Perry suggests predator drones for border patrol (Politico)

Glen Johnson tidily wrote up Rick Perry’s initial foray into policy prescriptions while he was in New Hampshire on Saturday at a house party, taking questions from the crowd there.

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One answer dealt with securing the border with Mexico, which his state abuts, and for which he suggested a more sophisticated and muscular approach to dealing with drug cartels:

“You have those boots on the ground and in preparation have 3,000 additional border patrol and probably another 1,000 to go on to the Pacific. And then you use the aviation assets that we have.

“I mean, we know that there are Predator drones being flown for practice every day because we’re seeing them, we’re preparing these young people to fly missions in these war zones that we have. But some of those, they have all the equipment, they’re obviously unarmed, they’ve got the downward-looking radar, they’ve got the ability to do night work and through clouds. Why not be flying those missions and using (that) real-time information to help our law-enforcement? Becuase if we will commit to that, I will suggest to you that we will be able to drive the drug cartels away from our border.” 

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Perry blasts Fed, Obama in noisy start to presidential race (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry has only been a presidential candidate since Saturday, but the Republican hopeful has already produced some of the most inflammatory rhetoric of the early 2012 campaign.

Perry seemed to threaten Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday, saying another fiscal stimulus would be “treasonous,” a sign of the political heat the central bank faces as it tries to right the stumbling economy.

“If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don’t know what y’all will do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas,” Perry said, to laughter from supporters in Iowa, which will hold the first elections of the presidential campaign in February.

“Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous, treasonous in my opinion,” he said at the campaign stop.

Under Bernanke, who was appointed in 2006 by President George W. Bush and reappointed by President Barack Obama, the Fed has mounted one of the most aggressive central bank easy money campaigns in history.

It cut interest rates to near zero in December 2008 and has since bought $2.3 trillion in assets to provide an additional prod to

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