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BETTENDORF, Iowa -- Previewing an address he will deliver Tuesday morning in Eastern Iowa, Gov. Rick Perry on Monday night promised to "uproot" the three branches of government and institute wide-reaching reforms throughout the federal apparatus.
"Tomorrow I'm going to unveil a plan to uproot all three branches of government and overhaul Washington," he said in an address to the Scott County GOP, adding that his plan will "touch each branch of government, because they each have contributed to the demise of America."
Perry said his reform proposal will target "lifetime federal judges who arrogantly rewrite our laws from the bench," as well as the "permanent bureaucracy of the executive branch, which thwarts the will of the American people to advance a big government agenda." And he pledged to outline "dramatic reforms for a Congress that not only spends too much but is IN Washington too much."
The Texas governor, who rode an anti-Washington wave to victory in his 2010 gubernatorial re-election race, noted that the DC metro area has not suffered from the same recession that closed stores on Main Streets all over the country.
"That's because all those lobbyists, that's because all those overpaid czars and bureaucrats haven't suffered one bit while we've been going through one of the worst economies that this country's ever seen," he said.
Both in his book Fed Up and in a recent interview with the editorial board of the New Hampshire Union Leader, Perry has advocated for term limits for members of the judiciary, even those in the Supreme Court. He's also pledged to eliminate earmarks and wipe out several federal agencies. But aides say that his address tomorrow - also in Bettendorf - will break new ground in its proposals for specific federal reforms.
During his remarks to a receptive crowd of GOP activists, Perry did not take explicit aim at any of his Republican rivals, although he criticized those who would merely "nibble around the edges" with reforms -- a reference he has previous made to Mitt Romney.
"Washington doesn't need a new coat of paint," he asserted. "It needs a complete overhaul"
But he did slam President Barack Obama for recent comments that Americans have been "a little bit lazy" at working to attract businesses from around the globe.
"Mr. President, Americans aren't lazy, and they aren't soft. Americans do not lack a vision or ambition," he said. "We lack leadership in Washington DC."
In his criticism of the Beltway culture, Perry also made a joke at his own expense, referencing his long "brain freeze" at the CNBC debate during which he was unable to recall the name of the Department of Energy.
"They think the answer is, every problem, let's just add a new agency of government. And I can remember most of em," he said to laughter and applause.
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AP is reporting that Rick Perry,while trying to rally his base,was riding a horse when he was thrown. His right foot stuck in the stirrup and his head was being pounded repeatedly on the ground. If the Manager of Wal-mart had not unplugged it when he did,the injuries would have been much worse. An MRI was done on his head and it showed absolutely nothing.
Herman was heard singing,"happy trails" to Rick as he walked off the debate stage ....ooops !!!
In promising to 'uproot' all three branches of Government, Perry is promising a lot. Can he deliver, considering that the three branches of government are Constitutionally co-equal in power and not subject to the whims of candidate Rick Perry? Or is he just making election-year noises to pander to the Tea Party, the substance of which even he know will not amount to much? I guess we will have to wait for his speech, but somehow I suspect that this plan will die the same quiet death as his "Me Too!" tax plan. (You remember. That tax plan he offered in reaction to Herman Cain?) Perry has the look of quiet desperation; like some exhausted polar bear trying to climb on top of some sad little chunk of sea ice which keeps rolling hopelessly under his paws. His campaign is melting down and the cause isn't global warming. It's all Rick Perry. Tisk.
-Science_1
Rick Perry isn’t the only forgetful one! His campaign advisor and his wife are too:
This press release tipped us off to the identity of his political and economic adviser. Will Mr. Glenn Beck please step in front of the curtain?
Also, since the country is in demise, pay attention to the gold Glenn has for sale.
so how do ya know all that ?
PERSONALLY i think the gop tp has decided not to run a REAL candidate , because the State of the Union is so f..ing bad
lmao what they gonna do ? cut taxes somer mo0re4 ?//?////?/??
?/?????lmaO BY the way TP is for the bathroom .
Has anyone noticed in this corporatization of America how important it is to have a weak central government in the U.S.? Historically, after the U.S. Civil War, there was a series of (mostly) Republican presidents who were very weak. The first one to break that mold was Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. And that was, coincidentally, the era of the Robber Barons, where corporations and business ran roughshod over the body politic of America and the population of the vast majority of American working families, the era of child labor, the era of frequent financial and bank "panics" that wiped out the small businessman or small account holder, of bloody union busting. If you want to read some of the horrors of the time, try reading The Jungle or The Octopus, eminently readable short novels. Are we not sure that much of what is depicted there doens't occur today or will in the near future?
It is to corporations' advantage to keep our central government weak and unable to effectively regulate the looting of our wealth by them, to keep the voters fighting amongst themselves so the grand scale thievery can continue unimpeded. It was only the loosening of their grip on our nation that we were free to rise to our greatest era ... the post World War II period when vast numbers of Americans rose to the middle class and the difference between the top executives and the wage earners was miniscule compared to today.
America in the 1950s under President Eisenhower was strong, second to none in productive capacity and production, workers shared in the wealth fully and the working man, or woman, was able to move into the middle class freely based on the work he did. He bought cars, made in America; he bought houses, constructed and fairly priced in America; he bought televisions, refrigerators, furniture ... all the good for a comfortable life which were manufactured in America creating more wealth. BAnks were regulated and functioned as banks, not high powere Ponzi schemes. Our income tax was progressive in nature. Our educational system was second to none, and a record number of working middle class Americans sent their children to college.
Between the disastrous War in Vietnam, a totally unecessary war (sound familiar, anybody?), Richard Nixon's corruption and appeal to the worst darkest parts of us, and the rise of the Republican Right, Fundamentalist political ministers, and the use of the voters to the darkest of ends, the corporatocracy has once again nearly achieved that status of being the de facto rulers of the United States.
And folks, that does not bode well for all of us ordinary Americans.