Hold on. My head's spinning. I'm away from the news for two days and Republicans are expressing sympathy for

1) assassination of elected officials who support increasing taxes (the representative from Illinois) and

2) dissolution of the United States (the governor of a state and the former Majority Leader of the House).

Huh? Are they TRYING to follow the Whigs? You can't make this sh!t up.

At least Texans have the sovereign right to be ignorant, lying fucks, right?

..Right?

Although, if they actually do split, I think we should all extend a welcoming hand to the newest states in the Union, New Texas, Old Texas, Still Texas, Alamo and Jim-Bob.

Well, let's play with this for a minute. If Texas were divided into five states, what might they look like? I assume they'd want to make them about equal in population, so they'd each have about 6.5 Congressional districts. That would mean one state that's basically the Houston area (2d, 7th, 9th, 14th, 18th, 22d and 29th districts); another that's the Dallas metro area (3d, 12th, 24th, 26th, 30th and 32d); one that would be Hispanic south Texas (15th, 16th, 20th, 23d, 25th, 27th and 28th), one in non-metro East Texas (1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 10th), and one in central and northwest Texas (11th, 13th, 17th, 19th, 21st and 31st).
If they did that, you'd have two states that are solidly Republican (the rural areas), one Hispanic state that as of now would be solidly Democratic, and swing states in Dallas and Houston. At the very least, it wouldn't give a net advantage of 34 electoral votes to the Republicans, and it might very well elect 5 or 6 Democratic senators, rather than the current two Republicans. With no state as populous as Arizona, it would cease to be a major player in national or Republican Party politics.
We could do worse.

First of all, we get to keep Austin!!!

Second, they get to keep their racist assholes:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/brown-asian-names/

Third, in the event of a potential war with Texas, we should hunt down George W. Bush in his spider hole.

"We got him!"

Assuming this is not total lunacy, wouldn't the terms of Texas's readmission to the Union after the Civil War supersede any original considerations?

I think discussing opinions of criminals of their profession is down right asinine. But, it is fun. Being from Texas myself, the "ambient racism" Colin Powell refers to is derived from his many trips to Crawford. Parts of Texas is stuck is some alternate universe and the rest is on the edge ready to jump. I have always known "Texans" revel in being "unique" regards of aspect. Granted there is sometimes competitions for who can do the stupidest thing or just being proud to be considered stupid. With that being said, I do love the state because I do understand it. Many in Texas have been waiting to do and say much going on right now, but couldn't because they also know that most is racist and is not tolerated by society and employers. I live in Chicago now and really wish I was back there to "slap the taste out of the mouth" of any of the bravest to bring this crap to my face. This is the only reaction "Texans" recognize and it should be administered by a really Texans who is a citizen of this here United States of America.

A short conversation I had today with a Republican friend.

ME: What the Hell is wrong with you guys?

HIM: What?

ME: Rick Perry trying to take his ball and go home...?

HIM: Well, Texas is different and--

ME: It's not that goddamn different.

HIM: Yeah, but Texas has these rules--

ME: No. It doesn't, actually. By the way, are you going to demand your son stop saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school?

HIM: What are you talking about?

ME: You clearly don't think the U.S. is "one nation under God, indivisible" now do you?

HIM: Well...

ME: Aren't you saying--explicitly--that the U.S. is, in fact, divisible?

HIM: Look, the Pledge has nothing to do with this.

ME: So, in other words, you're going to let your son keep saying something you think is actually wrong. Damn! Give me an honest atheist dad any day.

HIM: Goddamn it...

ME: Hey, don't get mad at me. Your folks are the ones who are protesting against tax increases, even though Obama is lowering those peoples' taxes. Your folks are the ones who are saying that you may, possibly, just might have to commit treason and divide our country. The least you could do is show the courage of your convictions and demand your son quit saying the Pledge of Allegiance. I'm sure he'd understand when you explained to him that daddy doesn't really think America's worthy since the majority voted against daddy's party.

HIM: Aw, fuck off.

ME: Roger. Fucking off...

Seems to me that Texas was actually admitted to the union in 1870 -- whatever was agreed to back in 1845 became just a bunch of nonsense after 1861. Four years of treason and five years of reconstruction should count for something ...

I hear Obama favors a Two State solution.

Rules were made to be broken. Supposedly states are not supposed to be carved out from existing states.

But they have been: Maine was carved out from Massachusetts and West Virginia was carved out of Virginia.

The constitution, on point, reads:
Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution, "[n]ew states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress."

Nice to see some facts here. The whole 'repub of TX' thing is such a joke, but of course it and the rest of the related hype fits well into this latest republican lie & scheme.

TX was not a real republic. It was hardly even anything organized, but maybe so in their eyes. It had no constitution, currency, or real government when it 'broke away' from Mexico - or tried to, it took the US/Mex war to seal that.

The 14th state of the US however was a real & I think the only other republic aside from the original 13 states. This state had a real goverment, constitution and currency for about 15 years until it was admitted as the 14th state of the US. It was also the first state to outlaw slavery & promote human rights as a primary right. The state has also recently had another significant landmark in human rights.

Look guys I am a Texan, born and raised. I have had the priveledge to go to many of our other 49 states and also trips to mexico as well as Europe. I have also lived in three major cities in Texas and all of them are quite differen cultures. All these experiences have rounded my impression of what a Texan really is and my conclusion I think would be no different then what someone from say New York (the northern part and its differences from the NYC parts in South). Texas is made up of many different people with lots of different cultural traditions. The comment on texas being divided up and having two wacko regions, one Dem region and two swing regions sounds about right to me. Look we Texans elected more Dems this last go around in tghe elections, so hold your horses on calling Texans anything other than Americans. Sure we have our wackos but many of those wacko's are entrenched in Texas politics much like GWB. They have the support of the energy industry in many regards and the building/real estate development which are quite powerful foes to un-trench. There share of the business market and there influence in the business market has been a sort of barometer for what GWB tried in office as I see it. They are pro-deregulation, they are pro-lowering taxes (of course they make up for this by raising taxes on property, which is supposed to aid our underfunded and underperforming education system), they are pro-gun, pro-life etc. In short they have had very little success in improving the lives of many texans, while those with influence and power have become more beholding to these ideas and more wealthy because of them. However, Texas still is one of the national leaders in uninsured children, one of the most underperforming in education, highest teen pregnancy rates, high poverty rates so I find it as I have for some time dubious to conclude that the GOP has done anything for most texans but doen a lot for some Texans.

With all that said, it does not help that when our state or federally elected officials decide to open up the pie-holes that reporter's do not ask them the tough questions or call them out on there BS. For example, this passed election was rather tough on me with some of my family members and friends. They have grown up identified themselves with being conservative (Reagan hooked line aand sunk them) but many I talked to agreed that GWB had done a rather poor job of being the POTUS. But instead of coming to the conclusion that his ideas were bankrupt they simply conclude that his failure was not in ideology but one in performance. Just this passed Thursday I was watching the news with my father on TV covering the comments that Rick Perry had made (in a fricking hunting jacket and a baseball hat, real professional like) and some of the Texas Dem's were followed up in the story condemning his comments. Then this Texas GOP'er gets interviewd about Perry's comments and his statement was "maybe if everybody else in the US was a little more like Texas, then everything would be just fine!" I looked over at my dad, and I commented "great, now where is the reporter who should be asking him what exactly he means by being more Texan? Is he talking about our high teen pregnancy rates? Is he talking about our underperforming schools? Is he talking about our high rates of uninsured adults and children?" I am almost sure he was really just commenting about the state of Texas's econmy compared to the US (Texas has not in my opinion had to suffer as much as many of the other states durng this downturn) My father got mad at me and told me my comments were partisan, we yelled, my sister and my mom tried to stay out of it, I then went upstairs to google some info which I provided for my dad from a Texas.gov website that backed up many of my comments, things settled down. My dad thinks Rick Perry is an idiot but he also thinks that my attacks against the GOP are partisan. Therefore like many Texans who disagree with our states embrace of many of its current policies we have a tough fight ahead of us because we love our fellow texans(family and friends) but think they need to open their eyes a little bit and step back from it all. Rick Perry in my opinion is toast in the next GOV election because I think Texas is in many ways dominated by the 4 big cities which tend to be more swing than solidly partisan. I believe Hutchinson will become the next Gov and we will fill her vacant seat with a Dem. Cornyn is an idiot and a neo-con but the press really does a poor job of labeling him as such. I think his time has come and his next election challenger will be in a better position because of the ground work that was done by the Obama volunteer workers in the state and the hard work of his last challenger Rick Noriega.

I will not give up on Texas but I am looking forward to living somewhere else to gain more perspective in the future.

Hey, California was a republic, too. The Bear Flag Republic lasted, I think, three weeks or so.

Still, if Texas has to stay, I guess we do, too.

shucks.

Rick Perry: If at First You Don’t Secede ….

See

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/if-at-first-you-dont-secede/

Not all Texans are ignorant. Take me, for example...