Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that. My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that.
I disagree with him about this "great union" business but it's a start. Naturally, some house socialists -- I mean Democrats -- aren't too pleased about this.
Notes one news article:
At the Texas Capitol on Thursday, Rep. Jim Dunnam of Waco, joined by several fellow Texas House Democrats, said some people associate talk of secession with racial division and the Civil War and that Perry should disavow any notion of seceding.
"Talk of secession is an attack on our country. It can be nothing else. It is the ultimate anti-American statement," Dunnam said at a news conference.
State Sen. Rodney Ellis, a Houston Democrat, said that by not rejecting the possibility of secession out of hand, Perry "is taking a step down a very dangerous and divisive path encouraged by the fringe of Texas politics."
The Democrats are proposing a House resolution expressing "complete and total disagreement with any fringe element advocating the 'secession' of Texas or any other state from our one and indivisible Union."
You can take your "indivisible union" and well... you know.
Perhaps these Democrats would be happier leaving the state and moving to somewhere more amicable to their dangerous and fringe political views, like, say New York, California, or Massachusetts? More power to them (to leave, that is). It means absolutely nothing to me when a group of socialists, whose political ideology should have discredited them in the 20th century alone, should call secession a fringe belief.


