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First, he comes out and bashes the Stimulus because it would make Texas treat it’s working class a little more humanely. Then, the brings up talk of seceding from the union because things aren’t going the way he wants them to and he cannot give marching orders to Washington the way he did when his former boss Chimpy McFlightpants was in office. Nevermind that talk of secession still has real strong ties to the discredited Confederacy and their desire to build a society on the enslavement of black people. They couch it in talk of States Rights nowdays but no one is fooled except those who choose to believe that the South seceded after Lincoln became President because they didn’t like the jib of his sail. They knew their days for owning slaves were numbered. I wonder sometimes how old Honest Abe would feel about his Republican Party being the home of some of the most audacious liars ever imagined, some of the most hateful racists, and people who preach secession when they cannot win in the battlefield of ideas?
That tune changed pretty damn quickly as soon as word of a new swine flu rearing its ugly head in Mexico. A bunch of people took ill and some even died. Now, there cases springing up in Texas and Mr Perry is all too comfortable asking the hated Feds for doses of medicine they have in store for situations just like this. If Texas were an independent nation, we’d have to be digging into our own pockets to pay for that medicine and too fucking bad if you are poor, have no health insurance, or are a Union sympathizer. Seems like that suggestion about seceding from the Union was a bit premature. Let’s get one more handout from the federal government before we introduce articles of secession into the Texas Legislature.
Rick Perry is trying to hold on to his job with this nonsense and half the republicans in Texas actually think leaving the United States is a good thing and they are in favor of it. Are you serious? Yep. I sure am. My hope in this regard is simple: Perry rallies the racists and good-old-boys to his side in the primary fight and the Democratic candidate comes along and kicks his sorry ass out of Austin on a high speed train.
Kay Bailey Hutchison is talking up a gubernatorial race against him which is fine by me. If she runs and loses the primary, she’ll be damaged goods for 2012 and we may be able to return some sanity to Texas politics with these two idiots hitting the bricks. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves: first things first. Let’s nip this racist idiot talk about leaving the Union in the bud. It’s the most unAmerican thing I’ve heard of in decades. It ranks right up there with book censorship, race baiting cops, and torturing people in our custody. Dumping Perry for this kind of a comment should be seen as the same kind of payback as George Allen suffered in Virginia for his “macaca” comment a few years ago and the failure of governor Clement to shake Ann Richard’s hand after a joint appearance It made them look like shallow bigots, which, of course, they were and the image stuck. It would be nice to stick this one to Rick Perry.
Rick Perry is filling the legacy of his predecessor George Walker Bush quite nicely, thank you very much. Recent republican elected officials are becoming quite famous for putting their foot in their mouth and then hopping around on one foot for a few weeks at a time. The latest example of this idiocy came at one of the Teabagger protests that came to pass on Tax Day last week.
Perry stood before the meager gathering and started his rant about how much he hated Washington. Now mind you, he hasn’t taken up this cause lightly or with insufficient reasoning. He is mad at Washington because there is a Democrat in the White House who isn’t trying to bankrupt the country by emptying out the Treasury by giving tax cuts to Rick Perry’s millionare friends and that pisses him off to no end. Rick Perry hates the fact that the money that comes to Texas from the recently passed stimulus plan has strings attached that are designed to help people in these tough times, not chuck them out in the street like Texas usually does. Rick Perry hates being told what to do, just like the Chimp that preceded him in the governor’s mansion. He made his dissatisfaction all too clear when he spoke to the assembled crowd.
In what he hoped was a veiled threat (but which turned out to be the material that made him out to be nothing more than a bigoted idiot and a national laughingstock) Rick Perry made a passing reference to Texas leaving the Union. Seceding. This is where the No Child Left Behind Act shows its flaws because there was a time that every school child knew that states cannot leave the Union once they join. We fought a hellacious war over that principle and the people who thought it was OK to leave lost that conflict. Nevertheless, the concept lives on in the demented minds of those few total idiots who don’t like the direction of the nation but do not have the political capital to push the idea past the talking stages.
Now Rick Perry did not advocate seceding immediately. He even praised the idea of Texas staying in the Union. So, I’m wondering, if he wasn’t looking at it down the road, why did he bring it up at all? Well, Perry is in the political fight of his life and what do rightwingers do when they have their backs against the wall? They return to their base and in this case it is the far rightwing fringe of voters who cling to the States’ Rights doctrine. You know these people, don’t you? This is the crowd that forgets that the Civil War decided once and for all that a state cannot secede and it does not have authority or preeminence over the federal government. The state does have some rights but telling the feds what to do and when to do it isn’t one of them.
These States Rights people are also the same folks that used that excuse as their main reason to maintain the slave society of the South. They used it again after the war to keep black folks “in their places” and keep the feds at bay. Reagan used it to signal the Kloset Klansmen that he was one of them and not a Hollywood actor when he ran for president. Rick Perry is signaling the bigoted base of the republican party (that no one likes to be reminded of but whom without they cannot win elections in the South) that he is one of them. He may have told the Teabagger crowd that he was just a good old boy looking out for Texas against the forces that would make Texas change how they do things but to the rest of us he’s signaling his intent to keep playing the politics of race and division and he’ll use States’ Rights to do that.
And all along I thought George Bush was our state’s biggest asshole.
Black & White and Cardinal Red All Over 