Use of or threats of violence is the surest way that people can confirm their incompetence to solve problems proactively, their lack of integrity and their unfitness to lead. That explains why Republican leaders resort to this tactic with clockwork regularity, and Rick Perry is no exception. Far be it from me to defend Ben Bernanke. He has been the focus of scathing criticism from me on multiple occasions, but I would not wish him harm, let alone suggest it. Decent people don’t to that. In threatening Bernanke, Perry also demonstrated his ignorance about the US Constitution.
Gov. Rick Perry is wasting no time in establishing his John Bircher/tea party credentials as he lashed out at Ben Bernanke and used thuggish and violent rhetoric to make his point.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, who entered the presidential campaign on Saturday, appeared to suggest a violent response would be warranted should Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke “print more money” between now and the election. Speaking just now in Iowa, Perry said, “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion.” Treason is a capital offense.
Talking treason is something knows well since he has articulated his belief that Texas should secede from the U.S. The only thing that surprises me in this clip is that he didn’t demand that America returns to the gold standard. If I were Ben, I’d stay clear of Texas. Perry seems to be in the race to take away Michele Bachmann’s supporters so that Mitt Romney can be the nominee. And maybe Rick gets the VP job as a thanks. But any way you look at it, politicians in the United States of America should not be threatening individual members of the government. There’s already been too much violence the last three years and some nut wouldn’t hesitate to lash out at Ben… [emphasis original]
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Here’s the video.
The Constitution defines treason as committing an act of war against the US or giving aid and comfort to the enemy during a war. Technically the US is not at war, despite all the warfare in which we are engaged, because Congress has not declared war. However, Bernanke’s activities, however inappropriate, do not come anywhere near this definition.
In addition, Perry has alienated core Republican supporters. The prime beneficiaries of Bernanke’s expansion of the money supply have been the Banksters, who borrow it dirt cheap, use it to speculate, and pocket $billions. Banksters love Bernanke.
Rachel Maddow and Ezra Klein discuss this and other examples of Perry’s extreme views.
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No matter what the issue, Perry had clearly demonstrated that his views are not just out of the box. They have escaped the asylum.
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Ye cats, the man has been in the race less than a week and he comes out with a grotesquely-stupid remark that will scare sensible people and antagonize part of his own party. If this is the level of intelligence he’s going to exhibit, he’ll self-destruct long before he can get the nomination (let’s hope).
A fine hope, Infidel. This is the kind of stuff that Bagger brown-shirts just love.
Perry is nothing but a bully – he has no stance on anything and it’s a miracle that he’s a governor at all. He has no policy experience, hardly any executive experience (I love these Repub gov’s who outright stated they hated the stimulus but took the money anyway – ummm, Mr. Perry) and has nothing good to say about anything. He’s just a distraction in the Repub primaries.
Excellent description, Lisa. That’s a Republican recipe for success.
Slightly OT (and I hope you do a whole segment on Perry’s supposed “miracles”), but want to be sure it doesn’t slip under the radar.
Perry’s claim about all those jobs down in Texas? Turns out between 2007-2010 the GOVERNMENT sector created 125,000 of them, while the republicans’ blessed private sector LOST 178,000 jobs!
Complete w/ a simple Chart of the Day even Perry/Bachmann/Palin/Limbaugh/etc. could understand.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/chart-of-the-day-government-jobs-led-to-perrys-economic-boom.php
As a matter of fact, I am, featuring a piece from Daily Kos that employs he same chart. Great minds fall in the same ditch. 😉
Tom, there’s a really savvy comparison of Perry vs. Bush II at the following site, written by James Moore, author of “Bush’s Brain”.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/17/moore.perry.bush/index.html?hpt=po_bn1
This is getting more interesting by the day, which is why I did cartwheels when Perry announced. A cynic would say that since the Rep’s are willing to fire bomb the country to get rid of Obama, this is the guy to do it. Who wins the Rep. nomination will tell us if the national party has truly become this ultra-right, or if Perry just stands for the lunatic fringe — I’m feeling pretty fuzzy about Perry’s chances.
Love that he proclaimed today he doesn’t believe in climate change (much less it being worsened by humans) — from the Governor whose state is on fire, the rivers no longer even flow, and is in the worst heat and drought in recorded history.
Thanks Ann. We’ll just have to wait and see. I think that he and Bachmann are more representative of the rest of the party than Romney.
Having been around– I recall very well what happened in Texas– dallas to be specific– and here is a Texas Gov’nor– threatening !1 That is scary to me–
I can see why!