Apparently, Gov. Rick "Oops" Perry has remembered the third thing he wants to get rid of in government. Turns out,
it's Congress::
If elected president, Texas Gov. Rick Perry promised “uproot” the federal government Tuesday, unveiling a range of sweeping reforms that include term limits for federal judges and Supreme Court justices, a part-time Congress, and laws criminalizing insider trading among legislators. [...]
In Perry’s Washington, members of Congress would receive half the pay and half the office budgets they currently have to encourage creation of a part-time legislative branch. Perry threatens to halve their pay again if they fail to balance the federal budget by 2020.
“Congress is out of touch because Congressmen are overpaid, over-staffed and away from home too much. American has had enough of that,” Perry said.
Um ... uh ... what? Perry wants to do away with the do-nothing Congress—the one that's planning to work a whole whopping 109 days next year—and replace it with a "part-time legislative branch." Isn't it already a part-time gig? And if working 109 days out of the year isn't "full time" in Perry's book, can you even imagine what a part-time Congress would look like?