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With the fiery rhetoric of a prairie populist, Gov. Rick Perry calls on “Texas patriots” to protest against “bailouts, all this stimulus, all this runaway spending” in the nation’s capital.
For weeks, the Republican governor has ratcheted up his railing against the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress. Perry’s call for “states’ rights” and a suggestion that Texas could leave the union if it wanted to made national news this week.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh gave Perry an “Amen, bro,” and host Glenn Beck said he was “thrilled” by Perry’s stand on states’ rights.
The last time Texas did this was when they joined the Confederacy in secession from the Union – opposed to the freeing of slaves.
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But the truth is, Perry’s administration already is expecting to take federal stimulus dollars, and the House today is set to debate a budget that uses $11 billion in stimulus funding to help cover state government operations for the next two years.
The governor has signed off on Texas accepting about $16.5 billion from the federal stimulus package, including $101 million that his office would administer in grants to local law enforcement and crime victims.
Perry is against only the $555 million for unemployment insurance that the state can receive only by changing Texas unemployment law.
But the Senate, rebuffing Perry’s opposition, tentatively agreed to change the law and take the unemployment money.
I think Perry knew what the Senate vote was going to be when he made his populist plea. He was just adding secession to the usual list of mom, apple pie and the Dallas Cowboys as sacred topics. He knows his market.
Oops, I meant to say the second coming of the “Republic of Texas”, not “Nation of Texas”.
The guy standing behind him is thinking: “Well butter my buns and call me a biscuit but I do love looking at the back of Governor Ricky’s head.”
Sarah is thinking: “Well gosh darnit, you could ride my snowmobile anytime sugar.”
If he’s elected President I guarantee more than a few Hostess Ding Dongs will be munched in the oval office.
$300 worth of haircuts in one photo.
Are we to make anything out of the fact that Gov. Rick Perry wanted a haircut style just like Shemp from The Three Stooges?
There is simply not enough haircuts, lipstick or secession rhetoric for another republican from Texas to make it to the Whitehouse. Get real.
President Obama is already on a roll. Money is already being repaid by banks, economy is showing signs of recovery, relations with cuba and we are not a torturing people like the savages of the inquisition.
Heck, he even took on pirates and kicked their ass. I don’t even think Obama has collected a third paycheck yet! This guy is a friggin superhero. Even Nutt Gengrich had to eat his words (see CNN report). Perry has no chance.
Dallas,
The banks are trying to pay back money fast because they don’t like the Feds trying to run their businesses. Only thing is, from what I read, the Feds aren’t accepting the money. They want the power.
Superhero?!? Puhleeze. If Bush had ordered three teenage black men to be shot by Navy snipers then there would have been a outcry across all the mainstream media of righteous indignation. Nice double standard.
How does it feel to be rooting for a President that orders the military to shoot brown kids in a far away country? Sound familiar? Only now the President is a superhero instead of Hitler reincarnate. Kinda hypocritical, in my opinion.
# 84 Mark T. said, on April 17th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Dallas,
The banks are trying to pay back money fast because they don’t like the Feds trying to run their businesses.
Perhaps…but more likely they are heeding the advice of many and getting out of debt before hyperinflation (20% or more) kicks in …
It will begin latter this year…and on a graph look like a hockey stick laying down, be relatively mild until late 2010-12, when it will take a sharp turn up and exponentially increase…no one is sure when it will stop.
So now is the time to get out of debt…
If your in business, you will have to be able to absorb the rise in cost to a large degree…your customers ability to pay won’t rise nearly as fast…
Do what the Chinese are doing…invest in metals, copper etc…
Alfred1,
Yeah, I was going to mention the looming hyperinflation but I thought that was a bit premature. I agree with your assessment, though. When all those newly printed trillions of $$$ hit the streets, inflation will undoubtedly skyrocket to Jimmy Carter levels, if not much higher. Then we shall see how the so-called “economic recovery” plays out.
# 84 Mark T. said, on April 17th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Dallas,
The banks are trying to pay back money fast because they don’t like the Feds trying to run their businesses.
Perhaps…but more likely they are heeding the advice of many and getting out of debt before hyperinflation (20% or more) kicks in …
It will begin latter this year…and on a graph look like a hockey stick laying down, be relatively mild until late 2010-12, when it will take a sharp turn up and exponentially increase…no one is sure when it will stop.
So now is the time to get out of debt…
If your in business, you will have to be able to absorb the rise in cost to a large degree…your customers ability to pay won’t rise nearly as fast…
Do what the Chinese are doing…invest in metals, copper etc
To combat hyperinflation, the fed will be forced for raise the prime…therefore all loans keyed to it will rise exponentially…and bankrupt any in too much debt…now is the time to save yourself.
# 86 Mark T. said, on April 17th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Alfred1,
Yeah, I was going to mention the looming hyperinflation but I thought that was a bit premature. I agree with your assessment, though. When all those newly printed trillions of $$$ hit the streets, inflation will undoubtedly skyrocket to Jimmy Carter levels, if not much higher. Then we shall see how the so-called “economic recovery” plays out.
It will fail, “you cannot push a string.” Every economist I read agrees money supply does not create wealth…
Only inflation.
The analogy I hit home with me:
“When there is only one dollar in the lifeboat, an orange sells for $1.00….Increase the money supply 300% like the fed did, and although the orange hasn’t changed, its price just went up, especially if two or more decided to pool their money.”
I think it purposeful…they want to impoverish us all via hyper inflation…
I pray I’m wrong…but nothing except that makes sense.
Why are you lefties upset at this?
Don’t you hate us and believe we are all just ignorant Christian nutballs with too many guns and not enough gay-rights festivals and vegetarian activists? Wouldn’t you be happy to see us go? Aren’t you ashamed that we are part of your country?
If you don’t want us to go, why not?
Reasons, please, not just more insults.
I’d LOVE to leave the union at this point. It would certainly make things tougher for Texas for a while, and we’d have to be a lot more self-sufficient, but some of us would welcome that.
You guys can try the socialist path and we’ll do our thing. What’s the problem with that?
# 89 texasisgreat said, on April 17th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Why are you lefties upset at this?
Don’t you hate us and believe we are all just ignorant Christian nutballs with too many guns and not enough gay-rights festivals and vegetarian activists? Wouldn’t you be happy to see us go? Aren’t you ashamed that we are part of your country?
If you don’t want us to go, why not?
Reasons, please, not just more insults.
I’d LOVE to leave the union at this point. It would certainly make things tougher for Texas for a while, and we’d have to be a lot more self-sufficient, but some of us would welcome that.
You guys can try the socialist path and we’ll do our thing. What’s the problem with that?
Gov Perry said essentially that…if Washington persists in going left…they leave us behind, and perhaps secession is our response to American becoming Europe or something lesser…
I can’t argue with that…I love freedom…but if the land of the free wants Obama to enslave them…then I’ll leave too…
AND the Obamachorus should say AMEN…good riddance…
Of course they will miss my tax dollars! ACORN workers don’t pay for Liberal programs, they are the beneficiaries of them.
I’d LOVE to leave the union at this point.
If 2010 doesn’t see all incumbents thrown out of office, and Obama in 2012…I’m with you…
Don’t hold my former residence in the Peoples Republic of California against me…I once lived in Houston…worked the rigs and ship channel, went to church in Lubbock…and am an all around Texican where it counts…I got guns.
Maybe if Texas were to secede from the union then Obama could annex Cuba as the new fiftieth state. That way they wouldn’t have to buy all new American flags and the U.S. would be one step closer to being both a communist utopia AND a third world country.
Long live Texas!
# 89 texasisgreat said, on April 17th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Why are you lefties upset at this?
I love the smell of a refinery in the morning…it smells like…PROSPERITY!”
-a former texican who will return if it secedes.
Bobbo, health care costs are rising much faster than inflation, and they do not stem from the things on which you are saving, except possibly the managed care detail.
So any hypothetical savings will reduce costs one time, and then costs will increase from that point.
Perry is playing the conservative sheeple for all it’s worth. Secession from the union is about the most rediculous thing I’ve ever heard a governor say. While he gets the local sheep excited, this very thing will just bite him in the ass on a national level.
Yeah, please vote for me. The repug governor from Texas who was thinking of illegally wanting to create my own country. Yessiree, my own darn country I tell ya. Oh, and I promise to be a uniter!
One way to measure Obama’s performance is to see how rediculous the Repugs get with their rhetoric. I see Obama batting 1000 so far .
92 Mark T. said, on April 17th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Maybe if Texas were to secede from the union then Obama could annex Cuba as the new fiftieth state.
Don’t forget Fidel’s buddy Chavez…
Obama is there now, establishing the bridge…
The Congressional Black Caucus established beyond any Congressional doubt, Cubans live better than Americans…in Democratic districts…
# 95 Dallas said, on April 17th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Perry is playing the conservative sheeple for all it’s worth. Secession from the union is about the most rediculous thing I’ve ever heard a governor say. While he gets the local sheep excited, this very thing will just bite him in the ass on a national level.
Yeah, please vote for me. The repug governor from Texas who was thinking of illegally wanting to create my own country. Yessiree, my own darn country I tell ya….
That isn’t what he said…
at all.
Nothing he said would stop a presidential run…
He said…if Washington leaves Capitalism, Freedom, Americanism, then perhaps secession is the proper response.
Perry is right about state rights…its something Governors should have made clear since the 50′s…but better late than never.
State rights transcends Gov Perry…it matters not what his defects are…the issue it compelling.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh gave Perry an “Amen, bro,” and host Glenn Beck said he was “thrilled” by Perry’s stand on states’ rights.
Neither Rush, Perry or Beck, want Texas to secede.
They only want Freedom to ring loudly…free peoples, freely united.
It is antithetical to America that we be united against out will.