I really didn’t think this Tea Party business could get any better. You can, I’m sure, see why I would feel this way. What could be better than wingnut yahoos LARPing it up to remind the American public that these people should never, ever, ever be allowed any influence in public life ever again, except as objects of ridicule. Somehow, I never thought that prominant Republican politicians would actually join in the cosplay. Oh happy day!
[Texas governor Rick "GoodHair" Perry] had appeared at a tea party rally in his state at which some audience members reportedly shouted “Secede!” The subject came up again when he spoke to reporters afterwards. “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. ”My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that.”
Who knows, indeed; who dares to dream? Palin/Perry 2012 – “We’re Taking Our Toys And Going Home”? Even with such raptures now so tantalizingly plausible, it is, in some ways, the simple degradations that would give me the most joy. Yes, I still want to see the giant papier-mâché puppets. What can I say? The heart wants what it wants.
April 17, 2009 at 4:56 am
Can we start a series of Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the Ass On The Way Out parties?
They think their leaving would be a threat? They take more taxes than they pay in, and they prevent the rest of us from enacting true progressive reform. If they leave, we have more money and will be better able to get everything we want done — health care, infrastructure, etc etc.
Please leave, Texas. We’ll help you pack.
April 25, 2009 at 8:46 pm
The United State of Texas? Please tell me they’re keeping all the Bushes?
April 17, 2009 at 6:22 am
After the last 8 years of being told how unpatriotic I am for not supporting my president 110%, I have to admire the way Republicans now consider it the height of patriotism to call for the breakup of the United States, to issue thinly veiled incitements to kill their fellow citizens, to wish for the collapse of our economy, and generally cheer on the destruction of America.
That, my friends, if some astounding assholery.
April 17, 2009 at 8:39 am
Perry, backpedaling furiously: “I was against secession after I was for it.” And only 18% of Texans say they want to secede (and even those crackpots would change their minds if they understood the consequences.) So I’m afraid yous guys are stuck with us for the time being. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/states_general/texas/in_texas_31_say_state_has_right_to_secede_from_u_s_but_75_opt_to_stay
April 17, 2009 at 8:54 am
Obviously discussing the merits of dissolution of the union is a fools game, and it seems they are yet again turning to the modern conservative’s MO of shitting in their hands and flinging it as far as they can.
And, to be honest, all the tough talk of succession reminds me not so much of the deluded assholes of the antebellum south and more of their modern decedents, Mall Ninjas.
April 17, 2009 at 9:02 am
In response to your bantering, I believe the real issue is the absurd spending and debt we are now dealing with. I would really love to know the consquences you speak NOEL… Do I agree with seccession. Not particulary, but what I do know is that HCR 50 is where this is stemming from which has to do with the constitution particulary the 10th ammendment. Texas is not seeking seccession we are seaking soverignty from the absurd crap coming out of Washington. Now 30 other states have joined in the effort to do so. If you had done your homework before you ran your mouth you would know Texas has a balanced budget every year. in 2008 alone we had a multi million dollar surplus, we created 80% of new jobs in the United States and being a state when it comes to GDP and if we did secceed from the US we would be the fourth wealiest country in the world.. So Texans have a real issue with a goverment telling us how we must run our state when it has done nothing but virtually bankrupt a country. So from we Texans, this may not be politically correct but you can kiss our ass!
April 17, 2009 at 9:14 am
Research before running of the mouth? Matt Y:
Texas isn’t a wealthy state. Its median household income of $47,548 made it 28th in the country. Below average, in other words. New Jersey is second, California is eighth, and New York is nineteenth. Indeed, of the top ten states in per capita income nine are “blue” states.
So you can tea my New York City bags.
Then you said:
Texas has a balanced budget every year
Yeah, um, states are usually required to do this by state law. See, ie, New York. So this is kind of pro forma.
Texas is not seeking seccession we are seaking soverignty from the absurd crap coming out of Washington
As I’m sure you were outraged at all the borrowing and spending under W. Or was that absurd crap a tasty little shit sandwich for ya?
April 17, 2009 at 9:18 am
That is so unspeakably awesome.
Well, it sounds like that’s going to work out real well for you. I honestly don’t see how this plan could possibly fail, so I suggest you get to work on it, pronto. Hand over Austin and fuck off, traitor.
April 17, 2009 at 9:19 am
I would really love to know the consquences you speak NOEL
Really? Are you unaware of all the federal taxpayer funded services that Texas enjoys?
April 17, 2009 at 9:27 am
LOL, Lets see California is bankrupt…
April 17, 2009 at 9:30 am
Your wrong about your statements… Im not going to argue with you.. What I stated are facts and can be backed up.. like I said it has nothing to do with secession but soverignty, We are actually trying to refuse the money being forced on us by the gov… we are trying to say we dont want or need it but they are trying to force it on us. What don’t you get?
April 17, 2009 at 9:33 am
I am outraged in reference to the absurd amount of spending period. This is not a democrat or republican issue for me its a constitutional issue and my rights of being an American…I just don’t believe the goverment needs to take care of me, I’m quite capable of taking care of myself
April 17, 2009 at 9:39 am
Holy dog shit. Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don’t look much like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks? Are you a peter puffer? I’ll bet you’re the kinda guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I’ll be watching you.
April 17, 2009 at 9:40 am
#5 is one of the greatest blog comments I have ever seen. Numbers! It has numbers!
we created 80% of new jobs in the United States
Pure awesome.
Oh, by the way, before y’all secede, give the feds a chance to come up with a bill for services rendered. That would only be fair, after all.
April 17, 2009 at 9:41 am
Really, I do believe you guys have IQs are below room temperature because it is really not that hard to grasp what so many Americans not just Texans, So many Americans not just Republicans but Democrats, Liberitarians etc were protesting. Its Soverignty not Seccession… Get a education!
April 17, 2009 at 9:46 am
Let me correct my statement…
Really, I do believe you guys have IQs below room temperature because it is not really that hard to grasp.. Many Americans, not just Texans, Many Americans not just Republicans but Democrats, Libertarians etc were protesting, Its Soverignty not Secession… Get an Education! there, thats is better
April 17, 2009 at 9:49 am
Lol, well since I am a female I am proud to say I do suck dick.
April 17, 2009 at 9:53 am
First of all, Tex, secessionists are traitors. What do yall do when the Pledge of Allegiance is said? The Star Spangled Banner sung? Spit on the flag much?
Then there’s the fact that the whole idea is preposterous. Not gonna happen. The idea is foolish and you, sir, are an embarrassment to the state, as is our governor.
The consequences: Texas’ economy and government would fail for many reasons in a short period of time. The fact that my state is stuffed with idiots like you would guarantee that.
P.S. You might want to do a little fact checking on the google before you embarass yourself further: every one of your statistics is wrong.
P.P.S. Folks, I would assume Tex was an amusing satire, but, unfortunately, his sort is common in my state. Try to keep him away from sharp objects and such.
April 17, 2009 at 9:55 am
I have not stated anything about secceeding.. its soverignty… talk about needing an education, try googling those definitions
April 17, 2009 at 10:00 am
Noel, I bet your family tree didnt fork did it?
April 17, 2009 at 10:01 am
If the numbers are so easy to back up, go ahead.
Post a link.
It’s easy!
April 17, 2009 at 10:04 am
your right, i was wrong… here is an example…Texas Responsible For 111.5% Of All Private Job Creation In Last 12 Months-
It has often been asserted in recent years that Michigan is in a “one-state recession,” a sad but accurate commentary on the plight of the Mitten State.
In a bizarre display of perennial self-loathing, Michiganders keep electing politicians who actively undermine the state’s competitiveness in the world– and even within the rest of the United States.
Michigan’s labor laws: written by big labor bosses to spite small and large business alike. Michigan’s taxes: all your base are belong to Granholm. Michigan’s weather: sort of pleasant during some of the summer. Hey, but they do have Chauncey Billups.
But we know about Michigan. It’s been hashed out, ad nauseum.
Times are changing. While it is still too premature to declare a national recession, the one-state recession has spread to about a dozen states, some of which are seeing more of a fleeting housing-based correction than an actual fundamentals-driven recession.
If Michigan was in a one-state recession during boom times, then you might say that Texas is in a one-state boom during hard times.
April 17, 2009 at 10:08 am
THE STATE OF WORKING TEXAS 2008
As the national recession enters a second year, Texas is retreating from a three-year period of economic expansion and broadbased
job growth. This three-part report examines Texas’ impressive macroeconomic performance during the most recent
business cycle; the composition and participation of our labor force; and the pressures facing Texas workers, including rising
costs of living, staggering debt burdens, and stagnant wages. With jobs and profits harder to come by, Texas will need to
respond to the immediate challenges posed by an impending global recession while crafting a more sustainable economic
development strategy that equally considers the economic needs of companies and working families. The State of Working
Texas 2008 is the latest in a series of joint projects of CPPP and the Economic Policy Institute, which published The State of
Working America 2008/2009 earlier this year.
PART I: THE TEXAS ECONOMY STANDS OUT
During the most recent business cycle—measured from the peak cyclical year
of 2000 to the most recent cycle’s peak in 2007—the Texas economy
performed impressively. State GDP, population, employment, and exports all
grew, in many cases exceeding national growth rates or the growth rates of peer
states, such as California, Florida, New York, North Carolina, and
Pennsylvania.
State
April 17, 2009 at 10:10 am
The figure below shows our year-by-year real GDP growth contrasted with national year-by-year growth. With the exception
of 2003 and 2005, Texas consistently had a higher GDP growth rate than the country as a whole during this business cycle,
and for the last two years, our GDP growth rate has been two full points higher than the national average. Our growth has
been more volatile, however, with as much as a 4-point jump in growth rate between consecutive years.
April 17, 2009 at 10:10 am
Well, that’s better then. Let’s shake hands and… wait a minute, how is “sovereignty” any different? The federal government either has jurisdiction or it doesn’t. And Perry did say “secede”.
P.S. I’m not a stickler for correct spelling, but when every one of your posts contain misspellings and wrong word choices, you might want to reconsider the education attack.
April 17, 2009 at 10:11 am
http://www.cppp.org read it
April 17, 2009 at 10:14 am
Please don’t feed the trolls. Especially the incompetent ones.
A Texan, your path is clear. Texas must succeed from the union because it is the 4th wealiest. It says so somewhere. Now, stop LOLing and start traitoring. Every other state hates you. Even Oklahoma hates you, and nobody likes Oklahoma. Go away. Mexico awaits.
April 17, 2009 at 10:16 am
lol, well I actually have quite an extensive education so I do apologize for the misspellings…. The founding father of this country wanted the majority of the power left to the people and the states.. Read your constitution and it is a little dificult at times so it may be easier for you to understand if you read the federalist papers..
April 17, 2009 at 10:17 am
In case you dont know what the federalist papers are it is where the elaborated on the ideas they were conveying in the constitution
April 17, 2009 at 10:26 am
This “A Texan” character is a joke, isn’t it? With the spelling and the “Texas Responsible for 111.5% of All Private Job Creation in Last Twelve Months”? And “Get an Education! there thats is better”?
And what’s with the right? Secession, going Galt–what a buncha quitters. Go on, then! Git!
April 17, 2009 at 10:29 am
I did not write the stats, they asked me to back up what I stated.. Sorry it is hard for you guys to choke down.. Facts are facts.. get over it
April 17, 2009 at 10:30 am
You are a genius, you are a philosopher, if you do say so yourself Texas must succeed to preserve its top 4 wealiness rank. It says so in the federalist papers which is where the elaborated on the ideas they were conveying in the constitution. Great. So how long are you going to blow hot gas on the internets telling people how smart you are? Bankrupt California socialists are even now sapping your vital bodily fluids. Might the time for action be at hand, chatty Kathy?
Perhaps, during the course of your extensive education, you have heard the phrase “shit or get off the pot?” Well, shit or get off the pot. Or post fifty more pointless comments. Let the Federalist Papers – which is where the elaborated on the ideas they were conveying in the constitution – be your guide. Or, random web pages. Same diff.
April 17, 2009 at 10:35 am
The point is, all of our children are going to pay for the piss poor choices that have been made due to Obama’s and Bush’s administrations along with Congress and the Senate. A lot of Americans are sick of it! Grow some balls and stand up for your children.. they are the ones who will suffer… O that is right, they wont suffer because the new American dream is medicaid, public housing and unemployment checks and insurance
April 17, 2009 at 10:46 am
I call for a border fence between Texas and the United States.
April 17, 2009 at 10:48 am
Come on Tex, let’s git. They don’t want us here anyway. But I heard Bubba’s having a bar-b-que when he gits his gumint check!
April 17, 2009 at 10:49 am
LMAO
April 17, 2009 at 10:50 am
By telling everybody on the internets how wealy Texas is, as prescribed in Federalist 420. Quelle fucking surprise. I guess Civil War 2: The War On Whatever will have to wait a little while longer. Until then, I pray you will secede in all your future endeavors.
April 17, 2009 at 10:55 am
you can do better than that huh? Come one, I know you got it in you…
April 17, 2009 at 10:56 am
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! pfft!
April 17, 2009 at 10:56 am
Texas Responsible for 111.5% of All Private Job Creation in Last Twelve Months
It’s true.
Texas was responsible for all the new jobs. Plus, Texas was so overly job-createy that the bulging 11.5% of jobs left over after all jobs were created tore a hole in the space time continuum.
Someone is awful pretty.
April 17, 2009 at 10:57 am
The OP was good, but #26 was great.
Thx The Eds (even if “A Texan” is a spoof).
April 17, 2009 at 11:51 am
“Lol, well since I am a female I am proud to say I do suck dick.”
No, you’re a _Texan_ female. Texan females can suck-start Harleys. That’s not a good thing.
April 17, 2009 at 12:01 pm
To quote the late great Madeline Kahn,
“Hello, cowboy, what’s your name?”
“Tex, Ma’am.”
“Texmam? Tell me, Texmam, are you in show business?”
“Well, no…”
“Then why don’t you get your fwiggin’ feet off the stage?”
April 17, 2009 at 12:21 pm
your right, i was wrong… here is an example…Texas Responsible For 111.5% Of All Private Job Creation In Last 12 Months-
That is all kinds of awesome. It’s even better than the “Texas wants sovereignty not secession” rationalization of treason and her claims to an extinsif edukashun.
Seriously, Texan, the rest of us would love to cut down on spending and it’d be a real help to us if Texas would please just go away. You’re expensive, you produce crummy presidents, even worse Senators, truly heinous Representatives, and to top it all off you’re very, very annoying. Buh bye!
April 17, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Texas and Alaska: The Axis Of Weasels
April 17, 2009 at 12:51 pm
O that is right, they wont suffer because the new American dream is medicaid, public housing and unemployment checks and insurance
Ahhhhhhhhhh, to be a civilized society that cares about its citizenry. Yes. Thank you.
April 17, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Really, the biggest problem with starting up a country right now is that our much-invoked founding fathers were some of the best minds of the Enlightenment, and the Texas secession crowd, well, isn’t.
Seriously, I wanna see it happen. Let ‘em clean up after their tornadoes their own damn selves.
April 17, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I checked the bls pdf the “Texas Responsible For 111.5% Of All Private Job Creation In Last 12 Months” guy claims he based it on, but it’s been updated to 09 data. Anyhoo, Texas had a net loss of 106,500 jobs from March 08 to March 09, while the population grew, so the percentage of the labor force unemployed grew from 4.6 to 6.7. Plus the “last 12 months” he was writing about weren’t the last 12 months, so even if he had been correct at some time in the past, which I doubt, he no longer is.
April 17, 2009 at 1:45 pm
New Mexico abolished the death penalty a couple of months too soon, it seems.
Read in a Tucumcari gas station toilet:
“Here I sit
bun’s a flexin’
giving birth to
another Texan”
April 17, 2009 at 1:46 pm
“Ski Texas!”
as it said on my best buds favorite poster in H.S.
April 17, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Texas couldn’t even hold their own against Mexico, and joined up to the U.S. so the rotating yearly Mexican President wouldn’t beat their asses.
April 17, 2009 at 3:41 pm
The stars at night are big and bright…
April 17, 2009 at 3:57 pm
And I shore would like
to stick a twelve inch spike…
April 17, 2009 at 4:27 pm
I saw this post had 50+ comments and I thought, “Wow! Already? This must be an awesome discussion!” Then I discover that 2/3 of the posts are from the raving idiot Texan. Similar to the letdown experienced by my rabidly anti-tax coworker who got all excited when he heard about the tea parties, but who isn’t nearly so excited and is in fact now embarrassed, now that he’s seen the pics and video of the motley collection of fools who actually showed up at those things. I tried to tell him…
But let’s not knock all our fellow countrymen Texans because a few of them get overzealous about regional pride. Why, if it wasn’t for the Old West, we wouldn’t have all those inspiring tales of frontier justice and revenge like that Almost-a-Showdown at the Seborrhea Saloon:
April 17, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Friday, April 17, 2009 Morning Edition
WND Exclusive
Lawmakers in 20 states move to reclaim sovereignty
Obama’s $1 trillion deficit-spending ‘stimulus plan’ seen as last straw
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88218
April 17, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
April 17, 2009 at 6:47 pm
John Quincy Adams had noted, on the fiftieth anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution, that “The indissoluble link of union between the people of the several states of this confederated nation is, after all, not in the right but in the heart. If the day should ever come (may Heaven avert it!) when the affections of the people of these States shall be alienated from each other; when the fraternal spirit shall give way to cold indifference, or collision of interests shall fester into hatred, the bands of political associations will not long hold together parties no longer attracted by the magnetism of conciliated interests and kindly sympathies; and far better will it be for the people of the disunited states to part in friendship from each other, than to be held together by constraint.[italics added]” [Woods, Jr., 64.]
As Thomas Jefferson said, “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
I don’t know who you guys are but here are good men who share my perspective!
April 17, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Thank you all for the best laugh I’ve had in a long time. And Texas person, on the off chance that you’re not a parody… please seek help. Statistics and logic help, specifically. And do rock on. I mean it.
April 17, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Futile troll is futile.
Semantic hair-splitting only serves to confirm the intellectual bankruptcy of the hair-splitter – ditto the references to Founding Fathers who’d've happily thrown seccessionists in Ye Olde Gaol (as a prelude to some hemp-assisted sky-dancing) for stirring up seditious sentiment in a time of war.
Separatism in the total absence of any rational motive for doing so – the last refuge of idiots.
I wonder how many good ol’ boys are frantically scraping the “America – Love It Or Leave It” bumper-stickers off their 4X4s right now?
April 17, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Even us Canadiens know that you never feed the trolls. But if you refuse to heed this advice, then let #31 be your guide.
April 17, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Big Red, a balanced budget is not the ideal, a reasonable deficit means government is investing in its people. In a democratic republic we the people are the government. Your Texas stats need links.
April 17, 2009 at 10:31 pm
If Texas doesn’t take Medicaid and Medicare funds from the US, you’re going to have a lot of poor, sick, seniors dying in Texas. Lyndon Johnson was from Texas, and it was from his experience with Texan Poverty, that the Great Society rose.
April 17, 2009 at 10:47 pm
My bad, I read the whole thread, and now I understand the stats from the Corporate PAC, now I understand the President isn’t a Professor of Constitutional Law, I understand that all political philosophy stopped in the 18th century, I understand that twenty governors will likely say one thing and do another for the sake of popularity and that 35% is now a popular majority.
April 17, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Jay Bookman reported on the “Jeffersonian principles” resolution that got passed by the mouthbreathers of the GA state senate during a rush to the recess.
They all look a lot like the interdiction resolutions passed in the old traitor states after Brown v. Board of Education. We all know how that turned out.
And still the southron pols complain that they can’t be trusted to hold fair elections an’ shit. Heaven forfend.
April 18, 2009 at 12:01 am
The GOP is a frivolous lawsuit.
April 18, 2009 at 12:04 am
Even if they figure out that they can’t get by on portraying that they might meet the people’s wants, instead of attacking the walls between the people and their needs, (which is hard because they represent the wall), they still will diminish in size, and they’re hankering to split.
April 18, 2009 at 12:38 am
and if we did [secede] from the US we would be the fourth weal[th]iest country in the world
Try running your economy without sucking on the DoD teat.
Plus NASA spending of course.
The Hubbert Curve hit Texas 35 years ago. All you got now is Dell, and we can buy our shitty x86 clones from other manufacturers based in states who understand that America isn’t in the 19th century any more.
April 18, 2009 at 7:55 am
I find your opinions interesting, the problem is your jumping up and down about a Texas secession when its is only seeking sovereignty just as 29 other states are doing from the frivolous spending taking place in Washington. (I have placed links to back up my statements, matter of fact one of them read 20 when it fact that was written Feb. 9 but posted Apr. 17, therefore since it was written 9 other states have joined by writing HCR bills to claim their sovereignty from the federal government)
TENTH AMENDMENT – The Tenth Amendment provides that ” The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. ” U.S. Const. amend. X. As a textual matter, therefore, the Tenth Amendment “states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.” United States v. Darby, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941). By its terms, the Amendment does not purport to limit the commerce power or any other enumerated power of Congress.
In recent years, however, the Tenth Amendment has been interpreted “to encompass any implied constitutional limitation on Congress’ authority to regulate state activities, whether grounded in the Tenth Amendment itself or in principles of federalism derived generally from the Constitution.” South Carolina v. Baker, 485 U.S. 505, 511 n.5 (1988). Thus, “the Tenth Amendment confirms that the power of the Federal Government is subject to limits that may, in a given instance, reserve power to the States.” New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144, 157 (1992).
http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/t065.htm
your link!
April 18, 2009 at 8:17 am
In reference to federal funding, for every dollar paid in federal taxes, Texas only receives .94 cents in return in federal funding… So that argument is bust as we would pay the same taxes straight to Texas which would increase by BILLIONS our ability to take care of our medicare and medicaid recipients. We would also close our borders controlling illegal immigration. Those that are admitted will be on the basis of our needs and the mere fact that they have a child in our country would not automatically make them a citizen. An illegal act should not be the basis for automatically becoming a citizen. When an American has a child in another country, they are still US citizens. No other country in the world automatically makes you a citizen for being born on their soil that I know of.
April 18, 2009 at 8:27 am
http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2009-04-federalspending-laffer-final.pdf
Another link, in reference to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. In other words the stimulus package…..
“Consequently, the costs of accepting federal dollars from the ARRA will be a long-term drain on the private sector.
The ARRA Act of 2009 will increase the government expenditure wedge from 49.16% to 52.41% for an overall 3.25%
increase. This increase will reduce the growth in real net business output by 2.5%, which translates to a reduction of 1.7
million jobs nationally—of which between 131,400 and 171,900 jobs will be lost in Texas.”
April 18, 2009 at 11:36 am
“What else is on, honey?”
April 18, 2009 at 11:49 am
Seems the Great State of Texas is for sale.
April 18, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Don’t feed the trolls!! But she says she sucks dick!!!!1
April 18, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Are you willing to die for Texas? Until you and 75% of weirdos are willing to die for Texas this is just another frivolous lawsuit on the docket at weirdo court.
April 18, 2009 at 5:09 pm
This,
“The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility, private property rights, free markets and limited government.
The Foundation’s mission is to improve Texas by generating academically sound research and data on state issues, and by recommending the findings to opinion leaders, policymakers, the media and general public.
Funded by hundreds of individuals, foundations and corporations, the Foundation does not accept government funds or contributions to influence the outcomes of its research.
The public is demanding a different direction for their government, and the Texas Public Policy Foundation is providing the ideas that enable policymakers to chart that new course.”
This is a partisan weirdo think-tank link. Your opinion on the 10th amendment cut and pasted from The Weirdo Law Review. You are a frivolous, shallow, uneducated person. You don’t know what you don’t know, and probably never will. Keep practicing your blow jobs.
April 18, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I do care enough to find you a new home,
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/04/17/most_texans_want_to_stay.html#disqus_thread
This is where you belong, with the others. Be free.
April 18, 2009 at 6:49 pm
who dares to dream? Palin/Perry 2012 – “We’re Taking Our Toys And Going Home”?
I hope they run on a platform of having all 50 states band together and secede from the Union en masse. Except they wouldn’t use a faggy French phrase for it.
April 18, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Dammit, I’m Cookie Gilchrist’s hype man, not you.
April 18, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I’m more about Guy than Cookie.
April 18, 2009 at 6:57 pm
But not very much about him either.
April 18, 2009 at 7:01 pm
It’s all good in the hood.
April 19, 2009 at 7:31 am
“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.
Really now? Doesn’t it seem odd, then, that when Texas tried to secede during the Civil War, they weren’t allowed to do so? That was after 1845, wasn’t it?
April 19, 2009 at 8:37 am
No other country in the world automatically makes you a citizen for being born on their soil that I know of.
If only there were some way to know.
April 19, 2009 at 7:36 pm
If only there were some way to know.
Heh. Funny how people who know so very little are so ready to make arguments based on their knowledge being so thorough.
April 20, 2009 at 7:38 am
It’s wierd how ‘A Texan’ is so eager to plunge Texas, and the USA, into an economic, strategic, and cultural disaster, in order to prove that she really loves Texas.
April 20, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Based on the popularity of this thread, I guess it is easier to type than it is to talk with a tea-bag in your mouth.
Mine tastes like ‘taint btw…
April 21, 2009 at 1:35 am
April 21, 2009 at 1:37 am
Perry, Percy, separated at birth?
April 21, 2009 at 7:21 pm
it aint the tornadoes, its the floods in texass. and lucky us, we get to pay for the recovery over and over and over and over again along with subsidizing the flood insurance! and then there’s the hurricanes too…
Learn more here!
April 22, 2009 at 10:41 am
If Texas secedes will the Cowboys be kicked out of the NFL? Cause if so, Iim all for it.
April 22, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I’m pretty close to a deal that would sell Texas to China so that it can become the world’s largest Fruit of the Loom Factory, in exchange for Guangdong province and a 4th round draft pick.
April 22, 2009 at 4:34 pm
90! We DID IT!
April 22, 2009 at 4:34 pm
WOOOOOOO!
April 23, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I guess we have no choice but to torture this beeatch to 100.
April 24, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Strained attempt to pad the post total by making weak associative links.
For the tea party, you need a
Tee Set (dutch psych pop 1969, singer rockin’ some awesome sideburns under that awesome ‘do)
Then your asshole singer with the stupid hair goes on an ego trip because of one f’ing hit, fires the band, and hires a whole new band under your band’s name, so you say “f you man,” change your name and write a breakup song…
After Tea (ex-Tee Set 1971 dutch bluesy psych):
April 25, 2009 at 2:26 am
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April 28, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Texas ain’t goin’ nowhere: it’s too damn big and fat to do anything but sit and waddle in itself.
He likes to sing raggedy music to the cattle
As he swings back and for’d in his saddle…
April 28, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Oh look. Click reply and tell yourself to SHUT UP!!!
April 29, 2009 at 2:01 am
Texas is America’s Saudi Arabia. Overtly Reactionary, oil dependent, and oil is going out of style. They’ve always experienced boom and bust conditions, their poor are the most neglected poor in the Western World, if the cities voted at the same rate as the rural counties, Texas would be blue.
On a mixed related note, Jim over at NASA said on 60 minutes that unless we stop manufacturing coal powered power plants, worldwide, yesterday we will reach the point of no return on global warming by 2012. China is putting out one a week, and I best 3-5 go up world wide. Carbon capture technology is too expensive for the replacement of these coal plants, you still have coal slurry pitts, you still have the butchering of Appalachia not to mention that filling the world’s aqua firs with CO2 has never been attempted and might just leak out anyway.
All politics are local and Democrats have a three caucus structure, a regional cacus, such that we have Senators from Arkansas, Indiana, Virginia, Alaska, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Montana, so that we have a majority in the Congress and Obama won electorally in part to his position on so called clean coal, guns, and other provincial issues.
The only way to remedy the situation is to replace all those coal related jobs with green jobs in 8 years. That’s not happening unless Obama pledges one term, and goes for it at the coast of his popularity. That’s not happening. So we are fucked. “Like Game over, man.”
April 29, 2009 at 10:18 am
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