what tunisia is. i mean, they were trying to win votes and they kept, actually i heard this more than once, saying we have to adjust to the tunisia society. and it s not and how did they adjust to the society and when we say moderating. how did they do that? i mean, several things, they sort of repeated that, where they sort of made, you know, in tunisia you have a strong system of right, particularly for women. and so it s the arab country that banned it has more or less put women at same legal status with men and they re obviously, you can drink freely, you can wear whatever you want. i saw that, you quoted one of the islamist leaders say what s the use of banning alcohol if you can still drink it at home. and said, look it, you guys tried that in america, didn t work very well. paul: didn t work out very well. so you re saying they consciously adjusted their views to accommodate these, what are our cultural norms now in tunisia.
paul: kim, that s a jobs ad aimed at iowa and a lot of money to put behind the plans. and is that the perry strategy, well, i don t maybe want to participate in all the future debates? is he going to have a big tv campaign now? he s got 17 million dollars to throw into this. yeah, this is what he s going to do. the debates have not been his strong point of the so what you re seeing is him coming out with big bold ideas and trying to define himself in key places like iowa and trying to do that telling the story he s wanted to do since he got into the race is he s a job creator and that s going to inspire some criticism and pushback from the other candidates and there s going to be a lot of looking into the record in texas and some things he s going to have to explain and that s going to be one of his strong points. can he dodge the debates, kim or is that going to hurt his campaign if he does? i don t know if he can totally dodge them. he made a good point. he pointed out what e
department of transportation, department of the interior. all of which found it s environmentally safe. hundreds of pages of an environmental impact assessment by the state department saying that the environmental impact is going to be minimal. if we can t do something like this, it s a question whether we can do anything at all. paul: what do you think the president is going to decide. i was going to say it s 10,000 pages of documents, 10,000 pages of documents. i think the president will approve it. i do. i think there s too much pressure on him. and 9% unemployment, you know, the economy going nowhere. i don t think he ll be able to turn it down. paul: and hurting, rejecting the pleas of a close apply, canada. bret, what do you think briefly. this pipeline goes through states that aren t going to vote for obama anyway, i think he turns it down. this is an article for the president i think he s going to turn it down. paul: i m with mary. and should the west be worri
yes, well, i think that would be, we are democrats, but we re also conservative muslims, so, yes, in parliament, we will try to pass more laws and one thing that he told me, he said. paul: one of the leaders. the founders, of 70 years old in exile for 20 years, he said in the west people are so terrified of sharia law. paul: sure. but remember that mubarak in egypt you have sharia mentioned in the constitution, to inspire a law and he says that sharia comes from the grass roots up not necessarily a saudi version of sharia and it s something that has to come from the society itself and some of the things they do, really not like because it s not our society, but in poland, you have harsh anti-abortion law and a lot of people don t find, in the west find it too strict and i think some of this will come out, the peculiarity will come out.
texas governor rig perry jumped into the reform debate. introducing a sweeping plan to overhaul the system an operational flat rate income rate of 20%. fox news paul has perry sliding to fourth place in the republican primary field. can his proposal put him back into the top tier? joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist dan henninger and jason riley and kim strassel. kim, start with you, rick perry offered this proposal that he called bold. do you think it s bold enough? well, it s as good a shot as he s going to have. i mean, he just looked at herman cain and success of herman cain and what s clear from mr. cain s 9-9-9 plan, where the enthusiasm is, he s making a bet that his flat tax is simpler, more concise, easier to explain and he can tap into top of that without