The WSJ On Perry

Here's their comment on his statement that "we'd do" "something pretty ugly" to Ben Bernanke in Texas:

Everybody knows Mr. Perry meant no literal harm and was indulging the irrational exuberance that is one of his trademarks. The faux-outrage from liberals who routinely refer to the tea party as "terrorists" shouldn't be taken seriously.

There is nothing faux about the outrage here. And the bargaining position of the GOP over the debt ceiling was classic economic terrorism – using a collapse of the entire global economy as leverage for their anti-tax fanaticism. The threat of personal thuggery is not "irrational exuberance." It is rational intimidation.