Maybe there’s something disconcerting about a southern governor standing in South Carolina and bellowing about “war” with the federal government, and maybe there isn’t.
Either way, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) brought up not one but two wars he says President Obama has declared on the people of the south since taking office. The first is a war on South Carolina. From a rush transcript of Monday’s debate in the Palmetto State:
I’m saying also that South Carolina is at war with this federal government and with this administration…when you look at what this justice department has done, not only have they taken them to , they have also taken them to task on their immigration law and the most egregious thing is the National Labor Relations Board where they come into a right to work state and tell the state of South Carolina we aren’t going to let a private company come in here.
The second war Perry mentioned is a broader conflict aimed at all of organized faith:
Look, I’ve said this administration is at war against organized religion. And when you look at what they have done, going after churches because churches had that ministerial exception in that and can decide who they were going to hire at their churches, the idea that the Catholic charities cannot take money or the federal government, this administration won’t give them those dollars for sexually trafficked individuals because this administration doesn’t agree with the catholic church on the abortion. If that’s not a war on religion, I don’t know what it is.
