Posted on 04/16/2009 4:04:45 PM PDT by meandog
The Third Ward of Houston. His district includes lots of the same constituents as Sheila Jackson Lee's.
the Dems would be scared if some of us down here and the midwest, AK left the union as who would pay all their taxes plus they would not be bale to push their social liberal agendas like homos wanting their shams
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LOL! The leftists are starting to get nervous. Go Governor Perry!
“Today, Texas State Sen. Rodney Ellis (D) rightly condemned his state’s very fringe Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) for his unconstitutional and outrageously dishonest rant about Texas secession:”
He mentioned the Constitution, does that make this dufus a right wing extremist? Or is that designation reserved for conservatives.
BTW, every Texan I know agrees with the Gov.
I would imagine a black, democrat, liberal senator such as this guy would be terrified of secession. He would be out of a job if only conservatives were voting. The secession of Texas would start all kinds of movements across the country, most of them bad for liberals. These people are terrified of what they have started with their facist BS. They better be terrified, their little commie dictator house of cards is about to come tumbling down.
Dear lord I get tired of have to correct this old wheeze. Listen carefully. Texas has already been divided into 5 states. Look up the old maps. At the time of annexation, the land mass of the Republic of Texas included big chunks of what became New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado and a little piece of Nebraska.
“Are they refering to Waco?”
If they are, they have their facts wrong: It wasn’t Texas LAWE that conducted that operation; it was the feds.
see post 47
Normally it’s not a topic that I think should be brought up by serious leaders. But on this occasion, the timing was right. With the country descending into Obama’s socialist thugocracy, it IS the time to start drawing lines in the sand. If Obama continues this inherently anti-American, Chavez-style course, questions of secession, rebellion, civil war, and such will become entirely valid.
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But I don't want to leave North Dakota.
You have to understand how the Left works -- they accuse others of doing what they are actually doing. They say seceding is unconstitutional, but the purpose of seceding would be to excape a Prez and Congress who are violating the Constitution every single day in numerous ways.
Heck, with secession! Why should it “run away”?
Texas should just invade.
Are they refering to Waco?
No, I think he's refering to a small group of anarchists who believed the government had no right to tax them. They held their own families hostage and had an armed standoff with state police for a couple of weeks. To call them secessionists is intentionally misleading.
If liberals only spoke of things they know and understand they wouldn't get to say much in polite company.
There's a number of parts to Sen. Ellis' statement that deserve commentary.
1) He would shed tears over the loss of Austin but not his own district in Houston. Hmmmmmm.
2) If Texas is to successfully secede, we will need to have talking points to sell the liberals on the idea and Sen. Ellis gives us a good start. I think we can get mileage out of promising America will never elect another Bush to the presidency.
3) Not sure how Texas secession would solve the border problem - the way he sees it. But it would help solve the problem because we would no longer be dependent on Washington DC's sluggishness and political correctness to solve the issue. We Texans can better solve this on our own and we wouldn't jail our border guards for things like shooting at illegals.
4) BTW, Sen. Ellis. If you are upset about Texas seceeding, I guess that means you wouldn't stay in it, which would be a win/win for everybody. So, you should be on board with this.
Stopped reading right there. - No bias at all there...
Kinda hard to kick the people out of power who have just kicked you out
And in what country would that be?
If Texas would only lead the way many others would follow.
Failing that, so many people would emigrate to Texas that it would be a large productive country in its own right.
And how could the liberals survive on their own?
With the huge productivity of places like Philly, Chicago and Detroit? Hm.
Hopefully the powers to be are getting a eye full from the 15th and that this will not die out and that there will be rallies on Memeorial day for all our right wing terrorist vets and on the 4th of July for all the right wing terrorist patriotic Americans and through out the year.
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