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Gov. Rick Perry speaks to a crowd gathered in Orange City, Iowa on Saturday.
SPENCER, Iowa -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry made his way for the first time to the most conservative part of the state this weekend, making three stops in the crucial Northwest Iowa region.
More than 100 Iowans greeted the governor and First Lady of Texas, Anita, cramming into rooms barely large enough to accommodate the size of the crowds.
“Western Iowa is Republican country,” Perry told those in attendance at McCarthy and Bailey’s Irish Pub in Sioux City.
Although fellow GOP presidential contenders Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich have held a fair share of events in that region of the Hawkeye State, this was Perry’s first trip. A trip many say was long overdue.
“We’ve been wondering why Perry hasn’t been here,” Joyce Browne of Sioux City, Iowa said noting there were a lot of votes to be won up here.
Many of the caucus-goers in attendance at Saturday’s events had not chosen a candidate to support and wanted to come see what Perry, who has been falling in the polls recently, had to say in person.
Pete Pals from Orange City, Iowa came with his wife to the Blue Mountain Culinary Emporium because he has no preference on a candidate yet. “I’m here to get a feel for Gov. Perry and I think all things being equal, I will support the Republican nominee, whoever gets it,” he said.
“I like to hear form the candidates so we can make wise decisions rather than listen to the media and have them tell me who to vote for,” Lillian Green of Boyden, Iowa said. “At this moment, I think I would have a very good tendency to vote for Mr. Perry.”
The presidential hopeful gave very similar and rather brief speeches to all the groups he spoke with, touting his record on jobs in Texas and promising to draw a bright line between himself and President Obama.
“I'm not an M.D., but I have a Ph.D. in job creation, that's what America is looking for,” Perry told the crowd at the Pizza Ranch in Spencer.
State Sen. David Johnson decided to endorse Perry instead of Mitt Romney this time around because of their records.
“I went for Romney in 2008 and he did fairly well up here but this time around it is about jobs, the economy, our tax structure,” Sen. Johnson said. “I looked at his [Perry] record in Texas and it convinced me that he was the best one to back.”
Although he did not take questions from reporters, he allowed time for a question and answer session with Iowans following each speech. Voters questioned Perry’s stance on immigration, specifically tuition for illegal immigrants.
Perry said the federal government put Texas in a hard position: “Are we going to kick these people to the side of the road and let them become tax wasters? Or are we going to give them the opportunity to go to an institution of higher learning, pay full in-state tuition, which we do, and require them pursue citizenship?
“We wanted to make tax payers not tax wasters,” he promised.
Anita Perry spent much of her time in Iowa last week clarifying this same issue to Iowans. She contended that her husband was not given ample time in debates to respond to criticisms of his stance and said he is committed to stopping the tide of illegal immigration.
One attendee in Spencer also asked Perry what he thought about how certain pundits refer to him and whether he would have "his whole party's support" if he became the nominee.
"I think Americans are looking for a president that will look them right in the eye and tell them the truth," Perry said. "I think they want a president who has the record of job creation. I think they want somebody that's not about rhetoric but that's about record."
Perry’s Iowa State Chairman Bob Haus told NBC News that this was a "great" trip for the governor and he would be back to Northwest often.
“I think this is the kind of stuff that helps you do well in the caucuses,” Haus said. “When you are talking to people one-on-one, and you’re telling them your vision and your side of the story and converting people to supporters.”
Johnson could not emphasize enough how important the region would be for Perry.
“There is a lot more territory up here to be covered to make those personal visits,” he said. “You’ve got to come back over and over again.”
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Correction - should read; but I have a Ph.D. in BS!
Run little Ricky Run!
I thought they chased him back to Texas ...big hat no cattle !... ;-)
And 24 pairs of free boots... lol
The burning question is - fork or no fork - Trump style?
His campaign will die with it's boots on.
Perry got his Phd in job creation from the college of lies, where all the tea people GOP republicans go.
You think he will tell the people in Iowa how he had to lay off 9,600 government employees, state employees, his employees, the people that did the work of the community and the state, because he has been paying his bills with "Obama's failed stimulus" money, since he does not collect taxes. Do you think he will tell them how he has been a federal welfare queen? Do you think he will tell them Texas will a better place to live without the more than 19 million man-hours per year of work those 9,600 people performed? Do you think he can whip up another 9,600 jobs for those people real quick before they need services, unemployment, and food stamps from the government they used to work for, the government that Rick Perry is the head of, and claims as his qualification for president. I'm betting most people in the country feel we should be able to do a lot better than Rick Perry's Texas.
[...but I have a Ph.D. in job creation...]
Ph.D...Piled High and Deep...yes you do, Tricky Rick...yes you do...
Where does Perry come up with this stuff? Palin is better at the one-liners, but both have no substance beneath their little catch phrases.
Really? Telling the truth? A record of job creation? Seriously? Then we better start looking for another candidate.
What I want to know is how Perry got so rich on his government paycheck.
Why does Iowa still get top billing ? We should dump this Iowa first, NH 2nd, SC 3rd, BS and go to a national primary.
You know its bad when more people are sitting in a bar, watching the Packers beat up on the Falcons, than are interested in hearing Rick Perry speak.
Lots of people in Texas have jobs, and still need welfare or charity to get by, as a presidential candidate, you are a minimum wage applicant Mr. Perry.
Perry is a government job creator AND minimum wage job creator. Other than the oil industry, jobs created in Texas have been at the expense of other states. How will this "strategery" work on a national level? Global level?
Perry is a Poser who only cares about personal status and power, who has gotten through life with his presentation (good hair, swagger, catch phrases). What's with conservatives and their beauty queens, centerfolds, and Marlboro men? It's not a pageant people, it's an election for the leader of the free world!
(I'm talking to you too, Scott Brown and your horrible comment about Elizabeth Warren. She has more intelligence in her little finger than you could ever hope to have in your lifetime. Be gone with you!)
You've been and gorn and summed it up, True!
And poser Brown Begone!
And his pasty photos (that-women-kindly-gave-him-a-pass-on, while-he-yukkily-bad-mouthed-the-woman's-form)
~ blow to the four winds!!
whoooooooosh.
Quote of the Day:
Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government
that will require every citizen to prove
they are insured but not everyone
to prove they are a citizen!
Time of the O to go! Prefer Romney myself, but Perry would also reverse or remove Obama's stain on the United States! Repealing obamacare is a priority! ABO 2012
Ahhh yes... it's been awhile since we've heard 'repeal & replace'... lol
Remind us again what you're going to replace it with?
Obama/Biden 2012
Bill,
I am trying to Find in your post where you said .............. Replace. I just cant find it..
Rick Perry gives Illegals in state tuition, as long as they have been there illegally for 3 three years, and Romney is a major architect of the health care plan you call "Obamacare", remember it used to be called "Romneycare". Romney, Perry, Bachmann and Cain, probably will not beat the incumbent president, the unacknowledged front runner in the republican primary is Ron Paul, is he the anybody that is good enough for you, would you vote for Ron Paul.
Republicans seem to understand that repeal of President Obama's health care law is necessary. Unfortunately, many of them seem to think repeal is sufficient as well. I don’t think that is right. This is why it's so important that a GOP leader like House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., began presenting a viable plan to replace it with his speech a couple weeks ago at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
The big problem afflicting our health care system is skyrocketing costs. The Kaiser Family Foundation reported this week that in 2011, premiums for employer-based health insurance shot up 8 percent for individuals and 9 percent for families over 2010. As Ryan noted in his speech, "If you look at our debt-and-deficits problem, it really is a health care spending problem." Health care spending accounts for 25 percent of the U.S. budget (excluding interest payments), and within decades that number will grow to 45 percent.
Obamacare stands to make things worse by imposing a new layer of subsidies and regulations on top of an already broken system. Obama's solution to the problem of costs rests with 15 bureaucrats (his Independent Payment Advisory Board) charged with rationing care.
Ryan wants to change the government policies that insulate the health care consumer from nearly all costs, thus distorting incentives for doctors and patients alike. Price signals, a staple of any functioning free market, have been muffled in health care, where third parties (insurers and the government) pay roughly 88 percent of health care costs, up from 52 percent in 1960. Because patients don't pay the bills, most of them have no idea how much services cost, let alone what they are worth. This leaves doctors and hospitals in a competitive vacuum where price and value bear little relation to one another.
"Instead of top-down price controls imposed by 15 bureaucrats at IPAB," Ryan said, "let's try bottom-up competition driven by 300 million consumers." Ryan calls for a uniform tax credit for everyone to purchase health insurance. This would immediately end several problems created by the prevailing employer-based insurance system, which offers fewer options, traps many Americans in jobs they would rather leave and causes many to over-insure themselves. For government health care programs, Ryan expanded on the plan he outlined in his House-passed budget, which promotes greater freedom and flexibility than Medicare or Medicaid currently offer.
Ryan's speech is a start, but he shouldn't stop there. America is ready for this change now, and Ryan's colleagues need a detailed plan to rally around.
ABO 2012 Repeal Obamacare 2012! The Republicans will find a plan to 'replace' it, we have no choice!
Bill time to learn your ABC's. It is simple, it is easy, it is something that every school child knows. Every time you see ABC you will remember.
Vote for Anbody But Conservatives 2012
If you love America ABC 2012
ABC 2012 -- ABC 2012
Bill - I actually read your post. If Ryan's plan is based on a "tax credit," what happens to those who pay no taxes? And, you mention a 300 million consumer market. Does that mean, he proposes national standards and does away with state bureaucracies, which currently add to the cost?
My own understanding is that one of the cost drivers in the present system is an inefficient market.
What Ryan wants to do is give tax money directly to private insurance companies, of course you get to pick which one, but it is still health care paid for by the US government all it would do is enshrine and subsidize the current system with federal tax dollars. I will bet you a ham sandwich guaranteeing at least partial payment of premiums to private insurance companies, with a voucher or any other means, will not cause them to be more competitive. Furthermore people never have much of an opportunity to shop price for health care, they or a loved one are sick, or injured, they need care, they need it fast, they don't have the opportunity to shop, they go to one of the closest hospitals in their area and they pay what they are charged, they don't look for buy one get one free coupons on ruptured appendices, or triple by-bass surgery.
You see it is all about the free market system, when the employer has a responsibility to pay for health care as part of an employees compensation package you get corporations arguing price with corporations, then you get some real marketplace competition. I would think republicans would adore the idea of businessmen and citizens negotiating together to take responsibility for their own health care needs and not depending on government. Instead they fight against the citizens and the businessmen who engage in collective bargaining, the people who privately in the free market take responsibility for their families health care, and in doing so they remove the competition that large employers and large groups of employees can bring to the health care industry. Old, sick, mad as hell, and on your own does not put much competitive pressure on health care providers or the insurance companies. Notice how the effects of things like the right to work for less and less laws by allowing more and more employers to not offer health care as part of employee pay over the last 30 years, has coincided with health care and health care insurance costs rising drastically over the same time period. Not to mention the fact that those people receive less cash pay as well, even reducing their ability to personally pay for health care and insurance has not slowed the pace of their insurance and health care costs being an ever growing portion of their expenses. When employers have a responsibility to provide health care, then corporations will battle corporations to lower costs, we know they know how to do that.
Snore. You should stop using the time for "the O to go" -- Like LensCrafters, Overstock.com and Oprah Magazine is likely to sue.
The Affordable Health Care Act is merely insurance reform. If conservatives wanted to propose a better and more cost effective solution to our broken health care system it would be Medicare for all, with non-profit providers. This is why Teapublicans have never proposed their own plan. The idiots would rather take all of us down with them.
TP, it should have been typed: 'Time for the O to go' sorry to confuse you with the way it came out.
stone6, good questions.... I will find out. Ryan (or his staff) are pretty good responding to inquiries.
stone6 - probably the tax credit would apply in the same manner as the "earned income tax credit". Based on your excellent question I would say that more thought should be applied to it. Perhaps the taxpayer would have to produce documentation proving compliance. After all, the "earned income tax credit requires an element of proof in order to collect.
Bill - prefer OMG - Obma must go!
Apparently, Bill Thomas does not realize that the Affordable Care Act creates jobs in the private insurance industry. More insured, more people required to administer the policies.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government's right to kill a person, given all the examples through Texas history of innocent people wrongly convicted, but having a tantrum over requiring all people to carry life insurance.
Bill Thomas -- if you really want to exclude undocumented people from society, you have to have a national ID. Rep. Paul knows this as well. If American citizens don't want the government prying on them by issuing national identity cards, then American citizens have to accept undocumented people among us. Under the health care proposals you identify, the government would give every citizen $$ for health care HOW? Once you think it through, you realize that what you are proposing is national health care: the federal government gives everyone $$ for health insurance. Why would we use our federal dollars to prop up insurance companies, when we could eliminate the middleman? Would the government issue any restrictions? What if people took the money but didn't buy insurance? What would their penalty be? What if they took it to a fraudulent company and didn't get what they were promised? Would the federal government have to intervene to penalize the company and get the money back? And what about people who showed up needing health care but without insurance....how would you take care of that?
kate - the "voucher" aspect may have been his old proposal...Bill notes only a "tax credit." Normally, a credit allows you to reduce the amount of taxes you owe. If you owe zero taxes, zero credit. The Earned Income Tax Credit IS basically a redistribution, welfare plan, that actually pays out...and acts as a subsidy to the minimum wage. Probably should more properly be called the Earned Income Tax Allowance.
You said it Kate, you pointed out a whole host of legitimate problems.
Kate - obamacare is still supporting private insurance via controlling the healthcare professionals and drug companies. The government can do little to control fraud and waste if someone wants to scam the system.
As for qualifiers, there will have to be some, just as there are for the "earned income tax credit"
On Perry: Someone needs to ask him if he would pardon GW, if necessary? I can't think of any other reason another Texas Governor would be running?
Bill--- Republicans will find a plan to replace it? Before you get your wish, shouldn't you or someone in the Republican party come up with something that covers more people and costs less? Otherwise you are blowing smoke and it smells a lot like B.S.
Tom hit the bottom line...it must cost less and cover more people.
Ultimately, I think we're going to have to go to mandatory universal health care...whether it's run privately, with government oversight, on a non-profit basis, or via some type of government-run system. Rather than fighting to maintain the status quo by playing a shell game on who pays for what, the health care insurance industry should be coming up with viable alternatives to reduce costs and we should have more visability on exactly why costs are rising at rates higher than inflation.
Ask me how my local union has lowered some of the costs for providing health care coverage.
OK...how did your local union lower the cost of health care for it members?
Thanks for asking!
In short we got rid of the health insurance companies altogether and we deal directly with, and pay directly to the health care providers.
This will not work for individuals, you need a relatively large group, to make this cost effective. We take all monies that would normally be paid out in insurance premiums to health care insurance providers and we put them in a trust fund where they accrue a little bit of interest, we are basically self insured, the trust fund pays the medical bills instead of the insurance companies. To the members of the health care trust fund it looks and works very much like insurance, but it is not really insurance. By eliminating the huge profits that the insurance company rakes right off the top of the premiums, we have been able to provide better coverage for more people with lower co-pays and higher limits than the insurance would afford us. We do have administrative costs to administer the plan, we pay a dedicated staff of professional office ladies, who's mission is to serve the trust fund members by seeing to it that they get the biggest bang for their health care bucks. We do not support a whole bunch of health care industry executive bonus checks and other corporate perks, so even with administrative costs we are still ahead. I know the insurance industry does not like our approach,but they have not offered anything more competitive for our members. The fact is we do a better job of providing coverage for our members than they do for the money. We have even cut better deals directly with local and national pharmacies than they offered in their insurance plans.
Let me please add that the trust fund has six trustees, 3 from the union, and 3 from the employers. The employers are completely on board with this, as they realize that healthy secure employees and lower costs benefit them as well. They will proudly acknowledge we are getting a bigger bang for our bucks by basically "insuring" ourselves than when we actually had health care insurance for them and their employees who are our union members.
stone6 - Any government plan is not likely to cost less, but more. Europeans pay more taxes to get the government funded healthcare that they get and the europeans apparently accept this, but will Americans?
Forrest, You still have a privately funded healthcare plan. Many large companies do the same thing by self insuring their employees. nothing new here as it still depends on the number of employees covered.
That's right privately funded by the employers as a portion of a wage and fringe package, privately administered, no tax money involved, no insurance company involved, which provides Cadillac benefits at Chevy prices for more people by eliminating the outrageous profits raked off the top by the health care insurance industry.
Perry will carry all 57 states in a landslide
There are however .. 1 more that he could pick up and 2 that his staff wont let him visit....
If he keeps his mouth running in front of the national press for another 10 or 12 months he might not even carry Texas.
You are right Forrest.
Obama wont pick up Texas
Ha, that was a good one LOL, you are joking with me because you knew I was not talking about Obama. Okay let me say it like this to avoid any confusion, if Rick Perry keeps campaigning he not get re-elected to Governor when he gets sent back to Texas (and this is the funny part for many and the ironic part for some) by a black man, not a half black man like Obama, he won't ever face him in the election, Hermann Cain will be sending Perry back to Texas before Obama even gets a chance to.
teapartier, thanks for the chuckle...
Scary Perry won only 8% of the Values straw poll yesterday! 8%!!!
Herman Cain won almost three times more votes, coming in at 23%!
I am a President Obama supporter but even this Dem can see that Scary Perry is Texas Toast.
The "Cain Train #999" is rolling down the track toward its destination - the GOP nomination!
Maybe he could get Don Cornelius as VP and we can have an all new Republican version of Soul Train!
Maybe Cain will tap Romney for VP since Romney is "Pretty Fly For A White Guy"
Ha I'll bet if a focus group told him he should try to "rap" that goofy Romney would try to.
Sorry Rick the only thing I can think of that rhymes with Texas is hexes and vexes, and a foreign overpriced Toyota called Lexus.
Love (sarcastic) how certain reporters from top news sources, WAPO or Politico, Huff...take your pick, have spun the Iowa trip to be Perry's immigration problem getting bigger. I did a little research after the first two negative titled articles yesterday and came to the conclusion that I prefer to dig into Iowa's newspapers online and get the REAL story about what went down. Sure, you can find hecklers and disgruntled folks at Perry's events, easy to spot with their Romney shirts and take just these folks and extrapolate that "problem" with everyone in attendance to create the illusion to the outside viewer that folks are defecting or running away from Team Perry.
The media did this to George H W Bush in his re-election campaign. Television screens were filled with Bush and a few surrogates or chosen supporters behind the podium while he spoke and then in the next segment you see Bill Clinton in downtown Chicago amid thousands and thousands of folks to listen to what he had to say. The illusion was clear, Bush was "surrounded" by just a few supporters (when in fact he had many) and Clinton was the newest rockstar. The media is doing this now with Romney, they want Romney because they know that Obama is going to clean him out on that debate floor and in the general, as Romney is going to be another McCain, unable to excite and ignite the base. How can Romney sound convincing as the better alternative to Obama when in fact, he has agreed with Obama on every single issue in his career at some point in time. Romney has been to the left of left...left...left of center...center...right of center...right....and right of right. It is confusing. Obama and Obama-Lite.
When you get down to the heart of the matter, when you dig deep into the political soul, you find that Rick Perry is really a good guy, with compassionate conservatism and has more economic successes than failures in the large state of Texas. You also know if you have met him or dug around in his record, he has a strong record of conviction. I realize this is mostly a liberal board, and I love that as an independent. An independent that happens to be pulling for Rick Perry. Team Perry 2012, sunshine in Texas~
The news media does not vote in straw polls, those are republican primary voters who follow republican politics closely and early voting Rick Perry down. Liberals have little to do with his success or failure at this point, very little, it's all pretty much up to republicans at this point, they seem to like Ron Paul and Hermann Cain better than him or Romney.
KWilson
If you are really Independent, you should have an open mind. You refer to Cowboy Ricky's record of conviction. My problem is that Ricky should be convicted but has been clever enough to skirt bribery and campaign contribution laws. Consider this one article in the compilation of questionable actions by our governor.
Texas Environmental Commission Filled With Perry Appointees Allowed Company Owned By Top Perry Donor To Dispose Of Other States' Radioactive Waste In Texas. As reported by theAustin American-Statesman: "Texas can import low-level radioactive waste from 36 other states, a commission run jointly by Texas and Vermont decided Tuesday in Andrews County. The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission vote was a decisive victory for Waste Control Specialists, a company owned by a politically connected billionaire that has shaken off a series of permitting and court challenges by environmental activists. [...] But the disposal of the waste became a story as much about money and connections as about radioactive syringes and beakers.Waste Control is a subsidiary of Valhi, whose board chairman is Harold Simmons , a Dallas investor who has given at least $1.12 million to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaigns since 2001, making him the second-highest individual donor during that period. He gave Perry's campaign $500,000 in 2010. That year the company spent as much as $430,000 on lobbyists, according to a review of campaign records. All the commissioners were appointed by Perry." [Austin American-Statesman, 2/4/11, emphasis added]
Not saying that his activities were illegal, just that he should be called out for his well documented pay-to-play politics while he tries to project an ah shucks country boy image.
KWilson
If you are really Independent, you should have an open mind. You refer to Cowboy Ricky's record of conviction. My problem is that Ricky should be convicted but has been clever enough to skirt bribery and campaign contribution laws. Consider this one article in the compilation of questionable actions by our governor.
Texas Environmental Commission Filled With Perry Appointees Allowed Company Owned By Top Perry Donor To Dispose Of Other States' Radioactive Waste In Texas. As reported by theAustin American-Statesman: "Texas can import low-level radioactive waste from 36 other states, a commission run jointly by Texas and Vermont decided Tuesday in Andrews County. The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission vote was a decisive victory for Waste Control Specialists, a company owned by a politically connected billionaire that has shaken off a series of permitting and court challenges by environmental activists. [...] But the disposal of the waste became a story as much about money and connections as about radioactive syringes and beakers.Waste Control is a subsidiary of Valhi, whose board chairman is Harold Simmons , a Dallas investor who has given at least $1.12 million to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaigns since 2001, making him the second-highest individual donor during that period. He gave Perry's campaign $500,000 in 2010. That year the company spent as much as $430,000 on lobbyists, according to a review of campaign records. All the commissioners were appointed by Perry." [Austin American-Statesman, 2/4/11, emphasis added]
Not saying that his activities were illegal, just that he should be called out for his well documented pay-to-play politics while he tries to project an ah shucks country boy image.
KWilson
If you are really Independent, you should have an open mind. You refer to Cowboy Ricky's record of conviction. My problem is that Ricky should be convicted but has been clever enough to skirt bribery and campaign contribution laws. Consider this one article in the compilation of questionable actions by our governor.
Texas Environmental Commission Filled With Perry Appointees Allowed Company Owned By Top Perry Donor To Dispose Of Other States' Radioactive Waste In Texas. As reported by theAustin American-Statesman: "Texas can import low-level radioactive waste from 36 other states, a commission run jointly by Texas and Vermont decided Tuesday in Andrews County. The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission vote was a decisive victory for Waste Control Specialists, a company owned by a politically connected billionaire that has shaken off a series of permitting and court challenges by environmental activists. [...] But the disposal of the waste became a story as much about money and connections as about radioactive syringes and beakers.Waste Control is a subsidiary of Valhi, whose board chairman is Harold Simmons , a Dallas investor who has given at least $1.12 million to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaigns since 2001, making him the second-highest individual donor during that period. He gave Perry's campaign $500,000 in 2010. That year the company spent as much as $430,000 on lobbyists, according to a review of campaign records. All the commissioners were appointed by Perry." [Austin American-Statesman, 2/4/11, emphasis added]
Not saying that his activities were illegal, just that he should be called out for his well documented pay-to-play politics while he tries to project an ah shucks country boy image.
Straw polls have proven meaningless over time, a snap shot of that particular moment. Fact is, the trends are so fluid for this GOP nod. I knew when Gov Perry rose to meteoric highs was surreal and temporary, as anyone knows, he had not been properly vetted by the ruthless media and other candidates.
Reid's move effectively eliminates the minority's ability to offer amendments. Reid triggered a sort of "mini-nuclear option," casting aside Senate history and precedent to change Senate rules simply to avoid a vote on a jobs plan his Democratic president has been demanding from Congress.
The odds of GOP takeover of the Senate in 2012 are getting progressively stronger. The Reid move establishes a dangerous precedent for the minority party. Angry Senate Republicans won't soon forget it. The repeal of Obamacare in January, 2013, may have just shifted from "possibility" to "likelihood," thanks to a senior Senator who changed the rules simply to avoid embarrassment. Harry's problems may be just beginning.
americanthinker.com
Obama wants his job bill pass right now, and Reid is doing is best to keep it from a vote. Why?
Also, do you think Reid will realize his mistake and correct it, and can he correct it?
Republicans cast aside Senate history and much more when the top republican and others in the senate said their top priority was to make sure the newly elected president would be a one term president.
Just saw "The Daily Rundown." I think the show should have a new name - "The Daily Rundown on Rick Perry."
I am a President Obama supporter but am also an avid political junkie who likes everything and every show about this GOP campaign. This morning there were numerous stories on Rick Perry - even one resurrecting Perry's "good" debate footage from 20 years ago!!
But I didn't hear anything about Perry getting only 8% of the Values vote over the weekend. Or that Herman Cain got three times that much with 23%. Or that Cain won another straw poll over the weekend.
The only real talk about Cain was during the panel segment where Cain's viability as a real candidate was debated. How elitist can these reporters be? THEY will determine if a candidate is viable?? Look, I imagine no one is more surprised about his rise in the polls and his winning multiple straw polls than is Herman Cain! If he isn't as organized as a Romney or Perry isn't that understandable? But is that a reason to call him a "gadfly?"
Again, I support President Obama. But I like to see basic fairness in coverage. Perry has lost 50% of his support in the polls since his September 22 Fox debate and his "rock" incident. He has won no straw polls. Cain, on the other hand, has jumped into a tie with Romney in some polls and has won the Florida straw poll as well as several others, and come in second in the Values one this past Saturday.
So why the obsessive coverage of Perry??