Sunday, August 17, 2014

Perry On Indictment: "I Wouldn’t Change A Thing"

by JASmius

Damn straight:

Texas Governor Rick Perry, indicted late Friday on abuse of power charges, said he would make the same decision if the situation repeated itself.

Perry is accused of threatening to withhold funding from the Travis County District Attorney's Office after D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg, who was arrested for driving while intoxicated and seen in a police station video kicking a door and demanding to see the sheriff."

This is not the way we settle differences —  political differences —  in this country," Perry said of the indictment in an appearance on "Fox News Sunday." "You don't do it with indictments. We settle our political differences at the ballot box."

No, Governor, we used to settle our political differences at the ballot box.  Now no political differences from the Obamunist party line are allowed, and dissidents will be severely punished.  With, in Rick Perry's case, a century in prison.

How ludicrously overboard-vindictive is this Donk fatwa?  Feast your bulging eyes on this tweet:



Unless he was demonstrably trying to scrap the ethics unit for other than his stated reason, Perry indictment seems pretty sketchy. 

When the 'stache thinks you've gone too far....well, let's just say it's like al Qaeda taking a look at the actions of the Islamic State and saying, "Woah, dude....."  And, of course, they have.

Perry addressed the actual veto and not his threat to withhold funds on Sunday, but said he has no regrets.

"If I had to do it again I would make exactly the same decision," he said.

"Regrets," as Spock once said, "are illogical."  Especially when you've not only not done anything wrong, but emphatically did the right thing.

And as Spock also once said, "Threats are illogical" as well, "and payment is usually expensive."

Especially at the ballot box.


UPDATE: Alan Dershowitz - "outraged":

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz calls himself a "liberal Democrat who would never vote for Rick Perry," but he's still "outraged" over the Texas governor's indictment Friday on charges of abuse of power and coercion.

The charges are politically motivated and an example of a "dangerous" trend of courts being used to affect the ballot box and politics, he told Newsmax on Saturday.

"Everybody, liberal or conservative, should stand against this indictment," Dershowitz said. "If you don't like how Rick Perry uses his office, don't vote for him."....

Further, Dershowitz said, such indictments are something that's done in totalitarian countries and should not be done in the United States.

In such countries, "if you don't like them, you indict," Dershowitz said. "In America, you vote against them...this should be up to the voters. There is no room in America for abuse of office charges, and this has to stop once and for all. This is a serious problem."

And indicting a politician, rather than fighting back through a ballot box, "is so un-American." [emphasis]

Evidently we are now a totalitarian country, Professor.

Former Clinton and Obama Regime strategist Jonathan Prince tweeted:

Have to say Perry indictment seems nuts. Gov[ernor] has constitutional power to veto. Gov[ernor] uses power. Grand jury indicts b[e]c[ause] they don't like reason?

Yep.  With intent to lock him up, effectively, forever.

Vox's Matt Yglesias:

"Hard for me to imagine these Rick Perry charges sticking," Yglesias wrote, adding, "Does anyone think this Perry indictment makes sense?"

Translation: Does anyone think this won't backfire against the Dems?  Big time?

New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait:

My *very* preliminary reaction to the Rick Perry news: I don't understand what law he broke.

I.e. it's not anything a Democrat governor wouldn't have done, and not been questioned about it in the slightest.

Think f'ing Progress:

"Though the state legislature probably could limit this veto power in extreme cases — if a state governor literally sold his veto to wealthy interest groups, for example, the legislature could almost certainly make that a crime — a law that cuts too deep into the governor’s veto power raises serious separation of powers concerns."

And in case you had any lingering doubts about what an incompetent, mafia-esque, retaliatory hit job this is for Perry's nationally prominent leadership on Obama's Border Crisis....:

"We call on Governor Perry to immediately step down from office," Gilberto Hinojosa, president of the Texas Democratic Party, said. "Texans deserve real leadership and this is unbecoming of our governor."

Except, of course, that Perry is stepping down at the end of this year anyway.  Hinojosa can't wait a few more months?  Ah, but what would RP do after that, with his presidential star on the rise?

Bingo.  Maybe Texas Donks can't literally bury Rick Perry alive, but they can, they believe, make sure his retirement is aggrieved, impoverished, and persecuted, so much so that he'll rue the day he ever did what no Republican is ever supposed to do: get "uppity" and forget their second-class citizen "place" on the lower societal caste, the bottom of the rightfully-Democrat-ruled political food chain.

Or maybe President Perry will shove it up their collective ass sideways, completely with vibrating razor blades.  Something Rosemary Lehmberg might have enjoyed, come to think of it, if she were drunk enough.


UPDATE II: Detailed legal analysis, if you're interested.

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