Rick Perry came into the Texas governorship as George W. Bush’s Lt.Gov. But the relationship between Team Perry and Team Bush is not close. Now Karl Rove is piling on Perry’s ‘treason’ swipe at Fed Chair Ben Bernanke.

President Obama is getting some ribbing today for telegraphing that he’s going to release his ‘jobs plan’ in September. What took so long? The country has been in the grip of historic, catastrophic levels of unemployment for going on three years. All good points. And count me among those who wish he would have come forward with something like this in 2010 rather than 2011. But let’s get real. The President’s mistake is not coming forward with a plan when he — quite rightly — believed that the Congress would refuse to do anything to help create jobs — because of ideology and a desire to see President Obama defeated. Read More

People are rightly arrested by the image of a top presidential candidate calling the Fed Chair a traitor. But as Brian Beutler explains, what’s even more telling is why Perry’s calling him that. Not, apparently, because he has zealous beliefs in hard money like Ron Paul. It’s because it would make it harder for him to become President.