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Texas: Secede!!

If it means the :rule10ing Cowboys no longer get six nationally televised games this season I'm all for it.
 
Ironically, Texas nearly seceeded from the Confederacy at one point. They can't get along with anybody.
 
I recommend that we do not contest this secession on the condition that Austin is relocated somewhere worthwhile.
 
The folks talking about secession today are every bit as deluded as the folks who were talking about dividing the top part of North America into the United States of Canada and Jesusland.
 
The GOP really needs someone who will go out and punch party members in the face when they say/do something incredibly stupid.
 
The GOP is forgetting how flirting with the kook right cost them big in the wake of Oklahoma City, and lost them all the momentum from their 1994 win. I am afraid history is repeating itself which is a shame, because I am concerned about the Dems busting the bank with spending (not that GOP was a model of spending restraint) and the GOP could act as a break.
 
Texas should have the right to secede, if there is a referendum and 60% of the people say "yes".

just my view.
 
parky76 said:
Texas should have the right to secede, if there is a referendum and 60% of the people say "yes".

just my view.
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Great. Now all you have to do is pass the constitutional amendment required to accomplish it.
 
Brainster said:
The folks talking about secession today are every bit as deluded as the folks who were talking about dividing the top part of North America into the United States of Canada and Jesusland.
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I thought it was the whole of North America and that it had already happened...or is that what you're saying? :boxedin:
 
Thank you, Jesus. Can I get a big "Amen!" now? But, let's deal a little. We get to keep Austin, San Antonio, Deaf Smith County (something in my democrat heart loves dead voters), and Willie. In return they can take Mississippi with them. Oh, they also get the Oilers back.
 
They're not against the federal government, they're against the strings attached to federal money they get.

They're like a 10 year old who's throwing a tantrum because he's not allowed to spend all his allowance on candy
 
WildCat said:
They're not against the federal government, they're against the strings attached to federal money they get.

They're like a 10 year old who's throwing a tantrum because he's not allowed to spend all his allowance on candy
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Perry claims that he's not taking the unemployment money because it contains mandates for continued future spending without federal funds. That is, his claim is that the feds are giving him a half a billion now while requiring him to spend much more in the future. I don't know whether that's true or not, but if it is it's a very valid argument against taking the money.

Where it goes off the rails, of course, is in the talk of secession, which Perry apparently at least hinted might be possible:

Later, answering news reporters' questions, Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union. However, Perry says he sees no reason why Texas should make such a move.
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Kinda having it both ways, and it's not hard to see why from the next paragraph of the article:

Perry's running for re-election against Republican rival U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
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The 10th Amendment argument that Perry raises is valid (not as a reason for secession but as a reason why the Feds have overstepped their bounds), but unfortunately that's a matter for the Supreme Court to take up at some point. They've always been pretty expansive in their views of the applicability of the Interstate Commerce Clause in seemingly unrelated issues.
 
Perry's strategy is going to be to smear Hutchinson as too moderate.
Sadly, because I think the Dems eventually will go crazy with the credit cards,the GOP seems intent on self destruction.
 
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