Remember when I and others opined that in Barack Obama's contrived invasion of the U.S. Southwest, Texas Governor Rick Perry may have "found his moment"? A circumstance he didn't seek out but an occasion to which he rose in such a compelling display of nationally-prominent leadership that it rekindled his presidential buzz and compelled even Sheila Jackson-Lee to sneer a little less?
Well, that embryonic electoral traction couldn't be allowed to stand, now could it?:
Governor Rick Perry of Texas was indicted on two felony counts on Friday by a state grand jury examining his handling of a local district attorney’s drunken driving arrest and the state financing for a public corruption unit under the lawyer’s control.
So much for his 2016 presidential ambitions. Governor Perry is in even worse shape than his New Jersey counterpart, Chris Christie, because "Bridgegate" produced no Double-C indictments. And you know, of course, that these trumped-up charges will be tangentially tarred all over border hawks with a media mega-roller and tsunami machine like an orbital bombardment.
But there's a tell-tale local connection as well that I'm sure we all remember:
The investigation centered on Mr. Perry’s veto power as governor. His critics asserted that he used that power as leverage to try to get an elected official and influential Democrat — Rosemary Lehmberg, the district attorney in Travis County — to step down after her arrest for drunken driving last year. Ms. Lehmberg is Austin’s top prosecutor and oversees a powerful public corruption unit that investigates state, local and federal officials; its work led to the 2005 indictment of a former Republican congressman, Tom DeLay on charges of violating campaign finance laws. [emphasis added]
Of which the former House Majority Leader was eventually acquitted and completely exonerated, as the New York Times helpfully omits. Or, in plain, non-Obamunist English, Governor Perry was playing the same partisan hardball against the vicious Texas Left as they did against "The Hammer," forgetting that only Democrats, not Republicans, are permitted to do so.
Will Perry pay the price for it? I doubt it. He, like Majority Leader DeLay, will be cleared of all charges eventually. But his re-burgeoning presidential hopes are already deader than the Obamaconomy - precisely as intended.
-American Daily Review
-Constitution Radio
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