Posted on 09/22/2011 1:08:22 AM PDT by American Dream 246
Look out, the Peristaltic Wave will be here to defend our crony capitalist soon!
Makes me nauseous. And I really want to support Perry. Who else is out there?
There’s gotta be some campaign contributions tied into this.
But I guess its just one of those “compromises” you have to make to be governor of Texas (SARC).
As El Rushbo pointed out yesterday the Perry in state tuition program was just something a Republican governor in Texas has to do to get some Hispanic votes. A “compromise” as the great one said.
The media pushing of Perry from Rush’s contstant defending of him to Fox News barrage of publicity to the posting campaign on this website bother me.....
“The big difference between Solyndra and Convergen is that Convergen hasn’t failed.”
yup that would be a pretty big difference. Also the fact that this is federalism in action. States compete with each to create jobs. If you don’t like what Texas is doing, you can move to California instead of the other way around.
“As El Rushbo pointed out yesterday the Perry in state tuition program was just something a Republican governor in Texas has to do to get some Hispanic votes”
that’s pretty lame. Maybe he should suggest raising taxes to get some democrat votes.
Yup. Rush was pretty bad today. A “defend McCain” type of day. Weird...
I was listening to what I heard and I didn’t like the sound of it.
>>>As El Rushbo pointed out yesterday the Perry in state tuition program was just something a Republican governor in Texas has to do to get some Hispanic votes”
Isn’t that a sellout just to win? Where’s a candidate’s principle. It makes me think there is not much hope for real reform.
“Despite several business and personal bankruptcies — including previously failed companies partially funded by the state — Nance managed to donate $335,000 to Perry’s campaigns, association fundraisers, and foundation.”
They refuse to see the truth even when it is right in front of their faces.
They did the same with Bush. Bush was the saviour of the Republican Party. He didn’t even want to run. They begged him. Didn’t have to beg perry. All he had to do was polish his teeth to a sparkle, spit shine his boots, and he was ready to go. Huge Texas money behind him. laraza and Texas cair back him. Oh, we got us a doozy.
>>> yup that would be a pretty big difference. Also the fact that this is federalism in action. States compete with each to create jobs. If you don’t like what Texas is doing, you can move to California instead of the other way around. >>>
Amen. Two very very important points.
This angst is symptomatic of people not understanding the difference in being a governor and running for President - and the difference between our Constitution and whatever a given state’s constitution says about its state government.
Rush knows it is still early and maybe the agenda for him right now is to mitigate Mittens. We know he doesn’t want him anywhere near the wheelhouse.
Patience, patience.
So, if Solyndra had been successful, the fact the DoE credit committee unanimously rejected the application, that private rating firms called it very speculative, and that because of political donations they completely circumvented the normal vetting process - not to mention special loan conditions - all would be irrelevant to you?
The scandal is not that Solyndra failed. The scandal is Solyndra received any money at all.
Convergen is an insider deal. As pointed out in the article, it was rejected and circumvented the normal process. $335K in donations led to highly speculative venture being funded.
Federalism is only relevant insofar as you don’t live in Texas. The issue here is this is 100% owned by Perry and he is running for President. Under what possible reasoning could you believe Perry would funnel tax dollars to his friends and cronies at the state level, but not do it when he has many times as much money at the Federal level?
You really need to take your blinders off. I’m from Texas, and this scandal sickens me.
I don’t think he was defending Perry. He was explaining why, not necessarily excusing it.
He’s said other things that could only be interpreted as harsh critiques of Perry. For example, he’s implied a crony capitalist is a non-starter, and wait until he reads more about Perry’s crony capitalism/crony socialism.
So, you think its OK for a politician at the state or local level to use taxpayer money to fund speculative ventures for their largest political donors?
...or, their friends chancy schemes have to be successful?
For you, this in now way reflects on how they might govern as president?
Did you even read the article?
Convergen was REJECTED by the regional review committee. Then, it magically was approved at the state level following a non-existent appeals process.
If this had been approved another firm, not connected to Perry, that passed the regional review board, there would be no issue. That is competing for jobs which governors do.
That is NOT the case here. This was an insider deal where a close friend and donor of Perry was allowed to circumvent the law and get $4.5M for his firm, when he only put in $1000.
Do you really think violating the law is a states’ rights issue? The law violated was Texas’ law!
WHOA WHOA WHOA slow down.
I never said anything was necessarily ok - what I said was that there were some significant differences in this and Solyndra - and two were being this company did not fail and this was not the Fed govt being involved.
I stand by the point that those are important differences.
That is not the same as saying there was nothing wrong with this deal. Don’t assume I’m a perry kool aider blindly supporting him. If it violated state law, then that’s another issue altogether.
You can't really be serious with that statement can you? Nothing to see here, these aren't the droids you're looking for?
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