Rep. Ron Paul has weighed in on Gov. Rick Perry’s secession talk for his state of Texas. Paul defended Perry as he took the position that it is very American to talk about secession. He pointed out that secession was how America came into being.
The Texas Republican Party released a statement that amounted to a call for secession after the Supreme Court refused to overturn the election.
“If Trump fails #Texit seems to be our best remedy.” So the best remedy for sanity is insanity. Okay, GOP, we get that.
Think of the advantages: Cruz can’t be president, those Texas Open Carry guys won’t be American citizens, and the NFL gets two foreign teams
Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) became a national joke when he advocated that Texas secede from the United States during the tea party protests, but today Perry flip flopped and wrote that he never advocated secession, but instead was only trying to protect states Tenth Amendment rights.
Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West is doing multiple interviews telling Texas, inaccurately, that they could secede.
Over the course of a few months, the GOP has lost control of both the White House and the senate. With Democrats in complete control, there isn’t much Republican leaders can do to respond. That doesn’t mean they aren’t going to try. Arizona, a long-time Republican stronghold, voted for Biden and has recently elected two…
Hoping to lure Russian trolls into an online trap, Rachel Maddow announced that she is setting up a fake secession movement.
Donald Trump’s supporters in Texas want to secede from the United States if Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election.
“The only solution to the current situation is for Texas to threaten to secede. Then Washington will start cleaning up its act.”
President Obama has rescued arrogant and ungrateful Texas Republicans by signing a federal disaster declaration for those areas impacted by the state’s deadly floods.
It is true that all Republicans are blatant hypocrites, but now that go-it-alone awesome Texas experienced a little anthropogenic climate change weather, the Lone Star State’s Republicans, both tea party and mainstream Republicans alike, are demanding some of those hated “federal government handouts” they oppose for other Americans whether it is for food, housing, healthcare, or disaster relief.
Rick Perry is another in a growing collection of GOP banditti. In the old days, the Texas Rangers would have been hunting him down. In today’s Texas, he was their boss
The Civil War is something a Texas Republican legislator, Dan Flynn, is attempting to repeat through a proposal that empowers just two Texas Republicans, the state house speaker and lieutenant governor, with authority to suspend any federal law within Texas’s border.
The Texas gubernatorial race features very little science and more than a little bloodshed
Two Weld County commissioners supporting secession made statements that have a direct correlation to why the state is experiencing a event that is bound become a regular occurrence across America.
Republicans have not given up on their dream for a Civil War do-over, when their ancestors made the apparent mistake to join the Union in suppressing the Southern rebellion.
A self-inspected Fertilizer Company storing Anhydrous Ammonia blew up Wednesday killing and injuring around 200. OSHA last inspected 2007
Belcher started an Alabama secession petition over his anger at federal regulations he thinks shut down his topless car wash.
Don’t tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, ‘Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.’
It has been 150 years since the Confederacy of Southern States seceded from the United States of America starting the deadliest war in American history. It should be a time to reflect on the disastrous turn of events that ripped America apart with a view toward never taking that terrible path again, but instead, some southern states are celebrating secession with balls and celebrations. As if celebrating America’s darkest times wasn’t bad enough, new talk of secession and nullification signals a long standing hatred of the United States of America by racists in the South, and the hate is spreading across the country.
Rick Perry is talking about a Second Mexican War à la Zachary Taylor and the Halls of Montezuma. Maybe he sees himself as another Black Jack Pershing.
Republican Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has gone from pondering his state’s departure from the union because of the federal stimulus package to asking for his cut of the cash. Perry has the federal government for a $170 million loan in order for the state to continue playing unemployment benefits.
Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) made national headlines this month when he said that Texas may have to leave the United States, due how bad things could get in Washington, but in order to deal with swine flu outbreak, Perry has requested federal help. Maybe all that secession talk wasn’t such a great idea?
With all the talk of seccession by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, it seems that someone at the State Department was playing a bit of a practical joke today when State listed Sec. of State Hillary Clinton’s foreign travelogue on their website and included Texas as a foreign country.
Gov. Greg Abbott appears to be having a difficult time understanding the Constitution as it relates to immigration, so Stephen Colbert explained it to him.
If these hateful Christian nationalists want to secede and form their own fascist state to tyrannize over themselves, why don’t we let them?
Rep. Liz Cheney responded to Sen. Ted Cruz accusing her of Trump Derangement Syndrome by telling him that a real man would defend his family.
In Georgia, Republicans held their own meeting and used their own slate of fake electors who voted for Trump and declared the election ongoing.
South Carolina started the Civil War by firing shots on federal troops at Fort Sumter in on April 12, 1861. And now some state representatives may want to lead The Palmetto State down the path of secession again.  This time it’s not about slavery, but about gun laws. South Carolina state Rep. Mike Pitts and…
Who are the real Republicans? The guys who want to kick immigrants out, or the guy who wants to insult them and then kick them out?
Cruz says the flag is “a question for South Carolina” to decide but as I recall, that issue was settled in 1865 and SCs flag then was white
“I am running for president and I hope to earn your support,” Ted Cruz tweeted last night. Does he really think he can get it?
The League of the South “thanks Mr. Booth for his service to the South and to humanity” for his “execution of the tyrant Abraham Lincoln”
Pat Buchanan presents an America where Republicans are the black voter’s best friend and where whites are forced to be Republicans by racist leftist politics
Not a lot of voters will fit in that tiny little GOP tent set up deep in the heart of Dixie, surrounded by Confederate flags and guarded by white supremacist militias
Pamela Mazanec asks, “Shouldn’t our students be provided that viewpoint? This is part of the argument that America is exceptional.”
According to a new Fox News poll, the red staters that suck off of the rich blue states want to kick the rich blue states out of the union.
With Republicans losing both the governor and Senate races in Kansas, the GOP is deploying the dream duo of Rick Perry and Sarah Palin to the state to help their sinking candidates.
By admitting that Republicans exaggerate about voter fraud to justify their vote suppression strategy, Paul will raise the ire of his base who share Bundy’s belief that African Americans are “better off” disenfranchised and as property.
Rand Paul says the GOP needs a new crust, but he has no intention of changing its hateful and bigoted ingredients
The ‘Civil War’ between the Tea Party and old guard wings of the GOP is being fought in Republican Senate primaries.
For Thomas Jefferson, religious freedom was neither freedom to coerce nor a coerced mind, but rather a free mind
Republicans are drowning a sea of hypocrisy trying to justify their support for tornado relief in Oklahoma after opposing relief for Hurricane Sandy, and big government in general.
Republicans in the state’s legislature are proposing an official state religion by exempting North Carolina from following the Constitution’s separation of church and state.
President Obama issued benign executive orders to quell the bloodshed from military-grade weapons, and Republicans responded with threats of civil war.
Besides being deluded that America is lurching towards Marxism, Republicans are so desperate to impose their vision on the nation that they are willing to legislate the Constitution out of existence.
The crazy has bubbled to the surface, and Republican loonies are running amok in post-Obama reelection America.
The secessionists whose real reason for wanting to leave America has nothing to do with the Founders, the Constitution, or the economy and everything to do Barack Obama’s skin color.
Republicans are laboring under the fallacy that President Obama and his supporters are enemies because they rejected the great white hope as president.
In America, the crackpots are close to controlling the very government that they are bound and determined to destroy.
A number of Republicans have signaled their willingness to revisit one of America’s darkest eras when innuendo, suspicion, and false accusations cost many their freedom, livelihood, and reputation.
Look at all the things wrong in America right now from the real obvious: poverty, lack of healthcare, crime, education, unemployment, to the less obvious: pollution of both our air and drinking water, the effects of global warming on our weather patterns. Then look at the Republican solutions since 2010: legislation against the teaching of…
Increasingly the GOP is talking about Second Amendment remedies and even armed insurrection if Obama wins in 2012, threatening the survival of our Constitution
Look at all the things wrong in America right now and then look at the GOP solutions since 2010. You will see they have no intention of fixing any real problems
The Republican assault on American liberties has continued in 2012 with continued emphasis on the reproductive rights of women and women’s health
There are Americans who dearly want to repeat the Civil War experience and in Georgia, Republican legislators took the first step towards reviving the North/South conflict.
As we enter 2012 the GOP’s campaign to save America from non-existent problems rather than to create jobs shows no signs of abating
With no signs of abating. Republican legislatures are if anything more eager than ever to press their rights-killing agenda for America and Americans
The Dirty Thirty New Year’s Edition updates our survey of the GOP’s war on women, the environment, education, voting rights and more
The Dirty Thirty Year-End edition is a recap of legislation, local, state and federal, the GOP is using to destroy America
Now some Republicans are proposing a constitutional amendment that would permit the states to ignore the Constitution by voting to overturn any act of Congress.
The American Revolution ended British rule; the Constitution created the United States of America, and that creation did not all happen at once. It was a process; the United States is the result of political compromise and evolution, not violent overthrow.
After a humiliating stint on the Rachel Maddow show wherein Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul demonstrated a special talent in the art of the duck and dodge, Paul continued to Palinize himself the next day — wrapping himself in indignation, in order to mask his own deep inadequacy and lack of preparation for the important office he seeks.
There are many potential or would-be leaders for the Tea Party craze – from libertarians to conservatives to Christian dominionists like Sarah Palin. It does not seem to be only conservatives lining up for tinfoil hats but libertarians with a fear of big government who have perhaps let their imaginations run away with them. The “New World Order” phenomenon is by no means limited to conservatives and Christian apocalyptic millenialists awaiting the return of Jesus but is embraced by some libertarians as well.
