Governor of Texas says Washington needs to lay off .............

[Oldshooter]

The Following are things Rick Perry(Gov. of Texas) had to say about States rights today!
This guy may be somebody I could vote for in 2012

I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country, but, most of all, here in Texas, to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed through the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

I am in favor of the clear, bold step represented by HCR 50, introduced by Representative Creighton, and co-authored by Representative Guillen. It’s clear that this is not a partisan issue: it concerns all Americans, and all Texans.

The Tenth Amendment was enacted by folks who remembered what it was like to be under the thumb of a distant, all-powerful government. Unfortunately, the protections it guarantees have melted away over time.

You are probably familiar with the old adage about how to boil a frog…you just ease the heat up a little bit at a time, so the frog doesn’t realize the danger it’s in, until it’s too late.

Since the U.S. Constitution was first ratified, the federal government has slowly, steadily and successfully eroded the notion of state’s rights. The Founding Fathers understood that a one-size-fits-all approach just doesn’t work, especially in a country the size of America, and it certainly doesn’t work for Texas.

Our economic strength, compared to the federal budget mess and other states’ troubles, is evidence that Texans know what’s best for Texas. We’re proof that good things happen when governments lower taxes, reduce spending and encourage private sector growth.

When Washington interferes with our proven approaches, experience tells us what the outcome will be, and it isn’t pretty.

Like the Constitution and the other 26 amendments, the 10th Amendment has been the subject of extended debate, by scholars and lawyers of every sort, but I come down on the side that favors state’s rights over unrestrained federal power.

I believe the Constitution does not empower the federal to override state laws without restraint. I agree with Texas’ 7th governor, Sam Houston, who once said, “Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”

We didn’t like oppression then and we certainly don’t like it now.

I believe the federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state.

Texans need to ask themselves a question: do they side with those in Washington who are pursuing this unprecedented expansion of power? Or do they believe in the individual rights and responsibilities laid out in our foundational documents?

Texans need to stand up and be heard, because this state of affairs cannot continue indefinitely.

Returning to the letter and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution, and its essential Tenth Amendment, will free our state and, ultimately, strengthen our Union.

Regardless of your party affiliation, that is a goal we can all embrace.

Thank you all for being here and may God continue to bless the great state of Texas.

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[Questor]

Did he really write that!?! That gives me some hope.

[NH Yankee]

I dislike saying it but Gov Perry is playing the same shell game as the feds; however now that something is in writing, perhaps the citizens of Tx will hold his and the legislature's feet to the fire.

NH Yankee

PS I have lived in San Antonio for the past 10 years but NH is still in my heart

[300winman]

This was said in a press conference. Saw it on another website. He really believes every word he said.  Hope other states follow suit.

[SHOOTALL]

NH Yankee you know the old saying ? " put your heart in Texas or get your azz out " Or was that Dixie ?

Hope other leaders follow his lead.

[Dee]

I dislike saying it but Gov Perry is playing the same shell game as the feds; however now that something is in writing, perhaps the citizens of Tx will hold his and the legislature's feet to the fire.

NH Yankee

PS I have lived in San Antonio for the past 10 years but NH is still in my heart

I believe AMTRAC has routes that will transport you and your heart to NH. I would certainly encourage the move.

Uh! By the way Governor Perry. Spoken like a TRUE TEXAN. Just keep givein'em hell, we'll back you, and ignore this "damn yankee"! We're hopin he'll go back home, and take his heart with him. We don't want it either.

[lrs]

I like what he said, and he's been saying good things lately.
But be carefull of this guy. 
I could be wrong ( I don't think I am ), but I think he is one of these guys who says one thing and does another.
I don't trust him.

[Dee]

Heck Irs, I don't trust you, but if your headin in the right direction I'll help you if I can. Don't by the way take it personal. I don't really trust anybody.

[Oldshooter]

Did he really write that!?! That gives me some hope.

He didn't write it he said it in the rotunda of the Texas Capitol todaY! HE SAID THE FEDS ARE GETTING TO BIG FOR THEIR BRITCHES ! Now i don't know if it will hold but he is putting it on the line right now in a very inhospitable climate, Lets see what happens!

[NH Yankee]

Now Dee, do you know anything about NH?  It has the lowest taxes, smallest gov; nothing against TX.  My beef is with Gov Perry.  I have seen his kind tell one thing and do something else.  I have seen him bulldoze people and when that does not work then misspeak.  As for TX, yes there is a lot that is good.  Am I leaving, NO WAY, for as where I come from the motto is "LIVE FREE OR DIE" and I do try to live by it.

By the way, if you are in San Antonio on the 15th, look me up.  I will be in front of the Alamo from about noon on.  My accent is New Hampshire Yankee.

NH Yankee

[lrs]

Like I said I'm glad he said it.  And he said it well.
I don't trust this particular guy. 
I hope he proves me wrong, but I suspect a Bush clone in the making.
Right now there is a vacuum of leadership, and we desperately need a leader who is a patriot and a conservative.
But I would suggest caution in who we turn to, even though these are desperate times.
I know this.  Most of my family are farmers and ranchers.  When they get together they talk about this guy, and how he has sold out the interests of farmers and ranchers.

[alsaqr]

Please note that governator Perry did not turn down all that federal pork barrel money. 

[lrs]

I don't trust many in today's political or media world. 
The powers that be seem to have complete control in everything that is put out. They have sold us out repeatedly over the past 10(?)50(?) (100+) years.
They have an agenda,it is coming fast, they are masters of manipulation, and they play us like a cheap fiddle.
I will clap for this guy today, but I still don't trust him.

[Dee]

NH Yankee, it was tongue in cheek. As what I said to Irs, was also tongue in cheek. I don't really trust anybody. As far as Perry, I LIKE what he said. Do I trust him? Hell no, he has proven, as some say here, that in the past his is not trustworthy. He at first refused the bailout money, then he decided to take it. Pressure from the reps? Who knows.
Another however, is about to run for Governor of Texas I trust just as little. Kay Bailey Hutchens! She has announced that she intends to run, and along with that other clown Senator voted for the bailout.
We will be faced ONCE AGAIN, with the lessor of two evils. I will ONCE AGAIN vote INDEPENDENT. Wasting my vote? Perhaps, but the candidate I vote for will be for the State of Texas, and not the "lessor of two evils". He probably won't win, but he will at least be honest. I have stepped out of the Republican-Democratic monoploy never to return, until the offer something worth while, to come back to.

[Oldshooter]

Please note that governator Perry did not turn down all that federal pork barrel money. 

Wrong, he most certainly did refuse the stimulus pkg.

[lrs]

I am not a kay bailey fan.  She calls herself a conservative, but guess what.   
I wouldn't vote for her, unless I was staring down the wrong end of a shotgun.

[stubshaft]

Looks like someone is growing a "pair".  Hopefully the trend will continue. 

[Cabin4]

Lets hope this creates a trend with other like minded Govs.

Perry for President!

[NH Yankee]

Sorry Dee, for I am really a nice person.  I left the Republican party in 1980, joined the Libertarian party, helped to get pemanent ballot status in NH in the late 1980's and left them because they are nothing but a debating society and probably always have been.  I too vote independent, even in the local elections. 

Again, I wish to  believe what has been said and all of the Gov's pontification on the media, but I trust no one who makes their living in politics.

Old Shooter, fear that the Gov only refused a portion and a small portion of the bailout money.  How in the name of P***y is San Antonio getting 1/2 of the interchange that has been needed since I have lived here-that's right, stimulus money.

NH Yankee

[Oldshooter]

I trust no one who makes their living in politics.

Sound advice!  I only wish folk that voted for Obama had felt that way, they bought his BS line hook, line, and sinker!

Now dont think for one minute that I think Perry is the the ""Messiah". He is , however, the only Person that has political clout doing anything constructive about our current dilemma! I know he is probably setting the groundwork for a 2012 pres. run. But that is ok by me! If he keeps the course maybe he is the one.

Now you guys can vote anyway you like(i know you dont need my permission)  but if he does run on that kind of platform and you vote for an independent that does not have a prayer, then you get to take credit for 4 more years of this tyranny!  I wish we had McCain to complain about right now! We would not be facing gun control and a deficit that will choke our children for the next 100 years!

[briarpatch]

Oldshooter I disagree on Mccain. He would have been worse, much worse. Go look at the mans record while in congress a lot of the crap we have now, he was responsible for.
The problem! We would have gotten behind that Pied piper and marched into oblivion because we would have thought he was doing right. The man was and is a snake, everything he did was to help obama.
If you look at his record he is (one world government) and a liberal second to none in the republican party. At one time it was thought he would change partys but he realized he could do more damage as a repub. I want nothing to do with that treasonous imp.

[Dee]

Oldshooter I disagree on Mccain. He would have been worse, much worse. Go look at the mans record while in congress a lot of the crap we have now, he was responsible for.
The problem! We would have gotten behind that Pied piper and marched into oblivion because we would have thought he was doing right. The man was and is a snake, everything he did was to help obama.
If you look at his record he is (one world government) and a liberal second to none in the republican party. At one time it was thought he would change partys but he realized he could do more damage as a repub. I want nothing to do with that treasonous imp.

Now here is a man that checks VOTING RECORDS! briarpatch, you are dead center of McCain. Dead center!. Everyone needs to STOP THINKING REPUBLICAN-DEMOCRAT, and START THINKING PERFORMANCE AND VOTING RECORD! There are Democrats that would vote for Ole Yeller if he was a Democrat, and there are Republicans that would vote for Stalin if he was a Republican.
Some have been placed in the MONOPOLY BOX OF PARTY AFFILIATION, and cannot find their way out, or are AFRAID to WANDER OUT.
These two parties CONTROL most everyone here's voting habits, and the voter doesn't even seem to realize it. The Democrats and Republicans are TWO SIDES TO THE SAME COIN!

[beerbelly]

briarpatch no one could be worse than Obama! I am no fan of McCain, but there is no way he could be as bad as Obama. The only way we could have got worse is had they elected Puttin of Russia.
                           Beerbelly

[JPShelton]

I trust no one who makes their living in politics.

I wish we had McCain to complain about right now! We would not be facing gun control and a deficit that will choke our children for the next 100 years!

I'm not so sure.  As a "navy brat," born during the Vietnam ordeal while my father's squadron was doing its thing over southeast Asia, I admire and respect McCain's military record.

However, his VOTING record suggests that he may have forgotten about the oath that he swore to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.  His record on gun control isn't exactly stellar in my book and he was in the senate during a time when federal government spending already indebted my elementary school children AND their children. He had more power to get something done with respect to spending as a leader in congress than he would have as POTUS and his record suggests that he hadn't done a whole lot to stand in the way of major spending.  He definitely rolled over on gun control.

I don't think things would really be all that different if he were POTUS and not Obama, other than we wouldn't have all of the Clintonistas that we're now saddled with once again for a third round.  He might not be going around the world apologizing for America, either.  So maybe things might SEEM better if he would have won, but I doubt that they'd be fundamentally better, and as it stands now, we'll never know.

I voted for McCain but it was a gut-wrenching experience and he wasn't my first choice.  Kind of a case of the lesser of two evils.  My first choice didn't make it through the primaries.

Right now, I am pretty pissed at the Republican Party because they had many years to cater to their core base, of which I consider myself a part, and they failed to do so.  Obama pretty much promised to cater to his core base.  He is doing exactly that.  In one very shallow sense, that makes him a better leader than the Republicans could manage to muster.

Too bad Ronald Regan is in the grave.  We could use him again in 2012.  

-JP

[Oldshooter]

You're right JP, we'll never know, but I gotta believe it would have been better. I voted repubnik, but there was not much of a choice, you're right there too!

I've stated the same thing about McCain here on different threads but this spending and apologising to the world is making me crazy !

[Oldshooter]

Oldshooter I disagree on Mccain. He would have been worse, much worse. Go look at the mans record while in congress a lot of the crap we have now, he was responsible for.
The problem! We would have gotten behind that Pied piper and marched into oblivion because we would have thought he was doing right. The man was and is a snake, everything he did was to help obama.
If you look at his record he is (one world government) and a liberal second to none in the republican party. At one time it was thought he would change partys but he realized he could do more damage as a repub. I want nothing to do with that treasonous imp.

Now here is a man that checks VOTING RECORDS! briarpatch, you are dead center of McCain. Dead center!. Everyone needs to STOP THINKING REPUBLICAN-DEMOCRAT, and START THINKING PERFORMANCE AND VOTING RECORD! There are Democrats that would vote for Ole Yeller if he was a Democrat, and there are Republicans that would vote for Stalin if he was a Republican.
Some have been placed in the MONOPOLY BOX OF PARTY AFFILIATION, and cannot find their way out, or are AFRAID to WANDER OUT.
These two parties CONTROL most everyone here's voting habits, and the voter doesn't even seem to realize it. The Democrats and Republicans are TWO SIDES TO THE SAME COIN!

Dee I think weve been here before and I do understand your position I really do!

If you wanna consider voting records, fine look at odrama's when he did vote he was the most liberal senator in the senate, and hes always said where he stood, hell if you took him for face value you could not vote for him.

And bless your heart, You and I could not get an independent elected if we stood at the polls with guns! They just dont have a chance, granted they should and I desperately want to break the mold here but we have to face reality even the folk here that complain about this every day will vote for one of the two parties in 2012. I have come to the reality that most of the people in this country dont have the sense to take care of themselves, much less make an intelligent decision at the polls! Ie the last election!  The defense rests!

Briarpatch...........There is nothing I care to say about your post!

[gypsyman]

Heard some of what he said. Sounded good. I think the best thing going is the information highway, just like this one. Hard to keep up with every politician around. So will depend on people that live in states to keep us all informed of what somebody like Perry is really like. And the more I think about it, the more a 3rd. party or Independent candidate looks better. Less afiliations with Unions or big business's. gypsyman

[Oldshooter]

COULD YA PROVE THAT "AGENT 7" MAYBE JUST SHOW SOME JUSTIFICATION!

[Oldshooter]

COULD YA PROVE THAT "AGENT 7" MAYBE JUST SHOW SOME JUSTIFICATION!

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Why, yes I can Undercover Oldshooter...try this and then the FoxNews link...better yet do your own research:

http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,110731.0.html

there's so much on this topic...Merck...Perry.... to choke a horse.

..TM7

By issuing an executive order, Perry apparently sidesteps opposition in the Legislature from conservatives and parents' rights groups who fear such a requirement would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way parents raise their children.

Beginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade will have to get Gardasail, Merck & Co.'s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV.

Perry, a conservative Christian who opposes abortion and stem-cell research using embryonic cells, counts on the religious right for his political base. But he has said the cervical cancer vaccine is no different from the one that protects children against polio.

"The HPV vaccine provides with with an incredible opportunity to effectively target and prevent cervical cancer," Perry said in announcing the order.

Sounds like he did in fact do so by executive order. But "agent 7" what is your problem with stopping cervical cancer? thats what gardasil does you know , and the conspiracy theory with Merck give me a break!  Agent 7 you find something to complain about behind every rock! Tell me somebody you do like.

[Oldshooter]

Agent 7 if they were perfect we could just make em king, you will never hear me say i like everything about anyone but if they have to pass your litmus test we will only have anarchy......................wait that may be what you would prefer!

I continue to keep my eye on you "agent 7"