Posted on 05/27/2011 9:01:05 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Published May 27, 2011 | FoxNews.com
Maybe Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he’s decided to test the waters on a presidential run just because he’s feels left out.
For all the attention paid to the presidential possibilities of two members of the House (Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann) and a reality show host (you know who), you’d never know that the Republicans had on their bench the three-term governor of the state with the nation’s best economy and the largest Republican population.
But for some reason, when Perry told people he wasn’t running, reporters believed him. If Chris Christie even flies over Iowa, the blogosphere goes into meltdown mode, but the political press for some reason mostly took Perry at his word.
It seems strange that they would have.
Perry, who has been governor for more than a decade, is a favorite of the Tea Party movement for his tough stands on state sovereignty, border security, taxes and gun rights. Anybody who packs heat when he jogs so he can blow away coyotes that mess with his Labrador retriever and hangs out with Ted Nugent at a Tax Day rally is going to have serious street cred with the Republican base.
As the Perry talk heats up, these primary election positives will be reinforced by liberals who find his Texas-fried politics to be repellant. Every time Democratic cable news talkers remind viewers that Perry once warned that Texas might secede from the union if Washington kept piling on new federal powers, somewhere in Iowa or South Carolina a Republican primary voter thinks, “Not bad.” When Perry gets chided for declining photo-ops with President Obama on visits to the state, somewhere in New Hampshire a guy...
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And, given that the cost of medical treatment for illegals pretty much caused the closings of a lot of more rural health clinics...Texans outside the big metro areas have paid a big price for Goodhair to cater to his open borders patrons.
I can not percieve any circumstance in which I would even consider voting for him in a national election.
LLS
Perry. Romney. Both. RINO’s.
‘Scuse me, but try a little accuracy: The teachers were not fired. They were part of a reduction in staff. Nowhere on their records will it be recorded that they were “fired.”
What has a reduction in staff at your school district got to do with balancing the Texas budget— since teacher salary comes out of your property taxes?
Perry is one of those don’t vote for under any circumstance RINOs.
If you thought conservatives would go for this Arlen Spectoresque former Democrat, think some more.
Perry worse than Pawlenty? You’ve got to be kidding.
Pawlenty:
He increased state spending by nearly 40 percent during his eight years in the Governor’s Office.
He went along with the Democrats to increase property taxes by 12 percent over three years.
He claimed he wanted a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. After elected, he never brought the marriage amendment up.
He claims to support Second Amendment rights but has proposed no state constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to keep and bear arms.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2726400/posts
Obviously, conservatives outside of Texas don’t know him like we do.
You want to call it a RIF, so be it. In the end, they were let go and will be out of a job.
The new state budget cut public school spending by $4 billion. School districts are forced to cut their budget, period. Part of school district budget cuts means fewer teachers. My property taxes went down, which means the revenue to the school district also went down. Less money from the state & less money from property taxes equals budget cuts.
I believe that you will find that the budget increased over the last biennium. Morover, the “balance” was in part due to defering at least one payment to schools by a few weeks to push it into the next biennium.
Your post has zero merit. Conservatives with bonafide records are bandied about all the time...and it is the RINO supporters who try to pronounce the unelectable while at the same time being unable to come up with a liberal policy the person advocated.
So next time try to come up with an assertion that holds water. That one does not.
It didn’t increase.
This state budget deal is a victory for all Texans –and especially for the Texans who worked hard over the past several months to remind our legislators that they wanted a fiscally conservative state budget. The announced budget deal is a win for Texas on three specific points:
• It does not use a single penny of the rainy day fund for the next biennium.
• It does not raise taxes.
• It does represent the first all-funds reduction to a biennial state budget in the past half-century.
“What happened in the Texas Legislature this session is more than just a victory for Texans. It’s a victory for America. Texas already leads the way in job creation, economic vitality, and economic liberty. Now Texas is leading the way in the most important cause facing our country: the need to live within our means. “Today, in Austin, Texas, the men and women of our legislature showed it can be done. That’s a tremendous accomplishment for Texas –and it’s a shining beacon of hope for America.”
Please show me where I made any implication that I was happy about teachers losing their jobs? You’re just wrong on that one.
Stop making such a gross misrepresentation of my statements. Stating that my property taxes went down and that there were budgets in my school districts does not equal “Yeehaw! Damn sorry-ass teachers are out of a job!” That’s just assinine.
Housing values fell in Texas overall. When the assessed value of a property falls, so do property taxes because those taxes are assessed by a percentage of the assessed value. So I’m not the only one in Texas whose property taxes decreased.
Stop making such a gross misrepresentation of my statements. Stating that my property taxes went down and that there were budgets in my school districts does not equal “Yeehaw! Damn sorry-ass teachers are out of a job!” That’s just assinine.
Housing values fell in Texas overall. When the assessed value of a property falls, so do property taxes because those taxes are assessed by a percentage of the assessed value. So I’m not the only one in Texas whose property taxes decreased.
“The final product is not as spartan as the initial budget proposal. That’s because some additional money was found, some payments for schools and Medicaid were pushed to a later date and the rainy day fund was tapped to pay for the $4 billion deficit in the current budget, freeing up that amount for spending in 2012-13.”
“State aid for public schools, which has garnered much of the attention since January, is still $4 billion short of what school districts are owed under current law.
But the amount of state dollars in the education budget actually went up $3 billion, or 9 percent, from current levels to make up for a large chunk of the federal stimulus that was used to help fund schools in 2009.”
This is from the 5/27 Austin Statesman. You may be right about the increase, but you also may be wrong depending on the amount of the Medicaid and school accounting gimmicks. As for the use of the rainy day fund, the money is fungible. They could have used tax revenues to take care of the current budget shortfall and have used the rainy day fund for the next biennium. They did the reverse, but it is just an accounting matter. The bottom line is that they didn’t cut spending enough to avoid using the rainy day fund.
The House budget would have been better, but the Senate, as usual, betrayed us again. Dewhurst shouldn’t have a future in Texas politics.
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