9 Completely Bonkers Things The Newest GOP Presidential Candidate Believes About The Constitution

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Think Progress

Former Texas Gov. Rick ... Perry’s second attempt to secure a home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Perry showed commendable candor in the lead-up to his 2012 bid regarding his unorthodox views about the Constitution. Most politicians who hope to win a national election, for example, would not openly admit that they believe that Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional.

... In 2010, he published a book, Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington, laying out his narrow understanding of the Constitution in considerable detail. ...

Here are some of Perry’s more surprising beliefs:
1) Social Security And Medicare Are Unconstitutional

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... "I don’t think our founding fathers when they were putting the term ‘general welfare’ in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care,” Perry told the Daily Beast’s Andrew Romano in 2011.

He offered similar views in a 2010 address to the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) National Policy Summit. ...

2) All Other Federal Health Programs Are Also Unconstitutional

... his statement that Congress’s constitutional authority to spend money does not permit “a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care” sweeps broadly, implicating all federal health care programs. So that means that programs such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program or much of the Affordable Care Act would also cease to exist under Perry’s vision.

Perry has also made statements suggesting that any federal laws regulating the health care industry are unconstitutional. ...

3) Federal Clean Air Laws Are Unconstitutional “Nonsense”

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4) Federal Education Programs Are Unconstitutional

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5) Nearly All Federal Laws Protecting Workers Are Unconstitutional

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More of this delusion...
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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Rick Perry will never be President. Aside from the fact that he's an idiot,

he's also under indictment on two felony counts. I'm not sure he'd be allowed to do president stuff from a prison cell, which is a much more likely future residence for him than the White House. The first charge of the indictment is abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funding for the Public Integrity Unit, a state public corruption prosecutors' department. The second charge is coercion of a public servant, a third-degree felony.

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2. Maybe he wants to be President so he can pardon himself?

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3. Until recently Perry thought that Constitution

was something you take Ex-Lax for.

[struggle4progress]

4. Texas man in the news!