TX: Teabagging Gov. Rick Perry says it's time for the Lone Star State to secede

Oh man...

I'm going to be watching this very VERY closely. If I see this going anywhere above rhetoric, I'm on the first flight out of here.

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by: AtheistDoug @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 20:52:59 PM CDT

This Guy is Governor?

"Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that," Perry said.
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I don't think so - The Resolution annexing Texas doesn't mention any such right. Link below.

http://www.per-fidem.org/books...

Even Chuck Norris admits that over at Wingnut Daily:

"Though the annexation resolution never explicitly granted Texas the right to secede from the Union (as is often reported),"

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/i...

Be happy to sell you all off, though. Matbe get a nice bidding war going between Mexico, Cuba, France & China?

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by: Kathleen @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 20:54:07 PM CDT

And besides...

there is that little matter of the post-Civil War Supreme Court decision which declared that no state ever had or has the right to secede on its own.

And now...

Lil' Gov. Ricky?  Take some advice.

Please start using the phrase 'war of northern aggression.'  It will make you look soooooooooo much less like a nutcase....

NOT!

Think your perfect hair will pave the way to higher office?  Ask Lil' (Former) Gov. Blago how well that worked.

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:25:57 PM CDT

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I say hell ya...

Take your electoral college votes out of the system and maybe we will never have to worry again about getting a tool for President--not to mention a moron majority in any branch of Congress.

Then maybe we can get some shit done around here!

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by: Will St. James @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:00:03 PM CDT

And before anyone slams me...

That was said in jest :)

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by: Will St. James @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:02:17 PM CDT

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I don't think you would have gotten slammed,

  There are many that agree.  The only problem would be transportation East to West, I-10 and I-20.  But think of all the jobs that would be created building new roads to drive around Texas.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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by: HappyCat @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:17:00 PM CDT

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Think of how much US-Mexico relations would improve

if the tomorrow the Minister Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of the United States to the Republic of Mexico were to inform that nation that since Texas considers itself sovereign, the US absolves itelf of defense responsibilities and obligations to that soverignty.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:19:16 PM CDT

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Who would want to invade Texas?

It would be even more trouble than invading Iraq - and we've all seen what a doddle that has been.

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by: tavdy79 @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 04:33:33 AM CDT

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Venezuela would send troops to assist Mexico

if they went in, as would Cuba...

If Venezuela went in, then Texas would see what radical socialism really looked like....

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 06:45:54 AM CDT

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Who needs new roads?

Didn't you see Thelma & Louise?

But wait, there's more!

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by: PhoenixRising @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:51:06 PM CDT

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Playing the Reverse Game

Imagine if, during the Bush regime, a democratic governor of any state had made the same admittedly vague statement.

He would be vilified across the country in every medium as a traitor and there would be calls for his censure, stepping down, arrest, execution--you name it!


"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:14:01 PM CDT

yup, and not just "vilified across the country"

but vilified on a cross across the country.

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by: Lurleen @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:20:21 PM CDT

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Damn Lies and Goodhair

Texas cannot secede; it can only divide into five states. Someone or other questioned this, and the Supreme Court slapped down the notion that we can secede in 1869.

Goodhair, incidentally, only won a plurality in the last election; I am in no way implying that therefore a certain percentage of Texans aren't idiots, but I do think it is worth noting that most of the state cannot stand him now. If the Democrats would come up with someone real to run against him next year instead of just throwing us to the wolves because we are a "red state," (or, if our state Dem Party would get off their collective asses) I suspect that things would improve.

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by: keineFurcht @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:29:07 PM CDT

Look who did some teabagging in Houston

According to the Houston Chronk's right-wing blonde blogger, Texas Sparkle ( http://blogs.chron.com/texassp... ), here is one of the stars of the Houston teabagging event:

Next: John O'Neill, Swift Boat Veterans

Honors graduate of US Naval Academy; veteran of more than 35 fire fights in the U Minh Forest on swift boats; recipient of many medals, including two Bronze Stars; graduate first in class from UT Law School; clerked for Justice William Rehnquist at U.S. Supreme Court; co-author of 2004 NY Times No. 1 Bestseller "Unfit for Command"; established a foundation with the proceeds of books to provide more than $4 million in aid to over 700 wounded veterans.

Yes, you remember O'Neill - the clown who debated John Kerry on the Dick Cavett Show back in the 70s, aged quite a bit less gracefully than Kerry, and then floated to the top of the negative campaign toilet along with the other Swift Boat liars back in 2004?  Of course you do.

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:37:08 PM CDT

Rick Perry, cowardly traitor

While our young men and women are still fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Rick Perry is giving aid and comfort to our enemies by sending the message that we are a nation divided, that the US might break up and fall, that they have only to keep killing us and holding us off long enough for Perry and other Taliban fellow travellers to destroy the United States. Al-Queda will certainly interpret events this way. Perry might as well be holding the weapons of the newly energised insurgency that we will see and pulling the triggers himself.

When it happens, I will be glad that the mortuary ramp at Dover is now open to reporters, for I sincerely hope that the comrades of the fallen pin "Killed by Rick Perry" or "Killed by Joe Scarborough" or "Killed by Rush" signs to the flags on the coffins.

Thank you ever so much for the predictable increase in dead soldiers, Mr Governor Perry of the Bilberburg Group who probably cut some kind of deal to tear us apart so that we are easy prey for a one world government.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:40:25 PM CDT

Personally, I would favour sending the Army into the capital to restore order

since " combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law" are inciting a situation where "laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed and the execution thereof obstructed"

The quotes are from a United States President, an attorney in his own right, who dealt with the same issue, Abraham Lincoln.  

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:46:20 PM CDT

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Oh, the "Bilderberg " remark

is fodder for the right, they hate the group

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:01:36 PM CDT

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Damn it!

I am so sick of these moronic yahoos making Texas look like the inbred hick capital of the country. I live in Houston. So I'm not too thrilled that this idiot is running things. I'm hoping Mr. Perry will escalate his rhetoric so they can throw his traitorous ass in prison.  

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by: obtusegoose @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 21:50:27 PM CDT

From here, it looks like a nest of traitors

and that it is impossible for Texas to elect a government loyal to the Constitution of the United States.

Martial Law and disqualification of traitors worked during Reconstruction, and the rememdy of General Phillip Sheridan in removing Governor Throckmorton was successful in installing a Texas government willing to ratify the outlawing of slavery and giving citizenship and the vote to black american men, which Texans under the recalcitrant governor had refused to do.

I am sure that the JCS can find someone to carry out the part of General Sheridan (of Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village); the part of Governor Throckmorton already has Rick Perry cast in the role.

Perhaps a carpetbagger government from San Francisco will set things to right.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:12:31 PM CDT

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Just be patient.

Rumor has it that Perry belongs to the same little GOP clique as Larry Craig, Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell.  Given that he doesn't seem to be too bright, I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before he gets caught with his pants down.  

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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by: QScribe @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 23:30:17 PM CDT

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Oh, so that's why Perry

was trying to shove Sarah Palin away from the podium at that Governor's meeting right after the election. Dueling Divas!

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by: kevinchi @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 00:21:15 AM CDT

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We need to do an airlift first

and get the citizens of Austin out of there!

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by: kevinchi @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:17:17 PM CDT

The Citizens of Austin

need to rise up and arrest Mr Perry for treason; his remarks,if carried on al-jazeera, will incite an upsurge in the insurrections in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our soldiers will pay the price for Perry's posturing. As the mother of a soldier deployed now, any of my son's men dead, even a single one, at the hands of insurgents who believe that the US will fall apart based upon Perry's words, is too many.


I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:24:51 PM CDT

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While they can not suceed

They can claim full sovereignty, and screw up things like Medicare, Medicaid, Federal student aid, unemployment, etc. for all it's citizens. Boy am I glad I move there next month to go to school :/

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by: ojrocks @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:28:06 PM CDT

Pull out the border patrol

and the Army. Just as a starter.
See just how long it is til one of those yahoos following Perry causes a border incident resulting in the Mexican Army occupying at least half of the state.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:34:45 PM CDT

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Can I object to your plan

on the grounds that NM's borders with Texas are more than we can patrol for ourselves.

Though moving the border up to the county line north of El Paso wouldn't require more staffing, you'd want a lot of concrete for the checkpoint. Hey! Jobs program!

But wait, there's more!

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by: PhoenixRising @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:57:13 PM CDT

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Okay, let's try this again:

The Union elected a tall, thin Senator from IL.

However, the weekend passed without shots being fired at Ft. Sumter.

Can we stop the historical re-enactment now?

But wait, there's more!

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by: PhoenixRising @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:53:51 PM CDT

Taxes? Bad. Fees and Rate Hikes? Fine n' Dandeeeeeee

From the Houston Chronk ( http://www.chron.com/disp/stor... ):

The Texas Legislature: in session 92 days as of Wednesday. The lawmakers' per diem pay: $2.1 million so far.

The number of bills to reach the governor's desk: One.

Meanwhile, major bills on windstorm insurance, transportation, reform of the state schools for the mentally challenged and modernizing the state's unemployment system are slogging through the halls of the state Capitol.

"I have never seen a slower pace. I have seen a few sessions in my day, but I have never seen one this slow," said state Rep. Al Edwards D-Houston, who is in his 15th legislative session.

The only bill to reach Gov. Rick Perry is one to allow CenterPoint Energy and Entergy to recover the cost of Hurricane Ike cleanup and repairs through a rate increase at the Public Utility Commission.

CenterPoint estimates it will be adding $2 to $2.50 a month to the average customer's bill, while Entergy is predicting an extra charge of about $5.25 a month.

So - Gov. Good Teabag Hair hates government taking money from people via taxes but has no problem with corporations taking money from people via rate hikes.

As one commenter noted:

Why should this surprise us. They spend all their time on things like the rediculous Voter ID bill.

Priorities, priorities!  People's budgets?  No.  Stealing future elections from the Dems?  Yes!

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 23:40:53 PM CDT

I think we only let Texas go

if they'll take Oklahoma, Indiana, and Colorado Springs with them.  It should be really fun watching them try to survive on their own without devolving into third world countries.

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Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
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by: MileHighDawg @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 00:04:10 AM CDT

Sweeten the pot

Let's also toss in Mississippi; Alabama; Richardson County, Nebraska; and whatever precinct of Topeka, Kansas that contains the Westboro Whackjob Compound.

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 00:35:10 AM CDT

[ Parent ]

So my question...

...to Governor Perry is:

Why wasn't this enacted way back in 1998? Just think of all the pain we would have spared ourselves and the entire world if everyone living in Texas had ceased to be an American citizen in 1998!

And just think of the future pain we could spare the world if Texas left the U.S. now.

Governor, you need to stop being such a pansy with expressions like "who knows what may come of that." You need to be a genuine heterosexual MAN and strongly and decisively advocate for secession!

FREE TEXAS NOW!! FREE TEXAS NOW!!

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by: Jim @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 00:04:25 AM CDT

Correct me if I'm wrong.

I might be wrong on this, but I believe that it's unConstitutional to secede from The Union.

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

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by: Daimeon @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 10:06:04 AM CDT

Maybe it's being a native New Englander

But where I come from we call those words treason. And as seen before, we take that shit very, VERY seriously.

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi

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by: Keori @ Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 15:24:18 PM CDT