. Rick Perry Fails Govt 101: Claims Executive Orders Can Repeal Laws Passed By Congress — By Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:08 pm
During Mike Huckabee’s Presidential Forum on Saturday night, Rick Perry repeatedly insisted that the president has the authority to block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, despite a recent Government Accountability Office report finding to the contrary. “The executive order obviously gives you that authority,” Perry repeated four different times to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who quizzed Perry on the executive branch’s authority to eliminate a law dually passed by Congress:
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But a Government Accountability Office report out just last week found that while a president would be able to alter certain regulations, issuing waivers through executive authority would “likely conflict with an explicit congressional mandate and be viewed ‘incompatible with the express…will of Congress.’”
“A President would not appear to be able to issue an executive order halting an agency from promulgating a rule that is statutorily required by PPACA,” the report said. “A President would not appear to be able to issue an executive order halting statutorily-required programs or mandatory appropriations for a new grant or other program in PPACA.”
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
Is he still going, then? Looks like Gingrich and Romney are the big ones.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. -- Lawrence of Arabia
^^^^Hahahahaha! Seriously? Fuck I love the sittin' out on the porch and kickin' up the brim of his hat bit at the end. What a fucking joker this guy is. Republican through and through -- see: utter water carrying idiot.
Reminded me of this which believe it or not is/was real:
There is no me. There is no you. There is all. There is no you. There is no me. And that is all. A profound acceptance of an enormous pageantry. A haunting certainty that the unifying principle of this universe is love. -- Propagandhi
(Which means that he could be useful-enough to the right people to be made president.)
I no longer think of Perry as Damien. I now think of him as a JC Penney catalog underwear model. I dont know which is more of a nightmare TBH
I remember as a kid wondering what the catalog models said to each other when they met , you know... Rick: "Hey Bob that was great sweater work you did last autumn!" Bob: "Hey, thanks Rick, you did great work for Penney's you did!"
and years later, I found out there are lots of conversations just like that....
I don't know when Business Insider wrote:The first red flag came just two days after Perry's campaign announcement, when he said Texans would treat Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke "pretty ugly" if he "prints more money between now and the election.
Perry then remarked that more quantitative easing would be "almost treacherous — uh — treasonous, in my opinion."
To make matters worse, the Perry campaign didn't think the candidate's threat was a mistake at all. Campaign spokesman Mark Miner has staunchly defended the remark — but Perry has since toned it down with the vigilante rhetoric.
This blatant politicization of monetary policy raised eyebrows among Republican intellectuals, and was the first big warning sign that the Texas Governor may not be ready for "prime time."
4:37 p.m. CST, Dec 9, 2011, James Oliphant of Chicago Tribune wrote:Numbers. They're the darnedest things. Just ask Rick Perry.
The GOP presidential contender, whose misfires have become part of the legend of the 2012 race, appears to have made another flub or two Friday in an interview with the Des Moines Register editorial board, getting wrong the number of justices on the Supreme Court and blanking out on the name of one justice altogether.
According to reports by the Register and the Associated Press, Perry was all set to call out Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama nominee, as a "activist judge" -- except he couldn't recall her name. He struggled for six seconds before saying "Not Montemayor?"
"Sotomayor," one of the editorial board members helpfully said.
Perry then went on to condemn "eight unelected and, frankly, unaccountable judges" in a discussion of prayer in schools.
Nine justices serve on the high court, not eight.
Numbers, of course, famously tripped up the Texas governor in a debate in November when he pledged that, as president, he would eliminate three Cabinet agencies -- but then could only summon the names of two agencies in some of the most painful-to-watch political moments in recent history.
The candidate is in the midst of a large-scale push to garner support in Iowa in advance of the Jan. 3 caucuses. He's bought a wealth of TV advertising time and next week plans to begin to campaign by bus across the state.
That is the third report of Perry's errors posted here at RI. Then, there was a verbal attack of Romney during a panel, if I remember correctly. I'm guessing it's first time jitters outta the shoot at the big time rodeo.
< Hear Perry say grace prior to a meal in a rodeo setting in Stamford, Texas.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
Dec 17, 2011 at 4:30 pm, Ali Gharib of Think Progress wrote:Could Herman Cain become President Rick Perry’s Secretary of Defense? It sounds like it could be a headline from a satire rag, but, according to a new statement by the Texas governor and Republican presidential hopeful, Secretary Cain could indeed be a serious possibility.
During his since-aborted campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Cain distinguished himself as a prominent voice on foreign policy in the race — but not so much for cogent ideas. Rather, he made himself famous for a long string of foreign policy gaffes and bizarre answers to questions. Before Cain dropped out of the presidential race, he’d already declared his willingness to serve as someone else’s Defense Secretary — a willingness he restated since suspending his run.
Now, it seems like Rick Perry might be ready to take Cain up on his offer. Responding to a question about whether he’d take on Cain in a cabinet position, Perry replied:
He has all the characteristics of the type of person I would bring forward.
Here’s a compilation video of highlights of Cain discussing his pizza-making approach to foreign policy and some of his other gaffes:
Perry’s had his own problems with foreign policy. Journalists pointed out that Perry distorted a key quote from a Texas historian in an oped on the Mideast in the Wall Street Journal and Jerusalem Post. Neoconservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin attacked Perry for having such an obviously ghost-written piece — with a “pretense of sophistication” — “because his own foreign policy views are rudimentary.”Among Perry’s top reported foreign policy advisers are top Bush administration officials Donald Rumsfeld and Douglas Feith, and he’s met to consult with deposed Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf. (HT Jonathan Martin)
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
< Hear Perry say grace prior to a meal in a rodeo setting in Stamford, Texas.
I don't know, Allegro, but I think that was actually Rick Perry auditioning for the part of Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights. (Damn you, Will Ferrell--!!!)
And it always just "gets me right here" whenever I think about "the baby Jesus" — especially at Christmastime.
"The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego."
By James Oliphant of The Los Angeles Times wrote:Rick Perry needs a fourth-quarter comeback to win in Iowa. So at the GOP debate in Sioux City on Thursday night, he compared himself to Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, who has captured the attention of NFL fans by leading his team to six consecutive wins, several in last-minute fashion.
In the first moments of the Fox News Channel debate, as the candidates each made the case for why he or she should be the Republican nominee, Perry quickly invoked Tebow. But the Texas governor, still foundering in the polls, wasn’t simply trying to hook his wagon to a football star. He was also giving a coded shout-out to the religious conservatives so crucial to his candidacy in Iowa and elsewhere.
Perry has courted those voters with increasing frequency, releasing a controversial campaign ad last week that objected to service in the armed forces by openly gay men and women. Tebow, a former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback for the University of Florida, is widely known to be a born-again Christian.
Tebow has been criticized by some for an unorthodox style of play. Perry, who has struggled at some of the GOP debates, sees a kindred spirit.
“There are a lot of folks that said Tim Tebow wasn’t going to be a very good NFL quarterback. There are people that stood up and said, ‘Well, he doesn’t have the right throwing mechanisms, or he’s not playing the game right,’” Perry said. “And he won two national championships, and that looked pretty good. We were the national champions in job creation back in Texas. And so, am I ready for the next level? Let me tell you, I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.”
The Broncos have won seven of eight games since Tebow took over as starting quarterback, and they trailed in the second half of six of those wins. It’s earned him the nickname “The Mile High Messiah.”
Perry seems to be looking for some of that magic to rub off on him.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
Regardless of Rick Perry's candidacy, it is a foregone conclusion that teh gayz will be a pivotal issue in the 2012 election circus, gay marriage being a veritable national crisis. What other totally irrelevant issue could drive such a deeply satisfying and delicious wedge in the collective American consciousness?
Well, either that or a major new war effort brought about by false flag.
Allegro wrote:Rick Perry defends anti-gay ad — he says people should not have “freedom from religion”
Godalmighty, what a MORON! He's visibly struggling to remember all the little talking points he's been given. I found myself hyper-ventilating in empathy. Ugh.
That he could even get this far is scary, but scariest of all is Newt Gingrich.
"If you're not careful the newspapers will have you hating the oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X
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I found myself hyper-ventilating in empathy. Ugh.