“Governor Perry – I appreciate you endorsing my energy ideas,” Michele Bachmann said in a statement issued in response to Rick Perry’s speech and release of an energy/jobs plan today. “Your plan is exactly what I have been talking about since I entered the race in June. With my announcement of ’American Jobs, Right Now,’ I am the only candidate with a comprehensive framework to grow the economy, create jobs, unleash potential for American energy, and reform the tax code; the major distinction is that I will implement my framework without abusing executive power.”

Bachmann doesn’t offer an explanation of how she sees Perry as abusing executive power in this plan specifically (perhaps she’s thinking of his argument that he could achieve large chunks of his plan by executive orders, and would not need congressional action?), and her campaign did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.