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Governor Rick Perry may invoke the 10th Amendment over Obama's health care bill (Vanity)
7/23/09 | Cowtowney

Posted on 07/23/2009 8:42:41 AM PDT by cowtowney

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To: JoenTX
the TTC and the weird Gardisil thing ....

Whooooooooooosh.......right on over my head....

:)

81 posted on 07/23/2009 11:28:14 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: Condor51
However, there sure will a lot of whining from the liberals in Austin and the Open Border weenies who'll lose funds for their 'pet' illegals.

Easily and quickly drowned out by the echo of Conservatives shouting "FREEDOM" and "WOLVERINES" flooding into Texas. I know if they withdraw, I'm dropping everything and getting there as fast as I possibly can.

82 posted on 07/23/2009 11:39:53 PM PDT by wastedyears (The Tree is thirsty and the hogs are hungry.)
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To: cowtowney

I think UCF is just suggesting to verify before trusting.


83 posted on 07/23/2009 11:40:51 PM PDT by wastedyears (The Tree is thirsty and the hogs are hungry.)
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To: Sarajevo

re. your post 60

I know I sure as heck would, and I’m in one of the 10 worst cities in the country.


84 posted on 07/23/2009 11:46:39 PM PDT by wastedyears (The Tree is thirsty and the hogs are hungry.)
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To: cowtowney

Call him on it (relentlessly) and see if its a bluff. If it is a bluff, make him do it anyway... REAL legislation with teeth, claws and a rabid apatite for marxist flesh. ;) DO NOT let them get away with a f—king meaningless joint resolution or some other wussy as- crap.

There is no reason to wait until the next level of marxism is enacted by the fedgov. The state of Texas can come up with legislation RIGHT NOW that will effectively void (at least for the citizens of Texas) the obamanation headed our way. It will also set up another direct confrontation between a state and the fedgov, which allows us to push things even further in the direction we want to go.


85 posted on 07/24/2009 4:54:22 AM PDT by myself6 (.)
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To: rintense

Thats only a problem for those unwilling to deal effectively with those kinds of people.

This is why the states that want to be free just need to inform their citizens that they are going to adopt the model of a free state and people unbound from the tyranny of socialism / marxism. Then offer to move them and their things to the slave state of their choice, free of charge, if they feel they just cant handle being responsible for themselves and their wellbeing. Make the offer expire after 3 months or something along those lines.


86 posted on 07/24/2009 5:03:01 AM PDT by myself6 (.)
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To: JoenTX

>>> “I wasn’t wild about Perry’s “secession” statements a few months ago”

I was actually encouraged by his secession statements. Well, except that he tried to take the unnecessary steps of justifying it through Texas history. All he really needed to do to justify it was to quote this...

“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. “


87 posted on 07/24/2009 5:08:07 AM PDT by myself6 (.)
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To: myself6

“I was actually encouraged by his secession statements...”

As well. Secession beats out this any day...

http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/


88 posted on 07/24/2009 5:10:52 AM PDT by mo
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To: Richard Kimball

Just like he does every time. I wish more people in this state noticed (and remembered) it.


89 posted on 07/24/2009 5:46:47 AM PDT by TheZMan ("I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.")
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To: cowtowney
Rick Perry just stated on Mark Davis' show that Texas may use the 10th Amendment to reject Obamacare.

I suppose the sound bite will probably resonate well with those who admire his hair.

90 posted on 07/24/2009 5:58:07 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: cowtowney

Perry raises possibility of states’ rights showdown with White House over healthcare

http://www.star-telegram.com/238/story/1504240.html

AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be “disastrous” for Texas.

Interviewed by conservative talk show host Mark Davis of Dallas’ WBAP/820 AM, Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan, which both Perry and Davis described as “Obama Care.” But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a “number” of states might resist the federal health mandate.

“I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying ‘no’ to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare,” Perry said. “So my hope is that we never have to have that stand-up. But I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats.”

Perry, the state’s longest-serving governor, has made defiance of Washington a hallmark of his state administration as well as his emerging re-election campaign against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the 2010 Republican primary. Earlier this year, Perry refused $555 million in federal unemployment stimulus money, saying it would subject Texas to long-term costs after the federal dollars ended.

Interviewed after returning from a trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, Perry spoke out against President Barack Obama’s healthcare package less than 24 hours after the president used a prime-time news conference Wednesday night to try to sell the massive legislative package to Congress and the public.

‘Not the solution’

“It really is a state issue, and if there was ever an argument for the 10th Amendment and for letting the states find a solution to their problems, this may be at the top of the class,” Perry said. “A government-run healthcare system is financially unstable. It’s not the solution.”

Perry heartily backed an unsuccessful resolution in this year’s legislative session that would have affirmed the belief that Texas has sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.

In expressing “unwavering support” for the 10th Amendment resolution by state Rep. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, Perry said “federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens and its interference with the affairs of our state.”

Returning to the “letter and spirit” of the 10th Amendment, he said in April, “will free our state from undue regulations and ultimately strengthen our union.”

Perry, in his on-air interview Thursday with Davis, did not specify how he might use the 10th Amendment in opposing the Obama health plan. His spokeswoman, Allison Castle, said that the governor’s first goal is to defeat the plan in Congress and that any discussion of options beyond that would be “hypothetical.”

“I don’t think it’s surprising that the governor is taking a stand against it,” said Anne Dunkelberg, associate director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities, an Austin-based research organization that supports the House version of Obama’s plan. “Unfortunately, the national dialogue on health reform has been extraordinarily partisan and polarized.”

The White House Media Affairs Office, asked to comment on Perry’s statements, did not have an immediate response. In his remarks to the nation Wednesday, Obama restated his midsummer deadline for passage of the bill in Congress, saying it is urgently needed to help families “that are being clobbered by healthcare costs.”

High stakes in Texas

Texas has a higher percentage of uninsured people than any other state, with 1 in 4 Texans lacking health coverage. Dunkelberg, whose organization supports policies to help low- and modest-income Texans, said the House version would create a “predictable and comprehensive benefits package” for thousands of struggling middle-income Texans.

Former Rep. Arlene Wohlgemuth of Burleson, a senior fellow for healthcare at the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, echoed Perry’s assertion that the Obama plan is the wrong approach and could have disastrous financial consequences for Texas.

Under the Senate version of the bill, she said, an expansion of the joint federal-state Medicaid program for the poor could cost Texas $4 billion a year.

“There are good solutions” to the country’s healthcare problems, Wohlgemuth said. “This isn’t it.”

Perry said the plan is another example of the Obama administration’s “massive takeover of the private-sector economy.”

“I hope our leaders will look for solutions that don’t dig our country further into debt,” he said.

Perry called on Texans in the House and Senate to oppose the plan. “I can’t imagine that anyone from Texas who cares about this state would vote for Obama Care. I don’t care whether you’re Democrat or Republican,” he said.

Of those Texans who might consider supporting the plan, he said: “This may sound a little bit harsh, but they might ought to consider representing some other state because they’re sure not representing Texas.”


91 posted on 07/24/2009 7:25:47 AM PDT by do the dhue (Hold my beer and watch this...)
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To: metmom

“How are land prices in TX?”

Flat?


92 posted on 07/24/2009 9:05:47 AM PDT by cowtowney
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To: metmom
How are land prices in TX?

Reasonable, if you are a conservative and not near Austin.

93 posted on 07/24/2009 9:51:35 AM PDT by texgal (end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
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To: TheZMan

Yeah, but every time I say, “I’ll NEVER vote for Rick Perry again, I end up having to do it. Last election it was Rick, the Dem Dweeb, Kinky or one Nutty Grandma. This year, Rick or Hutchison. Gotta go Rick again.


94 posted on 07/24/2009 10:21:48 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: cowtowney

We are moving to Texas in the next 12 months. I love the foothills of the Sierra Nevada but this state is full of lunatics.


95 posted on 07/24/2009 11:23:43 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Be prepared for tough times. FReepmail me to learn about our survival thread!)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Did you see this?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300215/posts


96 posted on 07/24/2009 11:32:53 AM PDT by wolfcreek (KMTEXASA!)
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To: cowtowney

hahaha. That is exactly the kind of thing she says. uuhggg.


97 posted on 07/24/2009 12:28:37 PM PDT by boxlunch
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

“We are moving to Texas in the next 12 months”

Howdy


98 posted on 07/24/2009 12:45:47 PM PDT by cowtowney
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To: cowtowney

Good for her! And good for Gov. Perry!

Everybody needs to sign the petition ASAP! It is up at a number of sites. Dennis Prager and Michael Medved have it. The Dems are trying to get 1 million by the end of next week. We need to trump that!


99 posted on 07/24/2009 1:38:42 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: wolfcreek

Welcome, kick back, have a beer, and enjoy!


100 posted on 07/24/2009 3:20:31 PM PDT by Sarajevo (You jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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