Wednesday, October 28, 2009

"I don't think that's exactly the quote I made"

Lou Dobbs seems to think Texas Gov. Rick Perry's still on a secession kick.

Despite Perry's repeated denials, Dobbs resurrected the topic yesterday (which makes you wonder which is more jazzed about the idea).

DOBBS: You say Texans are so fed up with big government that the state may want to secede. The federal government certainly hasn't become any smaller. What do you think about the necessity of secession?

PERRY: I don't think that's exactly the quote that I made. But let's just say that people are fed up with big government. There is a reason that Republicans are not in power in Washington, D.C. a lot of folks put their hands up and say, listen, elect me and I want to go be a Republican and then they went up and they voted like Democrats. And people kicked them out. People are fed up with government spending our kids' future. These $1 trillion deficits are scaring people. Health care bills that have $1 trillion attachments to them, people are just fed up with that.