There Are No Coincidences

As anticipated, the Left is apoplectic over Texas Governor Rick Perry's remarks on the notion that Texas could secede from the Union.

Unfortunately, as usual the Left is a little slow on the uptake.

Where is it, after all, that former President Chimpy McHitlerBush has retired to, hmm? And we haven't heard a peep from Darth Cheney since his anti-Obama remarks on terrorism , have we?

That's right, I blame Bush! I sense the evil of a hidden Haliburton hand looking to retain their Right-wing hegemony over whatever piece of America it can. Something tells me this might mean a war the Left could finally embrace.

Comments

[continuum]

Give the inanity of the governor of a major state trying to revive the ante bellum South, the EPA should test what additives are in the water in the Texas governor's mansion.

[timb]

A war? Hell, we'd happily let them go. Seeing Governor Dufus's Wingnut paradise, where the tax rate is zero and the defense is 95% if the budget would serve them right. It would bed thirty minutes before they asked for a handout....you know like Perry did last week when he begged FEMA for more Federal money.

Bunch of tools

[Don Quijote]

Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out...

Oh, and pretty please, can you convince the Confederate States to join you...

[Lala]

Three drivel-ous comments in a row.

[Winston O'Boogie]

Yeah, y'all can let Texas go....it's nothing but a bunch of redneck hicks anyway. Oops...oil, NASA, money....well, none of that matters.

Now New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey...those are REAL American treasures and paradises....

and timb - do you have a reference for that claim? I missed it, but then, I am out of the state right now. Maybe we asked for money for Ike repairs....you know, like those fine folks affected by Katrina in New Orleans. Except if Texans don't get it from the feds, they will fix it anyway, unlike the worthless scum that we are taking care of from LA right now.

[Blue Neponset]

How does Perry, or anyone else for that matter, reconcile the idea that Texas could succeed with the fact that the Great State of Texas wasn't allowed to succeed the last time it tried?

[Jeff]

Haha! Winston, you got it right!
I love how nasty the elite reacts to anything southern. I mean, the south is just full of inbred, racist morons, right? I keep myself laughing with the thought that these are the people who'll be huddled up and crying when anything serious happens and they just can't get a flight out to the coast. Pansies...

[retire05]

timb, be careful what you wish for. We would control NASA, ooops, there goes your cell phone. And the jeans you wear? Guess you would have to go back to polyester pants. We grow all the cotton. You would be on your knees begging the Crown Prince of Saud for more oil, unfortunately, you wouldn't have anywhere to turn it into gas. We do most of the refining, you know.

Perhaps you would like to tell us what uptopian state you live in?

Now here are a few facts for you loser yankees who can't seem to move past 1865: we have no state income tax and our state budget is balanced which means we are not in debt. Of all the jobs created in the United States in '08, we created 75% of them meaning that whatever loser state you live in did not. We were voted the most "business friendly, best housing values (Texas housing has not lost value like the rest of the nation), and one of the best places in the U.S. to live".

We understand the Constitution; both the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution and we take it seriously. Read Article One, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution that was accepted when we were allowed to join the Union.

And while Americans poured billions of money, mostly wasted, into New Orleans, our Texas coast still looks like a deserted island because the feds have not ponied up the money for reconstruction so we are doing it ourselves.

Bunch of rednecks? The damn computer you are using most likely has technology designed, and built in Texas. We have the most fortune 500 companies of any state in the Union. We provide almost all the beef for the nation (ooops, there goes your hamburger, perhaps you can switch to tofu).

As to the whole ante-bellum south thing; sorry, the Southern states are now the wheels that keep this nation rolling. Inspite of how the northern states have tried to drag it down.

And while we are at it, since you other states seem to be so in love with illegal immigrants, please provide the states you would like our 2 million illegals to be sent to. We no longer want to support them so they can stay here and process your chickens.

timb, you proved one thing with your comments; stupidity knows no bounds.

[Blue Neponset]

retire05,

Not buying it. Everything Texas provides can be obtained from somewhere else. If you took the donee states with you we Yankees could use the money we spend keeping South Carolina afloat to buy beef from Canada and move the Johnson Space Center to Detroit.

[dorn]

I don't get the rub. Texas should just secede. Liberals will be happy. Texas will be happy. It's win/win for everyone.

[Mustanger80]

Actually, many, if not most of the legal opinions I've read that have been written since the "recent unpleasantness" maintain that the Constitution was a voluntary compact, and that it contained nothing that explicitly or implicitly prohibited states from leaving the Union. However, I've never heard of anyone who believes that we are not a greater nation for having restored the Union.

As a practical matter, I can't imagine any state ever seceeding in these times. The formerly common perception (at least in the South) of first owing allegiance to one's state just doesn't exist anymore. I'm more concerned about MECHA idiots trying to gerrymander California and the rest of the Southwest into their mythical land of "Aztlan", and then watching what passes for our leaders in D.C. being too weak-kneed to do anything more than reach some sort of accommodation with the new "country".

[southdakotaboy]

It would be fun to put this to a vote in Texas. If it passes they could then take it to the UN.

How much do you want to bet that most of the countries there would line up to help us break up?

How would the left explain why we need to ignore UN resolutions then.

(sorry for the double post. I'm having problems with my computer)

[Philip McDaniel]

LOL! Good post, retire05. It's amazing how little Northerners, Easterners and CA Lefties know about the south...and how cocky they are in their ignorance.

[retire05]

BlueNeponset, tell me, just how many refineries do you have in your state? Raise a lot of cattle there for your designer hamburgers? Everything can be found elsewhere? Well, then where the ohell are all your jobs? Ooops, they are being created in Texas.

Now, I understand you have to try to defend your position, but South Carolina really isn't the issue, is it? And what does Texas have to do with South Carolina anyway? And go right and buy your beef from Canada. Nothing like sending your dollars out of the country. Or do you not consider that "offshoring"?

Newsflash for yankee dummies: the Johnson Space center sits on Texas owned land. If you wanted to bother to do a little research, you would learn there are no federal lands in Texas. Davy Crockett National Forest? Simply called that because it is managed by the feds. We own the land. So, we apply Kelo to the Johnson Space Center and it is ours.

And you, like others, are unwilling to say what utopian state you reside in. Figures.

And yes, Mustanger80, a number of the states reserved the right to withdraw from the Union if it did not work out. Thomas Jefferson even guaranteed Virginia that right. But it seems that no matter how much we tax Americans to pay for public education, some, like those here, slipped through the cracks.

It seems that most here just want to distort what Rick Perry actually said. Maybe they should re-read the preamble to the Declaration of Independence and understand that much of what was said then is applicable now.

"Any people anywhere, being inclinded and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing goverment, may chose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much territory as they inhabit."

Abraham Lincoln - 1848

[continuum]

Can the rest of the other states vote to throw Texas out of the Union. Maybe Texas won't secede but maybe the rest of us could just kind of vote it out anyways. Hopefully, Texas would take the other red states with it. Or, at least Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma and maybe Utah for good measure.

Seems that the majority of folks are telling Perry not to let the door hit you in the butt when you leave.

Woohooo!!!! Maybe George Bush could team up with Perry to be Prez and VP of the new Texas.

[WBestPresisdentEver]

I would be proud to have my state join Texas and would love it If President Bush would reside over us. Where do we start to get this going ? I am ready as hell.

Looks like there are a lot of little Jharps stopping by these days.
LOL

[NJSoldier]

I would be moving to Texas or a state joining them. I've had enough of this federal government in my business.

[DCE]

Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if New Hampshire joined Texas if they pull out of the United States of Obama. Maybe the one southern state and one northern state with similar outlooks (Both states lack a state income tax, but New Hampshire also has no sales tax. Both states require a balanced budget, but at the moment the Democrats in the NH House and Senate are trying very hard to bankrupt the state and force a broadbased tax).

Our outlooks when it comes to law are very similar, too (Do the crime, do the time.) If the Lone Star State goes, so does the Granite State. If both states secede, we'll have 'em surrounded.

[The Grey Man]

A few questions. If Louisiana and Oklahoma join Texas, where does the US get it's energy from? Those three states have the bulk of domestic oil production and an even greater share of refining. And since oil refining not only produces gasoline and diesel but chemicals required for the production of plastics and thousands of other products, what happens to US Manufacturing?

If your state is not free to leave, are you truly free?