Yeah, uh… I hear we did this before, like a little over 150 years ago. There was a little squabble about it, it might have killed a few people and destroyed a few things. But what do I know, I’m just a brainless liberal.

Welcome to the Balkans-on-the-Gulf.

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

A couple of guys named Houston and Lincoln would disagree with that characterization . . .

That damn Russian scientist and his US-will -fracture-thesis!!!

That damn Osama Bin Laden and his plan on 9/11 to crash the WTC and fracture the US!!

Those damn idiots who ask for Federal funds every few months and then claim they want to go Galt.

Fuck ‘em all.  You don’t like the US?  Then follow your own damn advice and LEAVE.  Go Galt.  And, no, you can’t take Texas with you.  Texas does not have the right to secede.  It did have the right to fracture into 5 states, once upon a time, but it does not have the right to leave.

What the fuck happened to “e pluribus unum” and the understanding that we were one people, no matter what candidate we supported?

How the hell does Perry expect to be a candidate for President when he talks about seceding?

They’re men of action, right?  So why are they talking about it?

Leave already!  The rest of us are tired of hearing you guys whine about how horrible you have it…

Just let us Blue States leave first.  We’ll take our money, our productivity, our “Men of the Mind” with us and live happily without Red States robbing us blind.

You might find there is more than one way to create the ignorant and arrogant paradise you guys claim to want…

You can take this to the bank: Rick Perry is going to get his ass kicked in the next election so damn hard. The poor desperate fool knows there’s nothing he can do to keep Kay Bailey Hutchison out of the Governor’s Mansion, no matter how many militia-humping stunts he pulls.

I’m no fan of Hutchison at all, but it’s gonna be nice to see Perry kicked to the curb.

It’s sad - though not surprising - that the Governor of Texas believes these myths.  I know for a fact they’re taught as real history in schools.  Texas doesn’t have the right to secede without input or penalty from Congress and never has.  Texas has no special right to divide into five states that’s not shared by every state in the Union according to the Constitution, not that Texans like Gov. Goodhair could handle having their precious state shrink by one square inch.  Texas has no special right to display its flag equal to or higher than the US flag; there’s no laws regarding that type of thing at all.

Texas never extended to the Rio Grande except in the fevered delusions of the slaveholders and their enablers that rebelled against Mexico.  It never held any part of present-day Colorado, Wyoming or Idaho.  To call their short-lived “republic” a failed state would give it status it never deserved, and that they decided to break away from a Union that had been so generous to them just a few years after joining says something about the (lack of) character of those first Texans.  Perry is just following in their footsteps.

Enough talk and whingeing. Leave. And take your portion of the Federal debt and deficit (the one your phony cowboy hero hung around our necks) with you. Too expensive? We’ll off-set it by taking the Free City of Austin (the military bases? those don’t belong to you).

[and yes, I know they can’t really secede. Sometimes, though, I wish…]

How the hell does Perry expect to be a candidate for President when he talks about seceding?

Same way Palin did: by running under the banner of a party that appeals to a mouth-breathing base. (now you know why they don’t want to be tea-bagged)

Anyhow, Perry seems to be dreaming more about being President of the Lone Star Republic. Typical—turn down the real prize for a fancy title (and a big white hat!).

Speaking as a Texan, I would like to apologize for our idiot governor. Really, I don’t know what more to say to this ridiculousness - it’s embarassing.

While I can’t say I’d be brokenhearted if they took their electoral votes and thus the Republicans’ chances for ever havnig the Presidency again away with them, there is the minor detail that people live in Texas who are not favored by these people, and without the protection of the US Constitution, how long would things like Lawrence v. Texas stand, or hate crimes protections?

I’d imagine there’d be a quick groundswell to make Puerto Rico a state, however, so we don’t have to drop a star off the flag (lol . . . Lone Star Republic is a fitting name).

OK, let’s give them back to Mexico. Just pick up all the federal property within those boundaries, and the federal employees, and start building that border wall where it should have gone in the first place…

I don’t think for a moment that Goodhair believes any of this crap. He learned from the success of GWB that you say whatever your handlers think people want to hear.

To Perry: Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

And I know this is shallow, but is it just me or were the folks at the tea bagging rallies the ugliest people in the United States of America? That’s not to say that all liberals look like Halle Berry but geez! Every youtube clip and newspaper photo of the teabaggers are of some of the ugliest mugs I’ve ever seen.

Just let us Blue States leave first.  We’ll take our money, our productivity, our “Men of the Mind” with us and live happily without Red States robbing us blind.

To be fair to Texas, it is one of the few red states that actually pays more in federal taxes than it gets back.  The point about blue states mostly subsidizing red states is true, but Texas is one of those few red states that pays more than their share.

I don’t have a link to the most recent figures, but Olbermann said last night that Texas gets back 88 cents on the dollar for the federal taxes they pay.  According to the Tax Foundation, Texas got back $0.94 for every tax dollar paid in 2005.

Anyway, while on some level I would love to see Texas takes its wingnut governor, its 2 wingnut senators, its 20 wingnut House represenatatives, and its 34 red Electoral Votes and disappear forever (and guarantee a Democrat in the White House for the next two decades), let’s keep in mind that one of our favorite bloggers is a resident of the Lone Star State.

Not to mention the fact that while it’s easy to look at an Electoral College Map and see a gigantic red blob and assume that the whole state is nothing but a bunch of wingnuts, in reality all it takes is a 10-15 percent majority to hold electoral control over a state for a generation or more.  56% of Texans may be wingnut assholes who voted for a continuation of the last 8 years this past November, but what about the 44% of Texans who voted for change, but whose voices were drowned out?

They’re Texans, too.

So are we going to get a border fence on the Oklahoma border to stop the illegal Texas hordes now?

I bet this guy pushed for the “Pledge of Allegience” in schools, but he probably doesn’t know what the word “indivisible” means

It doesn’t really have much power as a threat.  We’ll be trying to dig ourself out of what “Texas Values” did to our country for the next 20 years as it is.

You misspelled “invisible” up there, misplacedpatriot.  That part of the pledge is about the invisible sky fairy that rules us all.

Seriously, fucking Texas Christianists made school books edit the part about the Pledge so that “under God” is not defined as a phrase added by scared weenies in the 50s to distinguish us from Godless Communists, but as meaning the country is LED BY GOD.

Maybe we should let Texas go.

DTG:

That’s the oil money talking for the tax imbalance.

These people are unbelievable. They lose one election—lose it fairly, mind you, not because corrupt partisans in black robes stole it—and they’re ready to secede. What a bunch of babies.

These people are unbelievable. They lose one election—lose it fairly, mind you, not because corrupt partisans in black robes stole it—and they’re ready to secede. What a bunch of babies.

My sentiments exactly. Barack Obama has been in office 87 days.

87 days.

This is the maturity level we’re dealing with here.

”...let’s keep in mind that one of our favorite bloggers is a resident of the Lone Star State.”

I’m sure Amanda and Marc would love living in San Fransisco or Seattle…or NYC or Boston…

Texas = Baja Oklahoma

Shades of Quebec in the 70s, no?

What happens when the Hispanics become a majority ...

Don’t let the door hit all y’all asses on the way out.

Don’t let the door hit all y’all asses on the way out.

Oh, hell no.  It’s all our country.

Hell no!

As an Austinite, born and raised, who’s currently freezing his ass off to get a ivory tower, pinko commie education in the North East, I will be sorely cross indeed if I can’t return to the land of warmth and delicious tacos after graduation.

Don’t even try to claim that the fog bank they call San Francisco is an acceptable alternative.

Texas = Baja Oklahoma

Ha ha!  My Okie Grandmother used to say that all the time.

KBH will defeat Perry in the primary but Bill White will win the election. Trust me, it’s gonna happen.

You Texans who can’t take cool weather would be welcome to turn Orange and San Diego Counties blue here in CA.

Good. Take Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma and South Carolina with you, please.