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We don’t have brain farts about the substance of things we know well and care deeply about. So, if Rick Perry had carefully combed through the federal budget and concluded that the functions of those three agencies were either unnecessary, or best moved elsewhere, he’d know that. He’d know that he wanted to either eliminate funding for energy research, or move it elsewhere. And thinking about the substance of the issue for a millisecond would give him the name of the department he planned to cut.
- a Dish reader on the slo-mo trainwreck of Perry’s “I would do away with the Education, uh the uh Commerce and, let’s see, I can’t. The third one I can’t. Sorry. Oops.”
