Karl Marx famously said that "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." So it is with Texas Governors George W. Bush and Rick Perry. After all, Perry isn't merely trying to follow the path blazed by his predecessor from the Lone Star State to the White House. Not four years removed from Bush's completion of the worst two-term economic performance since Hoover, Rick Perry is promising a repeat of the policies that helped cause the calamity. And as it turns out, in explaining both his programs and personal story, Perry is using many of the same words Bush used to cajole his way into the Oval Office.

See if you can tell them apart. Play Name That Texan!
Was it George W. Bush or Rick Perry who said:
1. "The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity."
2. "As Americans, we believe freedom is a gift from God."
3. "We would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas."
4. "There's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'"
5. "That's a theory that is out there -- and it's got some gaps in it. In Texas, we teach both creationism and evolution."
6. "Both sides ought to be properly taught...so people can understand what the debate is about. Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought...You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes."
7. "My administration will elevate abstinence education from an afterthought to an urgent goal."
8. "I'm just going to tell you from my own personal life. Abstinence works."
9. "I've been turned off by intellectual snobbery most of my life."
10. "Really, being yell leader had more political consequence than anything else. It was really visible."
11. "I was a C student."
12. "He rarely earned anything above a C in his courses -- earning a C in U.S. History, a D in Shakespeare, and a D in the principles of economics."
13. "Personal injury trial lawyers have turned a legal system designed to resolve disputes into their own personal investment vehicles to strike it rich, from a system intended to dispense justice to a new kind of lottery that dispenses jackpot justice."
14. "Another threat to economic security is junk lawsuits...In order to remain competitive, in order to keep jobs here in America, in order to make sure that people can make a decent living, we got to do something about these junk lawsuits."
15. "We're calling today on the president of the United States to put a moratorium on regulations across this country, because his regulations, his EPA regulations are killing jobs all across America."
16. "[Texas] didn't wait for Al Gore to wave his magic wand to clean up our environment. We cleaned it up ourself, and our state's the better for it."
17. "No one can say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming, and therefore what level must be avoided."
18. "I don't think, from my perspective, that I want America to be engaged in spending that much money on still a scientific theory that has not been proven, and from my perspective is more and more being put into question."
19. "I see an entitlement system that has been totally and honestly revamped... There will be a retirement safety net that is no longer set up like an illegal Ponzi scheme, but rather will allow individuals to own and control their own retirement."
20. "Another interesting idea...is a personal savings account...which can't be used to bet on the lottery, or a dice game, or the track."
21. "Our legislation in Texas, our patients' bill of rights in Texas, was a pretty strong piece of legislation. And one of the things I am concerned about is to make sure that the federal government law doesn't override what we did in our state."
22. "Texas, for example, has adopted approaches to controlling health-care costs while improving choice, advancing quality of care and expanding coverage."
23. "We do [have the best health care in the country], yes."
24. "I'm getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I've been called to do."
25. "'I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for President."
26. "I believe that God wants me to be president."
27. "I say that a prophet is generally not loved in their hometown."
ANSWERS
1. George W. Bush, March 19, 2003.
2. Rick Perry, August 13th, 2011.
3. Rick Perry, on Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, August 15, 2011.
4. George W. Bush, on Osama Bin Laden, September 17, 2001.
5. Rick Perry, August 17, 2011.
6. George W. Bush, on teaching evolution and intelligent design in schools, August 3, 2005.
7. George W. Bush, 1999.
8. Rick Perry, February 2011.
9. George W. Bush.
10. Rick Perry, 1989.
11. George W. Bush, February 2005.
12. Rick Perry, as explained by the Huffington Post, August 5, 2011.
13. Rick Perry, January 20, 2004.
14. George W. Bush, June 22, 2005.
15. Rick Perry, August 15, 2011.
16. George W. Bush, April 4, 2000.
17. George W. Bush, June 11, 2001.
18. Rick Perry, on global warming, August 18, 2011.
19. Rick Perry, on Social Security privatization, November 15, 2010.
20. George W. Bush, on Social Security privatization, January 2005.
21. George W. Bush, on Texas Patients' Bill of Rights he opposed, February 2001.
22. Rick Perry, November 6, 2009.
23. Rick Perry, on Texas' 46th-ranked health care system, July 28, 2009.
24. Rick Perry, July 20, 2011.
25. George W. Bush, reported in Slate, September 13, 2004.
26. George W. Bush, to Richard Land, reported in Slate, September 13, 2004.
27. Rick Perry, on his sagging popularity in Texas, July 13, 2011.