmAnonymouse,
US debt first 200 years (end of Carter, beginning of Reagan) equaled $0.9 Trillion. After twelve years of Reagan/Bush it was $4.1 Trillion.
Job growth rate always improves going from Repub to Dem and always worsens going from Dem to Repub (since rates were kept in 1920’s).
December 16th, 2007 at 6:42 pm#19: “Bush is certainly a convenient scrap goat…”
– - Now there’s an inconvenient misspelling.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:42 pm#24 LOL. Damned “intelligent” auto-correct software.
*Scapegoat, duh. :)
December 16th, 2007 at 6:56 pmREAGAN wasn’t a “Reagan republican”.
December 16th, 2007 at 7:05 pmTheir little Pet Scapegoat was the best they could come up with. The GOOPers are a sick and twisted bunch. May their failures “trickle down” to Hell so Raygun can see what he started has become.
December 16th, 2007 at 7:07 pmRaygun worst President until W.
December 16th, 2007 at 7:07 pmKeith – my point exactly. This myth of fiscal irresponsibility on the part of Dems is so ludicrously false, even on the face of things, as is Republican “defense of the middle class.”
December 16th, 2007 at 7:13 pmPLEASE MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF THIS.
BOY SCOUTS KILL DOG!
ACTION NEEDED: DEMAND INVESTIGATION
(Miller County, Arkansas) Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David litickabee, the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death.
Camp officials, who did not report the crime to law enforcement officials, have admitted that the act did occur and have fired the boys from their positions. However, no charges have been filed against the young men.
Arkansas State Police conducted a perfunctory investigation, but did not attempt to locate witnesses to the crime.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Corntact: Mr. Tim Williamson, Prosecuting Attorney, 18th Judicial District, West, P.O. Drawer 109, Mena, AR 71953; Fax: (501) 394-6173
Please contact the prosecutor; request that the case be investigated thoroughly and that animal cruelty charges be filed against Frady and Huckabee. Cruelty to animals is a Class A Misdemeanor in Arkansas and if convicted, Huckabee and Frady could be sentenced to one year in jail and fined $1,000.00.
Also Contact: Chief Scout Executive Jere Ratcliffe, Boy Scouts of America National Office, P.O. Box 152079, Irving, TX 75015-2079; Phone: (972) 580-2000; Fax: (972) 580-2502
Demand that the Boy Scouts’ National Office conduct an internal investigation of the killing.
December 16th, 2007 at 7:33 pmReagan built up record deficits through military-industrial complex spending and so has Bush. There is no difference.
December 16th, 2007 at 7:35 pmCan’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. The wingnuts can’t have it both ways, boy, what fun to watch the circle firing squad. popcorn, anyone!
December 16th, 2007 at 7:35 pmAS has been earlier stated, there is no difference in the economic records of Reagan and Bush. Between those two and poppa bush, you can account for 85% of our national debt. The Republican Party is not the party of fiscal conservatism, they are the party of Borrow and Spend. It is that simple.
December 16th, 2007 at 7:49 pmComment by Jack Jett — December 16, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
i’ll look into it.
December 16th, 2007 at 7:54 pm“…during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR…”
let me guess, a Boy Scout camp sponsored by Baptists… perhaps they thought the devil made the dog eat the food they had stashed under their bunks…..
December 16th, 2007 at 8:02 pmBUSH WAS NEVER A REAL PRESIDENT! HE HAD TO STEAL AN ELECTION TO BE ‘MADE’ PRESIDENT.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:06 pmWait until Mr. and Mrs. Smith realize that they owe US$20.000 each for the Iraq occupation…
December 16th, 2007 at 8:09 pm…and congress continue to finance, on borrowed money, the Iraq invazion…
December 16th, 2007 at 8:11 pmkeep workin’ on the g.e.d. William – some day, buddy, someday.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:16 pm..and, btw, I’d wager she’ll be better lookin than the manwhore who services the Cheerleader Prince’s dainty bottom now.
(have you actually missed all the news about the gay-ness of so many so-called conservative R’s, william. are you that painfully out-of-touch?)
December 16th, 2007 at 8:18 pmI heard it was $30,000 for every man, woman, child and infant now alive. But THANK GOD our taxes haven’t gone up. I’ll sleep better, like the average repub bilge-rat, knowing my grandkids’ll pay it all off.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:18 pmI wonder what the next ho he bags will look like.
Comment by Billy Hill
… says the goat porker on the hill…..
December 16th, 2007 at 8:19 pmWith interest.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:20 pmOl’ Billy’s just a-runnin and -hidin’ and a-throwin’ him some rocks- kinda like Ernest T. Bass on the Andy Griffith Show, only not near as funny.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:22 pmBilly Hill,
“I wonder what the next ho he bags will look like.”
I’m sure they’ll be more attractive than Jeff Gannon or Mark Foley. What do you think?
December 16th, 2007 at 8:26 pmComment by sacopenapa — December 16, 2007 @ 8:06 pm
You mean he stole TWO elections. Exit polls said Gore won Florida by about 300,000 votes. And Exit polls said Kerry won nation by about 3,000,000. Exit polls were accurate to about 0.2% before 2000, 2002, and 2004. It is really impossible for them to be off by 3.0% when they are asking 31,000 who had just voted: “who did you just vote for?”.
Everyday you will find polls claiming accuracy with 3.0% when they are asking 1,000 people over the phone an ambiguous question such as “approval”.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:30 pm“George Bush was spending money,†Perry told the gathering. “George has never ever been a fiscal conservative.â€
Every business venture Dubya’s held has gone bankrupt. Including the federal gummint. Those that were paying attention knew that. Too bad his buddies on the SCOTUS didn’t.
Cheers,
December 16th, 2007 at 8:30 pmOver $9 Trillion divided by 300 million would be $30,000. Some economists say that if we continue like this—in about 25 years, we would be declared a failed state and taken over by the World Bank.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:34 pm48 –
Failure, for righties, only counts when they’re falsely accusing someone else of it.
Like their Cheerleader Prince, when they’re confronted with their own, real failures, they resort to lame, juvenile excuse-making and blame.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:35 pmWhat do you think?
Comment by Mr.Bungle — December 16, 2007 @ 8:26 pm
You forgot Larry Craig, Mr.Bungle.
Go easy on HillyBilly, guys. He only gets to use his mom’s dial-up connection about a half hr a day, and then it’s back back under the double wide. He like’s to call it “Mom’s basement” but it’s really just the crawl space.
Yer mom has a nice, cold bottle of T-bird waitin’ fer, HillyBilly, ‘n some of her special “Happy-happy Sleepytime Pills” are already mixed in it jes’ fer you, li’l feller.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:35 pmIf Molly Ivins were alive, she would be laughin’ her ass off over Gov GoodHair changing his song.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:51 pmBrutal, I’m surprised anyone would stand for such a bruising.
I.E. . . . this means nothing.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:49 pmRepublicans are neo-liberals economists (as are Democrats) and social conservatives (Democrats are social moderates). In other words, corporations and banks can do whatever they want since whats good for them is in the interests of the country, and the critters need to be strictly controlled.
Reagan was anything but a Keynesian. Starting from the end of the 70’s, especially when Reagan took over, Friedmans Chicago School of Economics has ruled US policy, rational expectation instead of monetarism and a laissez-fair approach to regulation.
And when the bubbles created by the lack of regulation and control burst, the critters bail them out (the Fed just borrows the money in our name. nobody asks permission). When the economy collapses, as it will one day, the global capitalists will head for the exits, and the critters are Left Behind to pick through the ruins.
Today, we have war time government spending (good for the economy), still historically low interest rates (good for the economy), low tax rates due to tax cuts (good for the economy?), weak dollar due to our deficits and low interest rates (good for exports), supposedly historically low inflation that is creeping up ONLY due to energy and food (add 3.5% to whatever number they give you), and wages that are said to be keeping up with inflation (deflating 3.5%), low unemployment (unless you include the 7% who are not on welfare but are not employed), and yet, we are told to expect a recession.
So the Democrats come to power in a recession with a weak dollar, low interest rates, war time spending, huge deficits, low taxes, high inflation, and low employment rates (reality will kick in then), . What are they going to do?.
Raise interest rates to support dollar? Recession becomes depression.
Lower interest rates to fule economy?. Dollar crashes, inflation increases
End the war? Recession becomes depression
Raise taxes to reduce deficits? Recession becomes Depression
Spend money on a New Deal II? (Republicans become conservatives)
My prediction is our demise triggers a global depression, and the UN comes to the rescue with a Global New Deal, paid for by Carbon Dollars (backed up by the Oil Standard) issued by the World Bank (see why we needed to be in Iraq), and funded by a Carbon Tax the critters are told is to combat Global Warning.
Wondering about the exchange rate for US dollars and Carbon dollars, well, remember those Civil War greenbacks? The fences they are building are to keep us critters from entering Mexico looking for jobs. Not to keep Mexicans out.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:49 pmMiMiCcs
If they follow liberal ideology?
Raise taxes and budgets on maintaining the US’s infrastructure, eliminate tax loopholes which allow companies to build factories overseas and still tax benefits, and introduce tax benefits to producing locally.
This will not result in a Depression, because corporate taxes are taken on profits.
They will also raise environmental import standards (Meaning that America will not buy goods which are not produced via environmentally friendly means) and raise standards on American products in order to regain America’s foreign markets. America’s car industry and its lobbies have produced a situation where environmentally conscious consumers outside of America will not buy American cars.
They will also introduce ethical imports bills in all likelyhood. What this means is, that goods produced via child labour will not be allowed on the local market, nor will goods produced by mistreated labour. Countries with lax product safety standards will have to jack themselves up to meet American standards.
Both of these effects will boost American industry, boosting employment and increasing the quality of goods being bought by consumers. Further, by doing this there is not a lot the rest of the world can say about it being protectionism, as all you are demanding is that the world produce goods via environmentally sound methods, and that nobody utilised slave or child labour. Most countries agree that child labour and slave labour are both wrong.
Raised environmental standards will also force down the oil price, which is the main driver behind your current burgeoning depression. Oil prices are currently as high as they are because ultimately, you have annoyed the Middle East, and done just about nothing to get off of the prime export from the Middle East you rely on.
Part of what will happen is that America will withdraw from Iraq, and thus staunch one of the biggest bleeding holes in America’s cash flow. South Africa plans to spend R89.5bn from 2006, to 2009. That is about $13.0276bn.
Bush’s latest budget request for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, was $189.4bn. Sends a shiver down your spine doesn’t it?
December 17th, 2007 at 3:05 amPerry is a joke. Since taking over for the miserable failure in 2001, Perry has continued the corruption and the, ‘gov’t for the few at the expense of the many’ philosophy Bush & Rove implemented as Texas governor and continued in Washington DC.
December 17th, 2007 at 10:33 am