Not that it matters, but Perry didn’t ‘accuse someone of treason’, and he didn’t call Bernacke’s actions ‘treasonous’. What he said:
“Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion.”
Describing a possible action as ‘almost treasonous’ is not the same thing as calling it ‘treasonous’, and is not the same thing as ‘accusing someone of treason’.
But none of that really matters any more.

No, no, see – he LITERALLY MEANT BERNAKE SHOULD BE EXECUTED FOR TREASON.

See, when Republicans make statements of political and rhetorical flourish, the statements should be taken as literal and gospel.

When the Democrat President and VP call constituents terrorists and Nazis, tell their supporters to bring guns instead of knives, tell their supporters to “get in the faces” of their opponents, and to “punch back twice as hard,” that’s just political trash talk and not to be taken literally.

Don’t let this murder tyrant king evangelist whacko hate machine teathuglikkkan off the hook so easily, Joe.

Rick Perry is Texas Trash, so whenever he opens his blowhole, Texas Trash Talk comes out.

As opposed to the Chicago trash we have in the office now. Who’s doing the best job of any President ever, EVER, by the way.

I’ll take a Texan over a Chicago machine politician any day.

First, Governor Perry said that “if” the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, decides to print more money(Quantitative Easing # 3, 4 or whatever) BEFORE the election (in other words, a purely POLITICAL move), then it would be “ALMOST” treasonist. 

Now, I don’t know about you, but I think Bernanke has been a lousy Fed Chairman- and I don’t think George Bush did us any favors by appointing Bernanke. Bush made a mistake in appointing him and Obama has compounded the mistake by reappointing him. Bernanke’s recent actions have not been in the best interests of the country, but rather have been political in nature.

Quantitative easing IS DEVALUING OUR DOLLAR. Like it or not, that is what Bernanke is doing. I haven’t read “The Creature from Jeckyll Island” yet, but it’s on my bookshelf and I suspect it is going to make my blood pressure skyrocket.

“Got to be a little more careful about what you say.”

Like telling the people that he wants Americans to drive American made cars when he arrived in buses made in Canada?

All this scrutiny about every word said,every possible meaning of them and over things that were not said is pointless.A lot of things are said during election campaigns and I suspect american voters are far more intelligent about that than the media and various talking heads want to admit( if they did many of these arguments would be exposed for being pointless).I don’t know anyone who would take a few comments made this early in the campaign as somehow defining a candidate’s worthiness to be president.

Al Sharpton might not realize it but I think voters want to hear about issues and solutions not about the interpretation of a vague economic policy statement concerning past actions.

Karl Rove apparently doesn’t realize this either.I would assume that was intentional as Rove must have his fortunes tied to another candidate.

To paraphrase a well known political saying:It’s the ISSUES Stupid.

O.M.Wow… The soundbite is just that. The topic should be Parry’s monetary illiteracy.

The left is already certain that Cowboy Venzetti is a wildcard… The right eager to feel aggrieved upon media criticism. This discussion only serves to deepen the trenches.

He’s absolutely right, that is just Perry, his kind of rhetoric. Just wait until he starts laying into Mitt.

TRUE

Let’s focus on the REALLY CRAZY POLICY things that PARRY has said, like:

“SOCIAL SECURITY IS A PONZI SCHEME”

And

“CLIMATE CHANGE IS CREATED BY SCIENTISTS TO MAKE MORE MONEY”

BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. WE’re going to have FUN FUN FUN with stupid comments like that.

Obama certainly does not want to have a civility talk.

Even Politifact would find his statement false.

Rick Perry is a loose cannon.
Rick Perry is the corporate, middling IQ version of Elmer Gantry.
Rick will crash and burn. Count on it!
Sure, Rick Perry has more “fire” than Fred Thompson did, but the end result will be the same.
(Actually compared to Perry, Thompson was way more of an “adult” in the room.)

“Almost treason” is pushing the envelope. Ironically, this statement may actually make it more likely Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. prints more money.

A two year old makes more sense than this. You think somehow your drone-like mental illness gives you great insight? Try reading a book loosenuts, or hit puberty, one of the two.

Rick Perry is the flavor of the month.

Yesterday , Obama said he would cut Perry “some slack ” on his comments .

King Obama is not in charge of slack , or much else .

Even Maureen Dowd thinks he’s a wimp :

“In Cannon Falls, Minn., the president compared negotiating with House Republicans to negotiating with his wife.
“In my house,” Obama noted, “if I said, ‘You know, Michelle, honey, we got to cut back, so we’re going to have you stop shopping completely. You can’t buy shoes; you can’t buy dresses; but I’m keeping my golf clubs.’ You know, that wouldn’t go over so well.”
In Decorah, he said: “Everybody cannot get 100 percent of what they want. Now, for those of you who are married, there is an analogy here. I basically let Michelle have 90 percent of what she wants. But, at a certain point, I have to draw the line and say, ‘Give me my little 10 percent.’ ”
Maybe Michelle should be the one negotiating with the Republicans. ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/field-of-dashed-dreams.html?_r=1&ref=maureendowd

“Is Perry a “straight talking Texas cowboy” whose style is simply not
what most Americans are used to, or is he a loose canon who isn’t quite
“presidential”?”

I see no truth in either explanation.  I’d argue that he said what he did for political expediency.

There are better, more adult ways to passionately disagree with the Fed’s monetary policy.
Trash talk is silly.

“Panelist Pat Buchanan took Perry’s statements with a grain of salt and ventured to guess that this is the sort of rhetoric that might not raise so much as an eyebrow in Texas”

Typical left wing cultural relativism…oh, wait.

If it doesn’t matter, you ought not have posted it.

Rick Perry likes to use “argumentum ad baculum”
People who have problems with articulation like to do this.
It is compensating.
The problem is he is “all talk no cattle.” Rick is use to a highly partisan right wing Texas Legisative branch.
Texas is not the entire United States (thankfully!)
Rick will be eating humble pie by the end of October or sooner. Much sooner.

Rick Perry likes to use “argumentum ad baculum”
People who have problems with articulation like to do this.
It is compensating.
The problem is he is “all talk no cattle.” Rick is use to a highly partisan right wing Texas Legisative branch.
Texas is not the entire United States (thankfully!)
Rick will be eating humble pie by the end of October or sooner. Much sooner.

I imagine you were as pleased as I about last night’s elections! Basically twelve (12) elections if we count the Koch Brothers/Walker Donald Segretti Memorial Dirty Trick Squad’s fake Democrats in the first round. And, the Democrats won eight (8). That’s 75%. 75%. That includes a Deistrict picked up by a Democrat but not held by a Democrat since Coolidge. And with Senator Schultz (R) who doesn’t share Walker’s and his colleagues’ hatred of hard-working American men and women trying to support themselves and their children and get some part of the American dream, this was Earth-shattering. You are rightly proud to be a Badger with these happenings!

I imagine you were as pleased as I about last night’s elections! Basically twelve (12) elections if we count the Koch Brothers/Walker Donald Segretti Memorial Dirty Trick Squad’s fake Democrats in the first round. And, the Democrats won eight (8). That’s 75%. 75%. That includes a Deistrict picked up by a Democrat but not held by a Democrat since Coolidge. And with Senator Schultz (R) who doesn’t share Walker’s and his colleagues’ hatred of hard-working American men and women trying to support themselves and their children and get some part of the American dream, this was Earth-shattering. You are rightly proud to be a Badger with these happenings!

Robert embarrassed that he was caught belting out Katy Perry tunes on a crowded bus , causing a mass exodus at the next stop .

I’m sure the RNC is pouring through mental wards throughout Alabama to find someone as I write.

I think saying my state is gonna secede is treasonous, but what do I know.

The bid was won by an American company that subcontracted the work to a Canadian company so make sure you include that fact when you talk about the bus the Secret Service ordered.

shogan83,
I believe he does it for political expediency but forgets the rest of the US is not Texas.
Perhaps rather than being a loose cannon, Perry is just naive about the other 49 states and out of his league.
Depends on what your definition of a loose cannon is. I would say he has shown “loose cannon” characteristics throughout his career, even if there is a degree of calculation. This may make it even scarier.

shogan83,
I believe he does it for political expediency but forgets the rest of the US is not Texas.
Perhaps rather than being a loose cannon, Perry is just naive about the other 49 states and out of his league.
Depends on what your definition of a loose cannon is. I would say he has shown “loose cannon” characteristics throughout his career, even if there is a degree of calculation. This may make it even scarier.

That beats an army of urbanized drug addicted rioting morons, ushered in by Obama’s destructive class warfare politics, any day. Perry and Texas are looking pretty good. 

Shorter mayhem: It’s the Secret Service’s fault.

 Does anyone doubt that Perry, at the very least – would pummel the current communist girly-man president in a physical confrontation?

Here is what real data-driven analysis of Rick Perry’s track record looks like.

http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=1590

Of course, don’t expect to see anything like this on MSNBC or in the mainstream media.  They don’t like data.  They like name-calling and one-liners.  

More of Mediaites ‘word play’. Thanks, nice comment.

That’s that Obama-hugging New York Times for you. Just like the rest of the libruhl media, they’ll never post a critical word about our president.

^ +1 Real Royal Emperor.

Tell it to the former Bush officials who found it inappropriate.

By the way, a good video about Bush:

http://online.wsj.com/video/roubini-bush-responsible-for-economic-woes/38310E7D-6753-4591-B5CF-55D6728547A1.html

I’m sure the RNC is pouring through mental wards throughout Alabama to find someone as I write.

Poring through . Keep running across people who claim to be royalty .

30 million dollars of union members money wasted to get two net state senate seats that change nothing .

Now, teachers don’t have union dues deducted anymore . They can choose to keep the thousand bucks a year rather than feed the union thug’s gaping maw .

Quite a victory .

TX people talk this way. Get over it. Not that I’d vote for the guy.

I do.  Obama would kick his worthless redneck ass clear out of the ring.

“They can choose to keep the thousand bucks a year rather than feed the union thug’s gaping maw ”

That is money they would have never earned without collective bargaining, so your point is lame. 

Regardless
of what Perry meant or how he said it, the fact is that the GOP is already
starting to get nervous about this guy. He’s already said enough that even Karl Rove is warning that he’s a loose cannon and a potential liability to the party. And now even Paul Ryan is being talked about as a candidate. Hardly a vote of confidence. At this point, you almost have to feel sorry for the Republicans. Their top tier candidates consists of a Texas blowhard with a questionable record and a penchant for mouthing off, a crazy congresswoman who’s accomplished nothing and regularly spouts fact-averse nuggets that later prove to be total BS and a notorious flip-flopping former governor with no core principles and a business record of job destroying. How will you Republicans ever choose from such an elite field?!

even The Economist said that printing more money is hardly controversial

Is it so unreasonable to note that Perry said it was “almost treasonous”?  

You can argue that the “almost” is irrelevant, but let me put it to you this way: would you rather crash your car or almost crash your car?

Fact: Loose cannon or not he will shellac Obama!

Good point, however may I point out that the work was not done by Americans was it. May I also point out that American made cars aren’t made in America anymore and foreign cars often are. We are talking about jobs are we not? You are talking about a large corporation that made money off farming out the work to Canadians. Obama was supposed to be talking about keeping the jobs in America by buying American made but the bus wasn’t American made.

A victory? I suppose if you dislike hardworking American men and women try to support their families and themselves and capture a bit of the American dream and if believe America’s salvation lies in the ignorance of its people.

Generally, in Texas, “Perry” and “straight” are not used in the same sentence.

Fact: Obama would play possum if confronted by Perry it’s in his nature. Just like when it was to be a tuff vote he would just do the present vote of duck and cover!

I think Tollbooth would run away screaming like a little girl. Nothing particularly tough about him beyond his talk.

Fact: Your right thankfully Texas isn’t paying for
all of Obama’s screw-ups! Humble pie must be the Yankee thing!

Fact: Ask Ron Paul about trying as an adult about the Fed. Didn’t work well did it!

Fact: In most widely view of Perry would be in Texas
that we would hate to lose him but America needs a real leader now and that we
have other republicans that can be governor if Perry has to go but if not Texas
will just re-elect Perry again. I wished you would just quit lying about how
most Texans think because you haven’t got a clue and that’s why you are a small
minority here and I bet it’s real hard for you to find others in the real world
to talk your BS too.

Fact: In most widely view of Perry would be in Texas
that we would hate to lose him but America needs a real leader now and that we
have other republicans that can be governor if Perry has to go but if not Texas
will just re-elect Perry again. I wished you would just quit lying about how
most Texans think because you haven’t got a clue and that’s why you are a small
minority here and I bet it’s real hard for you to find others in the real world
to talk your BS too.

Fact: Why look when you are right in front of us spewwing garbage!

I’d rather not traffic rumors of sexual preference but it’s interesting that you say that.  A girlfriend I had in college was an assistant to a Republican judge in North Texas.  As such, she would attend TFRW conferences.  She told me that Perry was referred to as ‘Ricky’ at the meetings due to these rumors.

Fact: If I simply ignore what’s been written and type something meaningless, I can call it a “fact”!

Fact: If I scramble words into a meaningless salad of garbage, I can call it a “fact”!

Fact: I can’t type, I can’t spell and I can’t think, but I just love posting here and calling BS “facts”!

Fact: The doctors don’t know I’m using the computer between electro-shock therapy sessions. It’s a “fact”!

You mean the former Yell Boy from Texas A&M. Why couldn’t he make the football team? It’s Texas.

Wonder how quick Todd Palin would make yoiu shit your pants if you somehow was forced to
come face to face with him?  HUMMMMM?

If you give the job to an American company you have the right to think in good faith that Americans will be doing the job.  If the company goes out and hires Canadians how can you fault the American that gave the bid to another American?  Shouldn’t you blame the company that did the subcontracting rather than the American that did his job by hiring another American?

Sorry, you disingenuous libs; if calling people terrorists is OK, calling someone treasonous is just fine!

Grow the FK Up!

Only if you are naive and have no knowledge of economics and one would hope the president and or his people had that knowledge.

I assume you’re speaking of the T-Partee Terrorists?

There were two (2) reasons he didn’t make the football squad:

#1 He was afraid he’d get hurt.
#2 He couldn’t figure out how to put on the jock strap.

Todd Palin? Why is he in this discussion? Are you suggesting Todd and Tollbooth have a “special” relationship? That Todd needs to protect Tollbooth? You seem to have made my point. Thank you.

Expect more of this.  The sub-human trash – our self-appointed elites – in today’s political and media establishment will get up on their high horses about uncivil discourse while calling tea partiers and others who want to (actually) balance the budget “terrorists”, “racists”, “hostage takers” and the like. 

My one comfort is that people who think they are winning an argument don’t resort to name calling.  Name calling is a loser’s tactic, especially when the loser is a leftist.  And they know they are losing.

First I’ll say I don’t agree with this kind of rhetoric, regardless of who says it or how much I agree with them on the issues.  You can make your point just as strongly using logic and some righteous anger.  But liberals everywhere are spinning this to a huge degree, like they will with almost every one of his statements.  There’s a big difference between “almost treasonous” and “treasonous”, namely, one is claiming treason and the other isn’t.  Yet liberal talking heads are claiming he said treasonous.  Buchanan is right, in Texas this kind of talk is more common than elsewhere, but that’s irrelevant cause extreme rhetoric shouldn’t be used in a national conversation about issues.  But Perry is a Texan so he’s gonna use that style in future campaign stops and everybody might as well get used to it.  I agree with Perry though, the Fed can’t just keep printing money endlessly to artificially prop this economy up til it falls like a house of cards (like Kudlow says http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/274797/perry-s-red-hot-bernanke-slam-larry-kudlow), we gotta start making tough decisions about spending now so future generations won’t have to and suffer more.  Most of all we gotta have a successful jobs policy, and I’d take Perry’s results on that any day over Obama’s.

chester, talking about young boys again…stop

To The Emperor Has No Clothes,

YOU are the ONLY person I have ever heard push this meme. Perry’s no gay cowboy, honey. However, Michael Huffington was never considered a “catch” for any woman his age who wanted to have sex- perhaps you have your politicians mixed up. (Or, you have an obsession with Perry??? Do you have “lust in your heart,” RRE???)

Yes, Texas under Perry leads the nation in minimum wage jobs, and 47% of all government jobs added in the US between 2007 and 2010 were added in Texas.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/08/17/297833/perry-47-government-jobs/

Fact: The fact remains the same it’s just the fact! Just as stated a fact!

Fact: Perry has your boy beat just face the fact that it’s a fact!

Fact: The facts all speak for themselves just facts. You ask for the facts I give you the facts!

Fact: Event, item of information, or state of affairs existing, observed, or known to have happened, and which is confirmed or validated to such an extent that it is considered ‘reality.’ See also assumption, rule of thumb, and science. Those are my facts. The fact!

oooooooooo good one…

This Perry Clown just needs to keep talking and you drooling TeaBagger Cult members will keep nodding your heads in unison. 

This guy is perfect!!! Go TeaBaggers!!!

Way to go DISPUTING THE FACTS

Seriously republicans? Another “cowboy”? 

The Fed doesnt print money.

To any Republicans: why wasn’t the debt a big deal when Bush was giving huge tax cuts and starting 2 wars?

And Perry is “almost” a copy of GW Bush. He’s not a copy, but he’s “almost” a copy.

Well they should just pick Ron Paul since he had actually stood by his principles for 30 years.

What facts? Your indecipherable rant. Hahahahahaha…..

And it turns out that the opposite is true. Since the recession started hourly wages in Texas have increased at a 6th fastest pace in the nation.  Average hourly wage in Texas is more than $15, which compares favorably with other states. 

Here are real numbers, not agenda-driven spin:

http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=1590

When liberals do data-driven analysis like this, we will take them seriously.  But when they make up stuff that is easily disproved by the available economic data, you can only laugh at their pathetic disinformation campaign.

Lieberman was advocating spending bills to raise money for the Iraq adventure.  It got nowhere, of course, but he made his point as do you. 

 More corrections of Valkyrie’s mistakes:

in the last year the Texas public sector has shrunk by 26,000 jobs. In
the last 12 months, Texas lost 31,300 federal employees, trimmed 3,800
state jobs, and increased local government jobs by just 8,400 jobs.  Check out the Bureau of Labor Statistics — and not MSNBC if you want the correct info.

“Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion.”

Almost treasonous. 

“Coupled with his statement about treating Benanke “ugly,” it wouldn’t be terribly far-fetched to interpret Perry’s response as one advocating the death of Bernanke for treasonous activity. If that sounds insane well, then. Perhaps politicians should take care to keep their rhetoric less inflamed and hyperbolic and take care to avoid provocative words like “treasonous.””

LOL!

I think Good Lt. said it best: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/morning-joe-suggests-rick-perrys-treason-comment-is-just-texas-trash-talk/#comment-289383555

Yes, be careful about saying “almost treasonous”, but feel free to talk about Repubs holding guns to the head of Obama and the country, and call Repubs terrorists, and hostage takers…

Where’s Dave Weigel and his fainting couch story about this?

“On substance, Perry is correct. A strong argument can be made that the Fed’s bond buying caused inflation to flare, squeezing consumers and slowing the economy. ”
http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/08/16/perry-vs-romney-on-ben-bernanke/

Economists Say Rick Perry is Right About Fed Chairman and QE Money Policyhttp://www.zimbio.com/Ben+Bernanke/articles/-tCd2zUiIwf/Economists+Say+Rick+Perry+Right+Fed+Chairman

“Don’t pretend you’re in mortal danger if someone uses a label you don’t like and you’re not next to your fainting couch.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/08/02/the_freedom_to_call_people_terrorists_.html

if you listened to tea partiers/repubs, you would know that it is a big deal. the tea party anger didn’t sprout up overnight. it was growing for quite some time. 

Such a shame.

No, I’m pretty sure it sprouted up right when a black guy was coming into office.

 I agree.  Word playing is getting out of hand today.  Everyone is on edge and trying their hardest to disgrace the next guy.  Gone are the days when people worried about hurting the feelings of other. The world has gotten so out spoken that any words said are going to be “picked at” continuously till it gets tiresome.  He said, she said and then of course you have the person who turns it around to add the rethoric. 

Nice try to “nice up” what Perry actually did say.  The inference was there, that is for sure.  Perry lacked the guts to come right out and say what he was thinking but his comment though garbled, got his message out so that anyone who thinks at all got his crude message,  But this snide comment was no doubt a swipe at President GW Bush.  Perry seems to have forgotten the 1st Republican commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican”.  With this sort of rhetoric, who needs opposition stuff from the other party.  We just grow our own opposition from within!  May I refer Perry back to Reagan’s speeches for clarification!

Nice try to “nice up” what Perry actually did say.  The inference was there, that is for sure.  Perry lacked the guts to come right out and say what he was thinking but his comment though garbled, got his message out so that anyone who thinks at all got his crude message,  But this snide comment was no doubt a swipe at President GW Bush.  Perry seems to have forgotten the 1st Republican commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican”.  With this sort of rhetoric, who needs opposition stuff from the other party.  We just grow our own opposition from within!  May I refer Perry back to Reagan’s speeches for clarification!

like i said, if you ever actually listened to them, or knew anything about the movement, you would know the truth. you don’t.

So since when did anything that has to do with Bush become a source of credible reference to you left-wing lunatics?

Analyze those nmubers. Perry had little or nothing to do with the discovery of the Eagle Ford shale and the increased drilling, Perry had little or nothing to do with the enlargement, adding medical facilities etc.at Fort Sam Houston and other government projects in Texas, moving companies here from other stats was not “creating” jobs. The Tyota plant in San Antonio was a result of the City Council and the Commisioners Court. Now, Look at Perry’s pet projects and how he took more and more funds from the public schools to fund those. Then there are the other things that misused taxpayer money and we don’t know where all of it went.