While I am a big supporter of his fellow Texan, Ted Cruz, I remain, also, a pretty big fan of Texas Gov. Rick Perry. And where I very much agree with him in his calling on Republicans in Congress to "hold their ground" in any negotiations with Democrats in the effort to end our current government shutdown, I not sure whether that his call for both sides to be willing to "get together and negotiate" isn’t being wasted. Because Republicans in Congress have already made it quite clear that they are more than willing to get down to the the tough task of negotiating, the ones who stubbornly refuse to do so are all on the Democrat side and therefore couldn’t care less about Gov. Perry’s strong recommendations.
"Get together and negotiate. That's what we do in the states. The Democrats, Republicans. We get together. And, we find solutions to these issues. Washington doesn't seem to want to," the former Republican presidential candidate said Tuesday on "Fox & Friends." And he went on to say, "The president of the United States and the Senate hold the cards here. We understand that. And, the Republicans are going to have to hold their ground and get as much as they can." And while that all may sound pretty good, you can’t have negotiations when only one side wants to negotiate and the other side want to say NO. I am curious as to why is it that the Democrats are never referred to as being ‘the party of NO.’
Gov. Perry urged Barry "Almighty", who had been unwilling to negotiate prior to last weekend, to take the lead in ending the two-week-old shutdown. "Hopefully, the president will quit making people suffer, and will work towards finding a negotiated settlement, if you will, that's in the best interests of the people of this country," he said. Well, I wouldn’t hold my breath for that to happen, as long as Barry thinks he has the upper hand. Perry also suggested that Barry and ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid might be working to prolong the shutdown as a way to help keep the focus off Obamacare and "what an absolute disaster this rollout is." And I wouldn’t be surprised if that was, in fact, part of the overall Democrat strategy here.
"I would suggest to you the president of the United States and Harry Reid are more interested in this political theater, because they don't want the focus to be on Obamacare," the governor said. He then went on to add, "When you really dig down into Obamacare, you find out it's going to be a huge job killer." he added. And he’s exactly correct. There is nothing good about Obamacare, but then there was never intended to be anything good about it. The sole purpose of it was to put the healthcare that American are able to receive under the very firm control of their government. It had nothing whatsoever to with lowering costs or with creating better choices. It was all about control and about power.
With states showing improved economic conditions and Washington in gridlock, Perry suggested that America may soon begin thinking about shifting more power away from the federal government and back to the states, which was how our Founders had intended it. "Washington is not looked upon well by the people of this country," he said on the Fox News program. "I would suggest to you that the conversation of making Washington as inconsequential as we can, going forward, is going to start picking up more and more support." He added, "People are going to look to the states, red state vs. blue state policies, as the laboratories of innovation across this country," Perry continued. I sure hope that he’s right.
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