You betcha!
Posted on 06/25/2011 12:11:49 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson’s great-great-great-grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas’s Supreme Court. The governor who nominated him also nominated the state’s first Latina justice. Rick Perry, 61, the longest-serving governor in Texas history and, in his 11th year, currently the nation’s senior governor, says these nominations are two of his proudest accomplishments.
French cuffs and cowboy boots are, like sauerkraut ice cream, an eclectic combination, but Perry, who wears both, is a potentially potent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination because his political creed is uneclectic, matching that of the Republican nominating electorate. He was a “10th Amendment conservative” (“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people”) before the Tea Party appeared. And before Barack Obama’s statism — especially Obamacare’s individual mandate — catalyzed concern for the American project of limited government.
Social issues, especially abortion, are gateways to the Republican nominating electorate: In today’s climate of economic fear, a candidate’s positions on social issues will not be decisive with his electorate — but they can be disqualifying. Perry — an evangelical Christian, like most Republican participants in Iowa’s caucuses and the South Carolina primary — emphatically qualifies.
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The Republican contest probably will become a binary choice — Romney and the Not Romney candidate. If Perry becomes the latter, he will do so by his visceral appeal to social conservatives, and by trumping Romney’s economic expertise with “Texas exceptionalism”:.....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“In the first place I doubt that any of that occurred”>>>
Have you been living under a rock? Seriously, here ya go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJDrgVCMBxo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkjMPs1sLyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oa_pDDssTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w2xPgbMAxQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmADZpqhKhQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwXkTO55ns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCOj99RSaKw
No need to reply, apology accepted.
I own property in texas and no, it did not particularly scare me. Things like roads are what eminent domain laws are in place for. How much land do you think the state took when they built I-35 in the first place? Just a couple of acres or perhaps hundreds of thousands? I believe the plan was to have the road built at relatively little cost to the state and then allow the corporation that built it to collect tolls and maintain the road for a specified amount of time as payment for building it after which the state could do what they wanted with it. It is not like the corporation could roll up the road and take it back to Spain when they were done, once it was built it would stay. I think that choosing a Spanish company to do it was politically tone deaf but I liked that plan better than hiking everybody’s taxes to pay for a state built road. No matter who eventually builds a successor road or widens the existing I-35, I would be very surprised if eminent domain isn’t used to whatever degree necessary to acquire the land to do it. I am not saying I like it but that is the way it will likely be done. The only thing I know for sure is that until something is done we definitely have an inadequate main north-south road through central Texas.
Greetings trumandogz:
All I want for 2012 is a GOP candidate with integrity.
Cheers,
OLA
You betcha!
Cheers!
A lot of people made the mistake of supporting Giuliani early on because of his stance on terrorism and national secuirty which was the number one issue at the time. I can forgive Perry for that. Perry is conservative on the issues that really matter - pro life, pro gun, pro tenth amendment, pro business, less government
The Congress shall have Power To...
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States
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Is transportation commerce? No where does it state that the TSA has the right to grope a 6 year old girl?
It is time to DownSize DC. At a minimum it is also Time for the Congress to rein in the abuse of power in all agencies including the TSA. (they Are arrogant SOB’s)
It is TIME to eliminate entire Federal Departments. Start with the U.S. Department of Education including their SWAT team..
Perry endorsed Giuliani for 2008 president AND Perry partnered with RINO Rudy (who is persona non grata on Free Repub) to build the Trans-Texas Corridor......... which allows Mexican trucks to enter the US and traverse all the way to Canada.
DISQUALIFIER Aug. 28, 2007----In Mexico for trade talks, Perry blasts US immigration policies
Houston Chronicle, Mexico City Bureau | DUDLEY ALTHAUS
FR Posted on 08/28/2007 by Dubya
MEXICO CITY — Leading a large delegation of Texas executives trying to drum up business in Mexico, Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday criticized the U.S. Congress for failing to pass an immigration bill that would legalize millions of workers. "I don't think this is that difficult an issue if Congress would have the maturity to sit down and really discuss it and cut out all the mean rhetoric," Perry said during a break in the third day of meetings with Mexican officials and business executives. (Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
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DISQUALIFIER August 24, 2007 ---- TX governor Perry rapped for paving way for construction of Trans-Texas Corridor;
allows Mexican trucks to enter the US and traverse all the way to Canada.
One News Now | Chad Groening
FR Posted on 08/25/2007 by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Texas Governor Rick Perry is being called to task by an author and investigative journalist for vetoing bills that would have blocked construction of the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor.
Dr. Jerome Corsi has been one of the leading voices warning the American public about the consequences of the Trans-Texas Corridor, which will be part of a superhighway -- purported to be four football fields wide -- that will allow Mexican trucks to enter the U.S. and traverse the core of the country all the way to Canada.
The best-selling author asserts that Governor Perry cleared the way for construction to begin in his state when he vetoed several bills passed by the Legislature that would have stalled the project.
"Governor Perry has been 100 percent gung-ho in building this road," says Corsi. "The Legislature voted a two-year moratorium, it voted a redefinition of eminent domain -- [and] Governor Perry vetoed them. [On] at least one of those measures, he waited until the Texas Legislature was out of session so it couldn't even override his veto."
Corsi says it is unfortunate that there has been political pressure to get the project started. "The Federal Highway Administration's lawyer wrote letters threatening the Texas Legislature to cut off federal highway funds if they got in the way of this Trans-Texas Corridor," he says.
Corsi believes the same pressure will be applied on other states, like Oklahoma, to go along with the project. He suggests that would mean a loss of more American jobs and could pose a threat to U.S. sovereignty.
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April 17, 2011----513 People Crammed Into Two Mexican Trucks Bound for US
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - Police on Tuesday detained 513 undocumented migrants from Latin America and Asia who were crammed into two trucks bound for the United States, prosecutors in southeast Mexico said. The migrants, from Latin America, Japan, China, India and Nepal, "were traveling in inhuman conditions" in the southeastern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border, the local attorney general's office said in a statement. Police stopped the trucks, carrying 240 and 273 people, on the outskirts of state capital Tuxtla Gutierrez early Tuesday, after they accelerated through a vehicle scanner at a police checkpoint, the statement said. Officers chased down the vehicles shortly afterward, it added.
Police detained the Mexican drivers of the two trucks, and the migrants were provided with aid and food, the statement said. Mexican lawmakers last month unanimously approved a law to "strengthen the protection and security" of migrants amid widespread abuse. Rights groups have long criticized Mexico for failing to protect tens of thousands of migrants, mainly from Central America, trying to cross the vast country to illegally enter the US each year. The gruesome discovery of 72 murdered migrants from Central and South America in northeastern Tamaulipas state last August increased pressure on the government to act. Copyright 2011 AFP. All rights reserved.
SOURCE http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/mexico-detains-513-people-crammed-into-two-us-bound-trucks-20110517-ncx
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April 12, 2011----US Taxpayers Pay To Upgrade Mexican Trucks, US Trucks Not So Lucky
http://radioviceonline.com/ Steve McGough
FR Posted by Biggirl
A story broke yesterday concerning the retrofit of more than 100 trucks from Mexico that do not meet United States environmental standards. Our federal government is paying to upgrade these trucks, yet when the state of California and the EPA set new rules for US-owned trucks, they fine companies who do not comply.
This post is not about the environment, it concerns how US trucking companies are treated by the federal and state government as compared to Mexican-owned rigs. From AzCentral.com. For air-quality regulators, the border creates a legal barrier.
State and federal agencies can’t force vehicles manufactured and bought in Mexico to comply with U.S. emissions rules, even though the trucks cross into this country.
So the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality tried a different approach, offering to pay Mexican truck owners to replace old mufflers with new catalytic converters that will reduce harmful diesel emissions by up to 30 percent. The project in effect circumvents the more lax Mexican rules about exhaust systems. (Excerpt) Read more at radioviceonline.com
Thanks, Liz. Perry somehow, someway is supposed to have gotten religion on illegals. I don’t buy it.
Perry “got religion on illegals” too late.
The American public on both sides of the aisle is disgusted with the illegal situation.
Perry is not the one to fix it.
First, it's not clear who you are referring to with "We." If you mean Republicans, it mostly fits, though I would disagree with you on several points.
txrangerette wrote:
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We must defeat Obama and hold the House and take the Senate.
Let me repeat: we must defeat Obama and hold the House and take the Senate.
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Was he perfect after that? Nope. Neither was Reagan after he switched.
But against Obama and the Dems of today, if it comes down to it, I would pull that lever for Rick Perry.
Or else, goodby America.
If you mean Texans, it doesn't make much sense. Texans don't hold a majority in the House and I can't see a way that Texans could ever "take the Senate."
If you mean TEA Partiers and constitutional conservatives, it also doesn't fit. TEA Partiers and principled conservatives don't hold a majority in the House, can't take the Senate and still don't have a clear candidate in the Presidential race.
For me, principles mean more than Party. I generally vote Republican. I've "held my nose" before beleiving that the Republican was the best choice, even though the "lesser of two evils" is still evil. But I've awakened. I now care about the primaries much more than before, and I will not settle for "the evil of two lessers." In 2010, I voted for the principled conservative candidate in the Republican primary, but I left my ballot blank on the United States Representative line in the general because the Republican party leadership defeated the conservative, principled candidate in my district in the primary. I will not vote against my principles ever again. If the Republican party wants my vote, they will put up a candidate who shares my values and principles. If they don't, I'll look at alternatives (even third party alternatives) or I'll leave the line blank.
I am not alone. This is the danger for Republicans who think Romney can win. I think Romney will never be POTUS.
I'm still not sure about Perry. I hear a lot that sounds good, and my research leads me to believe that I could probably support him. He's not what we really need, but he's not offensive to my principles and values either. At best, he could be another Reagan. Obama's spin machine will try to make him another George W. Bush. I fear that he could be defeated if that happens. And the ads almost write themselves for the Obama campaign. The only way to stop it would be when Obama says, "I had to clean up George W. Bush's mess," Perry can legitimately say, "So have I, and I think I'm better at it."
Still, Perry's accent even sounds like George W. Bush a little. I think it might be too soon for another Texas Governor to try for the White House.
Also, speaking now as a constitutional conservative more than as a Republican, we don't need another Reagan today, we need another Grover Cleveland. Any candidate who wants to fill that role has my vote. Just promise to write more veto letters than any other President in history has in a 2 year Congressional Session, and in a 4 year presidential term. Both records are held by Cleveland. Further, most of Cleveland's veto letters started out something like:
I see no evidence that anyone in the "Republican leadership" even knows those words or has ever considered putting them together in that order.
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution …
This country is already lost until we find a President who can write that 500 times on 500 different veto letters.
Until then, the best course is to find local and state candidates who are willing to live within the 10th amendment, and not just demagogue with "10th Amendment Resolutions" before passing budgets that rely heavily on extraconstitutional "Federal grants."
And TEA Partiers need to pay attention to government at all level. In Florida, all officials swear an oath to protect and defend the United States Constitution. Even Voters sign an oath to protect and defend the United States Constitution when they register to vote.
We need to educate everyone that when their city council or county commission meets and discusses applying for a federal grant for a new park or sewage treatment plant, the citizens (voters) need to stand up at that city council meeting and ask, "Where in Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution will Congress find the power to give us a 'grant' for that?"
I'm not sure if Perry has stood up to the federal congress that way, and to the Texas Legislature if they try to get federal "grant money" for state and local projects.
need to wake up and hold all of our "leaders" accountable to the Constitution. It has to happen from the bottom up as well as from the top down. Otherwise, you are correct, it's "Goodbye America."
The one advantage to Obama so far compared to what McCain might have inflicted on this country is that Obama has awakened many people, and these people are now reading and studying the Constitution, the Federalist Papers and the history of our founding. In the long run, this is a very good thing. If the Republicans win and people go back to sleep, that will be more damaging in the long term.
I was under the impression we were trying to shrink the involvement of the Federal government. The interstate commerce clause was originally intended to clear up regulations and taxes that some states had imposed on goods from other states under the Articles of Confederation. The idea was to free up trade, not place barriers to it, and, as someone else pointed out, travel is not commerce.
Note the heading above in Liz's ping : ‘DISQUALIFIER’. Any politician that ever called for immigration reform (code word ‘amnesty’) had better explain in detail what they meant by it or they need to be disqualified. Obviously Perry was sucking up to the Mexicans back then and thought Texas needed cheap labor at that time. Well you can bet if he became a presidential candidate he would try to avoid talking about it.
Let me play RINO here for fun since they seem to be in hiding now:
”No Liz, I am not talking about amnesty. I am only talking about a path to legalization for those ‘undocumented workers’ in this country that ‘ respect our laws‘. Let's get them to register so we know who they are. (and they can sign up for food stamps and medicaid and unemployment compensation.) We need their votes to beat Democrats and immigration reform will get them to vote Republican in the next election.’. “
You have to wonder how many of these 'Republican amnesty hispanics' voted for McCain in the primary and then Obama in the general election.
RINO TOXICITY "I am only talking about a path to legalization for ‘undocumented workers’ that ‘ respect US laws‘."
Words like "undocumented worker" and "path to amnesty" are toxic---- will get the RINO nothing but political oblivion. LOL.
Do not forget that Rick Perry called those who wish to enforce existing law and close borders as “extremists”.
It is GWB redux.
Heh, Sorry Rick, no cigar.
“Well Mr Perry, show us that Texan exceptionalism and put the pressure on the Republican Majority Leader in your State to pass the bill that will stop the TSA from molesting our wives and pre-teen daughters!”
He did add it to the agenda. But the Texas legislator only meets for 140 days every 2 years, they got a lot to do and very little time to do it.
Don’t ask Texans to change that, cause most Texans would probably prefer the legislator meet only 2 days every 140 years. Simply put legislators do more harm then good on net. Even when they are standing up for your rights they are not too far away from usurping them somewhere else.
What is humiliating in the case of the TSA is the way the Senate backed down, under threat. Texas senators aut to be ashamed of themselves for humiliating not only themselves but the whole State of Texas with their cowardly act of backing down to the bully.
I’m thinking we might be wise to tease them about this for the rest of theses senators day’s, or at least until they find the courage within themselves to stand up to theses bullys.
“”trumping Romney’s economic expertise with “Texas exceptionalism”:.....”
Please note: “Texas exceptionalism” NOT Perry exceptionalism.”
Truer words could not be spoken.
Texas exceptionalism is like American exceptionalism, except more exceptional. lol No one man can ever embody ether Texas or American exceptionalism.
Let us be perfectly clear about that.
The last clip was the only one I will waste my time with and it has NOTHING to do with “assaults” at the airport because of TSA. An employee texting a girl has NOTHING to do with the TSA. He, of course, is subject to state laws as they exist as this has NOTHING to do with official duties or policies as you falsely allege.
The others are similar wastes of my time so I won’t bother dealing with however you are misrepresenting them.
As I said this is a stupid law and won’t have ANY impact on federal activities.
Of course transportation is commerce. Any time the economy of a region grows improvement of transportation FOR that commerce is at the root of that growth. Transportation is part of commerce one of the most important parts.
As to “groping” that would not be allowed by any federal policy and is unlikely to have occurred in any case.
As for downsizing everyone is far that the only issue is what is to be downsized. Urkle would love to downsize our military. I’m not for that. I’m for downsizing the War on Poverty, Surrender.
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