Rick Perry Runs From Record And Obama Mounts Counteroffensive: Your Day In Politics (VIDEO)

Rick Perry is in it to win it in 2012, and just as the Texas governor gets going with his campaign, he already seems to be running from his record. On the Democratic side, Team Obama is mounting a counteroffensive to combat Republican attacks on the heels of the Ames Straw Poll.

All of that and more in your day in politics.

Comments

[Artr]

12:30 PM on 08/27/2011

Perry will be running away from his book "Fed Up". He'll soon ask all distributors and bookstores to return them so they can be burned. He'll be asking Amazon, etc to send out a signal to destroy all electronic copies on Kindles, Nooks and tablets as soon as those devices are turned on.

[Ratu]

01:32 AM on 08/17/2011

This is Perry with a "D". He recieved a D in Economics, boy after Bush watch out for Perry with a D.

[Rolex Rider]

08:19 PM on 08/17/2011

In the real world, Obama gets an F.

[Ratu]

01:05 AM on 08/18/2011

yeah keep living in fantasy world. In this real world Perry got a real 'D' - a failure

[jgreazy]

12:56 AM on 08/17/2011

Conservative governance leads to – slow growth, poor social outcomes, greater inequality and fewer protections for workers and the environment.

And that is indeed what the right would like to see imposed on the nation as a whole.

In March, Republican staffers on Congress's Joint Economic Committee released the study responding to criticism that the deep public sector cuts they advocated would derail an already anemic “recovery.” The paper called for “decreasing the number and compensation of government workers,” which the staffers said would spur job creation because “a smaller government workforce increases the available supply of educated, skilled workers for private firms, thus lowering labor costs.”

So, a central plank in the GOP's economic recovery plan is to flood the market with yet more unemployed people in order to drive wages (which have stagnated for an extended period) further down.

In theory, an unhealthy, poorly educated population earning poverty wages in a country with low taxes, minimal environmental regulation and crappy public services would indeed lead multinationals to create more jobs here at home, but Third World status – the real promise of a Rick Perry administration – shouldn't be a goal to which the United States aspires.

[kathy001]

10:41 AM on 08/17/2011

Brilliant comment!!

[Artr]

12:39 PM on 08/27/2011

Obviously, all those public sector cuts are doing wonders for the economy and increasing employment- many more such cuts and we'll be back in recession which is what the GOP needs to capture the WH - the last thing they want to see is a significant improvement in the economy. The GOPTP needs an uneducated electorate to survive - rational thinking is not a friend of right wing extremists.

[RitaS]

12:13 AM on 08/17/2011

'Rick Perry is in it to win it in 2012, and just as the Texas governor gets going with his campaign, he already seems to be running from his record.'

He better run fast... His 'record' is out there in b/w......

[Rolex Rider]

08:16 PM on 08/17/2011

So is Obama's........he finally has one, unlike in '08. And it ain't pretty......

[rjaxone]

11:51 PM on 08/16/2011

Let's put R. Perry where he belongs: In Madame Tussand's Wax Museum. No offense to Rin Tin Tin..

[lvdragonlady]

11:31 PM on 08/16/2011

Sorry Rick, you can run but you can not hide. WE have already had more then enough of politicians from Texas and you are ALL alike.

[Scalie]

11:15 PM on 08/16/2011

Bye, bye Ricky. You SECEDER wannabe.

[whatchamean]

11:05 PM on 08/16/2011

please let him be the nominee. He is like a character out of a movie script. Josh Brolins depiction in W

[Rangergirl]

09:12 PM on 08/16/2011

“This man is already saying the MOST outragious insane things. How can he also defend 27 billion dollar budget deficit in his own State? Jobs he created...­.Minimum wage most of them... Large homeless population­. Taking healthcare away from 100,000 Children. Poor educationa­l standards (Don't forget their changing history books for their own idiologica­l beliefs.) State with most folks without health insurance. Sounds like someone who shouldn't be let out of his State. Let alone run the Country.”

[TXLiberAL7]

10:06 PM on 08/16/2011

They may have needed to hire a few more servants for his rent-a-mansion too...That probably boosted his jobs numbers...

[Rangergirl]

12:19 AM on 08/17/2011

Hope all the dirt gets exposed.

[tjconkster]

09:08 PM on 08/16/2011

With a record like Perry's I'd run away too...and they say that he's Shrubs dumber little brother...

21 Reasons Rick Perry's Texas Is a Complete Disaster
Third World status – the real promise of a Rick Perry administration – shouldn't be a goal to which the United States aspires.

http://www.alternet.org/news/152037/21_reasons_rick_perry%27s_texas_is_a_complete_disaster/

[tjconkster]

09:06 PM on 08/16/2011

Of course Perry is running from his record...Running away is what RepubliCorp Tea-vangelicals do best...

[TheuintheUSofA]

08:50 PM on 08/16/2011

If in fact this is the GOPs great white hope for whites and the Tea Party cult.
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Mr Obama has already won in 2012

[Rolex Rider]

08:49 PM on 08/16/2011

I would love to compare records between Perry and Obama, except until '09, Obama had no record. And the one he has now is a record of failures.

Perry wins.

[Dosadi]

09:07 PM on 08/16/2011

Perry's record is nothing to brag about which is why Perry is avoiding it. Perry won't talk about the intense poverty in Texas, he instead brags about 9 dollar an hour jobs. In essence he brags about shuffling record numbers of people into permanent poverty.  What a guy.

[Max Black]

10:37 PM on 08/16/2011

9 dollars an hour would be a raise for the jobs Perry "created".

[Rolex Rider]

10:39 AM on 08/17/2011

Which is still much more than Obama has created. Perry created more jobs, Obama created more welfare and foodstamp recipients. That's winning, isn't it?

[MLukhman]

09:19 PM on 08/16/2011

Obama only failed at being a miracle worker since 2009.

Perry however failed to create jobs without doubling the debt, the very thing expected in DC.

So how is Perry going to win?

[Dosadi]

04:56 PM on 08/17/2011

He has only one chance; DIEBOLD.

[BigBrax]

08:02 PM on 08/16/2011

For a guy who've never worked in the "private sector" and claims to be a super job creator? I thought it was the Republicans mantra that the Government can't or don't create jobs?

There should be plenty of opposition research dealing with this guy and 10 years running his loudmouth and all the black-slapping questionable deals he have made with his contributors.

[rebar10issguy]

07:51 PM on 08/16/2011

let's see what perry has to offer today; " it's time to let private businesses create jobs now ". seems as if they could have been creating jobs all along, as there is no federal law that I'm aware of that says it's unlawful for private businesses to create jobs.
is perry really the tea baggers best hope? defies logic.