It's Odd That A Governor Of A Former Confederate State Would Bring Up Secession

[WeDidIt]

Think of it.

The FIRST African American President is not even 100 days into his administration, and a governor of a former Confederate State brings up secession.

It's not just chilling.

It's disgusting and sickening at a gut level.

[LakeSamish706]

1. Once again though, it's only the Governor and not Texans in general....

So I say vote this A**hole out of office ASAP.

[hlthe2b]

3. I know there are sane people in Texas, but what % agrees

with this moron? Anyone care to venture a guess?

[LakeSamish706]

6. Someone posted in an earlier thread (can't seem to find it) that he only...

has about 30% of Texans behind him.....

[blogslut]

2. The man is vying for head of the republican party

They're grabbing for any straw they can. Goodhair isn't going to survive his party's primary and is trying to remain relevant.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. It sucks to have a fool for a governor.

My governor is an ass, too. I know the people of Texas are just waiting for the opportunity to dump his ass.

[malaise]

5. At the end of the 80s when the fall of the Soviet Union

was being celebrated I told my hubby that they're giving some great ideas to the secessionists in the US. When Yugoslavia was broken up I said it again.
You cannot go around the world breaking up other countries and not expect those ideas to take root among the fringe.

And now a man with a black father and a white mother is President.
Expect to hear more of this from the usual suspects.

The irony of Perry, Rush, Hannity et al's comments is that the genuine anger among some sections of the population is pent up anger from eight years of Bush violating said state rights and the constitution. Now the right wing is channeling this anger to the worst of the extreme right racists.

Where was Perry when Bush sent his National Guard to Iraq and Afghanistan?

Where was Perry when Bushco invoked that clause from the 1863 National bank Act.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html

In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks. The federal government's actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.

But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration in its goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation.
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Perry et al aren't fooling anyone. They will not tolerate a black President - it's that simple.
I hope Texans deal with Perry. The last stupid Texas governor who tried this shit caused 600,000 deaths.

[valerief]

7. He keeps babbling about "the strawberries" too. Time for a mutiny. nt

[NutmegYankee]

8. I found it funny.

I mean, God Damn Son! Open a history book and see how well that worked out last time. It's called Treason.