Questions to that half of Texas' Republicans

Post #307,808 by lincoln 4/24/09 7:39:14 PM Reply	Questions to that half of Texas' Republicans So we now know that half of Texas' Republicans want to secede from the United States. So I have some questions for that crowd: * Are you flying an American flag? Because you don't get to do that when you cry and take your ball home. * Do you have a bumper sticker that says, "These colors don't run"? Because it sure looks like you're running. * Do you still pretend that your party is the "Party of Lincoln"? If so, what part of Lincoln exactly, would that be? * Since you've spent the last eight years saying "America, love it or leave it", is that an admission that you don't love America? Because we liberals? We loved it and stayed, even when your idiot of a president was trashing the place. * Was your patriotism (My country, right or wrong) so skin-deep, that it depended 100 percent on the guy in the White House? * That $200 billion Texas got in defense contracts between 2000 and 2007? No more of that. No more Ft. Hood. No more NASA. No more federal largesse. You okay with that? * You do realize that the Cowboys will no longer be "America's Team", right? Though they'd dominate the two-team Texas Football League (TFL). source: http://www.dailykos....Texas-Republicans "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #308,009 by mhuber 4/29/09 2:33:55 PM Reply	Pro-US parts of the country Ever notice that those are the only ones that want out of the US?
Post #308,011 by beepster 4/29/09 2:49:52 PM Reply	I think he's completely wrong Houston had a good draft and would give the cowgirls a run for their money. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #308,018 by SpiceWare 4/29/09 3:43:44 PM Reply	Amazing the difference in their response to Vermont Their poll from 2 years ago has 71% in favor of allowing secession, and tone of the comments is totally different. http://www.dailykos....7/4/2/95225/77011
Post #308,027 by drook 4/29/09 7:36:02 PM Reply	Out 170 total votes, on a site geared to political adtivists That's a bit different from the governor of a state saying it. -- Drew
Post #308,031 by SpiceWare 4/29/09 8:16:41 PM Reply	actually, somebody in the crowd said it http://www.chron.com...p/tx/6375677.html Perry fired up an anti-tax "tea party" Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, "Secede!" when he was asked about it by a reporter Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union, though he said he sees no reason why Texas should do that. From there it pretty much ballooned. What I was pointing out was the people (based on their comments) of that same site had a rather positive response to Vermont, while a rather venomous one to Texas - over the same issue.
Post #308,045 by beepster 4/30/09 8:33:23 AM Reply	It makes a better story... ...to poll 50 people at "random", throw a low MOE in there and say "everybody thinks this"! I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #308,076 by lincoln 4/30/09 2:26:59 PM Reply	Maybe because 2 years ago Vermont wasn't getting hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus money? Just a thought. "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #308,084 by SpiceWare 4/30/09 3:26:12 PM Reply	Texas is a Tax Donor State so we're just getting back what we've overpaid.
Post #308,085 by beepster 4/30/09 3:44:34 PM Reply	Isn't that.. you're getting back >less< than you've overpaid? ;-) Big evil oil barons that you are! I watched Dallas! I know who shot JR! I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #308,086 by SpiceWare 4/30/09 3:54:12 PM Reply	true and maybe those commentators were supportive of Vermont seceding because they're a Tax Donee State. http://www.taxfounda...og/show/1397.html
Post #308,113 by boxley 5/1/09 12:08:07 PM Reply	whoops, too late http://hotair.com/ar...-foreign-country/ so spice, where do we need to get a visa at?
Post #308,125 by SpiceWare 5/1/09 4:59:31 PM Reply	Passport should be fine Don't need a visa for Canada or Mexico. I'm also sure we'd end up in NAFTA due to all the refineries - it's highly doubtful new ones would be built in the remaining 49 states due to NIMBY.

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