Perry said Tuesday he declined a border-security briefing from the NSC, a high-level panel chaired by President Barack Obama and key Cabinet members, because he “doesn’t need to meet with some more down-level staff people.”
Is Governor Perry not aware of who sits on the the National Security Council? I have to guess he doesn’t, because I can’t imagine anyone calling a single person on it ” down-level staff” of any sort. Every one of the members is a somebody in the US Government, like the chairman of the council … President Obama.
He complains because Obama, Nopalitano, and others won’t sit down and talk with him about border control issues, but then when Obama , Nopalitano, and others want to sit down and talk about border control issues with him, he can’t be bothered with them. Fact is, he doesn’t really want to talk to them about anything at all. He just wants to win the upcoming election, and he seems to think bashing the current US administration –no matter what they do or don’t do– will get him what he wants.
And poor Perry has to be in a bad mood about this as well:
Texas Democrats, led by Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Austin and backed by Houston-area Democratic lawmakers, inserted 287 words in the 52-page legislation requiring Perry to use the education aid “to supplement and not supplant” existing state funding for public education.
Democrats said they sought the binding legislative instructions to prevent Perry and the Texas Legislature from repeating their move last year when they used $3.2 billion in federal stimulus funds to balance the state budget and avoid depleting the state’s so-called “rainy day fund” rather than bolstering education.
Yes, heaven forbid anyone force the Texas government to use funding set aside for education on everything but education, as they have done time and time again in the past. Our schools didn’t get as crappy magically. They got that way because they have always gotten the short end of the stick on funding, even when the federal government gives us a pile of cash to help fix the problems.