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NASHUA, NH -- Rick Perry focused his ire on Wall Street on Wednesday, castigating "high rollers" and reckless DC insiders who "snookered" Americans.
Perry struck populist notes while stumping in the Granite State today, following a day's worth of campaigning in which he focused on immigration.
"What's wrong with America can be diagrammed on a napkin," he told guests at a Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Nashua Wednesday. "And it is a straight line between two dots. Between Washington and Wall Street."
"Americans were snookered into deals with zero down and balloon payments and the regulators fell asleep at the switch," he said after accusing "washington politicians" of pressuring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into offering risky loans.
"They were betting against America," he said of bankers "who hatched get rich quick schemes" to profit off the market crash.
Perry has been hitting upon a reformist theme in recent weeks on the campaign trail, calling, for instance, for a ban on insider trading in Congress, and calling for the ouster of several top Obama administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Attorney General Eric Holder and Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Perry has aggressively derided Treasury and Fed officials this week after a Bloomberg story revealed previously unknown Fed loans to banks in late 2008.
He has also worked to paint himself as an "outsider" both to big banks and the Beltway crowd. It's been a tool he's used, too, to distinguish himself from his primary opponents; Perry called both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney "substantial insiders on Wall St and Washington, D.C." during television interviews this morning.
Perry also committed a minor error in his interview this morning on Fox News, talking about his work to get ready for New Hampshire's "caucuses." The state, rather proudly, hosts a primary, which is the first such contest in the country.
The Texas governor later admitted the flub.
"Yep I did," he said, asked if he made a gaffe with the comment. "I will do that from time to time."
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Perry who? What are you still writing about him for? He is a goner.
Is Rick Perry really still in this race? Oh my God, he is? You're kidding , right?
Rick Perry used to be a Democrat. He switched to Republican and became a millionaire as a politician. If he needs to, he'll switch back. His principles change daily.
Perry' s true ambition is to be our first christian king! In this quest he has the backing of folks like James Russell, Ken Copland and David Barton! All millionaires by the grace of......well you know! Fools and their money
Hey Rick, I'll believe that "corporations are people too", just as soon as you execute one in Texas...
Perry is not a populist! A populist is someone like Jim Hightower who said, "Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"!
The thing between Perrys ears fell asleep at the switch a long time ago.Please go back to Texas your not even good for a laugh anymore.
He's giving the right message, corruption in and between finance and politics is the source of many problems--but I don't believe he would work to correct the problem. We need a return to Glass-Steagall type financial regulations and legislation to overturn the horrible Citizens United ruling. It would also be nice to see some of the thieves stripped of their wealth and prosecuted, and responsibility for the issuance of money returned to Congress where the Constitution placed it.
Well lets look at the facts. Obama has a 46% approval rating congress has a 8% approval rating. The Dow was at 7,949 on bush last day in office. almost every bank has repaid there loan back plus interest. GM is once again a public traded company. What Republican are running on is to end a women right to choose. Stop the gays in the military from getting married. They also want religion taught in the public schools. They are clueness on healthcare. Talk to someone who works at a hospital ER. Today 35% of the people are skipping out on their medical bills. These republican havn't got a clue! Unemployment today for a person holding a BS degree is 3.8% so if you can't find a job blame yourselves.
Watching Rick Perry is like watching Wile E. Coyote in the Road Runner cartoon.
The Texan and them napkins again.
Is Texas still burning?
dry as a bone and cold as the dead!
Is this crew truly the best the GOP/Ters could do? I've seen third-graders at recess deal with issues and events and others better than these chronologically-at-least adults.
(My apologies to actual third-graders, their relatives, and friends)
where have all the "perry is gonna kick obama's butt" people gone? When he was a frontrunner (for about 7 hours) you couldn't shake a stick here without hitting a zillion of them. Wonder what happened to them? lol.
Man, I hope this guys gets his party's nomination. He is absolutely hilarious!
Loved watching Perry hugging the booze or maple syrup bottle in New Hampshire.
He is funnier than Bush :-)