David Axelrod: Rick Perry Has a ‘Record of Decimation’

Consider the source.

Words from the man who calls his fellow countrymen “terrorists” for trying to get our country’s spending down?

You talk a good game, but when its time for the rubber to meet the road: Why is the pipeline from Canada to the Texas coast not being built (that will create possibly 100,00 jobs)? Why aren’t more oil and gas drilling permits being issued – on land permits – that could employ up to 230,000 people? OH, you don’t like fossil fuels! Tell that to the 16M unemployed.

I’ve been to Texas. It’s sort of how I imagine hell. I don’t want the rest of the country to be like that.

A record of decimation?
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black….

Thanks to Perry and his policies, Texas enjoys the highest levels of carcinogens in their air in the entire country. Texas also ranks at or near the bottom in school graduation rates, school grades, and scholarships. On the plus side, they DO execute more people than any other state (even a few who were later proven to be innocent). They also have the highest per capita incarceration rate in the WORLD, even though recidivism (that’s the rate at which criminals repeat being criminals once they leave prison) has increased and crime continues to increase under Perry. Sorry Texas, but you can keep this guy……..

Axelrod can talk about decimation and God knows we don’t need another half-wit stumble bum from Texas. But overseeing a state economy responsible for creating half of the new jobs in America is a strong platform. And I blame the GOPers in Congress for being unable to cut a deal that involves closing corporate loopholes and rolling back Bush tax breaks for the super rich. But I also blame Obama for not having the skill set and personal qualities needed to unlock the gridlock and forge the needed compromises. When he negotiates, he is the most powerful man in the room but he acts like a starving man grateful for crumbs. He’s supposed to be the Commander-in-Chief. When he says America deserves better, Americans hear that and say that’s what you told us in 2008 – it starts at the top.

well, according to Axelrod, the only man in America with the ability to be President is Obama. Yeah right

“Thanks to Perry and his policies, Texas enjoys the highest levels of carcinogens in their air in the entire country.” This all happened since Perry arrived on the scene? Really? Are you sure it wasn’t Bush’s fault? Good Lord!

Hey SeaRambler; Texas is also in the middle of a drought. You left that one out.

Where is attack doggett? He and Axelrod must be doing the DNC tag team thing.

Corrupt that is.

When asked: “…would they accept an approach to the deficits, to the debt that would include ten parts cuts and one parts raising revenues and they all raised their hands and said ‘no.’”
That’s why I can’t vote for any of them at this point.
I wish Obama had let the Clinton tax rates reset last Dec. He thought you could compromise with Tea Party controlled Republicans, but most Americans know that is not true.
Letting the tax rate reset would have been a bigtime bargaining chip.

I hope they do start thinking like the Tea Party and have some accountability. The DNC is going to regret trying to blame all their big spending, failed polices, etc on a group that has begged them to stop spending. Just makes more people want to join the movement.

Why don’t they just come out and say that the republican’s in Congress are blocking any possibility of recovery, its not all congress only the republicans want this country to fail.

On Que or what. The oil industry pays for every thing well open the drilling and let every one have some pie. Lower Gas prices certainly will not hurt the economy. And
complaining about schools who is offering
waivers because testing just to much on the little kids. And a Growing military that your
party will try to decimate in this upcoming
Super Committee.

Did anyone hear Mitt talking yesterday where he said in so many words about creating jobs: He essentially said, that the trickle down theory works. Of course it is true that the big corporations will create more jobs, but not necessarily in the US. Maybe 5000 in the US and 100,000 overseas. That is what happened to a company called Delphi according to an article in Newsweek by Gov Jennifer Granholm this week.
Also, they can park their funds in an offshore account so they don’t pay any taxes.
There is a book discussed this on BookTV on C-span this weekend titled, “Treasure Islands” written by a Brit, Shaxon, I believe his name was.
I also heard Mitt say something about repatriating off shore money so the big companies can bring it home tax free. We did that in 2005, I hear.

Axlerod is really good at getting out the vote. Republicans come out in droves to vote against him.

I am only about 60 percent Democrat and about 40 percent Republican. I almost always stick to economics issues which probably smacks of Keynesian style economics which worked during the big depression which I was born in.
The problem is, 100 percent of the Tea Party Republicans believe in Trickle Down economics. That is as good a voting record that Saddam had in Iraq. He received 100 percent of the vote!
Being a Republican is easy. There is only one message: Cut, Cut, Cut and the rich will trickle jobs down on the poor and create jobs. That is an easy message to learn.

Mr. Axelrods candidate has been officially endorsed by Communist Party USA, Hamas, and Louis Farakhan. I want nothing to do with that & either should he.

I live in Texas and it is a fine place. We have a good education system, fine roads, great wildlife and the freedom to do what we want. And jobs are plentiful with no state income tax. Axelrod is a dope and he can stay in Chicago if he wants. Me, I’ll stay in Texas.

The answer to all of Mr Axelrod’s claims are: “I know you are but what am I?”

I wonder how many of the jobs ‘created in Texas’ are actually IN Texas. Two of my last three employers’ offices are in Dallas, but I actually worked in D.C. for one, and am currently working in Maryland for my present employer. The question is, do they count my job as having been ‘created in Texas’? If so, then the rate of job growth in Texas may be substantially lower than the numbers would indicate.

Oh yeah, a Rick Perry would create a wonderland. During his time as Texas Governor, here’s his legacy:
1) Attempted forced vaccinations of adolescent girls for HPV (an unproven vaccine), yet he vetoed a bill for texting while driving (second in driving DEATHS only to drunk driving) because he did not want to “micromanage” Texans.
2) He consistently supported increasing property taxes and added unfunded mandates to be shouldered by municipalities in Texas.
3) Perry personally lobbied for laws favoring private prisons throughout Texas, at state with the longest sentences and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the WORLD, even though recidivism and crime continues to increase throughout Texas.
4) Perry has taken Bush’s unbalanced budget of a $6 billion deficit and expanded it to $28 billion.
5) As a governor, he used his powers to “volunteer” National Guard units to serve, fight and die in foreign wars more than ANY other state.
6) Texas has the highest rate of executions per capita in the WORLD under Perry, including multiple executions later proven to be of innocent people.
7) Texas is ranked at bottom of national school grades, graduation rates and scholarship rates, along with some of the lowest education funding in the US.
8) JOBS? Texas unemployment has gone up from 7.7% to 8.0% over the past two years. By that measure, Texas has done WORSE than the rest of the country since the peak of national unemployment in October 2009.
So how did Perry “create” jobs? Beginning in 2003, Gov. Perry persuaded the Texas legislature to give him control over several massive, largely unsupervised funds (hundreds of Millions of taxpayer dollars) that gave subsidies to businesses.
A December 2010 analysis by the Texas comptroller found that $119 million of that money went to companies that DID NOT deliver on the jobs they promised. And, the Dallas Morning News found that $16 million was awarded to companies that were large campaign donors to the Perry campaign.

The Rick Perry Trivia Quiz
1. At which stadium and in front of how many people did Rick Perry take a victory lap after stating that Texas should secede from the United States?
2. How many teachers have lost their jobs in Texas?
3. How many state employees have lost their jobs?
4. What is the average wage of all of the new jobs created in Texas in the last few years? In what industries?
5. How many more families in Texas are living in poverty over the last few years?
6. How many more children in Texas are living in poverty over the last few years?
7. What is the income gap between the wealthiest and poorest Texans?
8. How, exactly would Governor Perry have made health care in Texas more affordable and accessible by refusing to participate in Medicaid?
9. How many local government workers have lost their jobs in Texas over the last few years?
10. How many community clinics have recently or are about to close in Texas?
11. How many jobs is Bell taking out of Texas?
12. Why did Governor Perry attempt to require that all young girls in school in Texas be vaccinated with Gardasil? Why didn’t he just make it widely available at an affordable price?
13. How much is the state of Texas paying for Governor Perry’s rent house? How big is it? What kind of a neighborhood is it in? What amenities does it have? Why is it taking so long to repair the Governor’s mansion? Is that why he wants to live in the White House?
14. What exactly were Governor Perry’s legislative priorities in the last legislative session?
15. Which legislative priority of Governor Perry’s did he re-introduce in the special session called to resolve the school budget crisis that was defeated twice by the Texas legislature?
16. On average, how many bills does the Texas legislature pass when they meet every other year, and what percentage does Rick Perry veto by pen or pocket?
17. What exactly do Rick Perry’s evangelical pastor supporters believe? And which of those might he not totally agree with?
18. Why exactly did Rick Perry choose to sit out the primary in Iowa, waiting to be on the ballots for primaries in southern states?
19. When did Rick Perry become a Republican? When did he become a conservative?
20. What did Governor Perry do to impede the work of the state Forensics Commission’s investigation into an alleged arson that lead to the execution of a potentially innocent man?
21. How does Texas rank in the size of its prison system, the percentages of the population incarcerated and the number of executions annually?
22. How does Texas rank in the number and size of corporations who exceed national standards for air and water emissions?

Axelrod has nothing to stand on but failed policies and huge debt so he and the Dems have to run down every candidate. This is going to really hurt the Democratic party, everyone is sick of negative campaigning and want to see facts and figures.

Searambler–”Texas enjoys the highest levels of carcinogens in their air in the entire country. Texas also ranks at or near the bottom in school graduation rates, school grades, and scholarships. On the plus side, they DO execute more people than any other state (even a few who were later proven to be innocent). They also have the highest per capita incarceration rate in the WORLD,”— Humm, lets compare..the Down side of Perry with what we have in the white house shall we? Unemployment 9.1% three years after the recession, “true” unemployment equal to the levels of the great depression (around 18% to 20%), Lowest percentage of per capita workers in this country since the depression (58.3%), Record number of people on food stamps, record number of people on welfare, record number of people who’s homes are deliquent or in default, largest single day death toll in Afganistan since our forces arrived occurred this month, not only have we not progressed in our two conflicts, but we are now involved in a third (without congressional approval), To date, over 2,000 “exemptions have been given on the healthcare bill to prevent it from bankrupting the companies, 100% of current healthcare programs have indicated increases in premiums, some by as much as 15 to 20%, An increasing number of businesses have decided to DROP or cut back existing healthcare plans, Iran is about one year away from becoming the first terrorist state to be a nuclear power, which they have already indicated will be used to destroy Israel, We just received our FIRST EVER credit rating downgrade due NOT to the tea party as Obama claims, but according to Standards and Poors, because we refuse to reduce out of pontrol spending significantly. Obama also just announced the suspension of school test score minimums because too many AMerican schools are failing to make them.. You complained about Perry’s education record – maybe he should just do like Bo and remove the minimums so no one fails… Are you sure you want to compare ANYONE’s record with Obama’s??

NO_ONE | AUG 12, 2011 10:59:43 AM…….Thank you for pointing that out. After doing additional reading on the pipeline, I now think TransCanada needs to find an alternate route (that will create jobs and an economical transpotation mechanism for the oil). FWIW, A NY Times article about the pipeline ignored the oil spill risk while highlighting James Hansen’s (NASA employee and global warming proponent) CO2 concerns (without referencing Dr Roy Spencer’s peer reviewed paper that refute’s the CO2 computer models).

Straight from Obama’s teleprompter (err.. teleprompter’s speech writer)

David Axelrod is a racist homophobe. Name calling is easy. Not necessarily true. Let the character assination from the progressive socialist begin.

He’s talking about obama! Tea Party will fix this in 2012! We fixed WI..and Congress on 2010! Nothing you can do to stop it! :)

Where did David Axelrod get his information? Sounds like he or his staff are quoting Lis Smith, a spokeswoman for the “Democratic” Governers Assoc., (speaking in an ABC news article by Amy Bingham(8/12/11). There wouldn’t be any negative spin coming from that organization now would there? Tut, tut, is the Obama camp already this worried about Rick Perry entering the campaign?

“Why don’t they just come out and say that the republican’s in Congress are blocking any possibility of recovery, its not all congress only the republicans want this country to fail.
Posted by: Rich1598″
I don’t know. Maybe because that’s complete BS? The House Republicans passed a budget. They passed Cut, Cap & Balance. What have the Senate Democrats done in terms of the budget? Nothing for nearly 2 1/2 years. How can you ever pave the way for an economic recovery if you don’t pass a budget and let business owners know what financial road you’re taking this country down?

Why is ABC performing as the mouthpiece for this political hack? Where is the other side to the story. I won’t hold my breath. LSM is corrupt.

Do not auto-start video ABC. Every time it auto starts I close the tab.

He’s the head yes man. That said, it’s time for a new President of this great nation. One that understands that the public wants Washington to “Stop” spending. It seems very hard for some to swallow the notion that America can fix her problems, but we must do it in a logical manner. 1st. Reduce the Gov. employee head count straight across the board. GS-1 thru GS-18 Reduce each classification individually by 35%. Cut Dept of Energy, Dept of Education, EPA, all by 35%. Every program, cut straight 35%. The flat tax is next. Everyone pays 12%. Companies, Corporations, private individuals. No more deductions or loop holes of any kind, for any reason!! Everyone pays equally. It’s very simple. But it takes a Gov. that’s interested in the individuals better being, not relection.

Alexrod is such a pathetic liar.
David, no one is buying what you and Obama are selling.
Game over.

So this is a story about one Democrat talking to another Democrat. How novel.

When people are saying TX has some of the highest crime rates, is this per-capita or just raw data? They do have a large population and keep in mind, in terms of crime and education, they are a massive border state with a huge illegal problem

Perry has accomplished a lot. Obama has never accoplished anything but the downgrade of the USA credit rating.
Who are you going to vote for? The guy who creates jobs or the guy who blames everyone else for everything?

Alexrod is scared of Perry, and for good reason.

Sorry for the typos. Also, the Hispanic reference is regarding the number of kids who don’t speak English as their first languge, not their heritage, as such. Many also came from poor backgrounds in Mexico where, traditionally, only the pampered, effete elite pursue education. I suspect they see education as something for the lazy and dishonest. Better to get out and work. And if you’ve ever pounded nails next to an Hispanic, you know they are hard workers.

Democrats constantly project their failings on their opponents. Rick Perry decimates what exactly. Decimation is the sole domain of king Obama. It sure is telling, and you kind of get a feeling about who scares them as well.

Searambler
Perry is another religious nut job ultra-conservative Texas governor.
As opposed to what? An incompetent boob, an abject failure?
We’ve had enough of THOSE to last a lifetime.
Agree, no more abject failure, incompetent boobs whining everyday!
He is unelectable in a general election, which is decided by moderates and Independents.
True and that makes Obama’s reelection in serious doubt.
Gallup Aug 4, 2011 – Just 37 percent of independents approve of Obama’s job.
moderates, Obama’s approval sunk to an all-time low of 49 percent last week.
RCP, Obama Approve at 43.5 Wrong Track at 73.8.
Stick a fork in him, he’s done!
He would turn this nation into a third world country with a huge ‘working poor’ population supporting his rich cronies.
As opposed to what? A third world country with a huge ‘NON-working poor’ population?
Sorry but class warfare won’t work.
No thanks, Perry…..
Doesn’t matter who is running against Obama, Obama will be judged by his record. You can’t fabricate enough smears to change 9.2% unemployment, $16 trillion in debt and Obama’s pledge of “Massive job killing tax increases” in 2013!

No_one
“How about because we don’t want the pipeline to go through the largest underground aquafir in the US (it covers parts of SD,NE,WY,CO,KS,OK,TX, and NM)”
So basically your against the pipe line because if there is a leak in that pipe line and that leak remains unnoticed, undetected for say 20,000 years, oil could contaminate the paleowater’s that is the Ogallala?
Congratulations!, your the reason Obama looked and sounded like a moronic idiot when hew said “shovel ready jobs!”
Present-day recharge of the aquifer with fresh water occurs at an exceedingly slow rate suggesting that much of the water in its pore spaces is paleowater, dating back to the last ice age and probably earlier. Withdrawals from the Ogallala are in essence mining ancient water.
Groundwater recharge
The rate at which recharge water enters the aquifer is limited by several factors. In many locations, the aquifer is overlain, in the vadose zone, with a shallow layer of caliche that is practically impermeable

Axelrod is correct that Perry is not entirely responsible for the Texas economy.
BUT, Obama is entirely responsible for our extremely slow recovery. David, you can’t have it both ways. Obama and his Democrat Congress passed a bill that the American people didn’t want, they prevented legitimate amendments to come to the floor of the Senate, and a national poll conducted just this last week suggested that by a 62% to 40% margin, Americans want it repealed. Yet this soft-spoken gutter-snipe has the audacity to imply that the Republicans are not acting the way that American Congress should act, yet ignores the fact that his party is just a bad in respecting the will of the people.

…aside to CND Fox…….I guess what you are saying is that our LEADER, if you will, should go on vacation with his family….he will put a few hours in on the beach in his free lodging,eating free food…..spending a couple of his own (I hope) bucks at the local ice cream shop, but will spend some time on the nation’s problems….my answer to you? Thank God FDR didn’t call a one way truce in WW2….just call me “No Respondent Left Behind…”

Axelrod has no credibility. He is nothing more than Obama’s chief dog washer…

What David Axelrod finds objectionable in Governor Perry’s policies is precisely what galvanizes his supporters; small government, the gradual elimination of social service which breed dependency, low taxes (Texas has no income tax), and the overt influence of evangelical Christianity in public life. One man’s politics is another man’s poisoon.

“Words from the man who calls his fellow countrymen “terrorists” for trying to get our country’s spending down?”
Cite, please. I didn’t know this.

oh lord in heaven we are so screwed. You would have thought that people would have learned after the absolute hell-scape that was the george w presidency, but no…

Alexrod is a joke,please let him keep talking, does he think the American people are stupid? There were quite a few people that fell for that B–L S–t in the last election. Now that the Obama supporters that were bought by Obama, and his corrupt staff at Acorn, he will not win, he never won, and everyone knows it, so move on Obama, to a golf course maybe they will let you play, start making your plans to move that extra large family back to Chicago, We will pay to see you fly away like Richard Nixon, That was so cool.

Republicans attacking Axelrod or any other Democrat who speaks the truth is typical. Democrats will have all the goods on Perry and we will be able to expose him as a Bush clone. We don’t need another lamebrain from Texas.

Perry is o.k. so far, I want to know more about his illegal immigration stance. Here in California/Mexifornia is a big problem. I am sure it is in Texas and Arizona and I read some time ago that Perry did not support Arizona Governors anti illegal immigration law.

The ONLY candidate from Texas is Dr. Paul. The rest are more of the same Big Govt Party.

The GOP, including governors, are nothing more than hand-picked “tools” of the rich and the powerful. Perry is nothing more than a “cute” Georgie Bush who will insist that the rich continue to get richer and to hell with the rest of us. Anyone who argues that social programs ought to be cut and that the tax loopholes created by Bush and Reagan ought to be exempt from change is nothing more than an “on your knees slave” of those rich and powerful who got us into this economic mess we all face today. As Buffet argued, “stop coddling the rich” and make sure that the rich contribute their fair share.

George Soros finances NPR, Move On, Media Matters, Fact Check, and Snopes (I was shocked at the last one) so along with MSNBC I am not surprised that the out and out lies they tell about the TEA PARTY MOVEMENT would be believed by some people that are easily led. I have been part of the Tea Party since it was founded and I subscribe to it completely. Ron Paul and a couple others are a bit over the edge but they have absolutely no control. We are just like the majority of the American Public in our views but the Liberal Democrat Party seems to be oblivious to that. We all work for a living and most of us either have small businesses or are professionals. The Tea Party is solidly middle class. I promise you, race is not an issue and I would be totally shocked if I heard anyone at a meeting or rally use the “N” word or disparage somebody because of their race or nationality. We started the Tea Party because of the Corruption in government and the capper was how the Liberals passed Obamacare with bribes, kickbacks, threats and payoffs to the drug and health insurance companies. Read the actual and you will be shocked

LOL, at first I misread the headline. I thought it said “Decriminalization”, my heart skipped a beat until I reread it, damn!

Of course we’d expect Axelrod to be biased. But I live in Texas, and he’s actually being truthful here. Perry has dragged the state to the bottom in dozens of categories. He has no problems with handing out millions to cronies, but guts public education budgets and assistance for children, poor, etc. Perry is exactly the kind of big money corrupt politician that we all would like to get rid of. Perry didn’t create all those jobs; the stimulus created or saved 205,000 of them. Thirty seven pct of the jobs created in Texas have been minimum wage or lower jobs with no benefits. People say they want to flock to Texas for jobs? C’mon, if you don’t mind 7.25 or lower per hour. Don’t expect to feed your family on that. Thousands of teachers are about to be laid off as the gutting of school budgets hits soon. I could go on and on about all the bad stuff Perry’s done here. Bottom line is..he’s all about money for himself and his cronies.

Corporate greed is the cause of unemployment in the united states.. Shipping over jobs oversea to earn more profits. Cutting employee benefit, pension and health care, while earning billions in profits. Top executive taking millions in payment… Corporate greed

“Letting the tax rate reset would have been a bigtime bargaining chip.”
Bush reset the tax when he closed the loopholes, we used to call them deductions. Why would anyone vote to raise their own taxes? It is not like the politicians have done wonderful things with the money in the first place.

Axelrod is a jerk. I am a Texas resident. When Texas was hit by fire disaster a few months ago, ObAMA deliberately did not give Texas much needed disaster aid. I live in the thierd poorest county in Texas. People who are poor and who lost everything they owned were not helped by FEMA, Rick Perry, Senator John Cornyn and Kay Hutchison begged Obama to reconsider, Obama said no to most Texas aid and never showed up in Texas. George Bush was ostrazied over hurrican Katrina, Obama got away with not helping his own people, aND DELIBERATEL DOING SO. Many Texas residents do not agree with Obamas policies.This is why Obama ignored Texas. Dictators in history hae had a habit of punishing citizens who do not agree with their policies. Texas has been the top state in teh nation for a long time with all major cites being the top cities where people are moving for jobs. This is becasue Perry and others in his administration know what they are doing economically. Texas is not wHAT most USA citizens want the USa to bew? Axelrod is an idiot, Anyone who would vote for Obama again is a nitwit. Many almost did not get their socisl security, medicares, ect recently becasue our country is in such terrible debt, Perry has run a state with a good economic record. NO TRUE cHRISTIAN WOULD HAVE ABOLISHED THE usA nATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, A DAY OUR COUNTRY HAD FOR DECADES for all religions to ask God to help our country. Obama is not a Christian, he is muslim.