Posted on 05/31/2009 12:19:54 AM PDT by ForGod'sSake
The Texas House has approved a controversial states' rights resolution championed by Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
Supporters say the resolution is a reminder to Congress in response to federal expansion.
The 99-36 vote Saturday supports informing Congress that Texas claims states' rights under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Last-minute adjustments sought to clarify that it's not a call for secession or repeal of federal laws protecting constitutional rights.
The measure was at the center of a national media storm over comments Perry made after an anti-tax rally. Perry never called for secession, but said Texans are getting fed up with the federal government.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
For those that haven't followed developments closely, the resolution was almost derailed on procedural points by a barking moonbat rep from Houston; God love her! The Texas Legislature's page describing the history and the last minute amendments, etc is HERE.
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“Opponents of the resolution say the term “states’ rights” is associated with objections to civil rights law.”
They are gonna keep harping on the whole race thing until it snaps back on them. People get tired of hearing that stuff.
Pass resolutions all you want, but nothing will change until the states become less dependent on Federal funding. "He who pays is boss."
Good deal !
The Gop majority in the Texas House failed to pass the Voter ID Bill and then they pass meaningless nonsense like this.
Ping. Amen.
Already sent a note to my rep congratulating him on his part in this.
These guys need positive fedback as well as the agry mob letters.
So the actual word “secession” is in the resolution? LOL if it is. If thr word is in the resolution then the Moonbats managed to get the one word that means anything into the resolution by protesting.
Federal Boot Lickers seem to think this resolution was a waste of time....
One more moment to be Texas Proud.
Now if we can just hold on to this.
All RIGHGHGHTTT!
Exactly. This is indeed meaningless nonsense. They wasted untold tax dollars and countless hours reinventing the wheel. The Texas legislature session was supposed to end tomorrow but they have so many bills backed up we'll be spending $$$$ on special sessions for the rest of the year. And all the hoopla over the Top 10% rule about guaranteeing state college admittance. No other university was whining except UT. UT has had their panties in a wad ever since Hopwood slapped them down. They have had some sort of bill going against the Top 10% every year since. This year was the worse with all the lies about 81% of their freshman class being from the 10 when in reality it was 76%. This week, after more untold hours wasted the legislature has made a special bill just for UT with the limit of the Top 10% at 75%. One percent difference! One percent! Texas could have built a whole new university for the money wasted on those tea-sipping RATS.
I'd love for my State ( IN) to follow suit.
The DC Congress needs a HUGE message sent and so do the arrogant, greedy and immature federal parasites at the feeding trough in our White House.
Bingo!!!
You nailed it...I was just in Austin this last Friday, and got to sit down with my state rep for a few minutes...He and I both are dissappointed at the outcome of the regular session...We both see special session(s) coming up to get some stuff done...(That of course should have been done in the regular session...)
The “chub” put on the Votor ID bill we are thinking will be null and void after the session is over therefore they will have to “re-chub” it to kill it again...That may not happen in a special session, we are still trying to figure it out...
As far as the two “good” pro-gun bills, like the Campus Carry and the Employer Parking lot bills, they may yet be re-invigorated in a special session...
We’ll just have to see...
I want to move to Texas. Seriously. It would take awhile to figure out how to do it,, but I know my family would love it and so would I!!!
I wonder if I will have to show my birth certificate to get back into Texas?
Each member of my family has a decree that they are an “Honorary Texan”. Three of them signed by then Governer G.W. Bush the day before he resigned to become President-elect. The other is signed by Senator Phil Gramm. I hope those are enough to get us across the state line when retirement comes...
Won’t work. Bush is from Connecticut.
They are gonna keep harping on the whole race thing until it snaps back on them.
The “Lincoln” solution of delivering the slaves back to their homeland would have saved America a heck of a lot of greif. That’s one thing that makes me think it was NOT the South that had Lincoln assinated, but the Northerns that figured they could make good money off the backs of the blacks. More or less trading slavery for real cheap labor.
But ofcourse history has shown that blacks have done 1000 times better here than in Africa.
“I want to move to Texas”.
The trouble with seein out of state car coming in pulling a U-haul is that like Nevada and Utah, the newcomers don’t take long before trying to make Texas just like the unfree high tax places they just left.
Texas just said to the Feds to go eff themselves! I could'nt be happier!
GWB sounds like he's from TX; Gramm sounds like...he's from GA.
True he was born a Yankee, but he was moved to Texas before he was out of diapers and besides, how often have I heard that Texas is a state of mind?
Ain't that truth! I grew up in this neighborhood knowing everyone, nowdays I couldn't tell you their names. The past few years, northerners have come down here as Winter Texas and stayed. Problem is, they've brought their northern ideas with them. The property prices skyrocketed because they were paying NYC prices. They established a HOA and wanted us to abide by "their" rules. Excuse me, but back in better financial days I wrote personal checks to pay for and build the neighborhood streets and got the county to maintain them. I got door to door mail service out here so we wouldn't have to drive a mile to pick it up from the row of mailboxes at the main road. I got garbage service out here. It took forever, but I got tv cable service out here. And yet they want to tell me how to display my house numbers and how to tend my yard and heaven forbid if my tree limbs grow across the road so they can't park their big-@ss RVs outside my fence and block my driveway. A few years ago a CA developer came in with bulldozers and took, yes, took our neighborhood park. No title, no legal means, no nothing but that he wanted it. The HOA did nothing except make him president the next year. That was the year I sent them a letter informing them they didn't have a valid charter and that they were using the wrong tax id. Funny, they soon disbanded. And for all their tree-hugging ways they wouldn't help me stop another developer from cutting down a stand of huge old trees that were nesting trees for the herons. Serves them right that their fancy McMansions are in a flood prone area. Back when I was a kid, we didn't have fences which was great for neighborhood bbqs but now days with all these weirdos moving in we've had to put locks on the gates. A couple weeks ago we found an unknown key broken off in a lock. You'd think them being upper middle class family types we wouldn't have these problems but they think everything belongs to them and to be sure they all felt white guilt and voted for the clean cut well spoken black guy last November.
“The Gop majority in the Texas House failed to pass the Voter ID Bill ... “
HUH?!?!? What the heck are you talking about?!? The Speaker was selected by the Dems more than Repubs, half the chairs of the House are Dems,
Tommy Merritt alone, useless piece-of-trash RINO, is enough to give the Dems a majority, it’s a 76-74 split. THE NARROWEST MAJORITY POSSIBLE and the Democrats, for purely selfish reasons are 100% dead-set against the bill... and Todd Smith dinked around with voter ID for weeks to consternation of Republicans, after the Senate heroicly passed it by bypassing the 2/3rds reqts ... *and* then the Democrats willingly FRIED THE ENTIRE LEGISLATIVE SESSION WITH THEIR CHUBBING to stop with one little innocent Voter ID bill.
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2009/05/selfish-reason-democrats-killed-session.html
“Why on earth would the Democrats kill hundreds of bill all to kill one bill, that merely required reliable ID from voters when they came to vote? Why such an absurd and over-the-top hyper-over-reaction?”
Please repeat after me:
Democrats killed the Voter ID bill. Democrats killed the Voter ID bill. Democrats killed the Voter ID bill. Democrats killed the Voter ID bill. Democrats killed the Voter ID bill. Democrats killed the Voter ID bill. Democrats killed the Voter ID bill. Democrats killed the Voter ID bill.
I like your tagline. July 12, 2009, will be the 100th anniversary of Congress proposing the 16th Amendment. Please commemerate by asking politicians to cut tax rates and spending.
The Dallas morning snooze has a long history of bashing things that are good for the country and state. If the issue is good for libs, they are on board. If not, it must be destroyed. They are especially nasty towards Texas A&M University. Makes me even more proud to be an Aggie.
If that were true, the taxpayers would be the boss. More correctly he who controls the money supply, rules.
Looks like you’ve been the recipient of California’s main export; fruits and nuts, of the human variety. They’ve gone a long way towards screwing up Oregon too. most of the druggies up here come from California.
My apologies to the 20% or so of Californians who are still sane, productive citizens. It’s just hard to fathom how a state could sink so far, so fast.
I know a family who moved to PA from New York City. They moved here because it was such a nicer place then New York. Less taxes, friendlier people, lower prices, etc. It wasn’t long before they started complaining about the lack of some government services. Thought the government should provide more free transportation for certain groups of people, provide this, provide that. Then they voted for Obama all the while complaining about the economy and so forth and how poor people weren’t being helped like they were in New York. I knew these people through my job, so I did not have the freedom to correct their freaking attitudes as I would have if I knew them on a more personal basis.
But that was exactly what I was witnessing,,,, people who fled a lib Marxist city to settle in a more free place,, then began to complain like morons how their new home needed to be more like the place they fled!
As long as you are packing heat, you would be welcome. That is a pretty impressive list of bona fides there.
How much heat do I need? Presently I only own 15 guns. But that would outfit each family member with 4 each, except my daughter, she’d only have 3...
How many times have they tried this? I hope it passes this time.
PING!
Perhaps if the Republicans in the legislature had not wasted so much time on Nanny State laws such as banning tanning beds for teens, banning trans-fats and forcing 8 year old children to be a car safety seats the legislature would have had time to consider the Voter ID Bill.
GWB sounds like he’s from Texas if he’s talking to Texans. I’ve heard him turn the Yankee accent back on lots of times.
Remember, he left Texas to go to “Prep” school up in the Northeast while in Jr. High School and didn’t come back ‘till he finished college.
Plus his Dad has an insufferable Yankee accent.
People in my part of Southeast Texas sound more like Gramm than Bush.
“Federal Boot Lickers seem to think this resolution was a waste of time.... “
Yup. If it was so meaningless, why did 36 vote no?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=833_1241755095
As for who killed voter ID ... lets get real:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/Story?oid=oid:787160
GWB's speech patterns were born in Midland and didn't die at prep school.
I've known a lot of people from Chambers Co. and none sounded like Gramm!
I'm from SE Texas, also, and we sound more like Alabama and Mississippi...where most of our early settlers came from. From Houston, I drive through Chambers Co. to get home.
There isn't a one-syllable word than I can't make a two-syllable word. LOL!
“Pass resolutions all you want, but nothing will change until the states become less dependent on Federal funding.”
BTTT. Tomorrow, they’ll be voting for rain and against drought.
Fruits and nuts, indeed. Down the road some out of state wiccans moved in and their main source of income is drugs. They have land but I haven’t ventured down to see what they’re harvesting. They have a steady stream of vehicles coming and going at all hours but no arrests. What’s with all the wiccans? There’s several in my kids’ classes hailing from La. and elsewhere.
I never thought I’d ever leave Texas, but it’s not the state it once was. Sad thing is there’s no other place to move to.
My family settled in the Spurger area of Tyler County in 1852, having immigrated from Early County, Georgia along with many relatives and neighbors. Many of my Grandparents generation still had the classical old “Deep South” type accent of the Tidewater variety. With the R’s dropped as in “Suh”, “watah”, etc. (Some of ‘em sounded like ridge runnin’ Hillbilles though, and a few of ‘em still do! LOL!)
Tyler County was settled primarily by Georgians. Phill doesn’t have the “classical” type of Southern accent. I think he sounds more like Laura than George.
“I’ve known a lot of people from Chambers County and none sounded like Gramm!”
Hey! You’ve never met me! LOL!
But I must admit, I’m originally from Jefferson County.
Texas is now at the top of my short list of places to move to now. If Alaska passes something similar, it will be a real tossup.....
I think that ought to do it. That is probably one or two above the average, I don’t really know since I do not reside there now. My son and daughter keep me informed.
My ancestors came from the Carolinas, passing thru TN, MS mostly. Some came before, others after the Civil War...they had lost everything and came to Texas.
I was named for one born May 25, 1827 in Montgomery Co., NC, and died Abt. 1867 in Panola, TX.
I have just learned that there is still a very significant chance that the Texas SENATE will vote on HCR 50 (state sovereignty) TODAY, before the legislative session ends.
Here’s the page where you (and any ally of yours) can find out who your Texas state senator is:
http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us
Meanwhile, here are the various Texas state senators’ pages:
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/Members/Members.aspx?Chamber=S
And here’s information on the HCR 50 state sovereignty resolution, including its latest status (after the House overwhelmingly approved it this weekend, in bipartisan fashion):
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=HCR50
Our neighbors in Oklahoma got theirs passed despite a governor’s veto. Can’t we Texans keep up with the Joneses? :-)
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