Rising Hegemon
Apparently Rick Perry figured now was the time to get out his dumbest statements. While much of the nation -- but most importantly the national media -- was obsessed with their own problems.
And this is Rick Perry and dumb on the Rick Perry scale is pretty impressive.
“It is a Ponzi scheme for these young people. The idea that they’re working and paying into Social Security today, that the current program is going to be there for them, is a lie,” Perry said. “It is a monstrous lie on this generation, and we can’t do that to them.”
Put that together with his declaration that Social Security is unconstitutional and you have an idea of just how right the far right has become. Even touching the program used to the the third rail, now the arguments made by conservatives in the mid-1930s are STILL cutting edge conservative ideas.
If our national media was paying attention this weekend you could assume that would be it for this candidate, he'd be politically finished (not to mention he conveniently makes the Cat Food Commission look like the moderates they dream of themselves as being). But, of course, the national media paid no attention, so it might as well have never happened.
[cross-posted at Firedoglake]
4 comments:
Hmm. The primary way SS would not be there in the future for people entering the work force today is if fuckin' morons like Perry starve it to death or sell it off the Wall Street (which right-wingers have been wanting to do since the program was put into law in the `30s).
He's got all the Pete Peterson talking points down pat, though. I'll give him this much--he's been practicing his lines.
But, ask one of these yo-yos (including Perry) to explain themselves using agreed-upon facts, actuarial data, and SS projections, and their first impulse is to shut down questions and sic the cops on the public.
I'm just hoping that Perry is stupid enough, at some point in the campaign, to blurt out, "I work for my rich friends, not you."
He is stupid. We've yet to determine how stupid.
Rick wasn’t responsible for what he said. He had those Glenn Beck Chalkboards of Madness behind him, egging him on.
Tell me where is crazy bred,
in the heart or in the head?
Batman 54 said...
Why on earth would anyone expect the national media to say anything bad about Rick or any of the GOPers ?
The national media is owned by the same pricks that own Perry and the rest of the GOP.
if only we could take ALL OF HIS MONEY WAY.
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