Oh, you won't get secession by going through channels. That's like asking your wife for permission to start an affair. You have to just do it and be willing to suffer the consequences. There will be no turning back or the punishment will be harsh but I think a persuasive case can be made both to Texans and to Washington to let it happen once the move is made.
For example, how does it look to the rest of the world if the U.S. tries a violent putdown of Texas while condemning Russia for a violent putdown of Georgia and Chechnya? We might actually get a lot of diplomatic support from all the America-haters that either Bush or Obama have ticked off.
So your point of view is that treason is preferable because winning elections is too hard for you?
Get thee behind me Satan.
You don’t ask your wife for permission to have an affair. You do ask permission from the state for a divorce.
Unless you are just a thief, or a deadbeat.
The lesson of the Civil War was that right makes might. Slavery was such a bad cause that the slave power could gain no allies, and hence lost. It was such a bad cause that they had no legal case, and so had to seek power from the barrel of a gun. They didn’t find it there.