Secessionist Gov. Rick Perry Threatens To Invoke 10th Amendment To Reject Health Care Reform
Secessionist Gov. Rick Perry Threatens To Invoke 10th Amendment To Reject Health Care Reform
On a local radio show yesterday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) attacked President Obama’s health care reform plan as “disastrous.” Perry — who suggested in April at one of the right-wing “tea parties” that Texas may have to secede from the union — even went so far as threatening to invoke the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to resist health care reform and suggested other states would do the same:
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.” [...]
“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.”
In April, Perry announced his support for a non-binding resolution in the Texas House that says the federal government has overstepped the authority granted to it under the Constitution. Salon’s Alex Koppelman notes that the states’ rights claim is on shaky legal ground.
Moreover, Perry’s “state sovereignty” cries don’t carry much credibility. In March, he rejected $555 million in federal stimulus funds to expand unemployment benefits, arguing that accepting the money would burden Texans with “higher taxes and expanded obligations.” However, just this month, Perry was forced to ask the federal government for a $170 million loan to cover unemployment insurance and the state is expected to request a total of $650 million, around $100 million more than Perry originally rejected.
Texas has the highest percentage of those without health insurance in the entire country. A U.S. Census Bureau report released last August showed that nearly 25 percent of Texans (just over 5.5 million residents) lacked insurance (compared to a national average of 15.5 percent). A Families USA report released in March found that the number of uninsured in Texas throughout 2007 and 2008 is much higher, around 9.3 million:
The report went further to say that 7.5 million Texans were uninsured for six months or more during that same time period and about 82.6 percent, were in working families, either working full or part-time.
“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,” Perry said. He then criticized those representing Texas in Congress who may be considering supporting health care reform. “This may sound a little bit harsh, but they might ought to consider representing some other state because they’re sure not representing Texas.”
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As if Texas could solve any of its problems without the US
Only ignorant rednecks listen to Perry
July 24th, 2009 at 10:46 amIt always amazes me how the ‘greatest country in the world’ still cannot find a way to provide adequate health care to all its people… and how there are some elected representatives who are all right with that.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:46 amThe “greatest country in the world” has found a great way to take good care of their oligarchs and their corporate overlords.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:49 amCan we send Texas back to Mexico?
Texans are suffering in this economy and in the health care crisis as much as anyone.
Where did all those like Perry and their states stand in the 1930’s when social security was passed — where were they and their states when Medicare was passed?
July 24th, 2009 at 10:49 amWere they making the same stupid threats, and risking their citizens’ welfare?
The only thing that keeps Rick Perry from looking like a complete idiot is comparing him to his predecessor.
But he’s definitely closing the gap.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:52 am70% of the American population supports healthcare reform.
If Texas overwhelmingly does not support it, then it is Texas who is out of touch and out of place, not the people with enough intelligence to see that the problems need fixed.
But then, no one ever accused Texans of being smart (apologies to reasonable Texans out there, but I have to question why you still live in Texas if you’re even remotely intelligent).
July 24th, 2009 at 10:53 amThey were ag’in ‘em.
Yes. Although I don’t think their fractured mythology was quite as elaborate at the time, and their message discipline was nowhere near what it is today.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:53 amYeah, he’ll reject it, then, in six months or so he’ll ask the gov. for money to pay for health care, like he did with the stimulus. The only question is whether or not the MSM will notice and call him on his un-American stupidity…
July 24th, 2009 at 10:54 amThere has to be a way to stop this anti American bigot from constantly stirring up the haters in Texas and around the country. I know freedom of speech for Beck ,Limbpuke et al but this shmuck is an elected official, absolutely talking treason he has to be held accountable.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:54 amI’m pretty sure healthcare reform would be covered under the last clause of Article 1 Sections 1 and 8:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
The Congress shall have Power – To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
A government sponsored health assurance program fits quite nicely between those two clauses.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:55 am***
publicly he’ll reject the health care plan.
privately he’ll sign up for it.
:|
:)
July 24th, 2009 at 10:56 amFine, Perry.
Congress, tie all federal dollars for state healthcare to strict adherence to new mandates. Don’t want to play by the new rules? No more money for your state until you’re ready to participate.
This is how grown-ups must deal with children, and the GNOP leaders continue to demonstrate that they are 2-year-olds throwing tantrums. (no offense to 2-year-old intended…)
PEACE
July 24th, 2009 at 10:56 amThe issue regarding secession was settled by the Civil War. The federal government is well within the purview of the Commerce Clause to make changes in the health care system. If Perry wants to challenge the health care bill, he will have to file a complaint in the federal courts and the SCOTUS will decide the issue. It is highly probable he will lose. Texas cannot unilaterally reject federal laws based on the 10th Amendment.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:57 amspencers mom
Are you suggesting that we cut their allowance until they learn to behave themselves?
ROFL!
July 24th, 2009 at 10:57 amDemocrats to Perry: “No soup for you!”
PEACE
July 24th, 2009 at 10:58 amIirc, and I can’t find the stat, but Texas has the worst ratio of uninsured-to-insured citizens in the country.
I, for one, would be delighted to see Texas reject the plan, except that by doing so, they’d just be driving more texans OUT of Texaas and into New Mexico, where they are as welcome as leprosy
July 24th, 2009 at 11:01 amJust flapping his jaws. So long pardner!
July 24th, 2009 at 11:02 amMost ofus who live near texas would be quite happy if they’d fence th whole place fumigate the place, and give it back to the bison and coyotes…
July 24th, 2009 at 11:03 amspencers mom says:
Democrats to Perry: “No soup for you!”
PEACE
I bet spencer turned out just fine…
July 24th, 2009 at 11:04 amspencers mom says:
I think I might be developing a deep fondness for spencers mom…
just sayin’
July 24th, 2009 at 11:06 amInvoke away you moron. You will eventually be up for reelection.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:06 amWhat is wrong with this country? We have traitors as state Governors and they are allowed to remain free.
This traitor needs to spend the rest of his life in prison for treason, or be hanged by the neck until he is dead, which is still the penalty for treason I believe.
President Obama, it is high-time to bring America back to being a nation of laws.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:09 amPerry is quite the media hound. He never misses a chance to get his mug & stupid quotes in print or on the air.
Maybe he & Bobby Jingo can get together.
Jingo can sign the big checks & claim ’stimulus bad’.
Perry can cancel those big checks & claim the Fed account is overdrawn.
Watching the Republics is like watching a bad Clown show…
July 24th, 2009 at 11:12 amI moved to this backwards state for a job that paid really well but was laid off after only 8 months so now I can’t afford to move back to Michigan. I detest texas…I don’t understand how anyone can be proud of it. Anyone willing to take up a collection so I can move back to a sane state?
July 24th, 2009 at 11:14 amre: the picture
Perry just needs to drop his index finger to let the people of Texas understand how he really feels about them.
PEACE
July 24th, 2009 at 11:15 amRicky should read the fourteenth amendment. States are required to provide equal protection to everyone. Let’s apply that to health care.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:15 amDr. Hussein Matt says:
PLEASE LEAVE! We’ll take back OUR military, build a border around YOUR country, patrol OUR gulf coast line, and leave you to defend yourself. In less than a year you’ll be part of Mexico.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:46 am
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What makes you think the Mexicans would want them?
July 24th, 2009 at 11:19 amRicky should do our Country & the State of Texas a huge favor…
…move to Mexico.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:19 amWithout health care reform, the Republic of Texas will have a higher death rate than the rest of the nation.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:19 amIf GoodGollyI’mGov Perry doesn’t have a problem with that, maybe the citizens would.
A quarter of his state’s population doesn’t have health insurance. What “encroachment” by the feds is he worried about? Interference with the “right” to die by the side of the road from a condition that would have been dealt with using preventive medicine in any civilized country?
July 24th, 2009 at 11:22 amHe is wrong wrong wrong. This is NOT a state problem it is a country problem and should be dealt with as such.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:26 amperry’s back to flapping his gums about “state’s rights” while he has boths hands out facing washington d.c. begging for public funds? just business as usual in cancervative hypocrisyland.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:26 amTypo alert, TP:
“that Texas may have to SUCCEED from the union” s/b “that Texas may have to SECEDE from the union” (emphasis mine)
I doubt that Texas’ departure would result in a whole lot of success for them.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:27 amI’m taking out my violin on this one as we all know Perry will come back crying the blues to Obama asking for more money at some point.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:28 amTypical hyper-Republican… leveraging romanticized notions of American greatness while ignoring actual data to the contrary. His assertion that Texas doesn’t need the federal govt’s involvement in healthcare would carry a lot more weight if Texas wasn’t so far behind the rest of the country in objective healthcare metrics.
If us Texans don’t need Obama Care, then let’ see some Perry Care…stat!!
July 24th, 2009 at 11:29 amI enjoyed the reference in the first paragraph: “Perry — who suggested in April at one of the right-wing “tea parties” that Texas may have to succeed from the union….”
The word the writer is looking for—but not hard enough—is SECEDE.”
July 24th, 2009 at 11:32 amI moved to this backwards state for a job that paid really well but was laid off after only 8 months so now I can’t afford to move back to Michigan. I detest texas..
OK, by your logic of painting all the citizens by a state’s most crazed politician, I can see why you’d want to rush back to the place that produced, oh, what’s her name . . . oh, yeah, Michelle Bachman! She’s much saner and more progressive than Rick Perry. I can really see your reasoning.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:35 amOh, I’m way ahead of ya there, tokin.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:35 amRick Perry is Constitutionally wrong.
The 10th Amendment reserves to the states those rights which are not enumerated elsewhere (in other words, whatever the Constitution leaves out, the States get it).
But Section 8 of the Constitution allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce. Health insurance companies, etc., are clearly interstate commerce.
Case closed.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:36 amTracy__5 says:
“70% of the American population supports healthcare reform.”
True. Just not the way Obama is proposing.”
Really? then you shouldn’t have a hard time providing a link to your claim. unless you’re talking out of your ass…again.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:37 amWould any of this matter to folks like Perry if there was not a black man in the White House. Republicans seem to have just lost their collective shite over, not the fact that our President is a Democrat, but because they just cannot get past a black man is telling them what to do.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:37 amThis statement is so vague as to be utterly meaningless.
But compared to the Republican support for keeping things pretty much as they are, I’d say even if Tracist’s simplistic claim were true, the President would still be way out in front of his opponents on this issue.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:38 amA government run health care system exists in every other industrialized nation in the world. Can you name a single nation, Rick, which terminated its public system in favor of the American model?
July 24th, 2009 at 11:40 amBat shit Bachman is fom Minnesota not Michigan, I am from Mi and I am offened……..that people like Perry and Bachman are in such high pfrfile positions and get this type of attention.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:41 am“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.”
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Some observations here:
First, if assurance of the availability of basic health care to all Americans doesn’t fit into the “provide for the general welfare” clause in the Constitution, then neither does Medicare. Or Social Security. Or FEMA. Or most other national programs. Does Perry advocate getting rid of all national programs and handing them off to the individual states on the basis of the 10th amendment?
Second, nobody is talking about a “government-run healthcare system”. What’s on the table is a government-run INSURANCE PLAN, using the health care facilities and doctors that are part of the current system, and operating alongside the programs already out there. Like Medicare does. And if this insurance plan turns out to be financially unstable, it will go the way of any private insurance plan that’s financially unstable. But something tells me that since the government won’t be making a profit, it won’t have an advertising budget, and it won’t be shelling out millions to lobbyists, it will be more stable than the private plans.
Third, Perry and his ilk are very good at whining about anything the Democrats put forth as “not the solution” — whether it’s health insurance or anything else. But their words carry absolutely no weight because they have yet to offer any viable solutions themselves. If the Republicans manage to come up with a plan that doesn’t simply consist of the words “cut taxes, deport all the Mexicans, make malpractice suits illegal, and give more money and power to the for-profit health industry” packaged up in a slick folder, they might earn themselves a little credibility.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:43 amFrom what I know most industrialized country`s gave up private health care becase it didn`t work so they went to single payer,universal socialized medicine whatever you call it because it works.People like Perry want to keep his citizens from health care because Perry`s base demands it even though Texas is in the top ten of RED STATE SOCIALISM…..
July 24th, 2009 at 11:45 amHey Rick- just like you didn’t want the stimulus money either. But you took it and took credit for it. What a knucklehead !
July 24th, 2009 at 11:47 amMissmolly,you hit the nail on the head the problem is that the
thr REICH wing nuts refuse to tell the truth to their constituants
July 24th, 2009 at 11:47 amEV wrote an essay on this issue, and you can see a condensed version here:
Welfare and the Pursuit of Happiness
July 24th, 2009 at 11:48 amInteresting how Tracist responds to a challenge for linked support for his claim in post #38 by providing a link that supports his entirely different claim in post #40, which no one mentioned.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:51 amRick Perry is an ass clown. Poor A&M has to take credit for this idiot. He is so worried about the right wing fringe, he craps on the majority of Texans. He will be defeated next year by a woman who may be defeated by Democrat.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:51 amTracist, that Economist article doesn’t support what you said.
No wonder I flag you on sight.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:53 amNaturally, ralph got there first. :D
July 24th, 2009 at 11:54 amtracy,
a)why are you still pushing that crappy article on texas being “recession proof” when factually, that claim can be disproven by the governor asking for federal fund to bail his state out?
B) rasmutton? c’mon, you might have just as well linked us faux noise “the opposition” “news” source to the obama presidency.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:56 amdayum, zooey and ralph beat me again with the tracy beatdown.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:56 am“”Texas claims to have been responsible for 70% of all the net new jobs created last year in America’s 50 states, though”
tracy, i “claim” to be the queen of england. see how that works, just because i “claim” something doesn’t mean it’s true.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:58 amTracy__5 says:
“Texas claims to have been responsible for 70% of all the net new jobs created last year in America’s 50 states, though since only a few states created any jobs at all that is not quite as astonishing as it sounds.”
July 24th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Texas can claim any damn thing it wants, Tracist. You missed the big fat BUT at the end of the article, didn’t you?
July 24th, 2009 at 11:59 amWow. Now Tracist produces a Rasmussen poll that somehow decides that the President’s “Approval Rating” of -8, even though their highly skewed and outlying results show that overall approval to disapproval is 49-51.
Why are these findings so out of step with most polls that peg the President’s approval at between 54% (Faux) and 65% (ABC) over the past month?
Rasmussen Reports job approval ratings are based upon a sample of likely voters. Some other firms base their approval ratings on samples of all adults. President Obama’s numbers are always several points higher in a poll of adults rather than likely voters.
The thing is… Obama as the President serves all Americans, not just the ones who are likely to vote.
Y’know… looking over the link to Rasmussen provided by Tracist, the way they have framed every polling result… it’s almost as if they were seeking to make Republicans look stronger than they really are. But that couldn’t be… could it?
July 24th, 2009 at 12:02 pm****
zoo,
he reads, selectively.
:)
July 24th, 2009 at 12:02 pmThe survey Tracist linked to is a f ucking joke.
Two questions: 1) asking if 1000 people favor or oppose the Obama/Dem healthcare reform plan, and 2) asking if they think the plan will become law this year.
There was NO question about why those who opposed the plan didn’t like it. They may have opposed it because it wasn’t single payer for all we know.
That poll ain’t worth shit, Tracist. Learn to read your stupid polls.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:04 pmDammit, ralph! :-D
July 24th, 2009 at 12:05 pmROFL!!
It tried to post a rasmeussen poll and pass it off as even remotely credible!!! AAAHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
As for Texas – you have to be an idiot to want to live there. Jobs or not. You will be completely surrounded by whack-job morons, and no pay rate is worth completely degrading yourself by having to claim you’re from Texas. UGH.
You don’t seem to get it. You seem to think there’s a logical reason to live among backwards idiots. There isn’t. No amount of money is worth living there. Only an incredibly vast amount of money is worth even visiting there. If Texas seceded, it would be the best thing that’s happened to this country in decades, maybe even centuries. Especially when you consider that the vast vast vast majority of what Texans brag about belong to the United States, not the State of Texas. But I wouldn’t expect an idiot troll like you to get it.
(Again, any apologies to those intelligent people in Texas….I know you’re in the minority, but either keep working to get out or keep fighting the good fight…don’t give into the temptation to dumb yourself down just to fit in with the cretins crawling all over that hell-hole.)
July 24th, 2009 at 12:05 pmFirst of all, you didn’t say anything about trends. You said the public wants reform, just “not the way Obama is proposing”. It’s meaningless, unless you’re trying to claim that the President has zero popular support for his proposals (which are different, incidentally, from what’s being formulated in Congress).
Second, your habit of throwing out crap like “public support dropping like a rock” demonstrates that you have no interest in dialogue, only in repeating right-wing rhetoric that will draw you nothing but scorn here, based as it generally is on wishful thinking, delusion and outright dishonesty.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:06 pmTracist strikes me as someone who in school would throw together book reports at the last minute, and try to pad them out to page length with stuff that he thought sounded intellectual, but was always confused when his efforts earned him a C minus.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:09 pmI am just NOT SURPRISED by the ignorance spewed by low life cretins on the ReichWing anymore, just think of the most ignorant crap you can and that is their stance on things….pure, simple buckets of stupid.
And why does the Republic Fascist Party members hate America so much?
July 24th, 2009 at 12:09 pmOMG, how can the people in Texas support a Governor who doesn’t care if you starve to death because you don’t get unemployment benefits and also doesn’t care if you die because you have no access to health care.
I really do wish that Texas would secede. They are a blight on this country.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:11 pmC’mon folks. I read a lot of Texas bashing here – believe it or not we’re not all nutcases like Perry. We’re as appalled at his stupidity as you are. Don’t group us all in with the wingnut – the folks here in my office are all for health care reform and a public option. Perrys ginning up his wingnut base, not the majority.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:13 pmHell, I don’t even like driving Through Texas.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:15 pmTXProgressive says
July 24th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
C’mon folks. I read a lot of Texas bashing here – believe it or not we’re not all nutcases like Perry.
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I feel your pain. I live in the state Jesse Helms represented in the Senate for 30 years.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:16 pmI hope Governor Perry rejects the plan and persuades all of the far right governors and legislatures to do the same. What a great plan this could be without the expensive drag of the red state community. Imagine what great health care the rest of us could have if we passed a strong public health care option without the excessive costs brought on by the red states from their high rates of obesity, diabetes and smoking. It can be morning in America again if we could just cut these states loose. Please Governor Perry, start secession proceedings now and encourage your fellow right wing governors to do the same. This extreme right wing movement has been stopping progress in the United States for to long. Let them leave
July 24th, 2009 at 12:18 pmTracy__5 says:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
“Fifty-three percent (53%) now oppose the Congressional health care reform package.”
Of course T5 will believe anything that Rasmussen says. I don’t believe any poll they put out because they never link to the raw data of the poll, just like Gallup. So, we have no idea how they worded the question and anyone with an IQ out of room temperature range knows you can skew a poll any way you want by the way you word the question.
Considering the fact that the WSJ/NBC poll showed that 72% of Americans support a health care plan with a public option (and they let you see the original poll and it’s questions), I think I will believe that poll over Rasmussen.
On the other hand, the Rasmussen poll may be correct. Perhaps many of that 53% oppose the current bill before Congress because 1) it doesn’t contain a public option or 2) they really support single payer health care.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:23 pmHmm… that sounds like an opinion, doesn’t it?
Presented almost as if it were fact. Weird, wild stuff our little tracist shovels here, huh?
July 24th, 2009 at 12:27 pmTracist, if I didn’t know how anti-organized labor you were, I’d suspect that you were part of this protest:
Union Projectionists Picket Alameda Theatre Again
July 24th, 2009 at 12:31 pmralph the wonder locust says:
Wow. Now Tracist produces a Rasmussen poll that somehow decides that the President’s “Approval Rating” of -8, even though their highly skewed and outlying results show that overall approval to disapproval is 49-51.
Why are these findings so out of step with most polls that peg the President’s approval at between 54% (Faux) and 65% (ABC) over the past month?
So, here’s what Gallup (another conservative polling outfit) says:
Obama is a strong and decisive leader………67%
Obama understands the problems we face……..66%
Obama can manage the government effectively…59%
http://www.gallup.com/poll/121880/Obama-Gets-High-Marks-Leadership-Empathy.aspx
One thing that no one ever talks about is that perhaps President Obama’s job approval ratings are dropping because Democrats are disappointed in the things he has and has not done. I’m not sure I would say that I approve of the job he is doing at this point.
But, in the end I have a tendency not to believe any poll that refuses to divulge the actual poll questions.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:34 pmralph the wonder locust says:
Union Projectionists Picket Alameda Theatre Again
July 24th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Hey, I used to live down the block from that theater. :)
July 24th, 2009 at 12:42 pm@Whatever it wants to call itself at Post 83
When Texas stops offering evidence that they are worthless to this country and this planet, my opinion might change.
Yours, however, will still be worth precisely dick.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:43 pmWell, we’ve debunked the Tracist’s links, and yet he still flails around declaring that his shit is true because he thinks it.
Whatever.
Flag it and move on.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:44 pmYeah, Zoo, he’s resorted to trying to confuse us with his nonsensical ramblings.
The thing he doesn’t realize is that we don’t pay much attention to anything he says in the first place.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:45 pmTracy__5 says:
Do you have a more creditable source for presidential tracking polls? Just because it says something you don’t like doesn’t make it wrong.
There are many more credible (it’s not creditable..for someone supposedly well educated you have a very poor command of the English language) polls out there. Rasmussen and Gallup never release the raw data on their polling, only their interpretation of the answers they got. Anyone with the ability to use critical thinking skills knows that it is very easy to skew a poll by the way you ask the question. So one has to ask why Rasmussen and Gallup never release their raw data. I suspect one of the reasons why they don’t release that data is because they are polling way more Republics than call themselves Republics today. That alone will seriously skew a poll.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:46 pmTracy__5 says:
Eight points in two weeks isn’t exactly a glide downwards.
Perhaps you can look at this aggregate poll and tell us where the eight point slide is? I don’t see it.
http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama.php
July 24th, 2009 at 12:50 pmOf course, we all know the Republican Party’s position on health care reform. Status quo. Do nothing.
If a person cannot afford health care, then they are simply taking up oxygen and deserve to die anyway. And if businesses are in danger of going bankrupt due to rising health care benefit costs, then they should eliminate all benefits–give the newfound savings to the stockholders and executives, as God intended it to be.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:58 pmTracy__5 says:
I rarely seen that on display in this blog. Most of the time it’s a big venting forum.
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Which, of course, explains your repeated presence here…
July 24th, 2009 at 1:03 pmYes, troll.
WORTHLESS.
First of all, the VAST majority of our oil comes from foreign sources.
Secondly, oil is part of the problem, not the solution. Any other option would be spectacular, but thanks to oil company lackeys (wanna guess how many of them are located in Texas?) with their greasy dollars lining the pockets of Washington elite, that won’t happen anytime soon.
Then we can move on to other examples, like raids of nightclubs in which people are arrested for being drunk in a bar (or is it being gay in Texas? I forget), science textbooks that teach creationism, state representatives suggesting that Asian people Americanize their names to make it easier for uneducated dolts to pronouce…my god it goes on and on and on.
You defending this wasteland of human idiocy only proves that you agree with them. That’s pathetic, and you shouldn’t be so ready to admit it.
You know the rest of the world views (or at least did until Obama) the US? That’s how the rest of the US views Texas – the moronic bully in the corner that THINKS they’ve got the market cornered on all that’s right and good, despite the fact that all they’ve managed to succeed in is screwing up everything for everyone else and then pointing the finger at someone else for it.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:03 pmWell, yeah. I do get a lot of laughs from the Tracist’s comments.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:18 pmAnd still these Repub losers have absolutely nothing to offer- no ideas, no plan, no nothing. It certainly cements them as the party of “no”.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:24 pmtokin librul says:
I think I might be developing a deep fondness for spencers mom…
ralph the wonder locust says:
Oh, I’m way ahead of ya there, tokin.
I’m pretty sure I saw her first ;)
July 24th, 2009 at 1:53 pmI find the number of down votes of progressive posts on a progressive blog to be a bit peculiar. I didn’t realized we hated ourselves so much.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:57 pmThis guy is just insane. (I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve referred to someone on the right as insane.)
July 24th, 2009 at 2:08 pmDoes anyone remember the song that came from Texas called
“Freeze a Yankee”?
They were singing it when the natural gas prices were extremely high.
Maybe we need to freeze the federal money going into Texas.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:11 pmNo surprise here – anyone want to guess where the big health insurance companies are located (because state law gives them an extreme amount of priviledge / individual discression )?
Anyone want to guess where Enron was headquartered ?
Somewhat off topic – I remember a slogan painted on the aquaduct that borders El Paso with Juarez. Back from the era of Bush I, to the effet that If Iraq has to give back Kuwait, then the USA needs to give back Texas, NM, AZ, and CA.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:16 pmPerry needs to get together will all his cronies and take a tour to where folks don’t have insurance and explain to them why he rejected SCHIPS and why it is good for them…and then explain why not having insurance is also good for adults.
Outside of his bubble, he may get a dose of reality, although he may not recognize anything that has a bright light of reality attached to it. He is too familiar with the dark backrooms where deals are cut and his cronies make millions.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:26 pmBefore joining the union in 1845, Texas was a sovereign, recognized, independent nation. We were annexed to the U.S. by a congressional resolution. International standards required that we be annexed by treaty and that never happened. Our last binding vote in 1861 was to secede from the union. The union has continued to fail us and is now trying to steal Texas wealth to support their failed policies. The Federal Republicrats in both parties have given us inflation prone paper money backed by nothing, an erosion of our most cherished liberties and endless bogus and unconstitutional wars. It’s time for Texans of all political affiliations to stand up and embrace the privilege our birthright to become a nation again. SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE!!!
July 24th, 2009 at 2:26 pmLibertarianBiker says:
SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE!!!
July 24th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
I agree. Be on your way, Texas.
But I think your Governor enjoys the federal money too much.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:30 pmLibertarianBiker says:
Before joining the union in 1845, Texas was a sovereign, recognized, independent nation. We were annexed to the U.S. by a congressional resolution…. It’s time for Texans of all political affiliations to stand up and embrace the privilege our birthright to become a nation again. SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE!!!
I would have no problem with secession. However, Texas would have to take it proportionate share of the national debt and pay a fair price for all federal government property. Then Texas is free to become an independent country and forced to build its own army, navy, defense systems, and all the other attendant things that come with being a new country. Texas is getting off easy with only a proportionate share of the US debt because it was the fool from Texas that ran up the debt and all of it should belong to Texas.
Texas will be bankrupt before it even starts. Maybe Bush can help run the new country and pay off its debts.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:33 pmVoluntary membership ensures that the union stays true to its principles in service to the member states. Coerced membership is a sure path to tyranny.
Since some of you want to discuss slavery and the ‘civil’ war, here we go;
The constitutionally based prescription for dealing with a state which refused to make slavery illegal is to expel that state from the union and refuse to trade with it while SUGGESTING (not forcing) that other nations also refuse it trade. With the institution of slavery in place, the goods that the state produces are highly suspect of being stolen, in that the labor to produce the goods was taken against the will of the provider. The actions of the North had nothing to do with freeing the slaves. It was a violent money grab for tariff receipts from southern ports and was a total affront to the constitution perpetrated by a REPUBLICAN criminal president.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:46 pmNow this m/f is back from his photo op trip to Iraq and now he is a health care expert. Man I cannot wait to the next election to get rid of him.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:47 pmLibertarianBiker says:
Voluntary membership ensures that the union stays true to its principles in service to the member states. Coerced membership is a sure path to tyranny……
We don’t give a rat’s ass about what the Civil War was about. The South lost. Secession would be a godsend to the North since the Red States get more money back than they pay in to the federal government. We will build a massive wall so your states can deal with all those illegal immigrants.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:00 pmOk Perry, that’s fine with me if you want to keep Texans sick, poor and out of work It’s just another nail in your political coffin.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:02 pmDoes anyone else find it funny that the only thing it could say to my assertion that Texas is worthless to the US is to point out that of the minute amount of oil we do get right here in the US, most of it comes from Texas, as if that changes anything. It conveniently ignored the rest of the post, in which I state quite clearly that oil is the PROBLEM. The fact that most American refined oil comes from Texas is part of the reason why Texas is worthless – they are only contributing to the addiction.
And I notice it said nothing about their other offenses.
No surprise. Trolls are notoriously stupid and incapable of making any type of effective argument for their cause.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:07 pmGo ahead and leave…please. The only down size is that electoral votes will go to other red states. But it will take away 2 Republican Senators. All of Texas residents will need pass ports to enter there US.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:14 pmI’ll state this as plain and simple as I can: Governor Rick Perry is an IDIOT! This man is lost his mind apparently. I can’t believe the voters of Texas are actually that stupid. On second thought, yes I can. They elected and reelected George W. Bush.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:19 pmJEEZ, all this talk and no action . .
We managed with 49 states before, we can manage again!!
I think Perry will make a wonderful President of Texas, a very intelligent man . .
July 24th, 2009 at 3:26 pmScrew secession, let’s just kick them out of the union, and send south carolina with texas.
texas has only sent one decent member to the house or senate ever and she was just filling out her crooked dead husband’s term.
We don’t need either. They both have coasts to try and support themselves without the huge agricultural subsides, the huge military bases and the federal government subsidies to keep the people out of starving poverty.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:29 pmLibertarianBiker says:
July 24th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
You just keep fighting that war, LB.
Go ahead and get gone — just leave all the money we’ve given Texas this year.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:46 pmRE #51 – Tracy_5 provided a valid link to support an earlier assertion. That comment should not have been voted down, in my opinion.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:56 pmYou guys seem really upset about Gov. Perry following the Constitution. For those of you who don’t know and would love to learn, the 10 Admendment say:
July 24th, 2009 at 4:39 pm“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states, or to the people.”
To me, it sounds like Gov. Perry is just invoking his rights under the Constitution.
blclem, you are right. The trouble is the federal government has ignored this amendment for years.
July 24th, 2009 at 4:58 pmTo all of you Texas haters that want to leave “our country” I would be glad to put my boot in your a$$ to help you along. I don’t care for Perry but atleast he is capable of speaking out for the general public of his state and not brainwashed like the obama-bots and the rest of you Yankee’s.
July 24th, 2009 at 5:08 pmI didn’t vote for Perry, but is correct on this issue of opposing ObamaCare.
This Obama Health Care Plan has something in mind for older people.
You know, your momma, your daddy, your grandparents, and YOU (someday) when you get over 65.
Since most of our older citizens are not contributing a lot of tax money to the socialist (read thieves) legislators for their spending pleasure, they have put a provision in this Obamanation of a health plan to help get rid of the drag on the economy – the older citizens.
Get this information to everyone you can. The life you save could be your own or your parents/grandparents. NO EXAGGERATION ! No B.S.
Here is the source of this information:
Page 425 of the Health Care Bill. This information was brought forward by by Dr. Betsy McCaughey (pronunced – McCoy) in an interview on The Fred Thompson Show.
Hear the facts for yourself at: http://www.fredthompsonshow.com/programhighlights . See a calandar and click on July 16. Then up will pop the Interview Highlights page for that date. Down that page you will see a picture of Dr. Betsy McCaughey and her name will be beside her picture. Click on her name and the actual recorded interview will play.
You will need 3 other things. (1) blood pressure medicine as you learn what the supporters of this legislation have in store for America, and (2) a list of those in Washington who are supporting this, and (3) a lantern & pitchfork to hunt them down with.
You can also read about this at: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104719
This is a playbook straight out of Nazi Germany. What’s next – the ovens?
And to any of you who voted for him and the rest of the leftist, socialist, fascist *&^%$#@! in office, I ask you, “Since the Nazis only exterminated approximately 6 million “undesirables” (and we have many times that amount of seniors who would fall into the catagory of needing extermination by suicide under this ObamaCare) how will you feel when you see your own relatives being encouraged to commit suicide by their Government? How do you like this kind of “change”?
When you bury them (actually the government will tell you cremation is cheaper) be sure and extend your right arm, snap your heels together, and shout, Zieg Heil!
July 24th, 2009 at 5:48 pmYeah, that piece of shi* state that is Texas should go, and don’t let the rest of the country kick you in the as* on the way out.
July 24th, 2009 at 5:52 pmWhere else could we find Bush, Gonzalez, the Bush “library” and good ol boy Rick Perry? Maybe the rest of Bush’s criminal cabal can come down and you all can have a big barbecue while helping the ex clear the brush from his “ranch.”
Don’t bring any horses though, he’s afraid of them.
To all Texas bashers,
Rick Perry is about to get the boot in 2010, and he knows it. Perry’s fanning the secessionist flames to attract wingnuts on one hand, and to get Democrats all over the country pitted against all Texans and begin the Texas bashing. Look, Texas is on the virge of turning blue. People in this state are pissed at what has happened in our name with Bush and Perry. Don’t blame this all on all of Texas and all Texans. IIRC, Bush was elected President twice (albeit close and questionable both times) by this country.
Texas is in alot of trouble and now that were on the verge of turning this state around, we now find ourselves having to defend against our own supposed allies who played right into Perry’s hands with all of the Texas bashing. Look, if you want to bash Perry ’til the cows come home, bash away. But when you supposed progressive allies start bashing all of Texas and all Texans, then you are shooting your own party in the foot, and needlessly causing good Texas citizens to suffer in the process.
Please stop with the Texas bashing. It is the easiest way to turn Texans off from voting for your party. This isn’t about how great and wonderful I think the state of Texas is, it’s politics. For example, if I was a Republican, I wouldn’t try winning over say the state of Virgina by calling that state a communist state and calling Virginians a bunch of communists. The Republicans tried that, and they lost big time. So, please get your heads in the game, and stop generalizing people.
From here out, I consider Texas bashers to be trolls.
July 24th, 2009 at 6:02 pmTexas trashers trolls, oh please. I guess your a good ol texan too.
Let me tell you of the time my best friend and I drove through Texas, stopped a truck stop to get something to eat and were lucky to escape with our lives, being chased down the highway by the very rational citizens of your good state.
Yeah, can’t wait to go back.
July 24th, 2009 at 6:07 pmPublius,
Texas is ranked 50th in the the U.S. for people without health insurance. 1 in 4 Texans (24.9%) are without health insurance. Texans needs Obama’s plan.
Obama has not even had a chance to be anything because of the Republicans obstructionism, and health insurance is not anything close to being Nazi. You missed the Nazi that was our last President, Dubya the Decider. He was the real deal, and that’s no joke. His playbook was taken straight out of Nazi Germany. Ask Rove.
July 24th, 2009 at 6:08 pmRichH,
So you drove through our state, and now you know all about the 2nd largest state in the U.S. How long did it take for you to pass through our state?
Troll.
July 24th, 2009 at 6:11 pmI’m kinda surprised at how similar this article is to one posted five days ago.
July 24th, 2009 at 6:14 pmTexasTwister,
“Texans needs Obama’s plan.”?? About as much as the Jews needed a shower at Auschwitz.
Having the central government mandate “counseling” for senior citizens that would encourage suicide must not bother you at all.
Yes, this is Obama’s “Endlösung der Judenfrage” – Final Solution, but not to The Jewish Question. This is his the leftist fascist solution to reducing Medicare cost by eliminating the people who receive Medicare benefits.
How cold. You could have a big future as a Einsatzkommando, or perhaps as a Special Detachment Counselor. Just thing of the millions of old people you could help hurry along while reducing the cost of the central government’s health care for all their dependent voters.
July 24th, 2009 at 6:43 pmTexas Twister,
It took as long as I could speed without getting a ticket or getting killed by the bunch of gun toting cowboy idolizing red necks that live there.
Ohhh you called me a troll. Texas blows, get over it. By the way I’ve seen you on the KBH story. I’m sorry your wonderful little state is full of dumbas* politicians.
July 24th, 2009 at 6:57 pmGod Perry you are so pathetic…
Refuse the stimulus then beg for a loan…good one MORON.
Ok folks lets remove all military bases and equipment from Texas and lets not forget the Houston Space Center,
And you can forget about hurricane relief…
And oh yeah! lets see…
A few of the business’s that will have to move out of the secessionist state IF they want to survive as United States based companies…
Macdonald-Douglas
Boeing
CISCO Systems
American Airlines
Alcatel
Dell
AT&T
Bell helicopters
DOW
EDS
HP
Nieman-Marcus
United Space Alliance
USAA
PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU TEXAS YOU LUNATIC FILLED PILE OF **** PLEASE GO INDEPENDENT…Take Rick Perry, George Bush, KKKarl Rove, I am Not a Dick Cheney, and the rest of the religious Right with you!
I REALLY DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE BULL**** ABOUT TEXAS OR IS IT TEJAAS secession.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:08 pmI’m Sorry!
I really didn’t mean that to be a global Texas bashing post… I’m just sick of the deafening SILENCE from anyone else in Texas speaking against the Secessionist nuts…
SO it does almost seem like the entire state must agree with him…Where are the politicians speaking that oppose Perry and Hutchinson? Et All…?
July 24th, 2009 at 7:29 pmWhat is this, the ACORN of bloggers. How much are these liberal fools getting paid to monitor what is going on with people with common sense? Texas would have no problem on its own. Energy in the form of oil, natural gas coal and plants and refineries to process the raw material. That’s not the point though. Perry did not say that he was against health care reform, he just said that he was againt a governmernt takeover of health care as being proposed by the Obama administration. Reform is needed, but not the kind looming in the Kennedy reform bill. Regulate the industry so the consumer with insurance is not forced to pay $500 for a baby asprin and a statin pill during a one night $7000 hospital stay to monitor a food poisioning episode so that the insured wind up paying for those that are not and are treated regardless of financial condition or immigration status. Hving worked in an ER I know that even siko’s wanted child rape are treated without question. Fix things, but do it right, not with an attempt to control how my health care is provided by some government official who has exempted himself from the system he is overseeing. God Bless the USA, especially Texas.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:41 pmconservative guy says:
Blclem, you are right. The trouble is the federal government has ignored this amendment for years.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
No he is NOT right. The preamble to the constitution gives the Federal government the responsibility to promote the general wellfare. Article 1 says Congress has a right to levy taxes to provide for the common wellfare. So once the democratic decision is made to provide for the common wellfare through healthcare there is no reasonable 10th amdendment argument since the power to promote the general wellfare and provide for the general wellfare are GIVEN the Federal government IN the constitution.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:56 pmNoe S says:
Who are you the moron of teabagistan terrorist bloggers? Obama isnt calling for a takeover of healthcare. He is offering a public option. When he proposes nationalizing the healthcare industry get back to me until then you are spewing stupidity
July 24th, 2009 at 8:00 pmEugene
July 24th, 2009 at 8:12 pmThose who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I don’t think Adolph proposed exterminating the Jewish race in 1933. Do you really think that a private health insurance provider can compete with a “Public Option”? Dream on . . and take another valium to calm you down.
Texans are so dumb when we stopped to eat at the truck stop my friend who is half Samoan and Japanese but dark because of the summer sun is southern ca, kept calling him a ni**er and cussing him out. He wanted to kick their ass – and could have being a seventh degree black belt. But as far as the eye could see were nothing but big fat redneck gun toting cowboy loving Texans. Too stupid to even know what or who they hate.
Yeah, I grabbed him and got out of there as fast as we could and were harassed and “cradled” by truckers for the next hundred miles while some tried to run us off the road.
P.O.S. piece of country. Keep it, it’s yours. The rest of the U.S. will gladly give it to you if you’ll just shut up and go away.
July 24th, 2009 at 8:16 pmStill upset Texas is full of dumbass racists?
July 24th, 2009 at 8:19 pmNoe S says:
Those who are too stupid to make sense post idiocy like YOU do on message boards. So you are claiming that even though all of Obamas proposals are for a public option and not for nationalizing the health industry that is evidence he is trying to take over the health industry because Hitler killed the Jews? Do you read the stupid you post? Are you really this stupid or are you a lefty trying to discredit the right by posting such ignorance? IF they cant compete that is the way the free market goes, competition had they done their jobs correctly in the first place we wouldnt need a public auction. As it is we pay MORE for healthcare than any other nation in the world per capita and are 37th on the quality list. They had their chance now they have to take the consequences.
Take another stupid pill and go find out what Rush wants you to think today
July 24th, 2009 at 8:22 pmSorry, eugene, I can’t exchange pleasantries with you any more, my mommy is making me go to bed now . . .
July 24th, 2009 at 8:26 pmNoe S says:
Its all good. You werent really contributing anything anyway
July 24th, 2009 at 8:27 pmTexas is a pretty nice state, unfortunately there are a lot of people in Texas that need education. Perhaps a few thousand black sheriffs should go down to Texas for a good ol boy roundup.
After we imprison every racist wingnut in Texas, it will be a much better place.
July 24th, 2009 at 8:52 pmLevi,
You are right about the education part. Texas certainly doesn’t have the best public schools in the country.
I wish it were as simple as sending some guys down to round up the racists. I despise racists, but it’s certainly not that simple. Not sure why you insinuate that all the sheriffs be black, though? Surely, you jest.
July 24th, 2009 at 9:23 pmTexans seem to be a little sensitive. So much for their macho self image. Now you boys can all go to the corner for a good cry.
July 24th, 2009 at 9:25 pmActually I do not jest at all. Who better to determine who is or is not a racist than a black man with a badge?
Quite frankly it is as easy as simply rounding them up and putting them in a cage for the rest of their lives. I hear Gitmo has lots of free space.
July 24th, 2009 at 9:58 pmOhhh noooooooosss!!!!!!
They’re sending in the black militia!!! I must find some shoe polish fast! They will never know! THEY WILL NEVER KNOW!!!!!
July 24th, 2009 at 10:19 pmT.T.
I see you’ve finally shown yourself and validated all of our points. Texas is a great place to live if your a racist ahole.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:31 pmRich H,
I’m glad to see that you have let your pre-judgement known that you think I am a racist.
I am sure that you have validated yourself in your own mind. Hi, Levi.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:47 pmTexas–
July 25th, 2009 at 12:08 amGo. Please. And take Oklahoma with you.
blclem says:
You guys seem really upset about Gov. Perry following the Constitution. For those of you who don’t know and would love to learn, the 10 Admendment say:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states, or to the people.”
To me, it sounds like Gov. Perry is just invoking his rights under the Constitution.
Obviously, you have not read the rest of the Constitution. The Commerce clause states: The Congress shall have power] “To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;”….. Since Congress has the power to regulate all commerce between the states, then it stands to reason that Congress has authority to regulate the insurance industry and health care because almost all of those companies involved engage in interstate commerce. I would dare say that most major companies that exist today engage in interstate commerce. The only companies that engage in intrastate commerce are small and of no economic consequence. Any time Texas and the Republicans have a states rights issue, they are free to bring it to the federal courts. The Supreme Court will be convened for a full hearing en banc and rule upon the claim. Please not the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for claims between the states and federal government. The fact that they have not is indicative of the merits of their statements. Perry’s statements are merely grandstanding and they will eventually come back to bite him when he tries to give a speech of national importance. He is not the person you want giving a speech in prime time at the Republican convention.
July 25th, 2009 at 2:03 amThere’s something preternaturaly wrong when someone takes so much pride in the state they’re from. To the point where they identify with the state more than they do the country. Most of these poorly developed personas seem to come from the south, and yes Texas.
Would I identify myself as a Californian or an American. Obvious for me, ask someone from Texas. Chances are – and you can check with TT, they’ll say they’re Texan. And damn proud of it.
Hard to reason with people like this, especially when the people they elect and foist on the rest of the county are such fools – at best, and like Bush, at worst.
Take pride T.T. you and the great state of Texas have much to be proud of. Did you know that Texas ranks LAST in people covered by healthcare in the U.S., and that the U.S. ranks 50th in the world in healthcare. I guess that would place Texas at about a rank of 503.
Oh yeah, and go ahead and change your textbooks. We wouldn’t want anyone to read about the civil rights movement, the sacrifice workers made in the founding of unions, or that crazy myth called evolution.
If your curious why I despise Texas just reread my post TT. It may take some time, but it will sink in eventually.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:03 amRich H,
Why don’t you read my comment @ 139.?
Here, I’ll make it easy for you…
Oh wait. I forgot. You’re a troll.
Kisses…
July 25th, 2009 at 3:21 amYou are all a bunch of f* blind-as-bat deceived morons who cannot even see that the very thing you are claiming him to be — anti-american — is exactly what you stupid ass sheep are. You cannot even see that your blood-paid Constitution is being violently shredded to pieces before your eyes by this Muslim Nazi dictator whom you worship. Stupid deceived stupid stupid stupid people that are not even worthy to be called citizens.
Amerika deserves the judment that is being dealt her, no doubt. See you at the camps.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:16 amfedupwithstupid meet t.t.,
You should get along fine. I hear Texas is welcoming educated people such as yourself.
July 25th, 2009 at 12:16 pmOh and t.t. we already know your a racist cracker. Feel free to comment if you want to confirm it, but it’s not really necessary at this point.
July 25th, 2009 at 12:18 pmThe Constitution of the United States of America
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Hey A$$HOLE Perry, do you read the Constitution from the beginning, or only from the 2nd Amendment onward?
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Way to go Perry! For all you morons from other states commenting on this article, I will point out that the Texas economy is one of the brighter in the nation due to its fiscal responsibilities, tort reform, and rejection of government hand outs. It has nothing to do with a black man in the Oval Office, it is in response to an out of control Congress.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:22 pmOK, I’ll bite. dallasfitness, do you know anything about economics? What does your comment have to do with health insurance?
Do you think healthcare reform would be better for the economy? If so, what would be your approach to make things better?
July 26th, 2009 at 4:01 pmIn response to my comment @ 159,
I apologise if it was taken as a racist statement. If so, it was the exact opposite of my intention. Re-read what I said and responded to.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:39 pmfedupwithstupidasses
My GOD you are stupid. I mean world class moron. All you did was spew a bit of hatred and a few rightwing talking points that NO ONE should be stupid enough to take seriously. After 8years of Bush torture, warrantless wiretapping, exposing the identity of CIA agents and basically claiming to be pharoah who could to whatever he wanted you are REALLY talking about OBAMA shredding the constitution????? YOu are too stupid to be believed. To call yo a sheep would be an insult to all sheep. Sheep are rugged individualists compared to the stupidity and brainwashing you display. It is a kick to laugh at people as stupid as you though
July 28th, 2009 at 1:27 amdallasfitness
I want to point out how stupid you are. As usual you guys want to talk about how good the overall stats are which mostly show how much Texas allows thier bidness to exploit workers. Hows your median income compared to other states? Why it is one of the lowest in the country.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/4person.html
So the rich got richer and the poor got screwed again in Texas. GOOD JOB.
July 28th, 2009 at 1:41 am