Rick Perry on September 10 disputed that the deficit could grow as high as $21 billion:
“That’s just rank political rhetoric,” Perry told an interviewer on BloomburgTV’s InBusiness program. “There’s a lot of speculation.” Perry predicted a shortfall of between $10 billion and $11 billion.
As usual, a lot of people fell for Perry’s puffery, including the normally lucid Kevin Williamson at National Review.
