Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Rick Perry: “I was troubled today by the tone of the president…”
Right Scoop ^ | Feb 24, 2014 at 9:47 PM

Posted on 02/25/2014 11:32:06 AM PST by Red Steel

Rick Perry admitted at the RGA today that he was very troubled by Obama’s tone today addressing the National Governors Association:

I don’t mind telling you I was a bit troubled today by the tone of the president. …For the president of the United States to look Democrat and Republican governors in the eye and to say ‘I do not trust you to make decisions in your state about issues of education, about transportation infrastructure…’ – that is really troubling.

Perry went on to say that Obama was going to hollow out the National Guard and warned the state governors not to push back against it or they would hear from him:

Democrat Governors are very concerned, I will suggest to you, about what they heard today about the Guard. I left the United States Air Force in the mid ‘70s, in February of 1977, as our country was going through a similar period of time of reducing the force. But those men and women who had extraordinary expertise in combat were going into the Guard and into the Reserves.

I hope we’re not about to make a tragic mistake in this country by hollowing out our Guard in our states in some political statement of ‘you’re all going to feel the pain’. Because that’s certainly what I heard from the president of the United States today.

As a matter of fact [Obama] he said in that meeting “if I hear any of you pushing back, making statements about Washington spends too much money, you’ll hear from me.”

If I’m a Democrat governor, if I’m a Republican governor, I’m highly offended by that.

Yes it is our duty to defend the people of this country. But I will suggest that making a political statement about the Guard is not in the best long-term interest of this country and it’s certainly not in the best long-term interest of those men and women who have committed and often times sacrificed greatly for this country.


TOPICS: Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2014midterms; amnesty; governors; larazarick; nationalguard; nga; obama; obamagovernors; openborders; perry2016; rga; rickperry; rino; stateguard
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 161-172 next last
Draw your logical conclusions.
1 posted on 02/25/2014 11:32:06 AM PST by Red Steel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

He thinks he’s “troubled”? How does he think the average person who is getting hammered by these nobama marxists feel?


2 posted on 02/25/2014 11:33:51 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Ping.


3 posted on 02/25/2014 11:34:34 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

I don’t trust Rick Perry, after his behavior in the Gaurdasil and Trans Texas Corridor debacles


4 posted on 02/25/2014 11:36:16 AM PST by BereanBrain
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

BOHICA


5 posted on 02/25/2014 11:36:35 AM PST by DownInFlames
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

“Will no one rid us of this meddlesome Marxist?”


6 posted on 02/25/2014 11:36:55 AM PST by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

And so the marxist dictator takes more and more power on to himself, while the populace walks around with its finger up its nose wondering what justin beeber will do next.


7 posted on 02/25/2014 11:37:41 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

Governors, the power of sovereign states is our last peaceful hope of controlling USG, gone way wild.


8 posted on 02/25/2014 11:38:33 AM PST by veracious
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BereanBrain
Another thieving RINO in the Trent Lott Hall of Infamy.

In office way too long, but still looks like George Washington next to the Kenyan Kommie.

9 posted on 02/25/2014 11:38:46 AM PST by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel
Child Barry is putting this nation's security in jeopardy out of spite that he is upset by sequester cuts? So, when Iran nukes us or China invades our coast lines, Barry will say "See, it's your fault because of the cuts"!

Barry must be removed from office. Any president who sacrifices our military so illegal aliens can get free food stamps and health care is guilty of treason.

10 posted on 02/25/2014 11:38:55 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

I love my Governor. I know there are a lot of people, even FR’ers, who don’t care for him, but he has the best for Texas in his heart, he’s a Christian, and he’s conservative. Texas has done well with his leadership.


11 posted on 02/25/2014 11:38:59 AM PST by native texan (Texans should be independent thinkers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel
‘I do not trust you to make decisions in your state about issues of education, about transportation infrastructure…’

The STATES have got to put a stop to this unauthorized DICKTATORIAL action taking place in the District of Corruption. The ONLY powers the FED GOV and KING OBAMA have are "Enumerated" in the US Constitutiom. It appears the Article V will be our only way of saving the Constitutional Republic for the left.
12 posted on 02/25/2014 11:39:11 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

You should have put a medical disclaimer on this story. I think my blood pressure just went through the roof!!


13 posted on 02/25/2014 11:39:50 AM PST by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

‘Sic Semper Tyrannis’

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


14 posted on 02/25/2014 11:40:11 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

Eh? Doesn’t obama have a Blackberry and a Bic pen?


15 posted on 02/25/2014 11:40:26 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

I'd come help out.

16 posted on 02/25/2014 11:41:31 AM PST by McGruff (Every night has it's dawn.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Steel

Emperor Obama has spoken...let it be written by my pen...let it be done. Obama is sounding more like a dictator than the elected president of a Republic with a three branch checks and balances Constitution. I am especially disturbed by his treatment of any dissent as a personal attack on him that will be punished or silenced. I fear he could go so far as to end free elections.


17 posted on 02/25/2014 11:41:44 AM PST by The Great RJ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: native texan

+1.


18 posted on 02/25/2014 11:42:03 AM PST by jospehm20
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: hal ogen

I’m a Texan, and I like Perry. But these days, “being troubled” has become a career-stretching device. Eventually a bunch of people will have to move from “being troubled” to “being willing to die” if we are to be granted another stretch of real American freedom. Sad, but this seems to be the price of living in a fallen world (see: History).


19 posted on 02/25/2014 11:42:08 AM PST by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: I want the USA back
“And so the marxist dictator takes more and more power on to himself, while the populace walks around with its finger up its nose wondering what justin beeber will do next.”

So true. The only thing that heartens me is the absolute conviction that these people are so arrogant and overreaching regarding their own abilities, that I am very confident they will eventually fail in a big way. The only question is how long that is going to take, and how many people will suffer before this happens.

20 posted on 02/25/2014 11:42:14 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 161-172 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson