That said, Perry's answer was stupid. He could have said:
Let me start by saying I truly appreciated your endorsement in my race for Governor two years ago. Five years ago I signed the bill that negated my EO before it ever went into effect, and admitted I had made a mistake.
Your implication now that my influence is for sale deeply offends me and frankly is beneath you.
Perry is playing rope a dope.
He knows where he stands.
Having lived through this issue, the Dems launched a full investigation and the result did not please them. Perry’s office turned over 750+ pages of emails. The whole decision was based on the CDC and FDA estimates of the number of lives it would save. The Dems dropped it like a rock.
That said, Perry’s answer was stupid. He could have said:
Let me start by saying I truly appreciated your endorsement in my race for Governor two years ago. Five years ago I signed the bill that negated my EO before it ever went into effect, and admitted I had made a mistake.
Your implication now that my influence is for sale deeply offends me and frankly is beneath you.
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Nice post.
I’m sure the women who have contracted the virus, the unlucky women who landed the deadly one— would give a kingdom to have had that vaccine. The EO was wrong, wrong, wrong—Perry admitted it but that vaccine isn’t evil, it is a potential life saver.
Also, the $5,000 contribution to Perry by Merck...pffft! good grief, it is in line with all their contributions. There’s nothing special about it at all.
http://www.merck.com/responsibility/ethics-and-transparency/transparency/2010-us-corp-and-pac-political-contributions.pdf
Wonder what is up with Bachmann’s?
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00027493
I don’t want crony capitalism but are we going to say that no corporations can donate? With $5,000 as some possible cronyism infraction— I say this starts to looks like a witch hunt.
What happened with Solyndra, now THAT crony is worth burning at the stake!