I recently wrote that I thought I was the only one keeping the "urination on dead Taliban" issue in perspective. Since then, two politicians, Texas Governor Rick Perry and Florida Congressman Allen West see it similar:
Perry said it would be "over the top" to file criminal charges against four US Marines who urinated on dead militants in Afghanistan. "These kids made a mistake, there's not any doubt about it, but the idea that this administration would go after these young people for a criminal act is, again, over the top."
The US military has launched a high-level investigation and the four Marines have been questioned, while US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have both expressed dismay at the acts and vowed that the culprits would be punished. We wouldn't expect anything better coming from Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta.
Perry, a former US Air Force pilot, described President Obama's administration's military policy as "disdain for the military... whether it's the secretary of state or whether it's the secretary of defense. "Did (the four US Marines) make a mistake? Absolutely. Should they be reprimanded and appropriately punished? Yes. But going after them as a criminal act I think sends a really bad message."
Perry recalled how General George Patton, during World War II, urinated in the Rhine River during the allied offensive push into Nazi. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reportedly did the same thing on the famous German defense fortification line called the Siegfried Line" to show contempt for the Nazis.
Allen West (R-FL) and a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel say's it better, in part: "I don't remember any press indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu (Somalia 1993). As for everyone, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”
To read the full article on what Rep. Allen West said, go here.
Cowboys and the Tea Party political movement have a lot on common. Both believe in individual responsibility; judging a man by his actions not words; and, both are disgusted with government intrusions into our lives and particularly our God given rights.
Showing posts with label Gov Rick Perry (R-TX). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gov Rick Perry (R-TX). Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
South Carolina - What Can We Expect?
As you can expect, there is a wide variance between polls on the Republican candidates going into the
South Carolina primary.
The latest blended poll numbers has it like this:
Well, this is what I think we can expect:
Romney and Santorum will do better than the latest polling data. Romney on the strength of his front runner status (and ad money) and Santorum because he picked up the endorsement of evangelicals in a state where 1 in 2 voters believe faith is very important in character, and character very important for their political
leaders to have.
Gingrich will do slightly worse, as well as Paul. Leaving Perry to pickup a few points and Huntsman to get about what he deserves,...around 3%.
I expect the finishers to be Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul, Perry then Huntsman. Perry could surprise us on the strength of his last couple of interviews ashe came off bashing Romney for his Bain experience and generally hasn't said anything outrageous. Anyway, look for Santorum to place second and continue on to Florida, where the Sunshine State probably won't be seeing anymore of Huntsman.
If Gingrich and Perry both get out of the race, look for the vast majority of their support to go to Santorum - that would make the race interesting giving some hope for a non-Romney candidate.
South Carolina primary.
The latest blended poll numbers has it like this:
Mitt Romney 29%
Newt Gingrich 23%
Ron Paul (Mr Potatoe Head) 17%
Rick Santorum 12%
Rick Perry 7 %
Jon Huntsman 4 %
Well, this is what I think we can expect:
Romney and Santorum will do better than the latest polling data. Romney on the strength of his front runner status (and ad money) and Santorum because he picked up the endorsement of evangelicals in a state where 1 in 2 voters believe faith is very important in character, and character very important for their political
leaders to have.
Gingrich will do slightly worse, as well as Paul. Leaving Perry to pickup a few points and Huntsman to get about what he deserves,...around 3%.
I expect the finishers to be Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul, Perry then Huntsman. Perry could surprise us on the strength of his last couple of interviews ashe came off bashing Romney for his Bain experience and generally hasn't said anything outrageous. Anyway, look for Santorum to place second and continue on to Florida, where the Sunshine State probably won't be seeing anymore of Huntsman.
If Gingrich and Perry both get out of the race, look for the vast majority of their support to go to Santorum - that would make the race interesting giving some hope for a non-Romney candidate.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Cowboy's Comment on Current News - Nov 10th, 2011
Rick Perry’s Debate Debacle. Last night Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) apparently pooped in his bed when he flubbed his answer for what three government agencies he would get rid of if he were President. It’s actually pretty damn funny. Readers of this site will recognize that I’m not pushing for a Rick Perry nomination as the Republican candidate for President. I think Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich are mush better candidates, however really anyone would be a better President than the guy we have in office now,….even Joe the Plumber. The only excuse I would put forth for Perry is that he is a sitting Governor and has much more current responsibilities than anyone else on the debate stage, which greatly minimizes his preparation time. I just saying,...
Continued Attacks on Cain. This is the subject that makes my blood boil the most these past few days. About every liberal and leftist scum bag (there I go being overly redundant again) is attacking Cain on the sexual harassment allegations. These are the same losers and apologists when Clinton, Barney Frank, Anthony Weiner and other Dems were accused about sexual harassment, sexual assault and pornographic tendencies.
Some of the black commentators are fomenting racial division by claiming that the “rich, white” republicans will be furious with Herman Cain for sexual harassing a white, blonde woman. They call Cain “the Republican’s one Black friend”. Lost on at least 40% of the population,…….. mainly liberals, leftists, socialists and welfare cheats,……. is the undeniable fact that the only racists in today’s America are those liberals, leftists, socialists and welfare cheats who use racism and the threat of branding people as racists in order to validate their ideology.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Aka the stimulus money pit or the Chris Dodd-Barney Frank fleecing of America . After Fannie Mae received $112.6 Billion in stimulus money (courtesy of the taxpayers of course), made necessary for Dodd and Frank’s extensive lobbying against financial oversight of these institutions, now Fannie is asking for another $7.8 Billion in federal aid. When is the Federal Government and especially the spending addicted Democrats going figure out that throwing good money after bad is not to fix anything. And not only is it not going to fix anything, it is going to make things worse.
Continued Attacks on Cain. This is the subject that makes my blood boil the most these past few days. About every liberal and leftist scum bag (there I go being overly redundant again) is attacking Cain on the sexual harassment allegations. These are the same losers and apologists when Clinton, Barney Frank, Anthony Weiner and other Dems were accused about sexual harassment, sexual assault and pornographic tendencies.
Some of the black commentators are fomenting racial division by claiming that the “rich, white” republicans will be furious with Herman Cain for sexual harassing a white, blonde woman. They call Cain “the Republican’s one Black friend”. Lost on at least 40% of the population,…….. mainly liberals, leftists, socialists and welfare cheats,……. is the undeniable fact that the only racists in today’s America are those liberals, leftists, socialists and welfare cheats who use racism and the threat of branding people as racists in order to validate their ideology.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Aka the stimulus money pit or the Chris Dodd-Barney Frank fleecing of America . After Fannie Mae received $112.6 Billion in stimulus money (courtesy of the taxpayers of course), made necessary for Dodd and Frank’s extensive lobbying against financial oversight of these institutions, now Fannie is asking for another $7.8 Billion in federal aid. When is the Federal Government and especially the spending addicted Democrats going figure out that throwing good money after bad is not to fix anything. And not only is it not going to fix anything, it is going to make things worse.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Who is Rick Perry?
Readers of this site know that I support Herman Cain, but a reader sent this to me and asked me to post....
He is a fifth generation Texan, the son of hardscrabble west Texas tenant farmers that were Democrats but conservative. He grew up in a farm town too small to be on the state map. Life was so hard that he was six years old before his house had indoor plumbing. His mother sewed his clothes, including the underwear he wore to college.
He is an Eagle Scout. After Paint Creek High School, he attended Texas A&M, graduated, and was commissioned into the Air Force where he became a C-130 pilot.
Now 61 years old, he has won nine elections to four different offices in Texas state government. In the first three elections he ran as a Democrat then switched to the Republican Party. He is currently the 47th governor of Texas – a position he has held for 11 years, the longest tenure of any governor in the nation.
He has never lost an election.
Rick Perry was the Lieutenant Governor to whom Governor George Bush handed over the office after winning the 2000 Presidential election. Since then, Perry won gubernatorial elections in 2002, 2004, and 2010, the last time by 55% against a field consisting of a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Green Party, and an Independent.
Since he became the Governor of Texas, a right to work state that taxes neither personal income nor capital gains, has added more jobs than the other 49 states combined. There is alot of debate on the type of jobs Texas has created,...many are minimum wage oriented, but when you have a state over ran by illegal immigration and sitting on the edge of their collective seats due to rampant drug violence just over the border,... to have a flourishing economy contrasted by the Federal debt and annual deficit spending,...well that is an accomplishment.
In the last two years, low taxes and little regulation led his state to create 47% of all jobs created in the entire nation. Five of the top ten cities with the highest job growth in the nation are in Texas. People follow jobs, so in the last four years for which data are available, Texas led every state in net interstate migration growth.
Perry signed ground-breaking “loser pays” tort reform and medical litigation rules that caused malpractice insurance rates to fall. Some 20,000 doctors have since moved to Texas.
Texas boasts 58 of the Fortune 500 companies – more than any other state. Since May 2011 Texas resumed its pre-recession employment levels. Only two other states and the District of Columbia have done that.
Texas ships 16% of the nation’s export value. California trails at 11%. Of the 70 companies that have fled California so far in 2011, 14 relocated in Texas .
In this year’s Texas legislative season, Perry got most of what he wanted. With no new taxes, a fiscally lean state budget was passed leaving $6 billion in a rainy day fund even as other states around the country struggled to balance budgets and avoid more deficit borrowing. A voter ID bill passed that was designed to prevent ballot box fraud and illegal voting. A bill passed that makes plaintiffs pay court costs and attorney fees if their suits are deemed frivolous. There is alot of debate over the cuts to state education. I think the debate should be centered over how the school districts cut waste and lean out their administrative staff.
Perry scored points even in his legislative failures. He failed to get sanctuary cities banned – Texas towns in which police cannot question detainees about their immigration status. The blame fell on the legislature. Perry also failed to get a so-called “anti-groping” bill passed that would put Transportation Security Administration agents in prison if they touch the genitals, anus, or breasts of passengers in a pat down. Federal officials threatened to halt all flights out of Texas airports and the bill died in special session. That endeared Texans even more to TSA employees living in Texas.
Perry jogs daily in the morning. He has no bodyguard with him, but his daughter’s dog runs by his side and he carries a laser-guided automatic pistol in his belt. Last year while jogging in an undeveloped area, a coyote paralleled his jogging route, eyeing his dog. He drew his pistol and killed the animal with one shot, leaving it where it fell. “He became mulch," Perry said. Animal rights groups protested, but Perry shrugged it off. “Don’t come after my dog,” he warned them.
Recently, Obama asked Perry to delay the July 7 execution of Humberto Leal in order to comply with the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Perry refused. Therefore Obama asked the US Supreme Court to delay the execution because it would damage US foreign relations. The Court refused 5-4 and Perry ordered the execution to go forward as scheduled. Over the howls of diplomats, politicians, and the UN, Leal was administered a lethal injection at 6:20 p.m. Before he died, he admitted his guilt and asked for forgiveness.
The case has special implications for Perry, who is considering a run for the presidency in 2012. Even his critics resent federal interference in a Texas execution, which is related to a state, not a federal, crime – an alcohol and drug-fueled rape and murder 17 years ago by an illegal whose family brought him into the country 35 years ago as a child. The interference hinges not on the man’s guilt, which Leal’s advocates acknowledged, but on a technicality – failure to inform Leal that he could have gotten legal representation from the Mexican consulate in lieu of the court-appointed attorneys who represented him. Independent Texans saw Obama’s interference as another intrusion of federal power into the affairs of a state, which could cost Obama support in other states.
Needless to say, Perry is a hard-edged conservative and a ferocious defender of 10th Amendments rights (“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”) – an explicit restriction of the federal government to only those powers granted in the Constitution. Perry accuses the federal government, especially the Obama administration, of illegal overreach.
Perry said “no thanks” to the feds whose stimulus offered taxpayer dollars for education and unemployment assistance. The strings on “free money” from Washington , he said, would restrict Texas in managing its own affairs. Perry even depleted all state funds to fight recent wildfires before asking Washington for disaster relief. His request has been ignored, which comes across as an unvarnished federal power play, further pitting Perry and Texans against the federal government.
He is a fifth generation Texan, the son of hardscrabble west Texas tenant farmers that were Democrats but conservative. He grew up in a farm town too small to be on the state map. Life was so hard that he was six years old before his house had indoor plumbing. His mother sewed his clothes, including the underwear he wore to college.
He is an Eagle Scout. After Paint Creek High School, he attended Texas A&M, graduated, and was commissioned into the Air Force where he became a C-130 pilot.
Now 61 years old, he has won nine elections to four different offices in Texas state government. In the first three elections he ran as a Democrat then switched to the Republican Party. He is currently the 47th governor of Texas – a position he has held for 11 years, the longest tenure of any governor in the nation.
He has never lost an election.
Rick Perry was the Lieutenant Governor to whom Governor George Bush handed over the office after winning the 2000 Presidential election. Since then, Perry won gubernatorial elections in 2002, 2004, and 2010, the last time by 55% against a field consisting of a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Green Party, and an Independent.
Since he became the Governor of Texas, a right to work state that taxes neither personal income nor capital gains, has added more jobs than the other 49 states combined. There is alot of debate on the type of jobs Texas has created,...many are minimum wage oriented, but when you have a state over ran by illegal immigration and sitting on the edge of their collective seats due to rampant drug violence just over the border,... to have a flourishing economy contrasted by the Federal debt and annual deficit spending,...well that is an accomplishment.
In the last two years, low taxes and little regulation led his state to create 47% of all jobs created in the entire nation. Five of the top ten cities with the highest job growth in the nation are in Texas. People follow jobs, so in the last four years for which data are available, Texas led every state in net interstate migration growth.
Perry signed ground-breaking “loser pays” tort reform and medical litigation rules that caused malpractice insurance rates to fall. Some 20,000 doctors have since moved to Texas.
Texas boasts 58 of the Fortune 500 companies – more than any other state. Since May 2011 Texas resumed its pre-recession employment levels. Only two other states and the District of Columbia have done that.
Texas ships 16% of the nation’s export value. California trails at 11%. Of the 70 companies that have fled California so far in 2011, 14 relocated in Texas .
In this year’s Texas legislative season, Perry got most of what he wanted. With no new taxes, a fiscally lean state budget was passed leaving $6 billion in a rainy day fund even as other states around the country struggled to balance budgets and avoid more deficit borrowing. A voter ID bill passed that was designed to prevent ballot box fraud and illegal voting. A bill passed that makes plaintiffs pay court costs and attorney fees if their suits are deemed frivolous. There is alot of debate over the cuts to state education. I think the debate should be centered over how the school districts cut waste and lean out their administrative staff.
Perry scored points even in his legislative failures. He failed to get sanctuary cities banned – Texas towns in which police cannot question detainees about their immigration status. The blame fell on the legislature. Perry also failed to get a so-called “anti-groping” bill passed that would put Transportation Security Administration agents in prison if they touch the genitals, anus, or breasts of passengers in a pat down. Federal officials threatened to halt all flights out of Texas airports and the bill died in special session. That endeared Texans even more to TSA employees living in Texas.
Perry jogs daily in the morning. He has no bodyguard with him, but his daughter’s dog runs by his side and he carries a laser-guided automatic pistol in his belt. Last year while jogging in an undeveloped area, a coyote paralleled his jogging route, eyeing his dog. He drew his pistol and killed the animal with one shot, leaving it where it fell. “He became mulch," Perry said. Animal rights groups protested, but Perry shrugged it off. “Don’t come after my dog,” he warned them.
Recently, Obama asked Perry to delay the July 7 execution of Humberto Leal in order to comply with the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Perry refused. Therefore Obama asked the US Supreme Court to delay the execution because it would damage US foreign relations. The Court refused 5-4 and Perry ordered the execution to go forward as scheduled. Over the howls of diplomats, politicians, and the UN, Leal was administered a lethal injection at 6:20 p.m. Before he died, he admitted his guilt and asked for forgiveness.
The case has special implications for Perry, who is considering a run for the presidency in 2012. Even his critics resent federal interference in a Texas execution, which is related to a state, not a federal, crime – an alcohol and drug-fueled rape and murder 17 years ago by an illegal whose family brought him into the country 35 years ago as a child. The interference hinges not on the man’s guilt, which Leal’s advocates acknowledged, but on a technicality – failure to inform Leal that he could have gotten legal representation from the Mexican consulate in lieu of the court-appointed attorneys who represented him. Independent Texans saw Obama’s interference as another intrusion of federal power into the affairs of a state, which could cost Obama support in other states.
Needless to say, Perry is a hard-edged conservative and a ferocious defender of 10th Amendments rights (“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”) – an explicit restriction of the federal government to only those powers granted in the Constitution. Perry accuses the federal government, especially the Obama administration, of illegal overreach.
Perry said “no thanks” to the feds whose stimulus offered taxpayer dollars for education and unemployment assistance. The strings on “free money” from Washington , he said, would restrict Texas in managing its own affairs. Perry even depleted all state funds to fight recent wildfires before asking Washington for disaster relief. His request has been ignored, which comes across as an unvarnished federal power play, further pitting Perry and Texans against the federal government.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
NEA,....well, They Just Plain Suck
Cowboys received a comment from Wayne,...."They need to start teaching the true history of the USA again. The NEA has failed the country! As such the Department of Education needs to be dismissed in total!"
Wayne, could not agree with you more. Little has Cowboys and Tea Parties wrote about the National Education Association so far, but they are always in our minds as they are another Union who exists to devise ways to perpetuate their existence, entitlements and power base. The NEA themselves boast that they are a "United States labor union representing teachers, secretaries and educational support personnel" .........hey, here's an idea, what about representing the children?
I think that education in general, with the Federal involvement or control over national education and the NEA's agenda, is a septic tank gobbling up funding and destroying education maing it a major political issue in the 2012 Presidential elections especially if Governor Rick Perry is the Republican nominee.
Some see this as a weakness for Perry, others as a strength. I can tell you that the Department of Education would come closet to being disbanded under a Perry Administration. I would like to see more States stand up to the Federal Government, and the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like
Perry did when he refused to sell control of the state's education system for any price or bribe from the Federal government. This was of course when Perry, continuing his disdain for the Federal government's role in public education, refused to allow the State of Texas to to accept a common national cirriculum for Federal funding.
The NEA is like any other union, strengthing their control and their entitlements to the detriment of the sector they work in. In his case, it's education and the children suffer.
Look at Michelle Rhee, the former Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools from 2007 to 2010. She inherited a compleltly broke school system where students historically had below-average scores on standardized tests, such as only 8% of the eighth graders were at grade level in mathematics.....all this despite having the third highest spending per student in the US.
Rhee instituted accountability for the results from standardized tests. She closed 23 schools, fired 36 principals and cut approximately 121 office jobs.
She took on teacher tenure and pay issues, fighting the union who protected poor teachers,.......after all they pay union dues. She tried to trade higher pay for no tenure rights,...all along fought by the powerful union. Finally, in her final year as Chancellor, Rhee and the unions agreed on a new contract that offered 20% pay raises and bonuses of $20,000 to $30,000 for strong student scores and achievement, in exchange for weakened teachers' seniority protections and the end of teacher tenure for one year. Under this new contract, Rhee was able to fired over 240 poor performing teachers and put over 700 on a type of performance probation.
Maybe the next President, a Republican hopefully, can hire Michelle Rhee as the next, and last, Secretary of Education, tasking her to close down this enormous sink hole for tax payers money and return education to the states where it belongs.
Wayne, could not agree with you more. Little has Cowboys and Tea Parties wrote about the National Education Association so far, but they are always in our minds as they are another Union who exists to devise ways to perpetuate their existence, entitlements and power base. The NEA themselves boast that they are a "United States labor union representing teachers, secretaries and educational support personnel" .........hey, here's an idea, what about representing the children?
I think that education in general, with the Federal involvement or control over national education and the NEA's agenda, is a septic tank gobbling up funding and destroying education maing it a major political issue in the 2012 Presidential elections especially if Governor Rick Perry is the Republican nominee.
Some see this as a weakness for Perry, others as a strength. I can tell you that the Department of Education would come closet to being disbanded under a Perry Administration. I would like to see more States stand up to the Federal Government, and the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like
Perry did when he refused to sell control of the state's education system for any price or bribe from the Federal government. This was of course when Perry, continuing his disdain for the Federal government's role in public education, refused to allow the State of Texas to to accept a common national cirriculum for Federal funding.
The NEA is like any other union, strengthing their control and their entitlements to the detriment of the sector they work in. In his case, it's education and the children suffer.
Rhee instituted accountability for the results from standardized tests. She closed 23 schools, fired 36 principals and cut approximately 121 office jobs.
She took on teacher tenure and pay issues, fighting the union who protected poor teachers,.......after all they pay union dues. She tried to trade higher pay for no tenure rights,...all along fought by the powerful union. Finally, in her final year as Chancellor, Rhee and the unions agreed on a new contract that offered 20% pay raises and bonuses of $20,000 to $30,000 for strong student scores and achievement, in exchange for weakened teachers' seniority protections and the end of teacher tenure for one year. Under this new contract, Rhee was able to fired over 240 poor performing teachers and put over 700 on a type of performance probation.
Maybe the next President, a Republican hopefully, can hire Michelle Rhee as the next, and last, Secretary of Education, tasking her to close down this enormous sink hole for tax payers money and return education to the states where it belongs.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Rick Perry - Near Top of the Republican Presidential Candidates
With Rick Perry, the Country gets a candidate who speaks his mind, often from the cuff providing the press with many unique stories, some they spin, and some they don't need to because of what Perry says. However outspoken Rick Perry is, there is no mistaking the fact that Texas is heading into the economic downturn wind with sails flying high, while most other states, and certainly this Country, is flying out of control heading towards a cliff.
All in all I could easily support Rick Perry is he turns out to be the Republican candidate, not because any change from Obama would be better,.....that is absolutely true, but Perry has a mind set and beliefe in small Federal government and States rights.
From a Yahoo! article on Governor Perry, web link posted below:
Perry laid out these proposed innovations to the founding document in his book,Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington. He has occasionally mentioned them on the campaign trail. Several of his ideas fall within the realm of mainstream conservative thinking today, but, as you will see, there are also a few surprises.
1. Abolish lifetime tenure for federal judges by amending Article III, Section I of the Constitution.
2. Congress should have the power to override Supreme Court decisions with a two-thirds vote.
3. Scrap the federal income tax by repealing the Sixteenth Amendment.
4. End the direct election of senators by repealing the Seventeenth Amendment.
5. Require the federal government to balance its budget every year.
6. The federal Constitution should define marriage as between one man and one woman in all 50 states.
7. Abortion should be made illegal throughout the country.
Read the entire story here Seven ways Rick Perry wants to change the Constitution
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