now, that's a good call. at a public forum yesterday, texas governor rick perry said the deepwater horizon oil spill should not cause a knee-jerk reaction that says we are going to shut down drilling in the gulf of mexico." according to thinkprogress.org, governor perry rejected that deregulation should be blamed for the spill or the massey mine disaster. or the financial meltdown. he said the spill might have been "an act of god." the forum was partly funded by