Standing By Your Convictions

Texas Governor, Rick "Secession" Perry, the Republican politician who rejected stimulus money in March, is now asking for funds from that oppressive, evil federal government.

Texas is now asking the federal government for a $170 million loan so that benefits keep getting paid.

“This is nothing out of the ordinary. We’re following protocol that we put in place,” said Governor Rick Perry.

Texas has asked for this loan only one other time, in 2003. This year however, the decision is getting extra attention after Governor Rick Perry rejected federal stimulus money that would have replenished the fund.

Texas is expected to request $650 million, roughly $100 million more than Perry initially rejected. At a “tea party protest” in April, Perry trumpeted his decision to reject stimulus dollars from the Obama administration. “I believe the federal government has become oppressive,” he said, adding that he might even consider seceding from the Union.

I love the smell of Republican hypocrisy in the morning.

Go Ahead and Go

posted by Armadillo Joe

Dear Texas,

I left you S.O.B.'s for New York City over a decade ago and still your toxic politics followed me into my new life here by taking over the whole fucking federal government, to the everlasting chagrin of decent-minded people everywhere. My pain became everyone's pain and now that polite society has finally rejected you assholes and your designated asshole-in-chief for something and, more importantly, someone more competent and more skilled (not to mention better looking), now that everyone thinks -- nay, knows -- that you fucking people are the violence-prone, willfully ignorant, pompous yahoos you were always afraid we thought you were, you want to go pout. In search of relevance, you now re-assert your hare-brained notion that you have a right to secede from The Union because people have finally realized that your brand of economic snakeoil and bigoted social organization doesn't really work as advertised. I thought we had a little intra-family tussle over your silly notions of secession back 'round 1860 or so which settled it pretty squarely NOT in your favor, but in this instance we're willing to grant an exception if you promise to take Oklahoma and it's congressional delegation with you.

Lovingly,
Armadillo Joe, ex-Texan

inspired by the news at this link:
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/04/gov_perry_asserts_texan_sovereignty.php