www.notintexas.org
I know it sounds goofy, but if Perry succeeds in dissing the Feds, he deserves a statue like the one on General Sam Houston on 145 North.
Needs to be a bit shorter than Sam’s, though as no one has his stature.
Corporations are created and governed under State law. Insurance - including health insurance - is also governed exclusively by State law under the McCarran Act. The federal government therefore has NO power to order a corporation to provide health insurance to its employees, nor does it have the power to tell a state-chartered and regulated insurer what it can and cannot cover and what premiums it can charge. There is no way Congress can squeeze this into the Commerce Clause.
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How are land prices in TX?
Wow!
I’m SURE that tomorrow morning I’ll read a story about The Schwarz doing the same thing in California, right?
/severe sarcasm
Here’s the article you were looking for. I’m going to download Mark Davis’s podcast tomorrow... I hope Perry is on the highlight recording.
Call him on it (relentlessly) and see if its a bluff. If it is a bluff, make him do it anyway... REAL legislation with teeth, claws and a rabid apatite for marxist flesh. ;) DO NOT let them get away with a f—king meaningless joint resolution or some other wussy as- crap.
There is no reason to wait until the next level of marxism is enacted by the fedgov. The state of Texas can come up with legislation RIGHT NOW that will effectively void (at least for the citizens of Texas) the obamanation headed our way. It will also set up another direct confrontation between a state and the fedgov, which allows us to push things even further in the direction we want to go.
Rick Perry just stated on Mark Davis' show that Texas may use the 10th Amendment to reject Obamacare.
I suppose the sound bite will probably resonate well with those who admire his hair.
Perry raises possibility of states’ rights showdown with White House over healthcare
http://www.star-telegram.com/238/story/1504240.html
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be “disastrous” for Texas.
Interviewed by conservative talk show host Mark Davis of Dallas’ WBAP/820 AM, Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan, which both Perry and Davis described as “Obama Care.” But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a “number” of states might resist the federal health mandate.
“I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying ‘no’ to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare,” Perry said. “So my hope is that we never have to have that stand-up. But I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats.”
Perry, the state’s longest-serving governor, has made defiance of Washington a hallmark of his state administration as well as his emerging re-election campaign against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the 2010 Republican primary. Earlier this year, Perry refused $555 million in federal unemployment stimulus money, saying it would subject Texas to long-term costs after the federal dollars ended.
Interviewed after returning from a trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, Perry spoke out against President Barack Obama’s healthcare package less than 24 hours after the president used a prime-time news conference Wednesday night to try to sell the massive legislative package to Congress and the public.
‘Not the solution’
“It really is a state issue, and if there was ever an argument for the 10th Amendment and for letting the states find a solution to their problems, this may be at the top of the class,” Perry said. “A government-run healthcare system is financially unstable. It’s not the solution.”
Perry heartily backed an unsuccessful resolution in this year’s legislative session that would have affirmed the belief that Texas has sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.
In expressing “unwavering support” for the 10th Amendment resolution by state Rep. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, Perry said “federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens and its interference with the affairs of our state.”
Returning to the “letter and spirit” of the 10th Amendment, he said in April, “will free our state from undue regulations and ultimately strengthen our union.”
Perry, in his on-air interview Thursday with Davis, did not specify how he might use the 10th Amendment in opposing the Obama health plan. His spokeswoman, Allison Castle, said that the governor’s first goal is to defeat the plan in Congress and that any discussion of options beyond that would be “hypothetical.”
“I don’t think it’s surprising that the governor is taking a stand against it,” said Anne Dunkelberg, associate director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities, an Austin-based research organization that supports the House version of Obama’s plan. “Unfortunately, the national dialogue on health reform has been extraordinarily partisan and polarized.”
The White House Media Affairs Office, asked to comment on Perry’s statements, did not have an immediate response. In his remarks to the nation Wednesday, Obama restated his midsummer deadline for passage of the bill in Congress, saying it is urgently needed to help families “that are being clobbered by healthcare costs.”
High stakes in Texas
Texas has a higher percentage of uninsured people than any other state, with 1 in 4 Texans lacking health coverage. Dunkelberg, whose organization supports policies to help low- and modest-income Texans, said the House version would create a “predictable and comprehensive benefits package” for thousands of struggling middle-income Texans.
Former Rep. Arlene Wohlgemuth of Burleson, a senior fellow for healthcare at the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, echoed Perry’s assertion that the Obama plan is the wrong approach and could have disastrous financial consequences for Texas.
Under the Senate version of the bill, she said, an expansion of the joint federal-state Medicaid program for the poor could cost Texas $4 billion a year.
“There are good solutions” to the country’s healthcare problems, Wohlgemuth said. “This isn’t it.”
Perry said the plan is another example of the Obama administration’s “massive takeover of the private-sector economy.”
“I hope our leaders will look for solutions that don’t dig our country further into debt,” he said.
Perry called on Texans in the House and Senate to oppose the plan. “I can’t imagine that anyone from Texas who cares about this state would vote for Obama Care. I don’t care whether you’re Democrat or Republican,” he said.
Of those Texans who might consider supporting the plan, he said: “This may sound a little bit harsh, but they might ought to consider representing some other state because they’re sure not representing Texas.”
We are moving to Texas in the next 12 months. I love the foothills of the Sierra Nevada but this state is full of lunatics.
Good for her! And good for Gov. Perry!
Everybody needs to sign the petition ASAP! It is up at a number of sites. Dennis Prager and Michael Medved have it. The Dems are trying to get 1 million by the end of next week. We need to trump that!
Here is a link to the full House Democrat Health Care Plan in PDF. In Section 1233 E & F, pages 426-433, you find the part about mandatory end-of-life counseling for anyone over 65 years of age.
HOUSE DEMOCRAT HEALTH CARE PLAN - http://www.jeffhead.com/DemHealthCare.htm
Also, here's a large image of the Democratic (Obama) Health Plan chart-another Obama empty promise. This is the one the House democrats are censuring. Email these links or the image to everyone you know.
Obama and all those pushing his radical agenda are abject marxist ideologues. Their "fundamental; change" is nothing more than a destruction of the American free market and fundamental republican principle.
A PETITION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
A 4TH OF JULY TEA PARTY SPEECH
...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.
I’m glad he didn’t say he would challenge ObamaCare’s Constitutionality in federal court. Screw the federal courts! The Great State of Texas would declare ObamaCare to be Unconstitutional (i.e., State Nullification).
Perry to Obama, “Adios MoFo!”.