What should we give Texas as a going away gift? Or don't let the door hit you...

**oldredfordette** · April-19-09, 01:06 PM

Let them go! What a bunch of whining children, just because they lost an election.

**wash_man** · April-19-09, 01:18 PM

Give them Sarah Palin. Let HER be their President!

**oldredfordette** · April-19-09, 01:25 PM

People we can give to Texas to keep:

Ted Nugent
Sarah Palin
Glen Beck
Bill O'Reilly
Mann Coulter
L. Brooks Patterson.

**oldredfordette** · April-19-09, 01:35 PM

That was completely daffy. Do you want to try again, and this time make it intelligible?

**firstandten** · April-19-09, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by oldredfordette

People we can give to Texas to keep:

Ted Nugent
Sarah Palin
Glen Beck
Bill O'Reilly
Mann Coulter
L. Brooks Patterson.

ORD , I can't believe you forgot the main man . Mr. Texas Ranger himself Chuck Norris , you know he wants to be president of Texas !. If he would institute some socialist policies like free Karate lessons for all residents I might be able to support him.

**oldredfordette** · April-19-09, 01:50 PM

I guess I just don't think of Chuck Norris, except when he's selling that Nordic Track thingy. You're right, off to the Glorious Republic of Texass for you, Mr. Norris!

**Flanders** · April-19-09, 01:57 PM

TX is one of the few, if not the only red federal tax donor states, so they should obviously continue to fund the many southern red tax recipient states until or if they join, as well as take control over the WOT since many RWers who live there that I have read online, wish to wipe Islam from the face of the earth. They also love their guns, so the new nation of TX could also help Mexico in the fight against the drug lords there that threaten to overrun TX' southern border.

**Bigb23** · April-19-09, 01:59 PM

We'll give away Texas, if we take Manitoba. Even trade.

**oldredfordette** · April-19-09, 02:03 PM

Whirrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Brrrrrrrrrip!

**Ray1936** · April-19-09, 02:06 PM

I hope we could keep the panhandle. Nice folks up there around Amarillo and all. Different from the rest of the state.

**oldredfordette** · April-19-09, 02:09 PM

Austin is also nice, but we could just relocate some of those folks to somewhere nice and compatible like Madison.

They take my above list. We keep Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Kinky Friedman...Oh hell, musicians get free passports to the Free United States.

**Vic_doucette** · April-19-09, 02:52 PM

And we already gave them Kwame.

**jcole** · April-19-09, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by Vic_doucette

And we already gave them Kwame.

They can't give him back, can they?

**oldredfordette** · April-19-09, 03:21 PM

Eeek. Someone lock the door.

**Jimaz** · April-19-09, 05:34 PM

From Wikipedia's Texas v. White:

... As the [Supreme] Court wrote, "The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States." Hence Texas would still be a state even when laws are passed saying it is independent. Such laws would be "absolutely null."

The court did allow some possibility of the divisibility of the Union in the following statement:

The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration, or revocation, except through revolution, or through consent of the States.

What state would object?

**d.mcc** · April-19-09, 05:37 PM

What are you talking about???

**Jimaz** · April-19-09, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by d.mcc

What are you talking about???

The secession of Texas?

**gibran** · April-19-09, 06:04 PM

empty rhetoric ...fear is a powerful thing..and add hate speech and you get all this ...crazy talk...wake and find the moderation people ...

**Jimaz** · April-19-09, 06:22 PM

From ABC News: Pessimism Porn? Economic Forecasts Get Lurid.

**MoparDan** · April-19-09, 08:53 PM

Ok, I'm back from pulling my reserve duty so I'll put my two cents' in here. Concerning Rick Perry's "secession" talk, there are a lot of people down here who are finally believing this guy is a nut. He's going to be in a serious primary fight next year against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison...I have a lot of differences with the Senator, but the woman's office has responded to every one of my phone calls, letters and emails over the years. At least someone on her staff is paying attention.
Trust me, there are enough rednecks in this state who'd think seceding is great. And there are plenty of them nationwide who'd move here in a heartbeat; bad enough we have the homegrown trash let alone importing more. Secession sounds terrific on a bumper sticker but in reality it would never fly. If it somehow occurred, this state would turn into a battleground...the majority of the people in my region would side with the U.S., me being one of them. But this is all metaphorical. Hopefully Hutchison will beat Perry in the primaries; if not, then perhaps some Democrat will manage to pull it off. I know the majority of the U.S. can't stand us down here after the last 8yrs & this clown is only embarrassing us that much more. My wife's family were always faithful members of the GOP but have become very disgusted with the party; Perry's latest foot-in-mouth disease has completely turned them off.

**firstandten** · April-19-09, 09:53 PM