New Rick Perry ad in Iowa calls Congressional opponents “foxes guarding the henhouse”

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - I don’t disagree that sending a pork-seeking legislator to the White House will do little to reform spending in Congress. We need look no further than the man we elected the last time for a good example of that problem, after all. Rick Perry’s argument that sending a fox to guard the henhouse won’t work is correct … as far as it goes. But it’s the part that follows that doesn’t work as well: