Perry Points to ‘Idiotic’ U.S. Rule That Doesn’t Exist

LuckyDan said:

If he has said he made a mistake, he shouldn't have, because he didn't, at least not in the Waterloo speech. I can't find a transcript, but here is the video. He lists in his speech four points about the type of government he wants to install, with the third point being sensible and predictable regulation.

Of the subject point, at 10:20, he says this:



FULL SPEECH: Rick Perry in Waterloo | The Right Scoop

If this is the speech the blogger is referring to, he misled his readers. And Perry made no mistake.

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I posted the quote here in this thread.

Redress said:

I posted the quote here in this thread.

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Your quote is from the Soapbox speech at the Fair, on Monday, and it is accurate.

Let me give you just a — this is such an obscene, crazy regulation. They want to make — if you are a tractor driver, if you drive your tractor across a public road, you are going to have to have a commercial driver's license. Now, how idiotic is that?

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Here is the next line, spoken as someone in the audience shouted twice, "That's not true!"

Senator Grassley, last night, I said "Senator I heard that, in the last two days, that they were going to put that type of regulation in place," and your own US Senator, sitting right there at the table said, '"That's right." I said, 'What were they thinking Senator?" and he said, "They weren't."

Rick Perry at The Des Moines Register soapbox | Video Library | Indianola Record Herald

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From there he went on to say the EPA is stifling energy production.

In the first speech, he asked if it were true. In the second, he related that the Iowa Senator confirmed that yes, it was true. If it comes up in a third speech, there's either something to it, or he loves the riff and isn't letting it go. My guess is he'll find a better example of a dumbass regulation.

Top Cat said:

So you spin this as if somehow it was equivalent to a campaign promise to somehow discredit Obama? Really? And you suggest I'm the apologist?

Priceless.

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I am just saying the view is not always what it appears to be from that side of the fence, unless, of course, you are blind and never intend to leave your own yard.

apdst said:

You mean, like when Obama said his uncle's unit liberated Auschwtiz? Those kinds of substantive facts?

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Lets not forget the Medal of Honor recipient Obama misspoke about giving the honor to posthumously, or was that also a substantive fact ? Not exactly presidential, maybe he should have a "fact checker" programmed into his teleprompter...

Coming first hand from from a farmer himself, our semis are now regulated much more thoroughly than before, I want to say it passed somewhere in the health care bill, don't quote me on that. But there use to be a seperation of expectations basically between commercial semis and small business semis such as farmers, but now theyre hammering us with fines that can easily add up tp $10,000, and have made it so we have to drug test all of our drivers, and basically register them, which is ignorant. Especially since between farmers its very easy for a truck driver to drive for 3 or 4 different farmers, sorry I went off topic a bit.

Hmmm, guess he screwed up.

Gov. Perry did not claim that a federal requirement for farmers driving motorized farm equipment vehicles on public roads was in fact law. However, according to the OP Gov. Perry did elude to such a requirement becoming law under the Obama Administration. As has been noted, the matter was initiated at the state level (Illinois) not the federal level. Per the review conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, it was determined that no such CDL requirement was necessary nor forthcoming.

Case close.

As to the other stuff brought up in an attempt to discredt the President, i.e., his policies or "broken" campaign promises, I call it fodder to pump up a GOP candidate in the wake of his inaccurate statement. Good to hear Gov. Perry has recanted his commentary. Unfortunately, that's twice since he has announced he was running for the presidency that he has made outlandish comments that make him look like someone out on the fringes. If he's not careful, he could end up looking like yet another nut-ball among the field of GOP nominees and that certainly can't help his political aspirations beyond his governorship.