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Perry: Texas May Fight National Health Care if Approved
WOAI ^ | 6/24/09 | Jim Forsyth

Posted on 07/27/2009 6:46:04 AM PDT by laotzu

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God Bless Texas!!
(I know, its redundant)
1 posted on 07/27/2009 6:46:05 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: laotzu

I’m just hoping one of the usual curmudgeons doesn’t stop by to dismiss Perry as a “RINO” like they do every other elected Pubbie. This is why we need GOP reps in government.


2 posted on 07/27/2009 6:48:22 AM PDT by MNSlim
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To: laotzu; freekitty; basil

Get those calls in to Perry so he shows some backbone.


3 posted on 07/27/2009 6:50:08 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: laotzu

Perry is exactly correct.

In fact, he should take this course of action regardless of ANY of the specifics in the Death to America “Healthcare” Bill, precisely because, whether it results in euthanasia and abortion (which it will) it WILL help put more nails in the coffin of the Constitution.

Once governors take back their legitimate powers under the Tenth Amendment, they should recognize that those legitimate powers include nullifying USSC decisions in which the Court has usurped authority. First on the governors’ “docket” should be Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.


4 posted on 07/27/2009 6:53:56 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: laotzu

All I can say is this better not be another ploy to get re-elected. If it is, we WILL throw his ass out next election.


5 posted on 07/27/2009 6:54:58 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: MNSlim

Well, Perry has hardly been consistent, so he earned some jabs. However, he’s come up in my standing with this stand. SOMEBODY needs to remind those screw-ups in DC that there’s something called the Constitution.


6 posted on 07/27/2009 6:56:28 AM PDT by Clara Lou (Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.)
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To: laotzu

“Texas has the largest number, and the largest percentage, of uninsured residents in the country.”

That’s because we have a great portion of Mexico’s citizens living in Texas, whom we are already educating, medicating and incarcerating. We do not need the magnet of free health care to draw even more Mexicans to Texas.

And there are many young Texans who do not choose to have health care because they don’t need it. BO can’t stand that freedom thing. It must be stamped out because the young should be made to pay for the old, as they already do by having Social Security taxes confiscated from their paychecks. If the federal government stopped taxing individuals and families so much, they could afford their own health care...but then they wouldn’t be dependent on Democrats, would they.


7 posted on 07/27/2009 6:58:46 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: unixfox

Yeah— but in the meantime.... (As I said above, Perry isn’t consistently good in what he chooses to do. And I just have an idea he wants to run for POTUS. And, up to this point, he’d certainly be a less controversial candidate than Palin.)


8 posted on 07/27/2009 6:59:40 AM PDT by Clara Lou (Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.)
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To: laotzu
Wouldn't it be grand if Texas secedes, I'm proud to have them for a neighbour.


9 posted on 07/27/2009 7:09:20 AM PDT by SouthDixie (We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
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To: Clara Lou

Will Texas also reject any ACORN workers?


10 posted on 07/27/2009 7:11:58 AM PDT by Tomato lover
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To: MNSlim

Exactly! A Republican doesn’t do 100% of what they want and he becomes a RINO no matter how conservative he has governed.

Personally don’t think a lot of people using the word “RINO” over and over again are even Republican. I will take a Rick Perry a 100 times over the RAT Doofus Henry we have as OK Governor. Henry, the Obama lover, vetoed the voter ID bill but we have it on the ballot so his veto meant ZERO.


11 posted on 07/27/2009 7:19:52 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn/Rubio - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: MeekOneGOP; ValerieTexas; txhurl; DrewsDad; HiJinx; SwinneySwitch; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Xenalyte; ..

TX ping - screw obambicare again


12 posted on 07/27/2009 7:25:09 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: laotzu
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. Section 152 Page 50: All healthcare services will be provided without regard to "personal characteristcs" which is not defined within the document but is understood to include immigration status.

A lot more provisions now being documented at that site.

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.


Decmocrat (Obama) Health Plan
http://www.jeffhead.com/DemHealthCare.htm

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

UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA - A SONG
By Ron and Kay Rivoli

...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.

JEFF HEAD'S WESTERN US SCENERY SLIDE SHOWS

13 posted on 07/27/2009 7:25:52 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: SouthDixie

One thing about this policy, if 0bamacare does pass, and Texas refuses to participate,

those “uninsured” will leave the state for the “free” medical insurance in other states.

This could be a good thing. Get the entitlement crowd to voluntarily emigrate.


14 posted on 07/27/2009 7:29:08 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: SouthDixie
Wouldn't it be grand if Texas secedes

I think so....and I live here!!!

15 posted on 07/27/2009 7:29:15 AM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: PhiKapMom
don’t think a lot of people using the word “RINO” over and over again are even Republican

When they are all 'RINOs', the word ceases to have any meaning. They are simply 'Republicans'.

However; it does prove your point in that I am not a Republican.

16 posted on 07/27/2009 7:31:29 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: laotzu

I like what he has been saying lately, but that’s just it. He crawls out of the woodwork around election time and sounds like a Governor, but where was he the last few years? I just want to watch and listen a little longer before I believe this is the real deal.


17 posted on 07/27/2009 7:37:44 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: laotzu

A Tenth Amendment battle is long overdue.

The unfortunate thing is that 2000-2006 was our golden opportunity. BDS in the media (combined with a nominally R-controlled Congress) could have been leveraged to our advantage in the 10A fight - initiating the battle now makes it easy to paint our motives as being a noxious combination of partisanship, covert racism, poor-loserism, and whatever else the MSM wishes to ascribe to our side in the hopes of propping up ObaMessiah and other Democrat colleagues.

Better late than never, don’t get me wrong. I just foresee that any nascent 10A movement will quickly be painted as some “xenophobic, populist drive of a bunch of apocalyptic birther lunatics awaiting the second coming who want to anoint Queen Palin as President and kick Obama back to Kenya” turning off 99.999% of the fraction of people who would otherwise back a devolution of power to the states.

We basically wasted an opportunity for the media narrative to be defined in terms less unfavorable to our cause. IMO, if we are ever to succeed, it has to be during the term of an unpopular Republican president, preferably one who at least the Left (again) sees as an enemy of civil liberties, etc.


18 posted on 07/27/2009 7:39:17 AM PDT by M203M4 (NEW New Deal: A pot through every window! (1/2 credit to Bastiat))
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To: kittymyrib

Well said!


19 posted on 07/27/2009 7:42:16 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: Tomato lover

I’m sure they’ll be welcomed in liberal Austin.


20 posted on 07/27/2009 7:52:36 AM PDT by Clara Lou (Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.)
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