Texas Governor Rick Perry has come out swinging in his bid for the U.S. presidency. Governor Perry, who announced his intention to oust incumbent Barack Obama in the 2012 election last Saturday, said he considered the Federal Reserve Board policy of printing money, known as Quantitative Easing, could be treasonous.
The fair and balanced news agency Reuters reported Perry’s strong statement on August 16th. The article, by objective journalist Patricia Zengerle, quoted Governor Perry saying, “Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous, treasonous in my opinion.”
The White House naturally denounced Governor Perry’s stated opinion, with Obama Press Secretary, the former objective journalist Jay Carney, asserting, “Its not a good idea threatening the Fed Chairman.” What Carney should have said was he does not consider it a good idea to have an opinion on Quantitative Easing that differs from that of his boss.
Ms Zengerle went on to fret that such a belligerent stance might go a long way to scare squishy independents from the conservative republican candidate, though if that were the case it would probably be cause for celebration in the Reuters editorial offices.
Republican establishment figures also expressed concern over the Texas Governor’s tone. Ford O’Connell, a former advisor to the failed 2008 presidential campaign of Arizona Senator John McCain, offered sage advice to the Texan, bleating, “When you say these things in the Lone Star State, you look colorful. When you say it on a national stage…it’s going to come back to get you.” Mr O’Connell went on to say, “You’ve got to be more James Bond than Rambo.”
And who would know more about what can “come back to get you” while making nice to political opponents than a squishy, inoffensive advisor to the failed McCain candidacy. It was McCain’s abysmal campaign, advised so inadequately by the likes of Mr O’Connell, that refused to call out then-candidate Obama on any of the myriad issues that could have been raised in the campaign to defeat him. It was McCain’s half-hearted effort to stand up for conservative principles of limited government and fiscal discipline, advised by the likes of Mr O’Connell, that led directly to the disaster we are living through with this incompetant socialist in the White House.
It’s about time someone started speaking up to the incumbent president’s sycophants in the administration and in the fawning, corrupt media, telling the truth about “Quantitative Easing.” Such a policy is not, as Reuters breathlessly reports, “an attempt to right a stumbling economy.” It is a disingenuous attempt by a political toady to prop up an inept, stumbling administration.
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