Let's see now.....
With a little imagination....Presto---chango
Posted on 08/19/2004 2:37:00 AM PDT by The Raven
What would you say if we told you we have a way to add as many as eight new Republican senators to Congress. We could also add eight right-leaning votes to the electoral college? It's simple, it's fun, and it's perfectly constitutional: Texas should divide itself into five states.
Art. IV, Sec. 3 of the U.S. Constitution says that new states may be created out of existing ones, but only with the consent of "the States concerned as well as of the Congress."
...Congress need not take any action at all today: It granted its consent to Texas's potential subdivision 159 years ago...signed into law by President John Tyler...:
New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution.
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..So all that remains is for Texas to say "Yes" and act to divide itself into five...
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The Constitution's requirement that each state have equal representation in the U.S. Senate means that huge Texas -- the nation's second largest state in both people and land -- has the same representation in the Senate as puny Vermont.
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So what are y'all waiting for? ... For the good of America, for the good of Austin, for the good of the GOP, now's the time for Texas to become five Texy-Tots. Yee-haw!
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and you'll divide this state up only after it becomes a country!
From my cold dead hands you, you... I'll think of something.... you... divider!!
TEXAS PING!
Anti Texite?
Thats only for subscribers darn it, those yankee's
One of the really bad things about that idea is..um..
What do we name the other 4 'states'??
Good idea. Properly divided, California could end up with 2 Democrat Senators from West California (a narrow strip of coastal land includling LA and SF) plus 4 Republican Senators from two new states of Northern California and Southern California.
What is with the fact that the federal government REFUSES to do anything when they KNOW that known terrorists are coming and going at will over the border?
As in Seinfeld - anti dentite.
Which means under the provisions of Article IV. Admission of new states requires the approval of both houses of Congress.
OK
...and right after THAT, California would do the same. Let's not go there.
How about we divide up Alaska?? Into 4 parts... so Texas can be the biggest state again?
Northern Alaska can be renamed Utopia. Central Alaska can be renamed Leninland, East Alaska can be renamed Liberalvia and Southern Alaska where most people are, can be Alaska.
Hmmmm... can we divide Massachusetts?
North and South Dakota. There could be a North and South Michigan.
If you do it'll solve that problem of what to do with all those Kennedy's wandering around without an office to run for.
Ted Kennedy is the Mass and Barney Frank is the achusetts
Well, maybe we can carve off a chunk and donate it to Russia or Cuba??
North and South Nebraska, North and South Kansas, East and West South Dakota, East and West North Dakota, East, Central and West Montana. Las Vegas becomes a City-State.
And what do you have against Russia and Cuba?
>>Which means under the provisions of Article IV. Admission of new states requires the approval of both houses of Congress.
Yes...and it's already been done (from above):
"...Congress need not take any action at all today: It granted its consent to Texas's potential subdivision 159 years ago...signed into law by President John Tyler"
Nah, cut Cal in half right there at Oxnard straight across to Needles.
Give Amerillo to Oklahoma and slice Tex from Witchita Falls to Corpus Christie.
Then can we work on Floriduh??
I think I just created 16 new Senators in post #20
Actually Texas used to be much bigger. We used to have parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado? or something like that...
Can we give Taxachhusettes to Canada??
I have an idea I want to send to the President. Its a plan that would allow the sanctions on Cuba to be dropped, even though I have opposed that.
We'll drop the sanctions if we can have a Citizens Exchange Program. They send us pro-democracy dissidents and we send them our leftists...
I thikn its a great idea.
Even better, let's just subtract it.
I call it MassaTaxes. I don't think Canada would want it.
That's the best idea I've heard all night.
And that's the second best.
Let's see now.....
With a little imagination....Presto---chango
How do we get all those new stars on the flag?
G'Night my fellow.. Nightly Morpin Poster Pingers
>>would be a huge income boost for them.
ROFL !!!!
I seem to recall that West Virginia was created from Virginia during the Civil War, presumably without Virginia's consent.
>>I seem to recall that West Virginia was created from Virginia during the Civil War, presumably without Virginia's consent
And then West VA created Sen. Byrd and the rest is history.
Texas ping.
Texas ping........hell y'all won't be as big as GA.......lol
Yes, West Virginia was created by Union sympathizers. And we've been paying for it ever since.
I read it. I also read the resolution on the annexation of Texas as well as the resolution admitting Texas as a state. And in the annexation resolution it clearly states that admission of the new states eould be under the provisions of the Federal Constitution, which requires a majority vote in both houses of Congress to admit a new state. Texas can split itself into 4 pieces or 400 pieces and the split off parts do not become states unless Congress approves it.
West Virginia was split off with the approval of a part of the Virginia legislature that did not support the southern rebellion and which remained loyal to the Union. The rest of the Virginia legislature could have participated in the vote but they were of revolting.
Its already divided into WET and DRY.
I know this was a joke, but some of us Texans probably don't take kindly to this kind of humor. If anything we'd be better off as our own conservative country. Regards, <><
Texas ping?
I think they'd have to kill most of us first.
Texas
Texes
Texis
Texos
Texus
If one has a Democrat majority, you could call it Taxes.
>>the split off parts do not become states unless Congress approves it.
Then they become counries?
No, because they are still a part of the U.S. Their status would be the same as a territory before it became a state. No representation in Congress.
Nah. It'll be Texas, then East, South, Noth, and West Texas ("...Down in the West Texas town of El Paso..." [singing]....)
The new capitals will be Dallas, Houston, El Paso, and Lufkin
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