Texas Governor Rick Perry – like all other Governors – has a responsibility to protect the interests of the people of his state. It should come as no surprise, then, that he endorsed a resolution in the Texas legislature supporting states’ rights under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
This topic has been covered by quite a few folks, recently. Pete Randall posted here on RedState an interesting comparison with Georgia (which is doing nothing) and you can catch both transcripts from Rush Limbaugh’s commentary about it and audio clips of Governor Perry on Sean Hannity’s radio show here.
In his support of the measure, Governor Perry stated, “I believe that our 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.”
Well said.
Following the Governor’s rejection of a small portion of the so-called “stimulus” money, this next step was a nice rhetorical statement – and combined, they represent a useful little shot across the bow. The next steps, however, will be the critical ones.
Governor Perry and his team in Austin now have an opportunity to really make an impact – and to lead Texas forward by circumventing, minimizing and at times fighting, the destructive policies coming out of Washington. The Governor should take several affirmative steps to move forward substantively, and in so doing, help to lead not just Texas, but the nation back to freedom and prosperity.
1. He should gather a brain trust of Texas leaders with a proven track record of success in the private sector to develop a master plan forward for Texas – and here’s the key part – irrespective of the long term viability of the programs of the US Government. Sound a little crazy? Can anyone tell me that Medicare and Social Security are not each about to hit a wall VERY hard, and leave millions of Americans wondering what in the hell happened to their retirement and health care? Can anyone tell me that the massive amounts of spending being spent will not lead to significant inflation in the coming years? Can anyone tell me that the United States government will enforce its borders? Can anyone tell me that the United States government will take the necessary steps to get adequate fossil fuels, or build nuclear power to maximize liberty and lower energy costs? Can anyone tell me that we will be able to celebrate Christmas in schools or graduate students equipped for the world if we follow the ways of Washington? Can anyone tell me our healthcare system will be better off with greater Washington involvement? I thought not. Well, Texans – led by Perry and its smartest citizens – should develop a specific plan forward that does not depend on Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Al Franken and Arlen Specter…
2. Develop a working group – independent form the National Governors’ Association – consisting of like-minded Governors to develop coordinated plans to carry out strategies from #1 above and, under the Tenth Amendment, to stand up to the national government’s burdensome mandates, assault on freedom and disregard of fiscal irresponsibility. This group might include Governors Sanford, Jindal, Palin, Barbour – and a few others of like minds.
Some might say Governor Perry is engaging in a naked political effort to set up a fight with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for 2010. Perhaps. But so what? It’s correct isn’t it? She is of Washington – in every way you can imagine… an appropriator who has been a part of the spiraling growth of the national government. Governor Perry is of Texas.
And he has had an impressive track record… the Texas economy is relatively strong given the times and Texas is, generally speaking, a great place to live. While Washington is making things worse and talking in circles… Governor Perry is doing the right thing – carrying out his responsibility to govern. He can take Texas – and by extension with like-minded peers, America – forward with a little hard work and by following his instincts to protect Texas and Texans first and foremost…
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Good post
TxCon (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 10:21AM EST (link)I hope Perry proves me wrong in thinking that this is for show and nothing will come of it. He will endear himself to a lot of conservatives if he follows through with some sort of meaningful action.
I hear you.
Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 10:33AM EST (link)However, he has taken that resolution further than any of the other states, barring SC and AK have done, and I think slightly further than those two. A lot of states have passed that resolution but that’s about as far as they went with it.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Perry walks the walk
izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 10:46AM EST (link)While Obama & DC think of Texas and Perry as part of the problem it is completely the opposite and that is what Perry is highlighting.
We share the largest border with Mexico but we have not let the illegals take over like they have in Kalifornia. As a matter of fact many illegals find it harder to make it in Texas because we don’t hand out everything to them. We do have problems but not near as bad as other states. Like in Phoenix – the worlds capital of kidnapping. That would never happen to that extent in Texas. Perry is setting up a showdown with Obama and his amnesty boondoggle. We won’t be a dumping ground for his amnesty invasion plans.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Intrusion into the lives of our citizens
ryeinn Wednesday, April 15th at 11:01AM EST (link)This is not a bad thing, but my question is, why now, why not when the warrent-less wiretapping started? What changed?
If that isn't a tired old lefty meme, I don't know what is.
janis (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 11:08AM EST (link)George Bush never wiretapped American citizens UNLESS those same citizens were communicating with suspicious characters from overseas.
If you’re going to moby, you’re going to have to do better than that.
oh, you mean the intercepting of terrorist communications?
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 11:40AM EST (link)Yeah, bummer how all those bugs had to pass muster with a FICA court before being implemented, and were therefore completely legal.
Bummer also how we managed under those evil authoritarian Republicans to live our lives as we wished and be free from terrorist acts for over 7 years.
Sucks to be you.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Intercepting Terrorists
ryeinn Wednesday, April 15th at 1:51PM EST (link)Ok, I’m fine with intercepting terrorists. But why without warrants when they were even available retroactively? Maybe I’ve been misinformed by the left, but this is what I’ve heard.
Yes, you are horribly misinformed
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 3:37PM EST (link)Do you know what a FISA court is? (by the way, I said FICA court above, which would truly be formidable).
The hoops that our intel people had to jump through in order to get bugs approved would make your head spin.
You have been lied to. The liars have told great big fat whoppers too, Not little fibs. I suggest you go to google, start searching on terms like “fisa court permission” or some such. Skip all blogs and opinion pieces, just pick the ones from newspapers (who are left-slanted to begin with), and you will find that many of them will grudgingly admit that the Bush Administration complied with left-written laws (that are probably an unconstitutional breach of separation-of-powers provisions anyway).
I’m not going to tell you about it. Go read.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
I know about the FISA court
ryeinn Wednesday, April 15th at 5:33PM EST (link)I mentioned the ability to go get retroactive warrants. I’m ok with that. Go right ahead. I encourage them. If they think there is a need to go and get the intelligence and it is immediate and can’t wait, go. But then why the need for the warrantless system? That’s my question. I’m not questioning the legality.
This is a discussion on government invasion of a person’s rights. Perry has said “enough.” Even though it’s all legal (as far as Congress passing the laws) it’s over the line. Fine, he has his opinion, backed up by constitutional law. My question is why is this the issue and not the wiretaps.
OK I see where you are coming from
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 5:49PM EST (link)Here’s the difference. We are at war. Al Queda offically declared war on us. Then they bombed our barracks. Then they bombed our embassies. Then they blew a hole in the side of our naval ship, killing 17 American naval men. Then they brought down the WTC towers on our own soilwith 3000 people in them.
I do not want to hear that we are not at war, I hope and assume you are not taking that tack. Now. The President, as Commander-in-Chief, has the Constitutional authority to conduct the war, with Congressional oversight and interference at a minimum (basically confined to funding). In my opinion, FISA is an unconsitutional usurpance of the President’s power to conduct war. But that is an argument for another day.
Since the beginning of modern times, intel gathering and other espionage has been considered to be under the CINC’s purview. Listening in on phone conversations, where the person on one end is suspected of being an enemy agent, is perfectly within his right.
That is the way it is. Whatever moral qualms you have about it, you argue with history if you argue against that.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
You make a good point.
ryeinn Wednesday, April 15th at 6:33PM EST (link)We are at war. No question. And, moral qualms aside, they have that right.
Let me see if I understand your answer to my question. Please correct me if I misinterpret you. You’re saying that the difference is that this is not an invasion of privacy, whereas the government requirements and federal top-down management style is in violation of the constitution.
I would happen to disagree. I think the warrants, when done against American citizens, must be given by a judge, else we hit a constitutional roadblock against search and seizure (4th Amendment). I see both as constitutional issues.
And constitutionality is to be determined by the SCOTUS. Put it before them. If I misread you, I apologize.
Your rendering my position
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 7:05PM EST (link)as regards the warrant thing is close enough for the sake of this conversation. I’ll stipulate. The other part is another matter,
Uh, no, friend. What we are seeing, and have seen for decades, is not “federal top-down management style”. It’s direct and blatant violation of Amendment 10. The fact that it’s gone on for generations and the states have not asserted their rights does not mean those rights do not exist.
As regards judges and warrants, again, wrong. Criminal matters are one thing. Conductance of war is another, and those matters do not (Constitutionally) fall under the same rules, nor is a judge required when determining who falls under suspicion and what should be done with them. I know that runs contrary to experience, but that is only because the Constitution has been usurped by the judicial branch. I will not concede that because the courts have done things, that they are automatically acceptable and I am obliged to le them keep doing them.
One other matter (we keep opening new lines of discussion), SCOTUS is not the bottom line as to what constitutes constitutionally. Homework assignment.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Huh?
ryeinn Wednesday, April 15th at 11:10PM EST (link)You’re right, we do keep hitting on new lines of discussion. I appreciate your patience in dealing with me.
Ok, I misread you. What then is the difference between the two cases?
And I did a quick look through of the Constitution (not a line by line read, so I may have missed things): I can’t find a constitutional difference between rights of citizens during peace or war. Now, this next part is opinion, but I don’t see why it should. I can accept the need for looseness in the rules to allow action immediately, but it should still go through review.
Last thing, Marbury vs Madison is wrong in your opinion? Am I reading you right? What then is the ultimate arbiter?
Ignorance can be cured, but only if you want to be cured
Finrod (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 12:05PM EST (link)I’ll just add to what the other repliers have said by noting that during World War II, FDR, a Democrat, had *all* communications in and out of the United States monitored. Abraham Lincoln, who many consider to be our finest president, suspended habeus corpus during the Civil War and seriously considered jailing several Congressmen that he thought were being treasonous.
And you’re upset because telephone calls overseas (no purely domestic calls were ever tapped under this ever) that were going to known terrorist numbers (usually found on al-Qaeda laptops in Iraq) were being monitored under the authorization of the FISA court?
Knowledge is power; I suggest you get some.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Even if I concedeed your point
JoeG Wednesday, April 15th at 12:32PM EST (link)Which I don’t for the reasons the others gave…
But even if I did, what’s worse? The government snooping on you, or the government telling you what to do?
Which is worse
ryeinn Wednesday, April 15th at 1:22PM EST (link)I’m not saying one is worse than the other. They are both odious. If it’s good for the goose it’s good for the gander.
Why Aren't You Protesting Obama Then, Sport?
IJB Wednesday, April 15th at 11:14PM EST (link)Last I looked, Obama’s still running that program you so object to.
Very true.
ryeinn Thursday, April 16th at 12:00AM EST (link)I never said I agreed with him running it either. But then I never went out and protested Bush either. I disagree with both of them on certain issues. This happens to be one they share.
The left is hillarious here
mbauer (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 11:37AM EST (link)In order to belittle this movement, they are calling this “Texas declaring sovereignty” and a “secessionist attempt”. They are also declaring good reddens, we stole them from Mexico, lets let Mexico have Texas back, if they’ll take’em. If you don’t believe me, go find any Left Blog on this article, and scroll through the comments. We can add the 10th amendment to the list that the left would prefer didn’t exist.
Ignorant of History, Too.
jimmuy8 (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 12:51PM EST (link)Last time Texas was part of Mexico, we kicked the crap out of their finest soldiers and took Texas away from them. America didn’t “steal” Texas from Mexico–Texans took Texas from Mexico. There’s more of us this time and we might just take a little bit more.
Fun facts they may not know:
1) Texas it the #1 state in which to do business. Cut us loose from the Feds and their taxes and we might make Hong Kong look like a flea market.
2) Texas has lead the nation in exports for the last 7 years. Yes, even more than the People’s Paradise of Kalifornia (#50 business state). Most of that going to, wait for it, Mexico. So, yeah Mexico doesn’t really have a problem with Texas.
If I had to guess, I’d say Texas is one of the few states that would be fine without Federal dollars flowing in.
A note on Texas history...
jarrod21 Wednesday, April 15th at 7:32PM EST (link)We are also the only state to be recognized by the European powers as our own country, complete with ambassadorships.
One problem with the Texas economy though:
Obama’s messing with NAFTA and the resulting tariffs in retaliation by Mexico are on a lot of the products we send down there.
BUT
Should that bridge ever be crossed, we have our own power grid, access to the seas, and we could support ourselves agriculturally as well. Then, instead of being burdened by Washington’s policies, Texas would go from energy-dependent to energy-independent in the drop of a hat.
We’re also the biggest state for military recruitment.
Add to that the fact that even with all the military installations we have here and our miles and miles of interstate highways, Texas is a donor state, receiving less federal dollars back than are sucked out every April.
Washington D.C. needs Texas a lot more than Texas needs them, and they’d do well to listen to Gov. Perry.
Please don’t take the above sentence as a threat or anything. I’m not some wild-eyed separatist yahoo. I love my country. It’s the best in the world and I definitely want to see it work, but I love Texas more, and facts are facts.
If things continue to go the way they’ve been going the last 2 years or so, I wouldn’t be surprised if Texas takes its ball and goes home. It gets harder to deny that we might not be better off.
Good for Perry and good for Texas
texas214 (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 11:56AM EST (link)Maybe the economic recovery will happen right here in Texas. With no personal state income tax, pro-business climate, and a governor willing to stand up for individual rights, my guess is that Texas will be the beneficiary of this recession.
As with all other recessions business will look for ways to help their bottom line to survive. If you can improve your earnings by being able to pay lower taxes, lower real estate cost, lower pay scale, but yet provide a better quality of life for your employees, business will seek that enviroment.
I’ve made reference top this before, the political battles of the future will between the areas of the country that are the productive states and the welfare states. A bit of political “Civil War” if you will.
Awesome place to live
thirteen28 (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 1:17PM EST (link)“And he has had an impressive track record… the Texas economy is relatively strong given the times and Texas is, generally speaking, a great place to live.”
And the hot summers only last 9 month per year!
Seriously though, this is a great place to live, moved here 13 years ago and I’m more glad I did every day. While the weather climate is a bit hot, the tax climate and business climate are excellent, and we seem to be weathering the storm better than a lot of other places.
His response last night on Fox was disheartening
Raven (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 5:13PM EST (link)When Greta on “On the Record” asked him what muscle he would put into backing up his words, he offered a limp-wristed response about how the Tea Parties were going to “send a message.”
It really came across as, “Oh, my God. I might actually have to back up my words. What now?! I didn’t think of this!”
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
Don't read it that way, Raven
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 5:20PM EST (link)Full disclosure: I’m a long-time Texican, never cared for Perry.
I say look at it this way. GOP Governors and Senators cannot afford to go on the record being too militant with this message. There’s a point to where it starts taking on the color of sedition [esp if you are the governor of TEXAS, which is the obvious epicenter if anything ever actually breaks that way].
If he says too much, the press will absolutely pillory him (and all others) and shriek loudly about sedition.
Right now is a time to take a shot across the federal government’s bow, but otherwise keep the powder dry.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
The 10th Am. battle should be fought with AGs,
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 7:45PM EST (link)not resolutions and press releases. A resolution is what a legislature does when it doesn’t have the guts to do anything but knows the issue is popular.
There are lots and lots of federal intrusions into the operation of the states qua states; no commerce, no necessary and proper, no national defense stuff. A good example is the extention of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act to cover employees of state and local governments. Some pretty good progress was being made back in Bush I in challenging this in the federal circuits, but it came to a screeching halt when WJC was elected and never resumed. While we still have some hope at the USSC, Red State governors and AGs should be challenging the federal government’s authority on improper extensions of federal power into the affairs of the states.
In Vino Veritas
A smart AG
Jack_Savage (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 7:56PM EST (link)A smart AG could ride this straight into a governor’s mansion….
Ya know WAR might be a good candidate for this nt
AKSteveB (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 8:33PM EST (link)Hell is other people – Sartre
Gov. Palin's AG nominee was rejected by the Legislature
Achance (Diary) Thursday, April 16th at 5:54PM EST (link)today by a vote of 35 nay, 23 yea. I don’t have the individual yeas and nays yet, but I’d surmise all the Ds and quite a few Rs voted no. They also refused to confirm her nominee to the Board of Fisheries and the Senate Democrats have refused to even vote on her 3 person list of nominees, one of which withdrew his name today. She might oughta have been here for the vote.
My wife an I both have racked our brains and neither of us can remember the last time a cabinet level appointee was rejected, certainly not in the last twenty years.
In Vino Veritas
our very own Alaskan gotterdammerung nt
AKSteveB (Diary) Thursday, April 16th at 6:11PM EST (link)Hell is other people – Sartre
Here are the yeas and nays on the AG confirmation.
Achance (Diary) Thursday, April 16th at 6:55PM EST (link)From the Fairbanks News-Miner
How they voted:
Alaska House
(Richard Foster, D-Nome, who caucuses with the largely Republican
majority, was excused)
Yeas – 16
John Cohill, R-North Pole
Nancy Dahlstrom, R-Anchorage
Anna Fairclough, R-Eagle River
Carl Gatto, R-Palmer
John Harris, R-Valdez
Mike Hawker, R-Anchorage
Carl Johnson, R-Anchorage
Wes Keller, R-Wasilla
Mike Kelly, R-Fairbanks
Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage
Charisse Millett, R-Anchorage
Cathy Munoz, R-Juneau
Mark Neuman, R-Wasilla
Kurt Olson, R-Soldotna
Jay Ramras, R-Fairbanks
Bill Stoltze, R-Eagle River
Nays – 23:
Alan Austerman, R-Kodiak
Bob Buch, D-Anchorage
Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski
Sharon Cissna, D-Anchorage
Harry Crawford, D-Anchorage
Mike Doogan, D-Anchorage
Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham
Les Gara, D-Anchorage
Berta Gardener, D-Anchorage
Max Gruenberg, D-Anchorage
David Guttenberg, D-Fairbanks
Bob Herron, D-Bethel, but member of Majority
Lindsey Holmes, D-Anchorage
Kyle Johansen, R-Ketchikan
Reggie Joule, D-Kotzebue, but member of Majority
Scott Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks
Beth Kerttula, D-Juneau
Pete Petersen, D-Anchorage
Woodie Salmon, D-Chalkytsik
Paul Seaton, R-Homer
Bill Thomas, R-Haines
Chris Tuck, D-Anchorage
Peggy Wilson, R-Wrangell
Senate
Yea – 7
Con Bunde, R-Anchorage
Fred Dyson, R-Eagle River
Charlie Huggins, R-Wasilla
Lesil McGuire, R-Anchorage
Linda Menard, R-Wasilla
Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage
Gene Therriault, R-North Pole
Nay – 12
Bettye Davis, D-Anchorage
Johnny Ellis, D-Anchorage
Hollis French, D-Anchorage
Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel
Albert Kookesh, D-Angoon
Donald Olson, D-Nome
Joe Paskvan, D-Fairbanks
Bert Stedman, R-Sitka
Joe Thomas, D-Fairbanks
Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage
Tom Wagoner, R-Kenai
Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak
No D voted to confirm WAR, including those who are in the Republican majority caucus. Several powerful Republican committee chairs abandoned him and I think she has so alienated Bert Stedman that he’d vote against a resolution approving of the Second Coming if it came to the floor referred as “Rules at the Governor’s Request.” The Ds are no surprise though before the VP thing some of them would have gone along with her. That many Rs bailing and the fact that several of them are powerful committee chairs tells a story.
In Vino Veritas
I saw a couple of comments on the cult websites
AKSteveB (Diary) Thursday, April 16th at 8:29PM EST (link)to the effect of … she should stay in the lower 48 because she’s too good for Alaska. We may be finding some common ground here
Hell is other people – Sartre
OK, So What Was The Reason for the WAR Rejection?
IJB Thursday, April 16th at 8:33PM EST (link)If it’s because the Legislature “got their feelings hurt” somewhere along the line, that won’t play well. (We get that a lot, in places like CA.)
If the nominee was rejected for some sort of tangible cause, I’d like to here more about it…
The Ledge declared "No more WAR"
AKSteveB (Diary) Thursday, April 16th at 8:57PM EST (link)for three reasons.
1) He is against Native preferences. Most of the Repubs who voted against him were from rural districts.
2) He’s a real loose cannon. In a 1993 letter to the Alaska Bar Association newsletter, he stated that an Anchorage ordinance barring the municipality and its contractors from discriminating against employees based on sexual preference: “This bill seems to give extra rights to a group whose lifestyle was a crime only a few years ago, and whose beliefs are certainly immoral in the eyes of anyone with some semblance of intelligence and moral character.” and he went on to call gays perverts and degenerates. That doesn’t play real well even in a red state, especially one with strong libertarian leanings. He refused to disassociate himself from any of that in his hearings, even though he did say he wouldn’t let his personal views affect the job. He also released what was a pretty bizzare letter, on AG letterhead, denying some allegations with the much needed information that he and his wife only “learned about love-making after we were married” and the like.
3) what pushed it over the top were his directions and opinions on the open Juneau seat. He said this quote “It seems to me the most important thing that can be done by the Senate is not argue with legal or illegal but to appoint somebody to represent Juneau,” Ross told a reporter Wednesday.” He later denied it, but it was apparently on tape. He was also behind the strategy of sending three names for the Juneau seat, including two already rejected. Without this, he probably would have been narrowly confirmed.
Hell is other people – Sartre
Kowalski, second time this week
AKSteveB (Diary) Thursday, April 16th at 9:10PM EST (link)I forgot to pass along the verbiage he used when asked if he still felt the same way about gays. He said “well I don’t like lima beans, but if I was representing the Bean Council, that wouldn’t be a problem, same thing here.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
Hell is other people – Sartre
I think WAR would have been confirmed, though narrowly,
Achance (Diary) Thursday, April 16th at 9:56PM EST (link)had he kept his mouth shut on the Juneau Senate appointment. When you’re the AG, you don’t publicly say stuff like “don’t worry if it’s legal or illegal” even if it is true. He’s like a lot of trial attornies I’ve dealt with who tried to transition into politics, his own worst enemy because everything is an argument that he has to win.
Under any circumstances, it would have been a very controversial appointment even among the Rs; the Ds hate him.
In Vino Veritas
Yeah, a Kowalski for me too:
Achance (Diary) Thursday, April 16th at 11:03PM EST (link)I remarked elsewhere that my wife and I racked our brains to remember the last time a cabinet level appointee was denied confirmation and couldn’t remember one. That’s thirty-five of Alaska’s fifty years covered. Turns out the reason we couldn’t remember it one is because it has never happened before.
In Vino Veritas
These are Binding Resolutions, Achance
Raven (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 8:42PM EST (link)All 4 of the ones I’ve seen, anyway. Texas, Oklahoma, VA and HI.
Hawaii, of course, is a secession resolution, but it is binding, nonetheless…
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
Binding to do what? Say bad words? Make nasty press releases?
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, April 15th at 8:52PM EST (link)What do any of them say the state is actually going to do? The answer is they are saying they don’t like it. I’m sure BHO really, really cares about what a Red state doens’t like. If they’re serious, they’ll defy federal authority and sue them. Absent that, it’s all just grandstanding.
In Vino Veritas
Well, it looks like Gov Perry has decided to lead the way on this
Raven (Diary) Thursday, April 16th at 11:13AM EST (link)As far as what’s going to Actually Happen. I think we’re all watching for his next move.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
Perry at his worst
Mark_L Wednesday, April 15th at 11:04PM EST (link)Rick Perry vetoed Eminent Domain restrictions, tried to sell land rights to a spanish company for development as a state-wide toll-road, and tried to force statewide mandatory vaccinations for middle school girls on a brand new, barely tested vaccine.
Now, he’s coming out and talking about oppressive government? There’s a reason only 39% voted for him in the last election. He’s an empty suit, and most of the state knows it. I voted for him once in 2002. I will never do so again.
When Perry orders the AG to start pursuing legal action, or takes other TANGIBLE steps to back this up, I’ll believe he’s sincere. RIght now, he’s pandering in the worst way.
Would You Rather He Pandered for The Other Side?
IJB Wednesday, April 15th at 11:17PM EST (link)If he’s pandering, at least he’s pandering in the right direction.
So, he's lost, but he's making good time?
Mark_L Thursday, April 16th at 8:17AM EST (link)Pandering with no action is not worth my support.
I'd much rather deal with attempts at oppression
mbecker908 (Diary) Thursday, April 16th at 8:45AM EST (link)from state and local governments than from the feds.
If we could get a SCOTUS that could actually read and understand the 10th amendment most of the functions of the federal government would go away. It’s much easier to fight government overreach on a “local” level than at the level where they can print money.