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Thats kinda where Im heading too.
I don't need to bet $100 to know that your buddy JimmyRicky is one corrupt sonofa and he's guilty of extorting the resignation of a Dem official. He already charged TX taxpayers $132K for his legal costs.Corruption?Boos scared to put his money where his big mouth is.
Chicken , much? That's no bet at all. Of course Perry will never be President.
Thats kinda where Im heading too.
9 Completely Bonkers Things The Newest GOP Presidential Candidate Believes About The Cons ution
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce his bid to seek the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday. It will be Perry’s second attempt to secure a home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Perry showed commendable candor in the lead-up to his 2012 bid regarding his unorthodox views about the Cons ution. Most politicians who hope to win a national election, for example, would not openly admit that they believe that Social Security and Medicare are uncons utional.
Yet Perry was remarkably honest about his belief that federal programs that millions of American depend upon for their health and livelihood somehow violate America’s founding principles. In 2010, he published a book, Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington, laying out his narrow understanding of the Cons ution in considerable detail. He also gave numerous speeches and made multiple television appearances touting his belief that much of the last century of American history was a cons utional error.
Here are some of Perry’s more surprising beliefs:
1) Social Security And Medicare Are Uncons utional
The Cons ution permits the federal government to “lay and collect taxes” and to use the funds raised by these taxes to “pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.” This provision lays out the cons utional basis for federal spending programs such as Social Security, Medicare and numerous other such programs that seek to advance the general welfare.
Perry, however, believes these programs are uncons utional. “I don’t think our founding fathers when they were putting the term ‘general welfare’ in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care,” Perry told the Daily Beast’s Andrew Romano in 2011.
He offered similar views in a 2010 address to the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) National Policy Summit. Proclaiming that “the nearly unlimited scope of the federal government contradicts the principles of limited, cons utional government that our founders established to protect us,” Perry claimed that an assault on this principles “continued into the Roosevelt New Deal.” He then named “a bankrupt Social Security system” as an example of a New Deal program he opposed.
Later, in the same speech, he claimed that President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society “further eroded our founding fathers’ boundaries that they had put upon the federal government.” He also specifically named Medicare as an example of Johnson’s supposed sins against the Cons ution.
2) All Other Federal Health Programs Are Also Uncons utional
Perry also listed Medicaid in his ALEC speech as an example of a Great Society program that, he believes, violates the Cons ution. Similarly, his statement that Congress’s cons utional authority to spend money does not permit “a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care” sweeps broadly, implicating all federal health care programs. So that means that programs such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program or much of the Affordable Care Act would also cease to exist under Perry’s vision.
Perry has also made statements suggesting that any federal laws regulating the health care industry are uncons utional. “There is nothing in that Cons ution that says Washington D.C. is supposed to be telling us how to deliver health care,” the former Texas governor told a crowd of New Hampshire voters in 2011, reiterating a view he’dexpressed on Glenn Beck’s now-defunct Fox News show a few months earlier. Taken to its extreme, this view would not only prevent federal regulation of health insurers and hospitals, but it would also eliminate the Food and Drug Administration’s power to keep dangerous drugs and quack remedies out of pharmacies.
3) Federal Clean Air Laws Are Uncons utional “Nonsense”
Perry also claimed that the notion that the federal government is “telling us how to . . . clean our air is really nonsense.” It’s likely, moreover, that Perry’s objections to environmental regulations extend far beyond the Clean Air Act. A section of Fed Up!argues that the Supreme Court has read Congress’s power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states” too broadly. Although Perry does not explain in detail how he would interpret this provision of the Cons ution, he does suggest that Congress has overreached its cons utional authority in a long list of policy areas, including “the environment,” “guns,” and “civil rights.”
4) Federal Education Programs Are Uncons utional
In his Beck interview, Perry denounced federal laws which “tell[] us how to educate our children.” Similarly, in Fed Up!, Perry criticized members of his own party for supporting federal education legislation. Their decision to do so, Perry claims, is a “perfect example of Republicans losing sight of the fact that perfectly laudable policy choices at the local level are not appropriate (much less cons utional) at the federal level.”
5) Nearly All Federal Laws Protecting Workers Are Uncons utional
Fed Up! labels the the New Deal “the second big step in the march of socialism,” and blames the Supreme Court for allowing New Deal laws to take effect “by abdicating its role as the protector of cons utional federalism.” One decision that Perry singles out for criticism is NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., a 1937 decision upholding the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 — a federal law that still provides much of the backbone of the nation’s law governing unions. It should be noted that Jones & Laughlin‘s reasoning also provides the basis for other federal regulation of the employment relationship, such as minimum wage laws or the ban on child labor. So it is likely that those laws would cease to exist under Perry’s reading of the Cons ution as well.
Later in Fed Up!, Perry argues in favor of a kind of special rule permitting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans various forms of employment discrimination, to exist. It’s not entirely clear whether Perry believes that all of the Civil Rights Act is consistent with his idiosyncratic view of the Cons ution, or merely its prohibitions on race discrimination. Nevertheless, while Perry would strip away most nationwide protections for workers, he would apparently leave at least some civil rights protections in place.
6) Federal Financial Reform Is Uncons utional
Citing an announcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking public comment on regulations being considered to implement the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, Perry’s book claims that “there is a better way to ensure that local communities are represented in government. If the Cons ution were shown the appropriate respect, Washington regulation writers wouldn’t have to worry about underrepresented views, because they wouldn’t have control over them in the first place.” It’s unclear just how far Perry would go in rolling back Wall Street regulation, although this passage suggests that he would go quite far.
7) Voters Should Not Be Able To Choose Their Own Senators
Perry also claims that “[t]he American people mistakenly empowered the federal government during a fit of populist rage in the early twentieth century by giving it an unlimited source of income (the Sixteenth Amendment) and by changing the way senators are elected (the Seventeenth Amendment).“ The Seventeenth Amendment provides for direct election of senators, rather than having senators be selected by state legislatures — a process that was abandoned, at least in part, because it led to considerable corruption.
8) Taxing Investment Income Should Be Uncons utional
The Sixteenth Amendment provides that “Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” It was ratified to overrule an 1895 Supreme Court decision which effectively declared taxation of income from capital uncons utional, though it permitted taxation of income from wages or salaries. The upshot of this decision is that a wealthy heir who lives entirely off of inherited investments would pay no taxes, while the heir’s pool cleaner would be taxed on their wage.
Perry’s claim that the Sixteenth Amendment was a mistake suggests that he would go back to this regime.
9) But Activist Judges Are A Serious Problem
Having laid out a long list of laws he thinks should be declared uncons utional, Fed Up!pivots to a rant against Supreme Court justices who act as “‘Grand Ayatollahs’ of the Cons ution.” He objects to Supreme Court decisions supposedly dictating “where we may and may not pray to God, when life begins, whether contraception must be allowed to be sold, whether and how we can celebrate religious holidays, what level of pornography and vulgarity must be allowed, whether those other than man and woman must be allowed to marry, what level of discrimination may or even must be carried out . . . whether a state must allow women to attend an all-male military academy, who may be executed and whether we may execute criminals at all.”
Perry, in other words, believes there should be strict limits on the Supreme Court’s power to hand down decisions he disagrees with, even as he insists upon using the Cons ution as a weapon to erase whole swaths of American law.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...-cons ution/
JimmyRicky, another POS pol from TX.
Krazy Kruz just told a joke ridiculing Joe Biden a couple days after Biden's son died.
Perry running again is good comedy.
Those bodyguards look incredibly happy to be there
Rick Perry Knows 3 Things About Global Warming: It's a Hoax, He's Not a Scientist, and…We Forget the Third
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...e-skeptic-oops
Not exactly a rocket surgeon
Rick Perry: Running for president ‘is not an IQ test’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ot-an-iq-test/
I admire his self-awareness that he's one dumb, corrupt sonofa .
Can JimmyRicky outdumb this guy?
In unanimous decision, Marco Rubio wins 'GOP Dumbass of the Day'
award
"It's not nation-building. We are assisting them in building their nation," Rubio said of his vision for Iraq.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/04/1390607/-In-unanimous-decision-Marco-Rubio-wins-GOP-Dumbass-of-the-Day-award?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_ca mpaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29
Repugs sniff down at nation building, their skill is nation destroying.
Paul Krugman: Texas is a failed experiment in “reverse Robin-Hood” economic policy
Following the news that former Texas Governor Rick Perry is throwing his hat into the Republican primary, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman decided to look back at the so-called “Texas miracle” that Perry used to establish his economic credentials in his failed 2012 bid for the GOP nomination.
Conservatives, Krugman argues, “have long held up Texas as a supposed demonstration that low taxes on the rich and harsh treatment of the poor are the keys to prosperity.” But the real engine of Texas’ economy isn’t its fiscal policy — it’s oil.
Even though Texas’ economy has diversified in recent years, Krugman writes, one-third is still dependent on the hydrocarbon industry, and the sustained dip in oil prices has crippled the state.
Its “reverse Robin-Hood” fiscal policies were supposed to insulate the state against market vagaries, but they simply haven’t.
The belief, Krugman concludes, “that tax cuts are a universal elixir that cures all economic ills is the ultimate zombie idea — one that should have died long ago in the face of the facts, but just keeps shambling along.”
The states, Louis Brandeis famously declared, are the laboratories of democracy. In fact, Mr. Brownback himself described his plan as an “experiment” that would demonstrate the truth of his economic doctrine. What it actually did, however, was demonstrate the opposite — and much the same message is coming from other laboratories, from the stumble in Texas to the comeback in California…
Nothing that has happened in the past quartercentury has supported tax-cut mania, yet the doctrine’s hold on the Republican Party is stronger than ever. It would be foolish to expect recent events to make much difference.
Still, the spectacle of the Texas economy coming back to earth, and Kansas sliding over the edge should at the very least make right-wing bombast ring hollow, in the general election if not in the primary. And someday, maybe, even conservatives will once again become willing to look at the facts.
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/05/paul...onomic_policy/
Perry: Hillary Doesn't Grasp Voter ID Because She Doesn't Fly Commercial
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
Texas’ Rick Perry to fight indictment, casting shadow on possible 2016 run
Texas Governor Rick Perry will vigorously fight a two-count felony indictment returned by a state grand jury last week charging him with abuse of power, his lawyers said on Monday, calling the prosecution “outrageous.”
The indictment has cast a shadow over Perry’s possible bid for the Republican presidential nomination, with experts predicting that legal wrangling in the case is likely to stretch into the 2016 election cycle.
A state district court judge set Perry’s arraignment for Aug. 29, but the hearing date was shifted to Friday, Aug. 22, due to a scheduling conflict, according to the Austin American-Statesman and other media.
Perry was indicted on Friday by a grand jury in Travis County, a Democratic stronghold in the heavily Republican state, over his veto of funding for a state ethics watchdog that has investigated prominent Texas Republicans.
“Governor Perry will fight this indictment 100 percent,” defense lawyer Tony Buzbee told a news conference, adding the veto was lawful.
“This is nothing more than banana republic politics,” ( aka red-state, Bible-humping, petro-state TEXAS! ) Buzbee said, calling the charges an “outrageous assault on the rule of law.”
Perry became the target of an ethics probe last year after he vetoed $7.5 million in funding for the state public integrity unit run out of the Travis County district attorney’s office.
The veto was widely viewed as intended to force the resignation of county District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, after she pleaded guilty to drunken driving but remained in office.
http://www.rawstory.com/2014/08/texas-rick-perry-to-fight-indictment-casting-shadow-on-possible-2016-run/
Last edited by boutons_deux; 06-13-2015 at 08:11 AM.
you're posting a ten month old update, why?
JimmyRicky has more chance of being convicted than elected
http://www.texastribune.org/2015/07/...ry-indictment/A state appeals court on Friday ruled against one of two counts in the indictment against former Gov. Rick Perry.
The 3rd Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin specifically found a problem with the second count, which alleges Perry coerced a public servant. The court upheld the first count, which accuses Perry of abusing his power.
The appeals court was ruling on Perry's challenge to a district court's decision earlier this year not to dismiss the case.
Poor Perry
State court!! LOL
Ooops
Mouse/Joe Chalupa/big zax going ham with the sock puppet army
Rick Perry Suspends Presidential Campaign
http://www.texastribune.org/2015/09/...eid=d070f58998
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