Posted on 08/16/2011 2:26:28 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.....Campaigning in Iowa on Monday, the Texas governor said he would consider it "treasonous" if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke "prints more money between now and the election" in November 2012 -- a fresh sign of the political heat the central bank faces as it tries to right the stumbling U.S. economy.
The White House responded by saying it is important for the central bank to remain independent, and jabbed back at Perry, who on Saturday entered the race for the Republican nomination to face President Barack Obama.
"I certainly think threatening the Fed chairman is not a good idea," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
"When you are president or running for president, you have to think about your words," Carney said in Iowa, where Obama was on a campaign-style bus tour.
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Perry's campaign did not back away from his comments and said the Texas governor was expressing his frustration with the U.S. economic situation and the "out of control spending" in Washington.
"Most Americans would agree that printing and spending more money is not the answer to the economic issues facing the country," Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner said.
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"When you say those things in the Lone Star State (Texas), you look colorful. When you say these things on a national stage ... it's going to come back and get you," said Ford O'Connell, an advisor on Republican John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.
"You've got to be more like James Bond and less like Rambo," he said......
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This is so much fun.
I know James Bond and you (McCain) are no James Bond.
Perry is correct about The Fed not acting in the best interest of Americans as a whole.
But look at all the OTHER government schemes to redistribute wealth. He also looks at other inflation measure generate by the Fed and it’s crazy.
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/
I wish I could take this guy’s courses at George Mason University in Virginia. But the economists in California all seem to be like Brad de Long, Chrissie Romer, etc in my home state.
Perry will take NO prisoners...those yoyos in the east and DC ain’t seen nothin’ yet....Go Perry Go!
Didn’t he say it would be “near treasonous” in any case?
While Treason carries a specific constitutional definition that is unlikely to be met here...sedition, fraud and grand theft should be sufficient for hanging when committed on this scale.
If memory serves, Ford O'Connell contributed to McCain's failed campaign. And McCain was certainly not too forceful. So O'Connell's advice is suddenly a credible path forward?
Personally, I'm OK with more Rambo and less nuance this time around.
If deliberately debasing and inflating the currency isn’t considered treason, it ought to be.
Anyway, more sanctimonious lectures on civility from the “The Tea Party are terrorists” crowd is beyond galling.
We tried Bond and got our asses handed to us by the KGB. Now it's time to send in Rambo. By the way, Bond is English, Rambo is red blooded American.
GO PERRY!
The anti-McQueeg.
Take it to um, Rick!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ6BCWjX04A
McCain’s team member did not just compare McCain to James Bond? wow...I knew they were delusional but....
Yes! Finally somebody who will take it to the Kenyan. Yes!
i hope every GOP candidate starts going after obama with ferocity. he won’t be able to withstand that much criticism. He can’t run now from his record. clearly his only move is to go after the other candidates. BEAT HIM TO IT with his own failures.
And was this said by McCain's 2008 campaign manager?
Well, in that context,
Sarah Palan = Rambo
John McCain = one of Bond's movie hussies.
Well if an advisor to Juan McStain thinks Perry is out of line thats not necessarily a bad thing.
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