So can I feel safe in assuming that Gov Rick Perry would back the rights of the people of Minnesota to choose their senators without interference from the federal courts?

Not to mention the RNC.

Good Hair, Good Friday, Good Grief.

“…including the funds that oppress Texas’ right to screw execute poor people.”

That’s more like it.

Digg is open

You’d think Governor Good Hair would be too busy organizing cross burnings to worry about the more technical aspects of this debate.

Recent photo:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/…..robe-l.jpg

Hey Gov: Nice sheet. The little wife starch it up for ya, did she?

O/t but OMG! I just looked up “teabagging” on teh wiki (dial-up=no vids) and *now* I understand why everybody on the left is in raving hysterics about these thug t. parties on tax day.

ROTFFLMAO

Guess that’s what happens when ya have a bunch of people who don’t believe in sex ed.

*snicker*
*snort*
*baaaaaaawwwahaaaaaa*

Here’s an explanation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F26vC_1_8xw

More Good Hair…I guess it goes back a ways in those secessionists!
John C. Calhoun

Sorry. I wasn’t reading carefully about the dialup thing.

LOL!! Right! Asshole Republicans, they would be crying bloody hell if the shoe was on the foot.

Hey EG I DUGG your DIGG!! How ya doing this fine morning??

Dugg.

Just a wild guess, but I’d say that he hangs with (and agrees with) those good ol’ boys who support the continuing assaults on the 1st and 4th amendments. But “…I believe that our federal government has become oppressive…”

Blah Blah Blah…

Fuckin’ idiot.

ya know, after TX rethug Betty Brown’s racist vote suppression comments yesterday, I’m kind of OK with Perry’s declaration of independence. Go. Just leave.

If Perry can find a small number of Republicans to delay this bill until late in the Session…or even near to the time that there’s a cut-off for receiving Federal funding, he can effectively veto it. This has been a big issue with Republicans since Perry was elected and especially over the last two years. Perry vetoed an eminent domain bill late last session and there has been hell to pay for the inability of the legislature to get together enough votes to veto it before the Session died. Similar things have happened with a bill to restructure the States Housing Arbitration Board, which was filled with Perry’s appointees, and has allowed corrupt, wealthy realtors to escape liability for poor building standards.

Perry seems to only be interested in his “Big Pocket” contributors and the votes of the extreme wingnut faction. That may get him renominated, but not re-elected…and many of those Republicans handling issues at the local level are paying the price.

Texas under the rethugs would make a very interesting independent country. 1 out of every 50 citizens in jail or otherwise under the supervision of its criminal justice system, an average execution rate somewhere between Saudi Arabia’s and Iran’s (higher than Iran, lower than Saudi Arabia), major cities like Houston and Dallas with roughly 3 times the violent crime rate of historical crime hotbeds like New York City. Yep. A really swell country.

The sad thing is that states do have rights… and responsibilities.

And that balance of powers, essential to the functioning of our Constitution, will forever be marred with the taint of racism because once it was used to excuse the inexcusable.

And now so again.

This subject comes up a lot in regards to election integrity (EI) issues because no few believe that centralized (federal) control of voting is needed for true electoral reform…

… while curiously overlooking the fact that the last federally mandated top-down voting reform was the execrable HAVA act. And HAVA wasted billions of dollars on e-voting, handed de facto control of our elections to private corporations, disenfranchised millions, has broken every promise that was made on its behalf and has saddled America with the unofficially perpetual and unbelievably corrupt Election Assistance Commission.

But should one try to even hint that digging ourselves in deeper in that hole via extending HAVA and the EAC would be a bad idea, which is what Rush Holt insists on doing, then the cry of “states rights!” goes up with the intent of branding such EI activists as racists… which is especially ironic as HAVA and the EAC have been responsible for the worst cases of race-based disenfranchisement seen since the days of Jim Crow.

Sad.

Elections are the states right for a reason: a badly needed check on federal power. It’s not easy to get election reform through… for good or for bad. That was the point.

You’d think that after what we’ve been through, and with what we’re going through now, that people would have a better regard for checks and balances…

No offense Blue but can we look forward to Texas seceding from the union anytime soon?

Careful. Every major city in Texas (Aus, Dal, Hou, SA) has a Democratic mayor. With the net immigration from other states and the increasing Latino population, Texas will be blue sooner than you think.

OT: Gag alert: Ann Coulter Sean’s guest this afternoon. Consider yourself warned.

Maybe, but don’t Texas’ districts still favor the good ‘ol boys (thanks Bugman)?

Obama has been in office 4 months. He has not touched education as far as I know except through stimulus packages.

So are all these republicans complaining about bush’s policies?

Will Texas secede with Alaska? Will they try and blackmail the democrats with oil?? The crazies of those states would do something like that.

yeah but my fear is that Delay and friends have so thoroughly gerrymandered the state that it won’t matter, and thigns will stay firmly under the control of the Perry’s and Brown’s.

Lane Hudson has a new post upstairs!
DC, Congress, and the ‘M’ Word

Make that 2 1/2 months – not much time.

The Second Civil War.

The Patriots vs Traitors

Well, they are sort of against unions aren’t they?