Posted on 02/07/2009 6:13:48 AM PST by bestintxas
The recent betrayal of the GOP by liberal Northeast Senators Collins and Specter has crossed a line that cannot be redrawn. Conservatives have lost the Northeast US, period.
We have to cut our losses and move on.
This will entail doing whatever we can to preventing the Dems in power to allow DC statehood, a move that clearly violates the constitution. Small details like that do not matter to Dems.
The move which will lessen the influence of so many small, liberal Northeast states is with us as described in the Wall Street Journal. http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005511
It is time for the state of Texas to go nuclear and exercise its rights in order to return sanity to the Congress of the United States.
And should htey somehow win a primary, I don't want to hear about hwo we then have to vote tehm back in, as we heard with Specter five yeras ago. Find a thrid-party candidate who can draw in the conservative votes. He or she might actually win and even if you get a one-term Senator, that's six years of good votes.
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Not if the land (excep for a small area around the Federal enclave) is retroceded to Maryland, but that requires Maryland's approval and so far, even deep blue Maryland hasn't been willing to take that mess back. After all, it already has Bawlmore.
Texas atthe time of its admission retained the right to divide itself into up to 5 states. If it did that, probably 4 of them would be OK.
I’m half serious about buying it. DC is rapidly gentrifying. Folks who haven’t visited in awhile are amazed. Were DC to become a state, I think it would be the patriotic duty of every freeper to establish residency and use DC as your voting address. JimRob for Senate!
NO !!!!
1 big state, chopped to 5 smaller.
outcome would be:
state #1 has Dallas =(dem state)
state #2 has Houston =(dem state)
state #3 has SA/Austin =(dem state)
state #4 has Midland Odessa =(repub state)
state #5 has El Paso =(?) (dem state)
and former big Texas would lose all its swagger in politics.
You Texans won't mind if I come visit your message board for awhile, will you?
They wouldn’t dare split California, because Southern California is quite red. Usually only LA county goes blue, and I think this last time Ventura and Imperial did too, but not by much. Personally I would love to dump the Bay area and let the rest of the state elect some conservatives.
Maybe we’ll ge tlucky and New England will secede, as they talked about doing in the early 1800s. There has been a small movement to ahve the New England states secede from teh US, have the maritimes secede from Canada, and join them together in a new country. Call it something like the Republic of Arcadia.
Hey, Chris Dodd can finally be President!
Meant to say Acadia, not Arcadia.
I’ll see your point on SA/Austin, but not Dallas or Houston.
That would definitely be good news.
They were barely republicans to begin with and have become reliably less so the longer they’re in office.
I believe The Specter started out as a Dhimmicrap, and I think his wife was a Dhimmicrap official in Philly.
Has the NE ever had a real Conservative? Would they know one if they saw one?
Well, there was Bob Smith. I'd love to see Senator Smith make a comeback.
And our wise forefathers reserved the control of all public lands in Texas to the state, and did not had it over to the federal government. So what happened in Utah last week — development of domestic energy supplies blocked — can’t happen in Texas.
We need to annex Mexico, move the border to the Red, and export labor to the rest of the country.
Second of all, secession, in the Civil War sense, is not the answer. Look at what's happening in Arizona, New Hampshire, Washington, and several other states. It's in the "Declaration of Independence":
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
If this trend continues and builds steam, the Federal Gov't will lose that consent, and all of their power will account for nothing.
You can try to scream from your house to D.C., or you can stand on the desk of your local State Senator, Governor, and even your Mayor, to drive this forward.
This is where it's at.
I’d like to see Pennsylvania split into 2 states, Philadelphia and the rest of the state.
Oil. Texas has a lot of oil.
If he lives through it. Who will Rendell pick as a replacement, huh?
Sorry but I don't see how declaring state sovereignty solves any problems.
Nuts at County and State level just as corrupt as at the Federal level.
More people voted in last election in my area than registered. Local Sheriff in jail for corruption neighboring county sheriff in jail for accepting bribes.
and your right secession is also not the answer.
Local problems can be far easier to solve than the distant ones in D.C.
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