Gov. Perry reaffirms rights under 10th amendment...

[RxOnco]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashtx.htm

WAKE UP CALL: TEXAS GOV. BACK RESOLUTION AFFIRMING SOVEREIGNTY
Tue Apr 14 2009 08:44:54 ET

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“I believe that our 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,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”

Perry continued: "Millions of Texans are tired of Washington, DC trying to come down here to tell us how to run Texas."

[VIDEO] (http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12227/)

A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government’s constitutionally designated powers and impede the states’ right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.

It also designates that all compulsory federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.

Developing...

He may look like a supermodel, but at least he's got cajones. I'm all for it.

...and so it begins.

[seraosha]

"You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas."
-Davy Crockett

:grin:

[budgie]

It's a load of "appeal to the base" BS. So, for the past eight years it was okay when a so-called "Texan" was in charge in "Big Government" Washington, but now the Dems have taken over the plantation it's time to rebel? What's he gonna do, secede?

[RxOnco]

It's a load of "appeal to the base" BS. So, for the past eight years it was okay when a so-called "Texan" was in charge in "Big Government" Washington, but now the Dems have taken over the plantation it's time to rebel? What's he gonna do, secede?

We could only be so lucky...

As for the Texan being in charge of "Big Government"...I don't recall Bush asking for the government to take over virtually every aspect of our lives.

[seraosha]

Secession? Little over the top there Budgie, even for you.

What's your problem with States Rights and the Constitution?

[Fargin]

Since Democrats took over, they whine about biased criticism and Republicans want to declare their independence.

[Laworkerbee]

It's a load of "appeal to the base" BS. So, for the past eight years it was okay when a so-called "Texan" was in charge in "Big Government" Washington, but now the Dems have taken over the plantation it's time to rebel? What's he gonna do, secede?

Bushy boy wasn't\isn't a real Texan.

[CantGetRight]

states rights is something that seems to be long forgotten by the govt, reps are elected move to washington and seem to serve themselves using the same catchphrases again and again to get elected

states sovereignty needs to be reborn, the federal govt taking a step down

[Kit]

There's not going to be a Texan secession in the future, but it does have a symbolic value to it. The Federal Government is trying way to hard to take care of everything. People need to start to look at the neighbor next door for help, instead of the White House.

[brainplay]

States rights and federal interferance has always been a simmering pot for a while. The spending spree has scared alot of states including many blue states.

The biggest issue tends to focus around federal mandate programs that get funded for a short time then the financial reigns passed on to the state to handle under their budget but with no control over the actual program. Pay and comply.. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" program almost broke the camel's back. Under the "for the children" moniker it was hard for politicians to gather the cojones to fight it. Almost every state in the union ended up having to fund this money drain.

Now with that moron Obama we're looking at more programs in the works that the government sure as hell isn't going to be able to fully fund that will be handed off to states that are already struggling. Hence states getting really worried about a program that their state may or may not want. Worst case scenario is having to ask for government bail out cash and being even more beholden.

This isn't really a challenge to the 14th amendment (Supremacy Clause) as it deals with programs and mandates instead of laws and statutes.

[wildcat]

well there is nothing DC can do, Texas has Chuck Norris.

[Jobu]

It may just be Perry sounding a populist tone but in this case I agree with it.

Washington is seizing more and more control over our lives with each passing year. From FDR to LBJ to, yes, even Bush. Obama has now taken it to a whole new level. At some point we'll have to put a stop to it and roll it back to regain the liberty we have been losing at an accelerated pace. If we don't, we'll have failed the country our founding fathers built and we'll have failed future generations.

[Soldat_Américain]

two words Gore Vidal

[Geezah]

It's a load of "appeal to the base" BS. So, for the past eight years it was okay when a so-called "Texan" was in charge in "Big Government" Washington, but now the Dems have taken over the plantation it's time to rebel? What's he gonna do, secede?


The Dems were always in control of the Plantations!

[MaverickCowboy]

It's a load of "appeal to the base" BS. So, for the past eight years it was okay when a so-called "Texan" was in charge in "Big Government" Washington, but now the Dems have taken over the plantation it's time to rebel? What's he gonna do, secede?

Bush is from conneticut.

[Soldat_Américain]

Bush is from conneticut.
But the family home is in Maine...

[seraosha]

two words Gore Vidal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8

[Soldat_Américain]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
Who's who?

[wildcat]

^x2, the guy that threatened to punch the other guy in the face = WIN

[Geezah]

X3, "I'll sock you in the Goddamn face and you'll stay plastered" p-)

[Kit]

Who's who?

I believe that the dark haired one is Mr. Gore Videl, one of the highest profile liberal talking heads of the time.

[loganinkosovo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8


Gee, they had elitist snob jackass dumbass Liberals back then too!

[budgie]

The Dems were always in control of the Plantations!

Read your history: the parties swapped roles in the 1960's.


Bushy boy wasn't\isn't a real Texan.



Bush is from conneticut.


But the family home is in Maine...

Christ can noboy read anymore? I wrote so-called "Texan". Duuh...

[wildcat]

Read your history: the parties swapped roles in the 1960's.
oh boy, the parties did not swap, they did not wake up one day and call each other and decide to exchange.

The Dems moved to the left. the repubs are still the same bunch as they always have been.

[budgie]

The Dems decided to endorse the civil rights movement and put an end end to segregation. The "States-Rights" Democrats - the Dixiecrats opposed this and briefly tried to run their own third party before joining the Republicans - who it appears were a little slow to embrace the whole human dignity thing at the time.

So if you call desegregation moving to the left, yeah that's what they did, but in essence at that time the parties swapped roles over tha matter of race-relations.

[wildcat]

The Dems decided to endorse the civil rights movement and put an end end to segregation. The "States-Rights" Democrats - the Dixiecrats opposed this and briefly tried to run their own third party before joining the Republicans - who it appears were a little slow to embrace the whole human dignity thing at the time.

So if you call desegregation moving to the left, yeah that's what they did, but in essence at that time the parties swapped roles over tha matter of race-relations.
don't forget Martin Luther king was a Republican as was President Abe Lincoln

[budgie]

Throwing a few names around won't change history. In the last couple of generations, it is the democratic party that has led the way on human rights - the biggest issue being on race-relations. Just because some Republican leaders were not racist in the past and some democrats have been doesn't change the overall trend. It was the democratic leadership that championed desegregation, and name-dropping doesn't disprove that.

[JJC]

I wonder how many senators and House representatives bring pork back home from the Federal government without any whining from Texas?

The 10th Amendment argument is old and stale. We are not in 1850s anymore; the role of the federal government has evolved a while ago and states can't survive without the fed. Everyone could be a constitutional attorney, but the practices and precedence has long been established from the fed.

[RxOnco]

...The 10th Amendment argument is old and stale. We are not in 1850s anymore; the role of the federal government has evolved a while ago and states can't survive without the fed...

I'm not sure where you're from, but you've obviously never been to Texas. We could do just fine without the mighty federal government.

[Geezah]

Throwing a few names around won't change history. In the last couple of generations, it is the democratic party that has led the way on human rights - the biggest issue being on race-relations. Just because some Republican leaders were not racist in the past and some democrats have been doesn't change the overall trend. It was the democratic leadership that championed desegregation, and name-dropping doesn't disprove that.

You're not on our planet.

Just because the Democrats voted in a mixed race President does not mean that their rascist past gets a pass!

These are a few names of people within the Democrat party that have shown their rascist tendencies one way or another, but they continue to get a pass.

Why is that?

You also do all those that put their lives on the line to help run away slaves a disservice by trying to twist history to suit you!

Senator Robert Byrd, D-WV

Senator Ernest Hollings, D-SC

Jesse Jackson

Al Sharpton

Representative **** Gephardt, D-MO

Andrew Cuomo

Billy McKinney


BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY

1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?

2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?

3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?

4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP who were themselves white?

6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?

7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the1957 Civil Rights Act and the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s?

8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?

9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who supports the U.S. Supreme Court’s University of Michigan Affirmative Action decision, and is spending over $200 billion to fight AIDS in Africa and on programs to help black Americans prosper, including school vouchers, the faith-based initiative, home ownership, and small business ownership?

BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY - PART II

10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?

11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?

12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?

13. What was the Party of President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president, and later had the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?

14. What is the Party of current Senator Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Fritz Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina when he was the governor, and Senator Ted Kennedy who recently insulted black judicial nominees by calling them “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?

15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?

16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote?

17. What Party is against the faith-based initiative, against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?

National Black Republican Association (http://www.nbra.info/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-HistoryTest)

[ibstolidude]

It's a load of "appeal to the base" BS. So, for the past eight years it was okay when a so-called "Texan" was in charge in "Big Government" Washington, but now the Dems have taken over the plantation it's time to rebel? What's he gonna do, secede?
Nice try - that shows what you know about TX politics.

[ibstolidude]

I wonder how many senators and House representatives bring pork back home from the Federal government without any whining from Texas?
Do you mean specifically from the dude who just said no to unemployment stimulus from the Fed?