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Published on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 by Creators Syndicate
What's Up With the Governor of Texas?

by Jim Hightower

Texas politics has long been a source of great amusement for the people of our state, but it's often a source of bafflement for people beyond our borders. So, sometimes there's a need to explain what's going on here, and this is one of those times. In this case, the explanation is simple: Our governor is a goober.

Texans have known this for some time, but Rick Perry - whose chief claim to fame had been that he has a spectacular head of hair - was unknown outside the state, so he was our little secret. Now, however, Perry's gooberness has gone viral. He's a YouTube phenomenon and a new darling of the GOP kingmaker, Rush Limbaugh.

He broke into national consciousness on April 15, when he spoke at one of the many "teabag" rallies that Republican operatives set up around the country to protest Barack Obama's deficit spending. Appearing in Austin before a boisterous crowd of about a thousand people who were fuming about everything from gun control to the Wall Street bailout, the governor opened with this shot: "I'm sure you're not just a bunch of right-wing extremists. But if you are, I'm with you."

Then came the thought that earned him YouTuber-of-the-Day and a favorable mention from Lord Limbaugh: Texas just, By God, might secede from the union if Washington keeps messing with us.

No doubt many people in the other 49 states burst into applause at this notion, but it caused quite a bit of consternation among home folks, who rather like being both Texans and Americans. Was he serious? Apparently so. When reporters asked afterward about the legality of such a rash move, Perry pointed out that Texas had entered the union under a unique agreement that gave us the right "to leave if we decided to do that." Good line, but utterly untrue. No such agreement ever existed.

Facts aside, what's going through Perry's perfectly coiffed head is that polls presently show him losing his re-election bid in next year's Republican primary.
Thus, he's scrambling to excite the most rabid of the Texas GOP fringe by posing as a courageous defender of Texas sovereignty against meddlers from Washington. His chief target is $555 million in federal money that would come to our state under Obama's economic stimulus program. This is desperately needed money that would go straight into our nearly broke unemployment compensation fund, but he asserts that he will reject it, claiming that the federal dollars come with strings attached.

The "strings" are actually simple and sensible threads of reform that would help the hard-hit workaday people of our state.

[Frederick Schaffner]

Here's my response to Mr. Hightower's post...since you, Sue, do not seem to have an opinion on this issue.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Our federal gov't is attempting to reach into Texans' right to decide what's best for Texans...and Mr. Hightower - and apparently you as well, Sue - seem to think these stipulations are simple and sensible. Our federal gov't is utilizing an economic circumstance to achieve control within the state of Texas, and Mr. Hightower is either falling for this subversive technique...or he's all for big gov't and control. There's nothing simple and sensible when it comes to our federal gov't.

Once again I ask you, Sue...what is your opinion on this issue. You're reason for being involved within this community is beginning to appear as though you're only concern is to destroy instead of promoting action towards positive change.

~SilverSurfer~

[sue sodenberg]

read the rest of Jim Hightowers essay in the post titled; godd old texas