Posted on 02/25/2014 11:32:06 AM PST by Red Steel
Rick Perry admitted at the RGA today that he was very troubled by Obama’s tone today addressing the National Governors Association:
I don’t mind telling you I was a bit troubled today by the tone of the president. …For the president of the United States to look Democrat and Republican governors in the eye and to say ‘I do not trust you to make decisions in your state about issues of education, about transportation infrastructure…’ – that is really troubling.
Perry went on to say that Obama was going to hollow out the National Guard and warned the state governors not to push back against it or they would hear from him:
Democrat Governors are very concerned, I will suggest to you, about what they heard today about the Guard. I left the United States Air Force in the mid ‘70s, in February of 1977, as our country was going through a similar period of time of reducing the force. But those men and women who had extraordinary expertise in combat were going into the Guard and into the Reserves.
I hope we’re not about to make a tragic mistake in this country by hollowing out our Guard in our states in some political statement of ‘you’re all going to feel the pain’. Because that’s certainly what I heard from the president of the United States today.
As a matter of fact [Obama] he said in that meeting “if I hear any of you pushing back, making statements about Washington spends too much money, you’ll hear from me.”
If I’m a Democrat governor, if I’m a Republican governor, I’m highly offended by that.
Yes it is our duty to defend the people of this country. But I will suggest that making a political statement about the Guard is not in the best long-term interest of this country and it’s certainly not in the best long-term interest of those men and women who have committed and often times sacrificed greatly for this country.
Lol ! Yeah, RINO...hilarious!
If you don’t think Perry is a RINO, then answer this.
Why, during this Primary season, has Perry not been mentioning / endorsing other candidates in Texas races? The answer, because anybody paying attention knows who a real conservative is....
Here is an article from the Ft Worth Start Telegram (Newspaper we call the Startlegram in Texas).
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/02/25/5600573/the-ted-cruz-effect-political.html?rh=1
Yes. Approx. half of the states have "State Guards" or "State Defense Forces". These are under state command and not subject to federalization. The other states could form them, if they wished to.
List of State Guards: http://www.sgaus.org/states/active-state-forces.asp
Lol.
They should call Obama out! Challenge the bastard to put up or shut up.
Not talking about “Republicans”.
I’m talking about you, me, Ron H., and every other poster out here.
People disagree with each other; but that doesn’t make them a “RINO” or a “TROLL” just because they disagree.
That was my point.
I understand yours and others viewpoints.
IMHO, the major point of contention between us is the differing level of tolerance each of has for silently allowing elected Republicans to act as submissive doormats for violators of the US Constitution.
IOW, what level of tolerance does each of us have, when exceeded, will put the elected Republicans who do nothing to oppose violations of the US Constitution in the category of “Do Nothing RINOs?”
My level of “Do Nothing RINOs,” (DNR), tolerance was forever exceeded during the Primary Campaign of 2012.
I will not vote for anymore Do Nothing RINOs again.
I shall just leave their slots blank on the ballot, as there is no effective difference between a Do Nothing RINO and a Democrat.
At each time, during the past five years of critical voting, the Do Nothing RINOs in the House and Senate have voted with the Democrats to approve the violation of the US Constitution being voted on.
Their usual defeatist whine is: “We can’t do anything because we do not have control of the Senate or White House.”
The Do Nothing RINOs were given FIVE years to do something and did nothing.
Now it is our turn.
IOW, The Do Nothing RINOs and the Democrats vote together as a single, unshakable voting block to rubber-stamp whatever Obama want to do to “Fundamentally Change the United States of America.”
It is as I suspected. We’re not very far apart in our beliefs and strategy over all. But our individual terminology on the other hand may need some forethought before replying to posted comments.
I hope you were not trying to be funny because if you were you failed at it.
As Ernest Hemminway was fond of saying: “Communication is, at best, an imperfect thing.”
I am living proof of that.
#:o)
I must admit that I too resemble that remark.
Thanks for not pointing out that I had misspelled Hemingway.
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