Rick Perry: Obama 'Hell-Bent' on Socialism

[PocketProtector]

Finally someone with the courage to speak the OBVIOUS !

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29424.html

Perry: Obama 'hell-bent' on socialism



By ANDY BARR | 11/11/09 7:08 PM EST


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Governor Rick Perry (R-Tex.) lashed out at President Obama Wednesday. Photo: AP photo composite by POLITICO



Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of “punishing” Texas and being “hell-bent” on turning the United States into a socialist country.

Speaking at a luncheon for a Midland County Republican Women’s group, Perry said that “this is an administration hell-bent toward taking American towards a socialist country. And we all don’t need to be afraid to say that because that’s what it is.”

Perry praised the tea party movement to the Republican activists in attendance, crediting the grassroots groups with discouraging some Democrats in Washington from pushing for a public option in the health care bill.

“If you all think those tea parties didn’t work, then let me tell you something,” Perry said. “When they all came home in August for those town hall meetings, they got an earful. Then they went back to Washington, D.C. and the Senate voted that public option down in committee with a majority of Democrats in the Senate.”

Perry also accused the Obama administration of intentionally dumping illegal immigrants from other western states in Texas, recalling a conversation he had with local officials notifying him that illegal aliens that were caught in Nogales, Arizona were being dropped off by federal authorities in Presidio, Texas.

“Friday a week ago, I got not a phone call from Washington, not a letter from Washington and as a matter of fact, I don’t think any member of our congressional delegation was even notified. The first time we were contacted was by the superintendent of the school and the county judge of Presidio County,” Perry said.

“They said, ‘do you all know what’s fixin’ to happen?’ I said, ‘well, no. What’s going on?’ They said ‘the government has just called us and said for us to get ready for an influx of illegal aliens who were captured illegally crossing the border.’”

“It’s called the alien transfer-and-exit program,” Perry told the crowd, “trucking them from Nogales, past El Paso down to our western border in Presidio.”

The Texas governor said he sees the action as “punishing this state” and urged the assembled Republicans to “stand up” to Washington.

“I say it’s time to make tea parties twice as big as what they were,” Perry declared. “I think it’s time for us to stand up and say to Washington, D.C. that we are no longer going to accept that kind of stuff sitting down and being quiet.”

[nepawolf]

Well, it sounds like the Obama administration is trying to set it up so that if Texas tries to secede they will be bankrupted in dealing with illegal immigrants. If Texas doesn't secede, they may be bankrupted anyways.

[leatherman84]

Don't mess with Texas

It needed to be said.

[archangel689]

No, hes's trying to flip texas dem.

[andrewjs18]

Rick Perry is no walk in the park either though.

[mcmcallister]

they could take the illegals and bus em to D.C.....they need jobs, D.C. needs people who "want to work for a living", imagine an illegal president, opps, illegal alien president who had some work ethic livin in the whitehouse

[tes151]

Rick Perry is no walk in the park either though.

He is a walk in the best park you ever saw compared to what we are presently stuck with.

[arjohnson]

Rick Perry is no walk in the park either though.

And what do you mean by that? please explain.

[CarolinaGuy]

And what do you mean by that? please explain.

If you think that the gubment should force their citizens to take vaccines, then Perry is your man.
Personally, I think that kind of goes against the whole freedom thing.

Not to mention, he's not above raising taxes himself for all the bitching he does about it.

[dc dalton]

Well obviously most of you haven't spent much time in Texas. If it were up to me I'd sell to to Mexico for 50 cents