Comments on: Incompetence Reigns in Rick Perry’s Texas

By: Yossarian

Yossarian — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:52:50 +0000

@Dubious Brother You make valid points but KBH’s fiscal legacy is in earmarks. She delivers the pork by diverting money from the biggest pot straight to Texas. That is to say, she excels at spending federal taxpayer dollars in Texas–and that works in Perry’s favor on certain stats. The question remains, who will keep the Texas trough full if she becomes governor?

Sadly, there’s that kind of trough and the other kind that Wick points out in this blog post. It’s shameful.

By: Eyluvu Jane

Eyluvu Jane — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:06:57 +0000

@Wick, From where do you get the 10 billion dollar figure for our deficit this year? Not trying to debate you but am curious.

I have searched the internet and cannot find that figure. I found this sentence in an article in last month’s DMN:

Although Texas didn’t have a budget deficit in 2009, it used economic stimulus funds to close a projected shortfall in Medicaid in 2010 and 2011.

By: Dubious Brother

Dubious Brother — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:46:15 +0000

KBH “has watched with alarm the state’s dismal performance under Perry” and didn’t notice the dismal performace of the Federal Government’s spending spree while she has been a willing participant Senator? She didn’t watch with alarm the collapse of Enron (which her husband’s law firm was party to to the tune of $150 million in fees and then denied any knowledge of wrongdoing) which was a precursor to the financial blood bath of the last few years?
KBH may have been a competent comptroller but she does not have the track record of making the tough calls to prevent Texas from spending there way into a California, New York or Illinois style mess.
The political system in America is failing because the parties do not encourage primary competition and we do not have a neutral press – candidates are not vetted properly and incumbents are not held accountable for their actions.
I am not a Perry apologist as he has done things that defy logic but it pains me to see him attacked for his hair, balancing a budget with federal funds that Texans are going to have to pay back with their taxes or not having enough food at the local food banks.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:45:12 +0000

Hear hear! 10 years is too long with Perry. Go Kay!

By: Rawlins Gilliland

Rawlins Gilliland — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:56:27 +0000

Loved this thread, Wick. I liken it to tossing a bleeding squid to sharks in Michael Vick’s bathtub.

Rick Perry may become the stuff of Texas legend, but not even Rob Allyn will read his memoirs.

By: VisitDallas!HomeOfAmerica'sWorstPresident

VisitDallas!HomeOfAmerica'sWorstPresident — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:39:01 +0000

Republican governing philosophy, such as it is, has failed, nationally and locally. Government stays smaller under Ds. Functions better under Ds. Provides for the unRICH better under Ds. Just because Beck projects the GOP flaws onto the Ds, it doesn’t make it correct.

By: Wick Allison

Wick Allison — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:26:55 +0000

@ Neither party: Good point. My hope at present is in Kay, who is a former Texas comptroller and who has watched with alarm the state’s dismal performance under Perry. Tom Schieffer is a good man on the Democratic side, but I doubt the Demos will forgive him for his friendship with Bush — although his candidacy is enough to contradict your point. Kinky is Kinky; enough said.

By: Neither party

Neither party — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:12:49 +0000

So Wick,
how many pieces have you written that dissed those who criticize with no alternative…….what is your suggestion? What dems have rolled out actually made rp look good.
From the state that brought you Ann Richards, bile moving towards mouth.

By: Wick Allison

Wick Allison — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:08:45 +0000

@ Dubious Brother: Texas, in fact, has spent itself into a fiscal crisis. Our deficit was $10 billion this year — only covered by an infusion of stimulus money from the Obama Administration. A nice paradox, that. Rick Perry likes to brag that Texas had a balanced budget. He fails to note how it balanced that budget.

By: Dubious Brother

Dubious Brother — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:07:16 +0000

If you take the people out of line that aren’t supposed to be in line then you don’t have a 5 month wait for the people that the benefit structure was designed for. They are called illegal immigrants for a reason.