Posted on 08/19/2011 11:45:35 AM PDT by Astronaut
Officials from the George W. Bush administration are unhappy with new presidential candidate Rick Perry’s incendiary attack on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. And they’re going public with their complaints, Politico reports. The Texas governor, campaigning in Iowa Monday said of Bernanke, “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don’t know what y’all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous -- or treasonous in my opinion.” Karl Rove, one of Bush’s top White House aides and still an important Republican strategist, told Fox News, “It's his [Perry’s] first time on the national stage, and it was a very unfortunate comment. You don't accuse the chairman of the Federal Reserve of being a traitor to his country and being guilty of treason and suggesting that we treat him pretty ugly in Texas. That's not a presidential statement. . . . Governor Perry is going to have to fight the impression that he's a cowboy from Texas. This simply added to it.” Pete Wehner, a deputy assistant to President Bush wrote in Commentary: “People shouldn’t throw around the words ‘almost treasonous’ loosely. And certainly a person running for president shouldn’t do such a thing. To say someone is treasonous means he is a traitor to his country. In the long catalogue of crimes an individual can commit, there are not many that are worse than treason.”
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I saw the Help too, there was a very disgusting scene in it that I thought really took away from an otherwise fairly good movie. I think a lot of people will be offended by it, there were two people that walked out of the theatre where I was watching the movie. On the other hand many thought that scene was great. I think they should put a barf alert warning on the movie.
The Bushes and Perry don’t like each other and don’t get along and don’t associate.
Been true for years and years.
Has nothing to do with some silly little conspiracy theory that they are trying to fool people into believing this in order to help Perry’s Presidential run.
Jeb Bush has a stake in stopping Rick Perry. He actually has a stake in Dems retaining the White House so that in 2016 he can have a clear shot. The biggest fear he and other Perry detractors have is that Perry wins and then runs for re-election in 2016.
The correct way to understand what Bernanke has been doing, would be as a from of theft by deception--a studied partial default on U. S. Government obligations, intended to fly under the radar screen of most people, who do not really understand money; but to systematically take value away from all who have claims in sums certain in dollars, to pay for the excesses of the Big Government projects in Washington.
Money, like every other factor in the economy, is governed by the Laws of Supply & Demand. The more they print, the less every dollar claim you have on anyone--public or private--is worth. Money is only a Medium of Exchange. It is our way of exchanging our goods or services for our use either now or in the future. Anything which prevents our getting full value--our full bargain--is certainly wrong, morally, practically, in every sense.
It was no accident that the Founding Fathers considered a sound currency so important; why they agreed that no State in the Union should make anything but gold or silver a medium for the discharge of debt. Believe it or not, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Mason, et al., were a whole lot smarter than Karl Rove.
William Flax
My mixed opinion of Bush has not changed — good on many issues; horrible on others. What is becoming clear is that his advisors don’t like conservative candidates. I’m not going to go so far as to say Bush is putting them up to it but its clear that Bush’s senior advisors are RINO squishes who would be much more comfortable with a Romney than a Perry or a Palin or any other more conservative candidate.
It is not fair to blame one brother for the mistakes of another, but Jeb Bush was complicit in one of the most egregious acts of folly of the Bush Administration, the effort to inject Congress into the workings of the local Court in a Florida County, in the Terry Schiavo case. If Jeb had shown real leadership, rather than simply go along, he would have stood fast against the interjection. It was interference with the right to have local Courts decide local cases, after all, that was one of the grievances cited in our Declaration of Independence.
See Terry Schiavo: An End to Rational Analysis. The whole fiasco was a major set back to the Conservative cause.
William Flax
Bernanke follows soetoro´s lead, and the later is definitely a traitor. Thus....
Actually I wonder if Perry put them up to this, knowing he needs to distance himself from Bush.
>He actually has a stake in Dems retaining the White House so that in 2016 he can have a clear shot.<
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A clear shot at what?
If Bambi stays another four years, there won’t be a WH or a country left.
A clear shot as the Republican Nominee for President. I’m talking about his aspirations as well as those of his family for him. I’m not talking about the reality of a nation as we know it destroyed by 4 more years of Obama.
The Bush family doesn’t necessarily see this in the starkest of terms as we see it.
When things get truly bad enough, maybe they will see it in these starkest of terms, but by the time they begin to realize it, it will be too late.
Barbara Bush the former FL made a comment about hoping Sarah Palin would stay in Alaska. What does that tell you in terms of politics in terms of Barbara’s aspirations for her family?
As if Sarah Palin is the issue, when, as you said, we are staring into the near future destruction of America as we knew her.
Didn’t Rove talk Perry into becoming a republican and become Bush’s lieutenant governor. A little ironic that things would end up this way.
Perry needs to blast GWB for the unprecedented growth of the national government on his watch.
I can’t WAIT to see the movie HELP OR Read the book. It looks awesome and funny!!!
Oh, well, having read the book before seeing the movie, I was not shocked. Who knows what one would do having to live under such awful conditions. I do not think the pie contained anything but more cloves or nutmeg. Perhaps it was the idea that was meant to pay the cruel self centered bitch back. The maid deserved to keep her dignity intact.
I walked out t of a movie once. It was during a homo scene in The Color Purple. I was outraged! I hardly think the pumpkin pie was a valid reason for dunning the movie. It stuck well to the novel. It was wonderfully acted by every character. I am so happy for the author. It was her first novel, and that they made a very good movie out of it deserves awe struck appreciation. In fact I thought the scene was rather humorous.
I haven’t read the book, nor have I seen the movie, but I am sick to death of the subject, so I won’t be wasting my money on either.
Very bittersweet actually. The autor was very brave and very rifht to write it. I really admire her.
I don’t know the intricacies and intrigue, the inside baseball.
Perry didn’t need much persuasion to become a Republican. The new national Dems left him behind, just like Reagan said the old Dem party left him. Perry was a Dem in a family and a state in which that was the history, that’s what people were. You didn’t question it, until you began to see the truth of where that party was going and that you were powerless to stop it.
I read that Rove/the Bushes wanted Perry to run a nicey nice campaign against John Sharp for Lt. Governor, but that Perry rejected his advice and went for the jugular because he judged he had to in order to win.
I don’t know...I wasn’t there.
But if Perry didn’t play ball the way they advised him, stands to reason a rift developed.
No, but that doesn’t absolve you of guilt. /s
Hope you don't mind
And, for heaven’s sake, Sarah, if you going to jump in, jump in already!
I don’t mind at all. :o)
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