Although we do not necessarily hold you completely responsible for the inexcusable actions of the House and Senate members during the regular and special sessions
He did not "allow" those bills to not be passed by the Texas Legislature. The lobbyist got to the legislature.
Perry "gets it". And The Tea Party you reference said they do not hold him responsible for the inexcusable actions of the Tx Legislature.
Perry put the bills back on the table in the special session and they still would not pass it.
But those laws have to do with the illegals that are here not with the securing of the border.
Perry wants to secure the border and get tough with the drug cartels and criminals coming in.
As President he can get this done and will not need Congress to do it as Chief Executive Officer of the US Military Forces. And he can give the order to shoot! Which I have no doubt he will.
I never said that Perry allowed those bills to die in the legislature. That's not in his purview, as Governor. What I said, is that he allowed them to die without comment.
As Governor of the state, he wields a tremendous amount of influence over state politics. He failed to use the bully pulpit of his office to denounce the legislature for playing procedural games with bills that the people of Texas expected to be passed.
In my mind, that makes him complicit in the effort to quash any legislation that would deal an effective blow against illegal immigration.
Perry put the bills back on the table in the special session and they still would not pass it.
Again, that's not possible. He's got no say in what legislation the House and Senate take up, although he could use the power of his office to demand they send him the sort of legislation the people want.
I'm sorry, but in the ten years that Perry's been Governor, I have never seen him use the power of that office to demand the implementation of effective controls on the illegal invasion. Instead of standing up for the interests and desires of the overwhelming majority of American citizens in his state, he's treated illegal immigration and invasion like a political issue, when it's one of sovereignty and survival.