Posted on 07/24/2009 12:59:14 PM PDT by broken_arrow1
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.
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You go Perry. May other governors do the same and follow your lead.
So a state may take their recent legislation on the 10th Amendment seriously.
Obama care would be disastrous for the whole country, not just Texas.
Of course my State of Maryland with it’s Democrat puppets will go along with it. After all we have counties full of welfare and government loads, immigrants from Washington DC,who live in the suburbs and elect people like Mikulski, Cardin and Steny Hoyer.
Ping.
This dewd has some fight in him.
Q for Texas FReepers, Is Perry ahead of KBH in the primary for next election there?
Those states would soon become failed states of a failed union should a group of states band together to suspend membership in the union.
It would be a rich state vs poor state scenario, where all those “poor” democrat welfare states would all band together under the federalist banner, but be starved for money because of their high deficit spending.
They’d go broke very quickly and become failed communist states like what happened in the USSR.
The federalists need the rich states taxes to feed the poor welfare states, but if the ‘rich’ independent states stuck together to resist the feds, then there isn’t much they could do, except start a war.
Yes, he is ahead, although it is mostly because we like her less than him. Tex Perry can’t be trusted, but right now he is playing to the base.
States rights? How about individual rights?!
He’s a fighter for the citizens rights.
Perry ain’t a KBH lay-down puppy.
KBH is a 0 lap dog.
Perry will stay ahead, at least until 0 sends in his Obamacorns.
We’ll be ready for them.
We’ll trade you one Perry for one Crist and a weekend at the Redneck Riviera.
Yeah, I’ve heard that.
But you’re better off than we are here in AZ — we’ve got a RINO guv, former SOS who fell into the job when Nappy bolted to ruin Homeland Security for Obozo. Our latest dumb b!tch guv sounds just like a Democrat, as she fights the Repub legislature tooth and nail, vetoes the budget, etc., and cries the sky will fall if she can’t raise the sales tax (in the middle of a recession).
Conservatives would like to throttle her. She’s a complete idiot. How do these assclowns find the Republican party when they can’t find their asses with both hands? It’s a fleepin’ mystery deluxe.
She supposedly has more money to play with but,I don’t know of any Texans (that I know) who are on her bandwagon.
She hasn’t officially announced yet.
KBH is what, about 3000 years old now?
The idea of government run health care is not in the Constitution. Therefore, it belongs to the States.
KBH is adamantly pro-choice and anti-gun. She and Perry both may be pro-amnisty on immigration. That raises a lot ot eye brows in Texas.
In my circles she doesn't have a chance. Perry has made plenty of enemies so it could be a toss up.
You put those rights in the hands of those you elect to protect them, or gamble them away if they so choose.
That is why people all across this country need to smarten up and pay serious attention to who is running for election.
Voting for actors just because they are actors is one of the dumbest things we do in this country. They are some of the dumbest people on the planet who live in their own little make believe world of champagne and coke.
Likewize those in Massachusetts who continually vote for the Kennedy's, who in turn think they shouldn't even have to be elected, and that senate seats are just part of their inheritance, and alcoholism and womanizing is also inherited from their familly gene pool and therefore their are exempt from prosecution when they violate the law and drown people when they drive their cars into waterways and too intoxicated to drag the woman they are taking home from the bar.
Or vote for turnips like John Kerry just because his family were good friends with the Kennedy's and named their first born idiot son "John F'n Kerry" so his initials would be the same as their exclusive society's top dog.
It doesn't matter that the person is a chronic compulsive liar whose entire life history is fiction.
This is why this country is in such a mess. It has been run by a bunch of fraudulent criminals who have had the media in their back pockets for the past 50 years
With young children. She needs to be a *stay at home*.
Another front heard from!!
Go TEXAS!
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