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Tuesday, August 16, 2011 5:53 PM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote: Texas Gov. Rick Perry's verbal assault on the Federal Reserve and Chairman Ben Bernanke is evoking sharp rebukes from former Bush administration officials. Perry said the Fed is almost "treasonous" and Bernanke would get an "ugly" reception in Texas. Politico reported former Bush adviser Karl Rove, a known Perry skeptic, said on Fox News, "It's his first time on the national stage, and it was a very unfortunate comment. You don't accuse the chairman of the federal reserve of being a traitor to his country and being guilty of treason and suggesting that we treat him pretty ugly in Texas. That's not, again, a presidential statement. Governor Perry is going to have to fight the impression that he's a cowboy from Texas. This simply added to it." Former Bush White House aide Pete Wehner wrote in Commentary, Politico reported: "People shouldn't throw around the words 'almost treasonous' loosely; and certainly a person running for president shouldn't do such a thing." Perry's statement "is the kind of blustering, unthinking comment that Perry's critics expect of him." Former White House and Treasury Department spokesman Tony Fratto tweeted: "Gov. Perry's comments about ... Bernanke are inappropriate and unpresidential." http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/08/16/Perry-on-Bernanke-Almost-treasonous/UPI-65461313517223/
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:49 AM
FREMDFIRMA
Quote:Perry is a cunningly coiffed Keynesian chameleon, a political whore of such pristine shamelessness that he makes Mitt Romney -- the Mighty Morphin' Mormon from Massachusetts -- look like a granite pillar of principled resolve. He began his political career in 1985 as a 35-year-old Democratic state legislator, and three years later worked for Al Gore's presidential campaign -- a fact that might help to explain why he's so heartily despised by the Bush crime family's retainers. As governor he ruled as a standard-issue servitor of the corporatist state. Now this political cross-dresser is getting all Butched-up to play the role of a maverick "state's rights" proponent fixing a steely gunfighter's gaze on the Fed and its allies.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:36 AM
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:23 AM
NEWOLDBROWNCOAT
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:07 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat: I saw this and meant to post about it, but I've been busy. The Constitution, that document they're all so fond of, defines treason very specifically and narrowly, as taking up arms against the United States, or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. Don't see how anything Bernanke said or did qualifies, although I'm sure somebody here will explain how his actions made a bunch of Chinese commies smile into their bowls of rice.
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KIRKULES
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