From the pot calling the kettle black file:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's (R) suggestion Monday in Iowa that it would be "treasonous" for the Federal Reserve to engage in more quantitative easing turned heads and raised questions about the limits to Perry's folksiness on the campaign trail.
Perry suggested yesterday on the campaign trail that Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, would find himself in a "pretty ugly" situation in Texas if he were to authorize another round of quantitative easing, a method of pumping more money into the economy by essentially creating more money.
“If this guy prints more money between now and the election,” Perry said at a campaign function in Iowa. “I don’t know what y’all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas."
http://thehill.com/...
Perhaps he will force him to take a motorcade ride through Dealey Plaza. Who knows?
Of course, the ultimate irony is that here is a man who has broached the subject of secession on more than one occasion calling someone else "treasonous."
But some Republicans took umbrage at the way Perry made his remarks.
"Gov. Perry's comments about Chmn. Bernanke are inappropriate and unpresidential," said Tony Fratto, a former deputy press secretary for President George W. Bush, on Twitter.
Still waiting for word on any of the other "responsible" Republican candidates, I guess only Romney and Huntsman are left, to comment on this. Or maybe the man who originally appointed Bernanke head of the Fed. That other Texan.
UPDATE
Frowned upon by Karl Rove. I guess Karl is no longer buddies with his former client.
Bush political guru Karl Rove warned on Fox News Business television that Perry’s Bernanke comments sounded like he was going to “take him out behind the barn and whup him” and warned the candidate “did not help his cause.”
“To accuse Bernanke of being a traitor to his country — treason is a crime punishable by death — to say you are going to treat him pretty ugly if he was down in Texas, this was unpresidential and unnecessary,” said Rove.
And DNC reacts:
Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Melanie Rousell dismissed Perry’s unusual broadside at Bernanke as “inflammatory schoolboy taunts” that left other Republican candidates “looking positively thoughtful.”
She also invoked Perry’s past controversial remarks suggesting Texas might secede, saying he “would have needed a passport to visit Iowa if he had his way.”
http://news.nationalpost.com/...