Perry on Bernanke: ‘I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly

[cal04]

Perry on Bernanke: ‘I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas’
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/15/296552/perry-on-bernanke-pretty-ugly-down-in-texas/


Texas Governor Rick Perry, who entered the presidential campaign on Saturday, appeared to suggest a violent response would be warranted should Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke “print more money” between now and the election. Speaking just now in Iowa, Perry called the printing of money “almost treasonous” and added, “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas.”


Update:
On Twitter, Tony Fratto, former Deputy Press Secretary to George W. Bush, called Perry’s remarks “inappropriate and unpresidential.”
http://twitter.com/#!/TonyFratto/status/103282986694352896

[Bluebear]

1. Yee haw and whee doggy.

[seabeyond]

4. lol, ya. that is about it. nt

[spanone]

2. a bully blowhard.....i've known guys like perry. pricks one and all.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Why would he say that?

Bernanke is HIS kind of guy. Who does he WANT to be in charge of the Fed? Grover Norquist?

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. I've got to get out of this state. Between this evil asshole and the unrelenting heat

with no end in sight, I just can't take much more.


y'all :eyes:

[madrchsod]

8. come on up to illinois!

weather is not all that bad. we only have a few whack jobs and they ain`t in power.

[banned from Kos]

6. Rick W. Perry is an idiot on monetary policy - but so are Ron Paul and

Bernie Sanders.

The Fed is not a plaything for populist moonbats.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Wow...Bush kept this nasty shit under wraps until after his election

for the most part. This guy feels comfortable enough to let his asshole flag fly in the breeze!

[Angry Dragon]

9. parry does love to kill innocent people

[provis99]

10. well doggies! A good ole Jasper,Texas-style lynching for Bernanke?

[Golden Raisin]

11. Always nice to hear

a presidential candidate eloquently intoning the King's English. Yee-haw!

[cal04]

12. Josh Marshall and the Washington Post

Perry Calls Bernanke Policies “Almost Treasonous”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/perry-calls-bernanke-policies-almost-treasonous.php

Coming off a dramatic and highly successful entry into the 2012 Republican nomination race, Texas Gov. Rick Perry escalated his rhetoric against Washington and the Obama administration today by calling Fed Chair Ben Bernanke's emergency economic policies "almost treasonous."

Asked about the Federal Reserve, Perry told a questioner at a campaign stop in Iowa that if Bernanke "prints more money between now and the election I don't know what you'all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas."

Perry went on to suggest that a continuation of Bernanke's policies -- a so-called third round of quantitative easing -- would be "almost treasonous."


Perry takes aim at Bernanke
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/political-economy/post/perry-takes-aim-at-bernanke/2011/08/15/gIQAXwqIIJ_blog.html

[highplainsdem]

13. K&R

[Aerows]

14. Republicans never get tired of threatening people

with bodily harm. Most of the time, however, they aren't brave enough to do it to people's faces unless they are toting a gun.

[Aerows]

15. Oops dupe post n/t

[highplainsdem]

16. Another Republican criticizes Perry's remarks -- John Podhoretz in Commentary:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/08/15/rick-perrys-serious-unforced-error/

I think it’s pretty clear from the clip that Perry was trying to play folksy straight-talkin’ populist guy while taking up a complicated issue, using colorful dirt-kicker language to connect to his al-fresco audience as he might in his home town of Paint Creek. And in the early going on Twitter, I suggested the harrumphers were knowingly making a mountain out of a molehill to bring him down a notch. I was wrong.

He’s trying to be the next president, and he needs to be judged on that standard. What Perry did was make a thoughtless blunder, an unforced error; we’re now going to spend a couple of days discussing whether he was summoning violence on Ben Bernanke’s head or not, which is of absolutely no use to Perry. He is, or was, moments away from becoming the race’s frontrunner, and what is in his interest is to harness the excitement of his late entry with qualities of leadership and control that will rally the majority of Republicans unhappy with the choices facing them to his side. Rick Perry made that more difficult today; this was a serious rookie mistake on the national stage.