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Gov. Perry Backs Resolution Affirming Texas’ Sovereignty Under 10th Amendment

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Well I'll be damned, someone gave Rick Perry a spine... too bad his overall Gov. term has been craptstic, but for this right now... I like it.


AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today 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.”
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12227/
 
Well I'll be damned, someone gave Rick Perry a spine... too bad his overall Gov. term has been craptstic, but for this right now... I like it.


http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12227/
'Bout damn time states started this, hopefully this is the beginning of the shrinkage of big government, but the fight is going to be long and difficult, especially with the way the idiot and his buddies are digging in in Washington.
 
'Bout damn time states started this, hopefully this is the beginning of the shrinkage of big government, but the fight is going to be long and difficult, especially with the way the idiot and his buddies are digging in in Washington.

Change we can believe in coming out of Texas, who would have thought.
 
Change we can believe in coming out of Texas, who would have thought.
No kidding. All I can say to my neighbor to the east is. "YEEEEHAW" GIT'r'Done!
 
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Texas is the only State whose flag can fly even with the Stars and Stripes.
 
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Now let's get the legislature to get behind it and pass it.

Then persuade other states to do the same.

It's past time to tell Washington, D.C. to back down and back off.

California is too far gone to do the same. If anything they are using the Obama model.

I will tough it out as the weather here is awesome and I love the sunsets over the pacific and Mexican Food. :cool:
 
California is too far gone to do the same. If anything they are using the Obama model.

I will tough it out as the weather here is awesome and I love the sunsets over the pacific and Mexican Food. :cool:

Pffft Cal Mex ain't nuttin' but beans in a tortilla.
 
Too little, too late. Kay Bailey Hutchinson is going to primary his lame ass out, and he will not be reelected.
 
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Too little, too late. Kay Bailey Hutchinson is going to primary his lame ass out, and he will not be reelected.

I don't know which would be worst her or him:confused:

Anne Richards where are you when we need you;)

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Alaska flies its flag even with or above the US flag, depending on the time of year.

Don't mess with my Texas pride:mrgreen:

Alaska really does that? why? I seriously thought Texas was the only State allowed to do that.
 
California is too far gone to do the same. If anything they are using the Obama model.

I will tough it out as the weather here is awesome and I love the sunsets over the pacific and Mexican Food. :cool:

California actually did a decade and a half ago

Source [Official California Legislative Information | Senate Joint Resolution No. 44 Relative to the 10th Amendment]

Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the State of California hereby claims
sovereignty under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and
granted to the federal government by the United States
Constitution and that this measure shall serve as notice and
demand to the federal government to cease and desist, effective
immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of its
constitutionally delegated powers; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of
this resolution to the President and Vice President of the
United States, the Speaker of the United States House of
Representatives, the President pro Tempore of the United States
Senate, each Senator and Representative from California in the
Congress of the United States and to the Speaker of the House
and the President of the Senate of each state legislature in the
United States of America.

The movement has seen a general resurgence of late, for which I am glad. The state to be watching here is Montana, who is not only passing such legislation but is planning an actual confrontation with the feds

Montana poised to buck federal gun control

The real target, though, is the U.S. Supreme Court. And Marbut and others believe they can hit that mark with a simple Montana-made youth-model single-shot bolt-action .22 rifle.

In particular, they plan to find a “squeaky clean” Montanan who wants to send a note to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives threatening to build and sell about 20 such rifles without federal dealership licensing. If the ATF tells them it’s illegal, they will then file a lawsuit in federal court n with any luck triggering a legal battle that lands in the nation’s highest court.
 
Don't mess with my Texas pride:mrgreen:

Alaska really does that? why? I seriously thought Texas was the only State allowed to do that.

Yeah. And it doesn't matter to Alaska whether they are "allowed" to do it or not...they're just going to do what they want and **** everyone else. On Alaska Day they fly the Alaskan flag above the American Flag at the capital building in Juneau.
 
California is too far gone to do the same. If anything they are using the Obama model.

I disagree. I think California would easily adopt such a resolution. The past few years California has seeked more state control over Federal control due to the fact that the California government is more liberal then the Federal government is as a whole. Though the state as a whole is overtly moderate or slight right when compared to more local governments within California, as was seen by the Prop 8 voting last year.
 
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California is too far gone to do the same. If anything they are using the Obama model.

I will tough it out as the weather here is awesome and I love the sunsets over the pacific and Mexican Food. :cool:

California just doubled it's car property tax and registration fees, and increased it's state sales tax by 25%.

And in the face of the looming bankruptcy of the state, the Guvernator and the Democrats are pushing a special election this May to get the sucker voters to pass ballot initiatives to allow all the spending the Republicans managed to trim in their compromise, and further increase the tax burden on the state.

That's what happens when people vote Democrat.
 
I disagree. I think California would easily adopt such a resolution. The past few years California has seeked more state control over Federal control due to the fact that the California government is more liberal then the Federal government is as a whole. Though the state as a whole is overtly moderate or slight right when compared to more local governments within California, as was seen by the Prop 8 voting last year.

You're wrong.

Sacramento would NEVER pass such a resolution, so the governor would never see it to sign it.

What was seen in the Prop 8 vote last year was that roughly 20% of the people who voted for the black guy in the big white house are bigots still.
 
:rofl You righties crack me up.

Where was this nonsense when Bush was dragging us into two wars, increasing the size of government, spending us into oblivion and shredding the Constitution?

You guys are the worst sore losers ever. More than half the country rejected the right wing philosophy and you just can't bear to "take it like a man". :2wave:
 
:rofl You righties crack me up.

Where was this nonsense when Bush was dragging us into two wars, increasing the size of government, spending us into oblivion and shredding the Constitution?

"You righties?" Bush didn't drag us into two wars, they were approved by a huge BI-PARTISAN vote in the congress. Get out much?

increasing the size of government, spending us into oblivion

I find these two statements amusing considering the FACT that Obama and his Democrat pals in the Congress since 2006 have spent us into a $1.7 trillion deficit versus the $200 billion and going down we had with Republicans. Not to mention the monstrous expansion of Government this entails.

The only thing more hysterical will be your typical response; Bush did it first.


spending us into oblivion and shredding the Constitution?

I keep hearing this trite, yet totally false, DNC Liberal talking point and yet, whenever asked to show how the Constitution has been shredded, Liberals like you can come up with nothing more than your typical emotional hysterics, lies and distortions.

You guys are the worst sore losers ever.

This one smacks of profound irony; a Liberal Democrat claiming that Republicans are sore losers after all the emotional drivel over stolen elections we have been treated with since 2000.

I cannot even imagine the level of willful hypocrisy it takes to make such claims.

More than half the country rejected the right wing philosophy and you just can't bear to "take it like a man". :2wave:

The country never rejected "right wing" philosophy. When polled, most Americans actually are closer to Conservative values than they are Liberal.

What is amazing to me is to see this level of foaming at the mouth coming from Liberals who finally won; not because of anything philosophical, but because we were a nation tired of division and war and Obama had the smoothness to convince 51% of American to vote for him, many of which were based on their feelings about the Iraq War.

The notion that America is NOT as divided as they were after the 2000 elections requires willful denial of immense proportions.

But suffice it to say, you are just blowing off more of emotional steam than you are attempting honest coherent debate. It appears to be typical of those on the Left who fool themselves into thinking their Liberal ideas are somehow more accepted by Americans and think that this election was about values and not about semantics.

But one is forced to ask this question; if your views are now the majority and you won, why all the emotional hateful bile that erupts from your keyboard? :rofl
 
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Thank god they passed this timely and critical legislation that will have the immediate effect of.....uh.....hm.
 
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