Posted on 09/16/2011 12:46:22 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper
After an appearance in Newton, Iowa today, Rick Perry denied to an unidentified woman that he'd ever supported the 2008 bank bailout known as TARP.
"No Ma'am," he told her.
"I thought I saw a letter where you had written encouraging the support of TARP legislation," he persisted.
"You saw wrong," he replied flatly, as shown in this video, taken by a tracker, of this morning's event.
This isn't the first time the issue has come up, and the questioner might be excused for having read Perry's October 1 letter that way. The letter, co-signed by then-Gov. Joe Manchin in their capacities as heads of the RGA and DGA, came three days after TARP's failure to pass the House rocked the markets.
The AP covered the letter with the headline, "Governors, Business Up Pressure for Bailout Bill." It's very hard to read otherwise.
"We strongly urge Congress to leave partisanship at the door and pass an economic recovery package," they wrote. "It is time for Washington, D.C. to step up, be responsible, an do what's in the best interest of American taxpayers and our economy."
Perry, later that day, released a statement that seemed aimed at countering the impression left by his letter without clarifying what he was calling for: "[G]overnment should not be in the business of using taxpayer dollars to bail out corporate America. Congress needs to take off its partisan gloves and work together to bring both short and long term stability to the credit markets....”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
video....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PRY0RXqbQGw
the now infamous letter...
http://redstateeclectic.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452719d69e2015434b760d5970c-pi
No wonder the White House is chomping at the bit to have him our nominee.
That letter should be easy to get out of. It only calls for them to do something but never specifically says what. While the time frame may imply TARP the letter itself does not say that and he can spin it another way with ease.
Look, you can support your candidate without lying about someone else's candidate. We have to get through this thing with someone, no matter who it is, not destroyed by lies. The General is going to be hard enough without us lying.
Perry maintained in the 2010 primary [TX Gov] that he hadn't supported the bailout, something his spokesman Mark Miner reiterated to me today.
"It was a letter by two governors urging action," he said. "The governor has been adamantly against the bailout and nowhere in the letter does it say anything about supporting the bailout."
Miner noted that Manchin is also a bailout foe; he declined to specify what action the authors of the letter were calling for.
UPDATE: A spokeswoman for Manchin, now a senator, sends on his statement, which backs Perry's stance:
My former colleague Governor Perry and I worked across party lines in 2008 to sign this letter on behalf of our respective organizations for one reason: to encourage Congress to put politics aside and move this country forward. Our message holds just as true today as it did then. At times of crisis, Congress needs to stop playing politics and come together around commonsense solutions for our great nation. Now, more than ever, Congress needs to focus on fixing problems, which is why I came to Washington. To me, it’s very simple. Our economic and fiscal problems aren't red problems or blue problems; they're red, white and blue – and the solutions should be, too.
Evidently "an economic recovery package" is to be taken as specifically referring to TARP.
Never mind that whole indefinite article there which means that Perry's not speaking of any specific plan.
I read the letter. It said he called congress to pass an ‘economic recovery package.’ Not a specific plan, let alone TARP.
Palin, on the other hand, was for TARP but nobody seems to care
“the House of Representatives rejected a Bush-backed economic bailout plan in a vote in which two-thirds of Republicans voted no. The impression this made on the electorate was not helpful to our cause. Millions of Americans were poised to go bankrupt or lose their savings, and the perception was that Republicans had failed to respond.”
Perry, once again always for it before he was against it, the perry-winkles will claim his secretary signed the letter and he never knew it existed. LOL
I would not use a democrat coming to your candidates defense as a defense....lol
Read the AP article and the letter and the video speak to the sane quite well thanks.
Exactly. This letter could mean that Manchin and Perry wanted Congress to buy everyone a box of popcorn.
Republicans had their own alternative plans
Cite me an example where Perry said he supported TARP. I've been looking long and hard for it.
LOL. This letter says absolutely nothing. They’ll have to come up with something better than this.
John Krugh, Senior VP and Corporate Counsel for Bob Perry Homebuilders, helped draft the Commission's guidelines and later was appointed a commission member.
The commission was disbanded in 2009 under pressure from state legislators and watchdog groups that claimed the primary purpose of TRCC was to prevent homebuyers from taking builders to court.
Bob Perry is Rick's biggest contributor ($2.3 million plus another $1 million to the RGA (which allegedly was funneled to Perry's campaign).
Oh I don’t! He is what we are not....
During an October 21, 2008, CNN interview, Palin said: "Now, as for the economic bailout provisions and the measures that have already been taken, it is a time of crisis and government did have to step in playing an appropriate role to shore up the housing market to make sure that we're thawing out some of the potentially frozen credit lines and credit markets, government did have to step in there.
From her book:
[T]he House of Representatives rejected a Bush-backed economic bailout plan in a vote in which two-thirds of Republicans voted no. The impression this made on the electorate was not helpful to our cause.
What was this thread supposed to be about again? Palin supporting TARP, and then flip-flopping on TARP now that it's politically convenient for her?
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