I object to his EO in this case, although given that the vaccine law gave the authority to the executive to determine which vaccines should be covered, and given that the legislature was out of session, I can “understand” why he did the EO.
the thing that bothers me most at this time with Perry is a sense I have that he is stubborn. Where Bush would never defend anything he did, Perry seems intent on defending everything. His fight when the EO objections were raised showed a bit of that; I would have hoped he would have figured out more quickly that he had screwed up.
But we also like that in our candidates. People like Sarah Palin because she says what she means and she doesn’t back down. Of course, she never makes a mistake, so there’s no need for her to back down. :-)
A man with no respect for the opinions of his fellow adult citizens has little patience too, so it seems. Perry acted with absolutely ruinous and unneeded alacrity to cram a new vaccine down the throats and veins of the most innocent despite the regards of their adult parents to whom that proper authority is due.
This was NO rapidly spreading Black Plaque. It EASILY could have been delayed a few months for the proper and weighty consideration of the legislature of Texas. Perry's actions are EASILY seen as raw dictatorial power wielding.
Perry could have waited, but as a crony of big pharma through his most trusted major domo, he too was swept into the forced tidal wave of panicked medicine as a new valuable drug came to market. And he made some money from it too, directly and indirectly.
It was indeed crony capitalism. Crony medicine of the worst sort. I also went through it at the time, having friends who are pediatricians swept up into the fearsome marketing buzz and fear and panic based marketing efforts.