Rick Perry Really Really Wants the Border Crisis to Be Obama's Katrina
Texas Governor Rick Perry got his turn to speak about his meeting with President Obama on Wednesday night, hours after the president characterized the pair's roundtable immigration discussion as "constructive." Speaking on Fox News's "Hannity," Perry took the opportunity to say that President Obama was acting like George W. Bush after Katrina, because he didn't plan on visiting the Texas border during his trip this week. “I think about the criticism that George W. Bush received when he didn’t go to New Orleans [during] Katrina, this is no different,” he said.
President Obama said on Wednesday that he didn't plan a border trip this week because he was already addressing the crisis through proposing informed solutions to fix the problem, and didn't need a "photo op." "This isn't theater," he added. Perry told Fox host Sean Hannity that during his brief one-on-one meeting with Obama before the roundtable discussion, he explained why he wanted a presidential border visit anyway: "I really want you to come and see this because this is important for you to absorb as a father, but more importantly as President of the United States," Perry said he told Obama. The insinuation is a familiar one from critics of the president: Perry is making a character assessment about Obama's ability to "lead." That came up more directly later in the interview:
“He needs to understand instinctively and intuitively and with his own two eyes what’s going on on the border,” Perry added to Hannity.
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it's bush's mess at the border to begin with. His law, signed by him. Supported by repugs. 
How mature. I wonder if the Republicans keep a play book of slights to even up the score on. Sometimes I think they are all about revenge. That is when they aren't obstructing the government to make the President look bad. They don't govern for the people. They 'play' politics. And they play dirty. The sucker-punch of of fake outrage over contrived media hoaxes. Filthy, dirty, greedy, sellout, hypocrites. I have no respect for these partisan hacks. They are hollow.
What makes me sick is how fast Democrats are smeared with the tainted brush, and drug into Republicans' corrupt behavior, perceptions by the public. We are not as bad as them. Once in a while one of us are caught with our pants down, but most of the big scandals are Republicans. They put on a religious facade and the behave like sociopaths. Most of them are charming con men that lie to your face and make speeches with the skill of a film actor. Enough Rant over.
I just like to rant and rave some days.
