Comments on: Texas Governor Floats Possibility Of Secession

[louiville2]

If Perry said Texas should secede he is guilty of sedition. If so, he should be shot and killed immediately.
Posted by notmudroseiii at 2:30 PM

What a dimwit LOL.

[whitemale08]

Is this really about 'State's rights'?

Or is it about a long held dream of the British empire of Wall Street/City of London to break up the U.S. and balkanize it so it comes in line with the U.N. and under control of the British and European oligarchy?

[louiville2]

If Texas secedes from the Union, the national IQ level average would triple automatically.
Posted by whatithink-2009 at 2:28 PM

So you live in Texas right?

[whatithink-2009]

If Texas secedes from the Union, the national IQ level average would triple automatically.

[louiville2]

Texans love their guns anyway!!!

HAIL OBAMA!!!!
Posted by walt1944 at 2:00 PM

Pretty much ALL the red states want to go. Btw if they do your bread, corn flakes and energy will go through the roof. Like some former black slave union soldier guard at a union prison camp said to his former owner prisoner. "looks like the top rail is on the bottom now". (as in you put your foot on the bottom rail)

[butterfly462]

I live in Texas. Please don't hold it against me. I am out of here as soon as my child is grown. Everything you hear about Texas is true. But there are those of us who live here who totally disagree with the way Texas is run. Our voices do not get heard. The extreme control held in this state by Republicans is disgusting. If you really want to see how they will cheat to keep power, please look up Texas redistricting 2003/2004 and look at how they chopped up districts in a manner designed to give Republicans power. It was so insane the every Democrat legislator left the state in protest, but of course since the Republicans held every possition of power thay got their way.
What you see happening now in the Republican party is part racism, part evangelical christians trying to make government policy, and people who care more about their guns than their fellow Americans. They were so pro-military before Obama got elected, but are not so proud of their country anymore. They don't care about the welfare of the entire nation, just themselves. Austin is the bright spot. Here is some irony to at least let the rest of the country know that Mr Perry does not speak for all of Texas and that the state is making strides to be more progressive. Every county with a major city in it went for President Obama on pure majority votes. Even Dallas county where former President Bush(do you know how hard it was to type that name?)currently lives. Please if any of you hear of Texas suceeding it will not be the will of the majority, just the crazy talk of the so called christian, right wing, gun toting, nut cases. Boy do I wish I was experiencing this national change in leadership somewhere else.

[louiville2]

So what's all the fuss about blue states already made the case four years ago. Now look at all those BLUE state whiners on here!

Could the Blue States Secede?
Is there a legal way to opt out of the Union?
By Sam Schechner
Posted Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, at 7:05 PM ET
Even before Sen. John Kerry conceded defeat in the presidential election, some bitter blue-staters had begun joking about the possibility of seceding from red-state America. Which makes you wonder: Are there any provisions in U.S. law for a state to opt out of the Union?

But the legal situation wasn't always so clear cut. Before the Civil War, the legality of secession was an open question, and Southerners would frequently threaten that their states might ditch the fledgling nation. The legal argument, framed eloquently in the 1830 Senate debate between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne, centered on the Constitution: Was it merely a treaty among the many states? Or was it the founding document of a singular country, a compact of the "people" cited in its opening clause? This legal argument, among other things, eventually begat the Civil War, and since it ended, scholars have agreed that the Constitution grants no right of secession.

[RonnySockPuppetReagan]

Good Riddance!!!

[bluecollarca]

Teabaggers are morons.

[walt1944]

The governor of Texas has advocated secession of Texas from the Union. He apparently wishes to join Alaska which has wackos up there who want the same thing.

Perhaps while Obama is in Mexico, he might want to ask the Mexican president if he wants to have Texas BACK??

After all, Sarah "Caribeau Barbie" Palin stated often enough that she could see Russia from her house and that Russian planes regularly flew over Alaska! Perhaps these were "overtures" to Vladimer Putin to see if he would like Russia to have Alaska back!

As far as having Texas back, I am sure that no one would miss the place and that the Mexicans would just move the drug war further north to Dallas, Houston, and that part of Galvaston that isn't still under water.

Texans love their guns anyway!!!

HAIL OBAMA!!!!