By BaxterSo thanks to that nutbag Governor Rick Perry (R-TX), the crazy right-wingers over at Free Republic are engaged in a serious discussion as to whether the Lone Star State should secede from the Union.
Attending a "tea party" yesterday, the politically embattled Governor implied that his state could, indeed, return to the glory days of the Texas Republic.
We're not clear whether the teabaggers who yelled "Secede!" to the Governor expected other Southern states to follow, should Texas — a huge recipient of federal stimulus money, by the way — actually act on this preposterous notion. And now, Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis has warned Governor Perry to back off this incendiary rhetoric.
Never mind that 140 years ago, more than 600,000 Americans died to settle the secession question. Despite the fact that the Civil War turned "the United States" from a plural to a singular noun, the Texas mental-cases-slash-teabaggers are armed (no doubt) and ready to re-fight all those battles — from Fort Sumter to Appamattox Court House.
"[I]f Texas seceded and all of us conservatives left the U.S.S.A., what would we care?" asks one Freeper today. (We can only assume that his abbreviation stands for "United Socialist States of America.") "While the U.S.S.A. goes straight to hell under the tyranny of Comrade Barack Obama, we conservatives in Texas would be living in prosperity and freedom."
Fear not, faithful readers: Just a few comments later, the Freepers betrayed their true stripes, dismissing State Senator Ellis thusly:
"Black politician. Nothing more has to be said."
Does this qualify as hate speech? We cats would vote yes.
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